Centre for Media Policy, Peace Institute
Fields of work
The Centre develops training and fellowship programmes for journalists and exchange programmes for journalists and media experts, encouraging and facilitating the development of international contacts and regional and international co-operation of media companies and professional associations in Slovenia. Work areas include the analysis of media practices and policy in Slovenia, public debates and publications dealing with journalism and the media, the stimulation of self-regulation within the media, support for the professional development of journalists and media experts and international co-operation in the media field. The Centre also organises regular panel debates on current issues.
Projects and publishing
The Centre conducts the Media Watch research and publishing project, which is responsible for study and monitoring the mass media in Slovenia and publishing essays and articles on its work in the Media Watch Magazine and Media Watch bilingual book series. All the Centre for Media Policy's publications are made available online.
Next to Media Watch the Intolerance Monitor Report is being published in order to analyse the emergence of intolerance in the public discourse, not only in the media but also in everyday social life. Latest publication available online is Alternative media and the Politics of Resistance. Perspectives and Challenges. The journal consist of research articles on potentials and challenges of the contemporary alternative media. The authors include Mojca Pajnik, Hanno Hardt, Chris Atton and others.
The ongoing project Mig@net: Transnational Digital Networks, Migration and Gender questions the participations of the migrants considering the gender differences and social exclusion.
See also
- Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies
- Media Watch
- Peace Institute Library