IRMO researcher Dr Jaka Primorac participated in the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) ‘s annual conference this year in Christchurch, New Zealand. The conference was organized by the University of Canterbury from June 30 to July 4 2024 under the title ‘Whiria te tāngata-Weaving people together. Communicative projects of decolonising, engaging, and listening,’ and was held at the Te Puia conference center.
Dr Primorac gave two presentations as part of the conference: the first one was for the Section for Political Economy of Communications entitled ‘Continuity of precarity? Trajectory of film labor as project-to-project work in Croatia’ in independent authorship; and the second one for the Audience Research Section entitled ‘Understanding practices and changing motivations of domestic film audiences: A comparative qualitative study across seven small European film ecosystems’ created in co-authorship with colleagues from the CresCine project – prof. Cathrin Helen Bengesser, Aarhus University, Denmark; prof. Manuel Jose Damasio, Lusofona University, Portugal; Sten Kauber, PhD, Tallinn University, Estonia; Paul Hammoud, PhD, Vrije University Brussels, Belgium; Nicole Flanagan, PhD, Munster University of Technology, Ireland; André Rui Graça, PhD, Lusofona University, Portugal; prof. Malgorzata Kotlinska, Lusofona University, Portugal; prof. Marta Materska-Samek, Lusofona University, Portugal; prof. Rita Gracio, Lusofona University, Portugal; and Judith Pernin, PhD, IADT, Ireland. As part of the conference, the meetings of the sections and the general assembly of the IAMCR association were held, in which colleague Primorac participated as a member of the association and a member of the sections for the political economy of communications and analysis of media production.
Before the start of the IAMCR conference, a pre-conference entitled ‘Approaches to digital platforms from Latin America and other margins. Social mediation, market structures, labor relations and sovereign alternatives’ was held, which took place from June 29-30 at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, and was co-organized by the OBSCOM Platformas project of the University of Sergipe in Brazil. Dr. Primorac participated in the conference with a paper entitled ‘Audiovisual platforms on the margins. The limits of market structures and policy responses in Europe’s periphery’ co-authored with prof. Helena Popović from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
