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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.

Feb
The CEU Campus

Creating Audio Content in the Classroom

Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Feb
The CEU Campus

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

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

Fixing the Internet: Is Regulation the Answer?

Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Jan

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

Petra Bard
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Jan

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

Michael Schudson
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Dec
The CEU Campus

Media (Freedom) Under Pressure in the Visegrád Region

Miklós Haraszti
Off-campus | Nowy Świat 58, 00-363 Warszawa PL, Poland
Dec
The CEU Campus

The Role of National Parliaments in Improving Independence and Pluralism of the Media

Marius Dragomir
Off-campus | Zivatar utca 1, 1024 Budapest HU, Hungary
Dec

The role of mass-media in treating the refugees & migrants topic

Eva Bognar
Nov
The CEU Campus

Populism, Fake News, Manipulation: Challenges for Election Coverage

Dean Starkman
Off-campus | Ráday utca 58, 1092 Budapest HU, Hungary
Nov

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

Vivian Walker
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Nov
The CEU Campus

Agenda for Change: Developing Media in the Digital Age

Marius Dragomir
Off-campus | Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 69, 11000 Beograd RS, Serbia
Nov

Clarity and Traction: Communicating Academic Research Clearly for Traditional and Social Media

Colleen Sharkey, Aranka Szabo
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Oct
The CEU Campus

Meet the CMDS

Budapest Site | Oktober 6 u. 7
Sep
The CEU Campus

News Impact Summit - Methods and Tools for Digital Journalism

Eva Bognar, Dean Starkman
Off-campus | Erzsébet tér 12, 1051 Budapest HU, Hungary
Jun
The CEU Campus

CMDS Summer School - Media Capture: The Relationship Between Power, Media Freedom and Advocacy

May
The CEU Campus

Media in Troubled Democracies

Miklós Haraszti
Off-campus | Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE GB, United Kingdom
May
The CEU Campus

Illiberal Democracy in Unstable Times: the Perils of Democracy in Central & Eastern Europe

Miklós Haraszti
Off-campus
May

Journalism and Politics in the Age of Misinformation - World Press Freedom Day at CEU

Michael Ignatieff, Mario Viola de Azevedo Cunha, Attila Batorfy, Erica Benner, Tamas Bodoky, Eva Bognar, András Bozóki, Amy Brouillette, Marius Dragomir, Francesca Fanucci, Maria Kronfeldner, Jody McPhillips, Simon Rippon, Dean Starkman
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Apr

Pluralism and Public Service Media

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

Data Justice: Examining Datafication and Social Justice

Lina Dencik
Budapest Site | 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 Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Mar
The CEU Campus

The Launch of the Ranking Digital Rights 2017 Corporate Accountability Index

Rebecca MacKinnon, Amy Brouillette, Ilana Ullman, Lisa Gutermuth, Nathalie Maréchal
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15
Mar
The CEU Campus

Comparative Cases from Around the World on the Role of the Media in Strengthening Peace and Social Stability: Regulation and Model?

Marius Dragomir
Off-campus | Hamra, Bayrut LB, Lebanon
Mar

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

Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building
Mar

Public Broadcasting in India: Success and Failures

Jawhar Sircar
Budapest Site | Nador u. 9, Monument Building