Think Tank Partners : Future Media Lab

The Future Media Lab. invites European think tanks covering media innovation and media policy to join as content partners. On our website our content partners get the opportunity to present their most recent reports and studies to be shared publicly in order to reach an international audience and to inspire the debate at the interface of media innovation and public policy. They are part of the core network of the Future Media Lab..

For more information about the Future Media Lab.’s types of membership, please click here.

Belgium

iMinds Media Belgium

iMinds is an independent research institute founded by the Flemish government to stimulate ICT innovation. The iMinds team offers companies and organisations active support in research and development. It brings together companies, authorities, and non-profit organisations to join forces on research projects. Both technical and non-technical issues are addressed within each of these projects.

iMinds Media Martijn Bal

Contact

Director: Martijn Bal
Website: www.iminds.be/media
Contact: Els Vandenbulcke, Marketing & Business Analyst
E-mail: els.vandenbulcke[at]iminds.be

The Center for Journalism Studies (CJS) was founded in 2007 at the Department of Communication Sciences embedded within the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Ghent University. The centre pursues different lines of investigation and specifically aims at expanding theoretical, practical, legal and technical aspects of journalism and news production at both the multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research levels. The centre has two main objectives. First, it aims at conducting research on topics related to the field of journalism studies. From this perspective, academic cooperation at both the national and international levels is pursued. Secondly, it also seeks to enhance cooperation between the academic world and media professionals. The actual research projects within the Center for Journalism Studies can be classified according to four perspectives, focusing on different but related angles within journalism studies. These are as follows: ‘journalism practices and public debate’, ‘journalism and media content’, ‘audience research and the dynamics of the public sphere’ and ‘regulatory aspects of journalism’.

CJS Prof. Karin Raeymaeckers

Contact

Director: Professor Karin Raeymaeckers
Website: www.cjs.ugent.be
Contact: Prof. Dr. Annelore Deprez
E-mail: Annelore.deprez[at]ugent.be

Denmark

The Centre for Communication and Computing (CCC) is dedicated to exploring the nexus between computing and human communication. The purpose of the centre is to facilitate collaboration among researchers from different scientific fields who share a common interest in the study, design and creative uses of information technologies in order to enhance the ways that people communicate and collaborate in their work, social and everyday lives. The centre aims to address important societal challenges such as enhancing health care and improving education through interdisciplinary research and innovation.

CCC Jorgen Bansler

Contact

Head of Center: Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Website: http://ccc.ku.dk
E-mail: kbj[at]hum.ku.dk

Finland

The Communication Research Centre (CRC) is a special unit within the Department of Social Studies at the University of Helsinki. CRC coordinates the Media and Communication Studies’ applied research and development projects.

Contact

Director: Mikko Villi
Website: blogs.helsinki.fi/crc-centre/en/
E-mail: mikko.villi[at]helsinki.fi

Greece

The School of Journalism and Mass Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was founded in 1991 with the mission to provide the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge for conducting journalism and investigating issues related to journalism and mass communication. Having a distinctly interdisciplinary faculty profile and program of studies, the School’s research activities cover a wide spectrum of fields and sub-fields of journalism and media studies: new media (theories and practices), media technology and applications, sociology of media/cultural industries, media genres and popular culture, visual communication, socio-psychology of media audiences/practices, media economics/management/marketing, journalism and media ethics, communication theory and media history.

Contact

Director: Grigoris Paschalidis
Website: www.jour.auth.gr
Contact: Andreas Veglis – professor
E-mail: veglis[at]jour.auth.gr

Italy

Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom

The The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) is an academic centre within the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (Florence). It is headed by Professor Pier Luigi Parcu and its residential team is composed of experts in the following areas: legal studies, new media policies, media markets and economics, political science and political communications. The Scientific Committee of the Centre is composed of renowned academics in media studies.
The CMPF aims at enhancing the awareness of the importance of freedom and pluralism of the media, to contribute to its protection and promotion and to develop new ideas among academics, policy makers, regulators, market stakeholders, journalists, and all other directly involved professionals who take part in the public debate.
In 2014 the CMPF has pilot-test implemented the Media Pluralism Monitor in 9 EU countries.
The Centre is co-financed by the European Union.

Pierre Parcu Luigi

Contact

Director: Pier Luigi Parcu
Website: http://cmpf.eui.eu
Contact: Elda Brogi, CMPF Scientific Coordinator
E-mail: elda.brogi[at]eui.eu

Lithuania

Media Research Centre

The Media Research Center at the Department of Public Communications of Vytautas Magnus University functions as a virtual research and analysis hub where critical enquiry and research projects are initiated and critical thinking about the changing roles and functions of the media is stimulated. Its varied activities move around research and analysis projects centering on mediaís reactions to economic, technological and socio-cultural changes in Europe. By tackling various questions, the MRC achieves several aims: it creates forums for discussion, analysis and co-operation; it provides insightful comments and analysis based on media research; it organizes workshops and events; it stimulates the visibility of European media and communication research.