Mapping Media for Future Democracies

Project Information

MeDeMAP

Grant agreement ID: 101094984

DOI

10.3030/101094984

Project closed

EC signature date 12 December 2022

Start date 1 March 2023

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 978 645,00

EU contribution

€ 2 978 645,00

Coordinated by

OESTERREICHISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
Austria

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Media mapping blog

At the beginning of the project, a blog will be created that offers short posts and texts throughout the project concerning current problems and developments with regard to media and democracy issues in the EU.

Website and project logo

The website will be the main information resource for stakeholders. It will include several important results including all data the proposed map is based on. Including a “Media Mapping Blog”. An internal part of the website will be established for supporting communication and collaboration between the project partners.

Other (2)

Coordination plan

With this plan work within all work packages is coordinated and consolidated throughout the project duration. It ensures that all necessary steps will be planned and synchronized to achieve the goals of the project within the different phases. Continuous work planning will be a major tool to ensure project contingency.

Dissemination and exploitation plan

Detailed guidelines and planning of dissemination, communication and exploitation activities throughout the entire project.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Theoretical framework on democracy, participation and representation

D2.1 will contain a theoretical reflection on the different meanings of these concepts (and related concepts, as, e.g., trust), their different normative interpretations and their different translations in democratic practice. In the second part of D2.1, the related functions of media and journalism will be (theoretically) analysed.

Analytical models for examining media supply and demand side

D2.2 will be translate the theoretical models, developed in D2.1, into analytical models that can be used for the empirical analysis organised in the other work packages. This will prevent a disconnection between theory and research, and will ensure that the empirical research is grounded in the academic literature.

Data Management Plan (1)

Data management plan

The DMP will evolve during the lifetime of the project in order to present the status of the project's reflections on data management.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

The Grounds of the European Democracy–Media Nexus: Four Conditions of Possibility

Author(s): Vaia Doudaki, Nico Carpentier, Kirill Filimonov
Published in: Media Watch, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 0976-0911
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09760911251374242

AGON: Constructions of Democracy

Author(s): Minanto, Ali; Carpentier, Nico; Purwanto, Jhon Sany
Published in: Tecmerin. Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales, 2025, ISSN 2659-4269
Publisher: Tecmerin
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18787300

Medienstrukturen revisited – die Rolle von Werten. Ein analytisches Modell zur Untersuchung des demokratiefördernden Potenzials nationaler Rechts- und Regulierungsrahmen

Author(s): Seethaler, Josef
Published in: Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 2025, ISSN 2942-3317
Publisher: Nomos Verlag
DOI: 10.5771/1615-634X-2025-2-252

Roundtable discussion: Perspectives on the Futures of Platforms and Democracy

Author(s): Miloš Hroch; Marie Heřmanová; Václav Janoščík; Dita Malečková; Martin Tremčinský; Nico Carpentier
Published in: Central European Journal of Communication, Issue 17, 1(35), 2024, ISSN 1899-5101
Publisher: Polish Communication Association
DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).714

Media, State and Reciprocal Transparency: Normative Expectations and Regulatory Possibilities in a Proposal of the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA)

Author(s): Klimkiewicz, Beata
Published in: Zeszyty Prasoznawcze, Issue 66 (4), 2023, ISSN 2299-6362
Publisher: Jagiellonian University Press
DOI: 10.4467/22996362PZ.23.042.18676

Book chapters (19)

Trust in Media across Europe: Theoretical considerations on the empirical findings of a cross-national audience enquiry

Author(s): Alessandro Nanì
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2027
Publisher: Routledge

Theorising a Multidimensional Model for Analysing Data Fetishism: Reconciling Marxist and Freudian Approaches to the ‘Split’

Author(s): MICONI, ANDREA; Carpentier, Nico
Published in: Issue 978-90-04-74854-5, 2026
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004748545_005

Between Facilitating and Gatekeeping: Journalistic Production and Democratic Participation

Author(s): Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler, Jeffrey Wimmer
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

The Invisible Rhizome: The Characteristics, Roles, and Challenges of Community Media in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Karolína Šimková, Jeffrey Wimmer
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

A Participation Ecology of Media and Democracy in Slovenia

Author(s): Brankica Petković, Tjaša Turnšek, Lori Šramel Čebular
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

“The Eyes and Ears of the Public”: The Challenges of Performing Democratic Roles in the Media in Ireland Today

Author(s): Rosemary Day, Jude McInerney
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

Austria: Losing Long-Term Media Market Stability

Author(s): Josef Seethaler
Published in: 2025, ISBN 9781394196272
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/9781394196272.CH2

Three Trends: Relationship between Media and Democracy in Poland

Author(s): Beata Klimkiewicz, Monika Szafrańska, Katarzyna Vanevska
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

Divergent Paths within a Shared Tradition: the Role of Journalistic Standards in Germany’s and Austria’s Changing Media Ecosystems

Author(s): Josef Seethaler, Barbara Thomass, Maren Beaufort, Helmut Peissl
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

Between Structural Constraints and Digital Innovation in Journalism: How Italian News Media Foster Democratic Audience Participation

Author(s): Anastasiia Iufereva, Elisabetta Risi, Andrea Miconi
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

False Promises, Real Belief: How Democracy Is Surviving Its Own Crisis

Author(s): Giulia Ferri, Andrea Miconi
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication
Publisher: Routledge

Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk – ein Medium für alle?! Herausforderungen und Chancen in der Repräsentation und Einbindung von armutsbetroffenen und ausgrenzungsgefährdeten Personen

Author(s): Seethaler, Josef; Schulz-Tomancok, Andreas; Krainer, Larissa
Published in: 2025
Publisher: ORF
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.19298279

Media Freedom and the Legal Framework of the Journalist Profession: Comparing Portugal and Estonia

Author(s): Nuno Cintra Torres, Alessandro Nanì, Andres Jõesaar, Arko Olesk, Tatiana Chervyakova, Manuel José Damásio
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

Conclusions and Future Directions

Author(s): Nico Carpentier, Giulia Ferri, Beata Klimkiewicz, Andrea Miconi, Josef Seethaler
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2027
Publisher: Routledge

Media's Democratic Roles: A Framework for Their Conditions of Possibility

Author(s): Doudaki, Vaia; Carpentier, Nico; Filimonov, Kirill
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Vita e Pensiero
DOI: 10.26350/9788834359686_000046

Public Service Media at a Crossroads: Challenges and Democratic Functions in Europe

Author(s): Barbara Thomass, Beata Klimkiewicz, Brankica Petković
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2027
Publisher: Routledge

Looking for a Theoretical Framework: Media, Democracy, Politics and Political in Contemporary Europe

Author(s): Nico Carpentier, Andrea Miconi, Josef Seethaler
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2027
Publisher: Routledge

From Regulation to Reality: Implementing Media Pluralism in France

Author(s): Morgane Le Guyader, Inna Lyubareva, Romain Billot
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

Media Law and Changing Notions of Democracy in Europe: Results from a cross-national comparison

Author(s): Maren Beaufort, Josef Seethaler
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2027
Publisher: Routledge

Monographic books (3)

News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation

Author(s): Klimkiewicz, Beata, Seethaler, Josef, Wimmer, Jeffrey
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2026
Publisher: Palgrave

Democracy and Media in Europe

Author(s): Nico Carpentier, Jeffrey Wimmer
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003485438

Platformed Democracy: Media, Trust, and Political Imagination in Europe

Author(s): Miconi A., Ferri G., Carpentier N., Klimkiewicz B., Seethaler J. (Eds.)
Published in: Issue accepted; will be available in open access at the time of publication, 2027
Publisher: Routledge

Other (5)

Resolutions Report by The Czech Citizen Parliament on Media and Democracy

Author(s): Yara Abu Aataya, Amanda Baxová, Iveta Černá, Irena Eibenová, Libuše Fojtová, Ema Janoušková, Lydie Kárníková, Petr Knepr, Tat'jana Kopalová, Lenka Kymličková, Patricie Martinů, Luboš Pavlovič, Martina Plesníková, Karel Prohaska, Radoslava Renzová, et al
Published in: 2025
Publisher: CULCORC
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15692097

National Citizens' Parliament on Media and Democracy, Ireland

Author(s): Rosemary Day, Jude McInerney, Kathy Cush
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.19367310

Zpráva o rezolucích Občanského parlamentu o médiích a demokracii v ČR

Author(s): Yara Abu Aataya, Amanda Baxová, Iveta Černá, Irena Eibenová, Libuše Fojtová, Ema Janoušková, Lydie Kárníková, Petr Knepr, Tat'jana Kopalová, Lenka Kymličková, Patricie Martinů, Luboš Pavlovič, Martina Plesníková, Karel Prohaska, Radoslava Renzová, et al
Published in: 2025
Publisher: CULCORC
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15647877

Media Systems Theory

Author(s): Josef Seethaler
Published in: Communication, 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756841-0185

The PAR-fication of Citizen Parliaments: A Reconsideration of Participatory Intensities

Author(s): Carpentier, Nico; Doudaki, Vaia; Hroch, Miloš
Published in: 2025
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18349429

Conference proceedings (1)

(Post-)Digital transformation of conflicts: Perceived threats to the media environment in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Šimková, Karolína; Wimmer, Jeffrey
Published in: Selected Papers in Internet Research 2025. Research from the Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, 2026
Publisher: AOIR
DOI: 10.5210/SPIR.V2024I0.15372