In WP1 - completed during Year 1 - we worked for organizing the European territory in terms of geo-cultural patterns. We collected data about newspapers, Tv, radio, theatrical movies, OTT services, Internet and social media. As a framework, we adopted the comparative media model as laid out by Hallin and Mancini; whilst the impact of media regulation on the rise of a single market was investigated in a specific task.
WP2 and WP4 operationalized the major question by searching the traces of a common public sphere, in the social media discourse in Europe.
In WP3, we observed two dimensions: what people watch on VODs; and what people follow on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Data have been collected in ten countries - including the socio-demographic breakdown, when possible – in respect to the most used commercial platforms. Based on literature review, we can state that the scope of the study is unprecedented and offers relevant insights into the state of European media culture.
In force of our grounded approach, WP5 put the findings to the test of experimental elaborations, to come to terms with the shaping of the future. The methodologies include collective blogging, drawing of scenarios, and a series of Delphi+ workshops on the major externalities of the process.
Among the publications, that outnumbered the KPIs, we recall those involving a significant number of authors or revealing our approach:
- Media Systems in Europe, edited by Papathanassopoulos & Miconi (Springer, 2023), collects the WP1 findings;
- The special issue of “Cinema & Cie” - Cinematic Continuities, Changes and Challenges in Europe – edited by Biltereyst, Gipponi & Miconi - moves from the movie market WP1 task (23, 41, 2023);
- The special issue of the OBS journal on Platformisation of News and Interactions, edited by Álvares & Üzelgün (2023) includes the results of WP2;
- Baqir, Galeazzi & Zollo’s article on News and misinformation consumption (PLoS ONE, 2024), is dedicated to our approach for fighting misinformation;
- The book Hegemony: Platformization of Video. The European Perspective (NBU, 2024), edited by Boshnakova, Miconi & Toms collects the WP3 results;
- The semantic map model is laid out in Carpentier et al, Bridging the Discursive and Material Dimensions of Europeanity and Europeanisation (OBS, 2023);
- Miconi’s book Europeans and the Media (Routledge, 2024) discusses the overall theoretical framework and a number of findings from WP1, WP2, and WP3;
- The special issue of the Central European Journal of Communication titled The Construction of the Future of the Platforms (17, 1, 2024), edited by Carpentier & Hroch, showcases the results of the WP5 tasks.
The results of the projects have been presented in a number of international peer-reviewed conferences, in particular ECREA and IAMCR.