Nico Carpentier
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Nico Carpentier
@nicocarpentier.bsky.social
Communication+ Researcher - see http://nicocarpentier.net/
Good to see the faculty of social sciences @cuni support for Bahruz Samadov
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Feel welcome to join the 2 December 2025 letter-writing marathon in support of the Charles university PhD student Bahruz Samadov, convicted for his critical stances towards the regime in his native Azerbaijan.

For more information, see
fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/lett...
Letter-writing marathon in support of our PhD student Bahruz Samadov | Fakulta sociálních věd UK
Join the letter-writing marathon in support of our PhD student Bahruz Samadov, convicted for his critical stances towards the regime in his native Azerbaijan. The event will take place on Tuesday, Dec...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The IAMCR 2026 call for papers is out. This year's theme is "Peripheries and Connections: Media, Communication, and Transformation". More at iamcr.org/galway2026
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The full video of the #MeDeMAP Round Table on "Imagining New Relations for Media and Democracy: Beyond Defeatism" is now available at bit.ly/MediaDemocra.... It took place on 8 October 25, at the Universidade Lusófona, in Lisbon. Warm thanks to CICANT.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today, we had a great round table about "Democracy and media in Europe" in Uppsala, Sweden. Warm thanks to Göran Svensson, Johan Lindell and Matilda Tudor for joining the round table (and for all the new ideas), and to Peter Jakobsson for organising and chairing the event. Always great to be back ;)
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The second #MeDeMAP save-the-date: In the morning of 13 January 2026, we will have two round tables and a film screening, in Brussels. The round tables are on the EMFA and on the results of the citizen parliaments. More information, including a pre-registration email, is at www.medemap.eu?p=1634
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A first #MeDeMAP save-the-date. In the afternoon of 13 January 2026, we will organise a debate about the (future of) democracy and journalism, and a workshop on the MeDeMAP database/map, one of the major outcomes of this research project. More soon at medemap.eu and medemap.fsv.cuni.cz ...
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
For those in/around Uppsala, Sweden, on 13 November: we'll have another round table discussion on the Democracy and Media in Europe book. All welcome. See also www.uu.se/en/departmen...
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This week at #CULCORC, we ran a PhD course on Discourse Studies and Method: Using Discourse-Theoretical Analysis and Discursive-Material Analysis.

Today, the last day, we couldn't resist the opportunity for a group photo. It was a pleasure to work with all of you, and I wish you the very best :)
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The report of my short visit to the Academy of Film and Creative Technology (AFCT) at XJTLU just got published, and it really captured the atmosphere of that visit (thanks to Yunyi and Wenzhen Li for the report). It shows that I had fun ;)

See:
www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/news/2025...
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Today, we had a lovely seminar on the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy (a part of our #MeDeMAP project). Special thanks to the Institute of Policy Studies of the National University of Singapore, and in particular Nicholas Thomas, for organising it and to Vaia Doudaki for joining me.
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Today was the première of the film essay 'Agon: Constructions of Democracy' in Kino Ponrepo in Prague, followed by a round table with the directors and DoP. Most enjoyable. With my warn thanks to my colleagues and the entire cast. More about the film essay at www.constructionsofdemocracy.eu
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
There are still a few seats left for the première of AGON: Constructions of Democracy, on October 23, 2025, in Kino NFA Ponrepo, in Prague.

You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For more information about the film essay, see constructionsofdemocracy.eu
October 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Amnesty International Belgium delivered 10,787 signatures to the Azerbaijani Embassy demanding the release of activists, academics, and journalists imprisoned there. Bahruz Samadov, a PhD student at Charles University, is one of them. Special thanks to AI for keeping his cruel destiny on the agenda.
October 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On 8 October we had another round table on democracy and media in Europe, this time in collaboration with CICANT, in Lisbon. The report is here: cicant.ulusofona.pt/agenda-news/...
Lusófona's academic community reflects on Media-Democracy relations within CICANT's 20th anniversary event - CICANT Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies
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October 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
#MeDeMAP round table on democracy and media about to start in Lisbon. Special thanks for the CICANT folks for making this possible.
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The print copies of the "Communication, Media, Cultural Industry" book arrived in Prague. An impressive and fitting tribute and goodbye to the dear Fausto Colombo. I was happy to have a modest contribution there, with Vaia Doudaki and Kirill Filimonov. Ciao, Fausto
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy to see another book review on our Democracy and Media in Europe book, this time in the European Journal of Communication. Thanks to Tingting Hu and Xinyi Wu for their gracious comments (and for correctly pointing to the need to move beyond Europe). See doi.org/10.1177/0267...
October 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
CULCORC produced a one-page note on some of the outcomes of the #MeDeMAP research project. With thanks to Karolína Šimková and Jeffrey Wimmer. You can download the note here: www.medemap.eu/wp-content/u...
September 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
We'll have another #MeDeMAP roundtable on media and democracy in Europe, this time in Uppsala, Sweden, on 13 November 2025. Special thanks to Peter Jakobsson and the UU dept. of Informatics and Media for their support. All welcome ;)
September 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Planned and published articles and books posters at the #MeDeMAP meeting, on media and democracy. Always good to take stock at a research consortium meeting, and take time to celebrate
September 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The #culcorc team at work at the #MeDeMAP consortium meeting in St. Pölten (Austria), with the first results of the analysis of the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy.
September 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The sixth and last #MeDeMAP consortium meeting has begun. Three days of discussions about media en democracy in the Austrian city of St. Pölten, with a great team.
September 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Last week, Amnesty International released another Urgent Action Alert for Bahruz Samadov and Igbal Abilov, two academics sentenced in Azerbaijan to 15 and 18 years resp., for high treason: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

For more information on Bahruz see www.researchcenterdesire.eu/bahruz-samad...
September 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Today, on 22 September 2025, Mazlum Kemal Dağdelen successfully defended his PhD at #iksz, Charles University, on the construction of Turkishness in Turkish-Cypriot children's magazines. Congratulations to the new Doctor. #proudsupervisor #IAMCR #MeDeMAP
September 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM