CEMEDIG – Centre for Sociology of Media and Digital Society
The CEMEDIG Center promotes and directs the research of the Department of Culture and Communications in the field of media sociology, a special branch of sociology characterized by interdisciplinary openness to related disciplines in the field of social sciences and humanities. This particularly applies to economically oriented topics, such as the political economy of the media, and legal and political topics, such as media regulation. In the context of digitization, the term digital sociology is often used as a term close to media sociology, and the focus is on specific development topics such as data infrastructures, platforms, digital data, digital media literacy, and data justice. The CEMEDIG Center deals with different levels of social reality and social development perspectives of digitization. At the macro level, the political and legal order, i.e. the normative and value goals of European and national development policies, and the contradictory market processes that shape the media and digital society are explored. At the intermediate level, the ways in which media and digitalization change private and public organizational processes, infrastructures, and the public sphere are studied. At the micro level, changes in modern day-to-day life and the ways in which the media and digitalization enable or prevent the inclusion of citizens in wider cultural, political, and economic processes are studied. The goal of the CEMEDIG center is to promote scientific excellence in the field of media sociology and related disciplinary areas and to provide independent scientific research into the media and digital society. Special attention is paid to strong fundamental research and its balanced connection with normative and development perspectives, international dissemination of results, and education of young researchers. CEMEDIG also provides a broader thematic and organizational framework for implementing the Croatian Science Foundation DEVELOPER project.
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Guest lecture at the Department of International Development, King’s College London
Dr Paško Bilić (IRMO) and Dr Toni Prug (University of Rijeka) held a lecture on the political economy of digital monopolies, relying on a monograph from 2021 co-authored with Dr Mislav Žitko (FFZG) under the title Political Economy of Digital Monopolies (Bristol...
A PUBLIC COMPETITION for the associate position of assistant
Pursuant to Articles 48, 51 and 52 of its Statute, Class: 007-02/23-01/01, Reg. No.: 251-768-08-23-4 of 16 September 2023, the Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb, announces A PUBLIC COMPETITION for the associate position of assistant in the...
Summer School Political Economies of the Media – Theories and Methods Held in Šibenik
Organised by the Centre for Sociology of Media and Digital Society – CEMEDIG, as a part of the CULTMED project, the second edition of the summer school Political Economies of the Media – Theories and Methods took place at the educational campus of St. John’s Fortress...
Start of the Summer School Political Economies of the Media – Theories and Methods in Šibenik
Organised by the Centre for Sociology of Media and Digital Society (CEMEDIG), as a part of the CULTMED project, the summer school Political Economies of the Media – Theories and Methods will take place in Šibenik from 9 to 12 September 2025. The program brings...
IRMO scientists participated in the conference of the Media and Communication Research Network of the European Sociological Association (ESA RN18)
IRMO scientists Jaka Primorac and Paško Bilić, CULTMED project associates, participated in the international scientific conference of the Media and Communication Research Network of the European Sociological Association (ESA RN18), held from August 28 to 30, 2025. The...
Special issue of the Political Economy of Communication just published
The inaugural Political Economies of the Media postgraduate course held at the Inter-University Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik in September 2023 was shaped by discussions around media ownership, labour, content, regulation, infrastructure, and everyday media practices. The...
Conference Report: The European Union’s Digital Decade Policy – Regulation, Development, and Social Impact
Organised by the Centre for Sociology of Media and the Digital Society (CEMEDIG) at the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), a public forum titled “The European Union’s Digital Decade Policy: Regulation, Development, and Social Impact” was...
The European Union’s Digital Decade Policy: Regulation, Development, and Societal Impact
On Tuesday, 29 April 2025, a public discussion titled The European Union’s Digital Decade Policy: Regulation, Development, and Social Impact will take place at the House of Europe (Augusta Cesarca 4, Zagreb). The event is organised by the Centre for the Sociology of...
A public debate on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA)
A public debate on the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) was organised by the Centre for Media Sociology and Digital Society (CEMEDI) of the Institute for Development and International Relations to create a participatory and inclusive exchange of knowledge on the...
The European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) and the risks to media pluralism
The CEMEDIG Center invites you to a discussion on the European Media Freedom Act on February 20 at the Institute for Development and International Relations library, starting at 10 AM. Infrastructures fulfil their social and developmental role when managed as a shared...