
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.
News
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,...
Call for Applications for an International Summer School
Political Economies of the Media. Theories and Methods, an advanced postgraduate course. Šibenik, Croatia, 9 - 12 September 2025 Keynote Speakers: Micky Lee, Suffolk University, USA Mandy Troeger, University of Tuebingen, Germany Course Directors: Thomas Allmer,...
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...
Detailed report of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project now available
After two published scientific articles on personal digital data and public infrastructures in the European Journal of Communication, a detailed descriptive report of the project "Digital data, infrastructures and development" (IP-2022-10-2780) is now available. Under...
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...
IRMO researcher at the Sociology of Development conference in Washington D.C.
IRMO researcher Paško Bilić participated in the 10th annual conference of the Sociology of Development section of the American Sociological Association, which was held in Washington, D.C., from October 18 to 20. The conference was hosted by the Johns Hopkins...
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...
First results of the HRZZ DEVELOPER project published
Paško Bilić, principal investigator of the HRZZ project "Data, infrastructures and development" (DEVELOPER) and Mislav Žitko, project member, published the Online First article entitled "Personal data as pseudo-property: between commodification and assetisation". The...
Guest lecture held by Professor Linnet Taylor from Tilburg University
On the occasion of the launch of the Centre for Sociology of Media and Digital Society (CEMEDIG) at the Department of Culture and Communications, Institute for Development and International Relations, Professor Linnet Taylor from Tilburg University in the Netherlands...
Center for Media Sociology and Digital Society launch – guest lecture by Professor Linnet Taylor
On the occasion of the launch of the Center for Sociology of Media and Digital Society (CEMEDIG) at the Department of Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Professor Linnet Taylor from Tilburg University in the...