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CMDS Participates in EU Research Project on Online Violence

April 23, 2014

CEU's Center for Media, Data and Society is participating in VOX-Pol, a five-year, €5.1 million research consortium that will focus on researching the prevalence, contours, functions, and impacts of violent online political extremism and responses to it.

Amy Brouillette for Al Jazeera on journalists and national security measures

April 23, 2014

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Amy Brouillette, Director of the European Media Project at CMCS, writes about journalists and the increasing pressure that national security legislation is exerting on them, in her piece for Al Jazeera: Crackdown on journalists: State security vs human rights.

Sejal Parmar on “Protecting Journalists Through International Law” in Council of Europe seminar in Kyiv

April 22, 2014

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Sejal Parmar, assistant professor in the Department of Legal Studies and affiliated faculty in the Center for Media and Communications Studies at the School of Public Policy, spoke on “Protecting Journalists Through International Law” at a two-day seminar on the safety of journalists organized by the Council of Europe in Kyiv, Ukraine on 15 and 16 April 2014.

Read more (Legal Studies Department website)

Amy Brouillette for Al Jazeera on the Hungarian elections

April 9, 2014

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CMCS Amy Brouillette contributed a piece for Al Jazeera on the Hungarian elections of the past weekend. In her piece, Hungary elections: How the media failed the people, Amy describes the current media situation in the country and provocatively asks whether the Hungarian "free but not fair" elections could be setting an example for other European elections.

Apply to our Summer School! Advocacy, Activism and the Internet: Communication Policy for Social Change

March 17, 2014

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The CMCS and the the Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS), Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania organize the Summer School "Advocacy, Activism and the Internet: Communication Policy for Social Change", which will be held in Budapest, July 6-12. The application deadline is April 2nd.