Community media and its place in the media system in Poland

By Urszula Doliwa, University of Warmia and Mazury, Community Media Forum Europe *This blog post is part of the Jean Monnet Chair of European Media Governance and Integration Series curated by Wagner Piassaroli Mantovaneli.  Community media is “a vital and indispensable element of the media system in society” underlined Karol Jakubowicz - one of the...

‘Digital Europe’ and the Italian elections in the light of growing far-right popularity: A closer look at the M5S.

By Anita Gottlob, Student of Communication Science at the University of Vienna   *This blog post is part of the Jean Monnet Chair of European Media Governance and Integration Series curated by Wagner Piassaroli Mantovaneli.  On the 4th of March 2018, Italian citizens went to the polls to elect a new government. In this election,...

Everyone cannot say #MeToo – The exclusion of refugee women from hashtag activism

By Bruktawit E. Kassa *This blog post is part of the Jean Monnet Chair of European Media Governance and Integration Series curated by Wagner Piassaroli Mantovaneli.  Refugee women are extremely vulnerable to gender-based violence (GBV) and subsequent ill-health, which is profoundly happening across Europe and the Mediterranean countries (Keygnaert et al., 2015).  These women go...