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CMDS Director Awarded National Science Foundation Grant

August 2, 2014

Phil Howard, director of CMDS, has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation in the United States.  The award will support several grad students and involve them in original research on the impact of "bots" on political discourse in Europe and around the world.

European Online Investigative Journalism Awards Launched

July 29, 2014

CMDS project partner, The Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the European University Institute, is launching awards for the best initiatives in online investigative journalism with the aim of supporting new modes of journalism in Europe.

CMCS researcher, Amy Brouillette on Memory Politics in Hungary

July 17, 2014

Foreign Policy magazine reports on the controversial monument in Budapest's "Freedom Square" (Szabadsag Ter) that is, ostensibly, meant to honor victims of the German occupation during WW II. CMCS's Amy Brouillette and OSA's Gwen Jones are quoted:

"The government is redoing history, redoing the cultural markers," says Amy Brouillette, a researcher at the media studies center at Budapest's Central European University. "That's the sign of a real regime change."

Hamas and Israel Step Up Cyber Battle for Hearts and Minds

July 15, 2014

Phil Howard, professor at CEU's School of Public Policy and director of CEU's Center for Media and Communication Studies, speaks to the BBC about how social media is being used to win the hearts and minds of people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world:

Anya Schiffrin: Global Muckraking - 100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World

July 15, 2014

From Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, crusading journalists have played a central role in American politics: checking abuses of power, revealing corporate misdeeds, and exposing government corruption. Muckraking journalism is part and parcel of American democracy.