Nico Carpentier
@nicocarpentier
Communication+ Researcher - see
Our film, AGON: Constructions of Democracy, is part of the official selection of the 2026 Posibl. Festival 2026, which will take place in August 2026. More about AGON at constructionsofdemocracy.eu #MeDeMAP #CULCORC #democracy
After visiting the university of split, my dear colleagues published a short interview with me (in Croatian). You'll find it here: www.unist.hr/komunikolog-.... Thanks to Emanuela Šamija for the interview, and Nikola Brboleža/Cropix for the photo
Last day of the FLOW34 programme, at the 2026 Galway #IAMCR conference. Congrats to MCR working group, Sandra, Aysu and Pedro, for putting this year's edition together ...
Congratulations to Gizem Canalp (and fellow supervisor Aysu Arsoy) for having her PhD accepted (with minor revisions). It's a lovely piece of work on how Turkish Cypriot IDPs understand the concept of home ... #CULCORC
Yesterday, Jeffrey Wimmer and I had another MeDeMAP round table about our Democracy and Media in Europe book. Hosted by the Communication and Media Department, University of Split, with Antonija Čuvalo and Krešimir Krolo as respondents ... Thanks to all! #CULCORC and #MeDeMAP (photos by Laura Galić)
We'll have a new screening of AGON: Constructions of Democracy, on 5 June (4pm), at the Communication and Media Days 2026, in Split, Croatia. If you're around. If you want to know more about the film essay, see www.constructionsofdemocracy.eu #CULCORC #MeDeMAP #Democracy
I had a lovely chat with James Campbell, as part of the Intellect vodcast (called In Conversation), about life, universe and everything (and a bit about ECREA, IAMCR and the books we/I did with intellect), you'll find it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGj... #culcorc
Happy to announce the new article by #CULCORC member David Ongenaert and Marie Flügge, on "Constructing childhood in the Russian-Ukrainian War: UNICEF’s Instagram representations of children", in Media, War & Conflict. More at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The closing plenary of this year's SJTU-IAMCR conf in Shanghai... Again, a perfect organisation by Liangwen Kuo and his team ... One talk was by Xiaoling Zhang, who some years ago handled the Suzhou part of the IAMCR online/china conf. Two organisational masterminds united in one photo ... #IAMCR
Congrats to M. Kemal Dağdelen, for his new article on "Constructing the Discursive Frontiers", an analysis of how Turkey’s maritime borders are discursively constructed ... It's published in MONITOR ISH, and you'll find the issue (vol XXVII, num 2, summer 2025) at www.ish.si/publikacije/... #CULCORC
Today and tomorrow (at 3pm CET), our film essay AGON: Constructions of Democracy will be broadcast on the Öppna Kanalen Stockholm (the Swedish Stockholm open channel TV station). If you want to enjoy this broadcast, see oksplay.solidtango.com/live/live. The charms of TV flows still are unbeatable...
Pleased to hear that our "Democracy and media in Europe: A discursive-material approach" book has just been nominated for the Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award 2026. But what is even better is that we are in such great company, showing how well the media and democracy field is doing ...
Happy to announce the publication of an article by David Ongenaert, one of our CULCORC members, and his colleagues. The piece is on inclusive classroom practices, and uses Feminist Participatory Action Research. You can find it here: doi.org/10.1080/1360...
The March 2026 newsletter of the Culture and Communication Research Centre (CULCORC) at Charles University is out ... If you want to know more about our work in the past six months, you can read about it here: culcorc.fsv.cuni.cz/culcorc-news... #CULCORC
Fun at the away-days of the Portuguese research centre CICANT, with a talk on hope and democracy, and one case study on the Czech citizen parliament and one case study on a participatory arts project. Thanks to all present, for a (really) lovely discussion! #MeDeMAP #CULCORC #MISTRA #Färgfabriken
Congrats to dr. Daniel Nielsen, our most recent doctor at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, at Charles Uni., who successfully defended his PhD thesis today. It's a fine piece of work (and a great cover)! Also congrats to supervisor Jaroslav Švelch for the exemplary support.
On 3 March 2026, there will be a screening of the 26-minute film essay AGON: Constructions of Democracy, at the VACD of the Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in Famagusta, Cyprus. All welcome! #CULCORC #MeDeMAP #democracy
A #MeDeMAP talk on the Czech citizen parliament on media and democracy, on 4 march, in Famagusta, Cyprus. All welcome (and with thanks to the Cyprus policy centre for organising it)
The trophies from the 11th MCAP-BNU conference in Lahore, and the 7th MCAP doctoral spring school in Islamabad. Congratulations to the Pakistani communication studies association MCAP, and its team, for another successful iteration of their conference and doctoral school.