Project description
Evaluating European media-related risks
The surge of populist and ultra-right tendencies in European countries poses growing challenges for unity and common European goals as well as informed decision-making. We need to safeguard deliberative communication in media, where different views and arguments are met with respect and tolerance. For this, however, a holistic attitude towards media-related risks and opportunities (ROs), research and prognosis of future possible threats is needed. The EU-funded MEDIADELCOM project will develop a diagnostic tool for media, educators and related institutions that enables ROs evaluation for deliberative communication and social cohesion in Europe. It will enable modelling and management of multiple scenarios and instruments for media-related risks prediction.
Objective
MEDIADELCOM endeavours to contribute to the enhancement of European integration, social cohesion and consequently – Europeanization.
The popularity of ultra-right and populist political forces in European societies demonstrate that the unity of European nations and their common goals are not self-evident. Informed decision making in contemporary democratic societies is being challenged.
MEDIADELCOM consortium argues that European political and cultural spaces evolve best if specific policies enhance the conditions for deliberative communication. The Consortium will work out a methodology enabling the assessment and forecast of the risks and opportunities for deliberative communication emerging in the process of media transformation in 2000-2020.
There is no holistic approach to media related Risks and Opportunities (ROs); media studies and data are dispersed, restricting the evaluation of ROs for deliberative communication in European countries; there are no evidence-based holistic scenarios for prognosing media development in European societies.
The overall objective of MEDIADELCOM is to develop a diagnostic tool for policy makers, educators, media critical bodies and institutions, as well as for media experts and journalists, which enables the provision of holistic assessment of risks and opportunities concerning deliberative communication and consequently social cohesion in Europe.
We will: 1) develop a model for holistic analysis of the ROs emerging within the process of media transformation in Europe; 2) assess the sufficiency of existing research and data necessary for making knowledge based forecasts about European media landscape development trends; 3) generate a novel method, based on motivational modelling and agent-based simulation for outlining scenarios to predict media related ROs.
By assembling and synthesizing existing dispersed research, and modelling multiple scenarios will create an instrument for media risk prediction and management.
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.3.6. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.6.2.2. - Explore new forms of innovation, with special emphasis on social innovation and creativity and understanding how all forms of innovation are developed, succeed or fail
- H2020-EU.3.6.2.1. - Strengthen the evidence base and support for the Innovation Union and ERA
Call for proposal
H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2018-2019-2020
See other projects for this callSub call
H2020-SC6-TRANSFORMATIONS-2020
Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
51005 Tartu
Estonia