CEU Building

Center for Media, Data and Society

CMDS is the leading center of research on media, communication, and information policy in Central and Eastern Europe. Based in the School of Public Policy at Central European University, we produce scholarly and practice-oriented research addressing academic, policy and civil society needs.

Oct
CEU Building

Media Freedom in the Third World: A Case Study of Pakistan

Haris bin Aziz
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 201
Mar
The CEU Campus

Politicization of the “Quota-Debate” in Hungary: Results of an Empirical Study

Eva Bognar, Endre Sik
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15
Jan

Media and Democracies

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15
Jun

Media Power and Fake Democracies: An Activist Response

Des Freedman
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15
Mar

Is Public Reason Still Possible? Populism, Media, and New Transformations of the Public Sphere

Craig Calhoun, Michael Ignatieff, Dean Starkman, Constantin Iordachi
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15
Mar

Battered But Not Broken- Why We Need Public Media in the Digital Age

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15
Feb
The CEU Campus

The Global Closing of Civil Society Space: Strategies for Pushing Back

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Jan

Between Market and Human Rights: Media Pluralism and Democracy Under Threat in the EU

Petra Bard
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15
Jan

Can There Be Professional Journalism Post-Truth, Post-Trump, Post-Twitter?

Michael Schudson
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Nov

Managing the Message in a Complex Information Environment: The Case of Benghazi

Vivian Walker
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15
Apr

Pluralism and Public Service Media

Monroe Price
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Apr
The CEU Campus

Data Justice: Examining Datafication and Social Justice

Lina Dencik
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Apr

Public Service Media and Challenges in the Digital Era: Keep Your Head in the Clouds and Your Feet on the Ground

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Mar

Networked Authoritarianism and the Geopolitics of Information: Understanding Russian Internet Policy

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Mar

Public Broadcasting in India: Success and Failures

Jawhar Sircar
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Feb

The Multi-stakeholder Approach to Internet Governance – a Model to Replace Multilateralism?

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Nov

When Oligarchs Go Shopping - Why Media Ownership Matters

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Nov
The CEU Campus

Trade and Privacy: Complicated Bedfellows? How to Achieve Data Protection-Proof Free Trade Agreements

Kristina Irion
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7
Oct
The CEU Campus

Muzzling the Watchdog - The State of Journalism in Hungary

Eva Bognar
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Oct

The Political Economy of American News Media in the Age of Trump

Victor Pickard
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15
Jun

The Global Challenge to Freedom of Expression

David Kaye, Sejal Parmar
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
May

Code Red: The Journalism Crisis as a Public Policy Problem

Dean Starkman
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
May

Digital Journalism: Transmission, Ritual, and the Re-Imagined Civic

William Uricchio
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
May

Social Media: A Tool for Freedom of Expression in Southeast Asia

Budapest Campus | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
May

Radio, Community Communication and Participatory Development in Africa

Heather Gilberds
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7