


New project CULTMED – Interdisciplinary Research on Cultural and Media Policies and Practices: Developmental and Democratic Potentials has started
CULTMED – Interdisciplinary Research on Cultural and Media Policies and Practices: Developmental and Democratic Potentials is a new project of the Department of Culture and Communication at the Institute for Development and International Relations, which commenced on...
The new CresCine Newsdossier has been published
A brand new edition of the CresCine newsletter has been released. It was published as part of the Horizon Europe project “Increasing the international competitiveness of the film industry in small European markets.” IRMO is one of 26 partners in a...
Call for papers for the 15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference is opened
Call for papers for the ’15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference: Changing Policies, Transforming Audiences and Work Practices In-flux’ that will be held from 5-7th November, 2024 in Zagreb is opened. The conference is organized by the...Guest lecture by Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
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 (IRMO), we invite you to a guest lecture by Professor Linnet Taylor...
Participation of CresCine project at Berlinale
Representatives of the project ‘Increasing the international competitiveness of the film industry in small European markets’ (CresCine) participated in the 74th Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) industry programme, which took place from February 15-25,...
Digital Data, Infrastructures and Development (DEVELOPER)
Project duration: 31/12/2023 – 30/12/2027 Client: Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) Project manager: Paško Bilić, PhD Abstract: Digital data circulated through internet platforms, smartphones, and other devices have become the source of intense commercial...
Book: Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe
Editors: Ole Marius Hylland and Jaka Primorac Publisher: Routledge, London Year: 2023 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003334576 eBook ISBN 9781003334576 ABSTRACT What happens when cultural policy turns digital? Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in...
The new book ‘Digital Transformation and Cultural Policies in Europe’ and the completion of the project ‘Rapids and backwaters. Adapting fast and slow to a digital cultural turn’
The IRMO team consisting of Aleksandra Uzelac, Jaka Primorac and Barbara Lovrinić Higgins – participated in the three-year research project ‘Rapids and backwaters. Adapting fast and slow to a digital cultural turn’ (3/2020 – 12/2023) coordinated by...
DEVELOPER: new research project on digital development
Dr Paško Bilić is the principal investigator of a new research project called Digital Data, Infrastructures and Development (DEVELOPER). The project is financed by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) as part of the Research Projects competition (IP-2022-10). From...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Round table discussion ‘Big Challenges for Small Cinematographies’
18th of December 2023, KIC, Preradovićeva 5, Zagreb IRMO’s Department for Culture and Communication in cooperation with ZFF Industry organize a round table discussion entitled ‘Big Challenges for Small Cinematographies’ that will be held from 12:00-13:30h...
Presentation of the results of the CresCine project as part of the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn
Members of the Horizon Europe consortium of the CresCine project Jaka Primorac, PhD, Aleksandra Uzelac, PhD and Sunčana Franić from the Department of Culture and Communications at IRMO participated in the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event program as part of the...
Article ‘Frankfurt School Legacy and The Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism’
Author: Paško Bilić Journal: Critical Sociology Publisher: Sage Journals Year: 2023 ISSN: 0896-9205 Online ISSN: 1569-1632 Abstract: Just as the Frankfurt School responded to the radicalisation of the working class in Germany and the rise of post-war consumerism in...
Article published in the ‘Critical Sociology’ journal
Paško Bilić, Ph.D, senior research associate from the Department for Culture and Communication (IRMO), is the author of an article entitled ‘Frankfurt School Legacy and The Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism’ in the journal...
Special issue of the Croatian Sociological Review
Editor of a special section “Media Literacy of the Citizens of the Republic of Croatia as a Sociological Phenomenon”: Paško Bilić Journal: Croatian Sociological Review, Vol. 53 No. 2, 2023. Publisher: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Year: 2023...
Article “Being media literate in Croatia: characteristics and selected dimensions of media literacy as a social practice”
Authors: Paško Bilić and Marija Brajdić Vuković Journal: Croatian Sociological Review, Vol. 53 No. 2, 2023. Publisher: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Year: 2023 ISSN 0350-154X (Tisak) ISSN 1846-7954 (Online) https://doi.org/10.5613/rzs.53.2.3 ABSTRACT This...
Special section on media literacy in the ‘Croatian Sociological Review’ has been published
Dr. Paško Bilić is the editor of a special section entitled ‘Media Literacy of the Citizens of the Republic of Croatia as a Sociological Phenomenon’ in the Croatian Sociological Review (Scopus), the Croatian Sociological Association journal. In the...
The end of the project “Media education is important.MOV”
The content is available on the Croatian website.
Results of the Media Pluralism Monitor in 32 European Countries
Media Pluralism Monitor is a unique tool for assessing risks for media pluralism in EU member states and selected candidate countries. Since 2013, the European Commission has financed the project coordinated by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom of the...