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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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Call for applications to the international conference

Call for applications to the international conference

Dr Paško Bilić, coordinator of Research Network 18 of the European Sociological Association, invites all interested participants to apply for the international conference Communication and Capital(ism) to be held at the University of Ljubljana from August 28 to 30,...

The meeting of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project

The meeting of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project

On September 20, 2025, a meeting of the HRZZ project "Digital Data, Infrastructures and Development" (DEVELOPER) was held in the library of the Institute. The participants discussed upcoming work activities in the second and third project years, particularly focusing...

Results of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project published

Results of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project published

Toni Prug, team member of the “Digital Data, Infrastructures and Development” (DEVELOPER) project, and Paško Bilić, principal investigator, published an Online First article titled “Unlocking Public Infrastructures: State Aid and the Common European Dana Space”. The...

The meeting of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project

The meeting of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project

On September 11, a meeting of the HRZZ project "Digital Data, Infrastructure and Development" (DEVELOPER) was held in the Institute’s library. The meeting focused on key theoretical and developmental concepts. Preliminary results of conducted interviews and document...