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Check the list of MeDeMAP Publications*

* updated on 15 june 2026

Abu Aataya, Yara, Amanda Baxová, Iveta Černá, Irena Eibenová, Libuše Fojtová, Ema Janoušková, Lydie Kárníková, Petr Knepr, Tat’jana Kopalová, Lenka Kymličková, Patricie Martinů, Luboš Pavlovič, Martina Plesníková, Karel Prohaska, Radoslava Renzová, et al., Resolutions Report by The Czech Citizen Parliament on Media and Democracy. Prague: Culture and Communication Research Centre (CULCORC), 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15692097 

Abu Aataya, Yara, Amanda Baxová, Iveta Černá, Irena Eibenová, Libuše Fojtová, Ema Janoušková, Lydie Kárníková, Petr Knepr, Tat’jana Kopalová, Lenka Kymličková, Patricie Martinů, Luboš Pavlovič, Martina Plesníková, Karel Prohaska, Radoslava Renzová, et al., Zpráva o rezolucích Občanského parlamentu o médiích a demokracii v ČR. Prague: Culture and Communication Research Centre (CULCORC), 2025. https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15647877 

Carpentier, Nico, and Jeffrey Wimmer, Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach. London: Routledge, 2024. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003485438 , https://zenodo.org/records/14209506 

Carpentier, Nico, Vaia Doudaki and Miloš Hroch, The PAR-fication of Citizen Parliaments: A Reconsideration of Participatory Intensities. Conference presentation, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prague: Culture and Communication Research Centre (CULCORC), 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18349429

Cintra Torres, Nuno, Alessandro Nanì, Andres Jõesaar, Arko Olesk, Tatiana Chervyakova and Manuel José Damásio, “Media Freedom and the Legal Framework of the Journalist Profession: Comparing Portugal and Estonia,” in News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation: A European Perspective, ed. by Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer. London: Palgrave Macmillan [accepted]. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19316600 

Day, Rosemary, and Jude McInerney, “’The Eyes and Ears of the Public’: The Challenges of Performing Democratic Roles in the Media in Ireland Today,” in News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation: A European Perspective, ed. by Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer. London: Palgrave Macmillan [accepted]. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19316600 

Day, Rosemary, Jude McInerney and Kathy Cush, National Citizens’ Parliament on Media and Democracy, Ireland. Limerick: Mary Immaculate College, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19367310

Doudaki, Vaia, Nico Carpentier and Kirill Filimonov, “Media’s Democratic Roles: A Framework for Their Conditions of Possibility,” in “…e quanto più sapore possible”: Comunicazione, media, industria culturale. Studi in onore di Fausto Colombo, ed. by Piermarco Aroldi, Giovanna Mascheroni, Francesca Pasquali and Barbara Scifo, 423-432. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2025. https://dx.doi.org/10.26350/9788834359686_000046 , https://zenodo.org/records/15829767 

Doudaki, Vaia, Nico Carpentier and Kirill Filimonov, “The Grounds of the European Democracy–Media Nexus: Four Conditions of Possibility,” Media Watch 17, no. 1 (2026): 25-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/09760911251374242 , https://zenodo.org/records/17313126 

Hroch, Miloš, Nico Carpentier, Marie Heřmanová, Václav Janoščík, Dita Malečková and Martin Tremčinský, “Roundtable discussion: Perspectives on the Futures of Platforms and Democracy,” Central European Journal of Communication 17, no. 1(35) (2026): 125-140. https://doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).714 , https://zenodo.org/records/12802982 

Iufereva, Anastasiia, Elisabetta Risi and Andrea Miconi, “Between Structural Constraints and Digital Innovation in Journalism: How Italian News Media Foster Democratic Audience Participation,” in News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation: A European Perspective, ed. by Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer. London: Palgrave Macmillan [accepted]. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19316600 

Klimkiewicz, Beata, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer, “Between Facilitating and Gatekeeping: Journalistic Production and Democratic Participation,” in News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation: A European Perspective, ed. by Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer. London: Palgrave Macmillan [accepted]. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19316600

Klimkiewicz, Beata, Monika Szafrańska, Katarzyna Vanevska, “Three Trends: Relationship between Media and Democracy in Poland,” in News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation: A European Perspective, ed. by Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer. London: Palgrave Macmillan [accepted]. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19316600 

Klimkiewicz, Beata. “Media, State and Reciprocal Transparency: Normative Expectations and Regulatory Possibilities in a Proposal of the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA),” Zeszyty Prasoznawcze 66, no. 4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.4467/22996362PZ.23.042.18676 , https://zenodo.org/records/19309799 

Miconi, Andrea, and Nico Carpentier, “Theorising a Multidimensional Model for Analysing Data Fetishism: Reconciling Marxist and Freudian Approaches to the ‘Split’, in Rethinking Media and Communication: A Critical Sociological Lens, ed. by Paško Bilić and Thomas Allmer, 69-83. Leiden: Brill, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004748545_005

Minanto, Ali, Nico Carpentier and Jhon Sany Purwanto, “AGON: Constructions of Democracy,” Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuale16, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18787372

Monnot, Laurence, Helmut Peissl and Andrea Sedlaczek, Resolutionenbericht Bürger*innenrat Medien und Demokratie Österreich. Wien: COMMIT – Community Medien Institut für Weiterbildung, Forschung und Beratung, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19473107

Monnot, Laurence, Helmut Peissl and Andrea Sedlaczek, Resolutions Report by The Austrian Citizens’ Parliament on Media and Democracy. Wien: COMMIT – Community Medien Institut für Weiterbildung, Forschung und Beratung, 2025. https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19203157 

Morgane Le Guyader, Inna Lyubareva, Romain Billot.From Regulation to Reality: Implementing Media Pluralism in France,” in News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation: A European Perspective, ed. by Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer. London: Palgrave Macmillan [accepted]. Preprint:  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19316600 

Peissl, Helmut, and Andrea Sedlaczek, “Medien- und Demokratiebildung im Bürger*innenrat: Medien und Demokratie,” Die Österreichische Volkshochschule: Magazin für Erwachsenenbildung 76, no. 285 (2025): 43-56. https://zenodo.org/records/19697894 

Petković, Brankica, Tjaša Turnšek and Lori Šramel Čebular, “A Participation Ecology of Media and Democracy in Slovenia,” in News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation: A European Perspective, ed. by Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer. London: Palgrave Macmillan [accepted]. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19316600 

Petković, Brankica, Tjaša Turnšek and Lori Šramel Čebular, The Citizens’ Parliament Demands on Media and Democracy in Slovenia. Ljubljana: Peace Institute, 2025. https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19253983 

Petković, Brankica, Tjaša Turnšek and Lori Šramel Čebular, Zahteve zbora občank_ov o medijih in demokraciji. Ljubljana: Peace Institute, 2025. https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19252471 

Schulz-Tomančok, Andreas, and Josef Seethaler, “Nicht über uns, sondern mit uns! Chancen und Herausforderungen in der Darstellung von Armutsbetroffenheit beim öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk,” Communicatio Socialis 59, no. 2 (2026): 214-224. https://doi.org/10.5771/0010-3497-2026-2-214 

Seethaler, Josef, “Austria: Losing Long-Term Media Market Stability, “ in Media Compass, ed. by Aljosha Karim Schapals and Christian Pentzold, 8-17. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394196272.ch2

Seethaler, Josef, “Media Systems Theory,”, in Oxford Bibliographies in Communication, ed. by Patricia Moy. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756841-0185

Seethaler, Josef, “Medienstrukturen revisited – die Rolle von Werten. Ein analytisches Modell zur Untersuchung des demokratiefördernden Potenzials nationaler Rechts- und Regulierungsrahmen,” Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft 73, no. 2 (2025): 252-274. https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634x-2025-2-252 , https://zenodo.org/records/17160531 

Seethaler, Josef, Andreas Schulz-Tomancok and Larissa Krainer, “Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk – ein Medium für alle?! Herausforderungen und Chancen in der Repräsentation und Einbindung von armutsbetroffenen und ausgrenzungsgefährdeten Personen,” in Für alle? Öffentlich-rechtliche Medien in fragmentierten Gesellschaften. Public Value Studie, ed. by Österreichischer Rundfunk ORF, 147-175. Wien: ORF, 2025. https://zukunft.orf.at/rte/upload/2025/pv_studie_24_fertig.pdf , https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19298279 

Seethaler, Josef, Barbara Thomass, Maren Beaufort and Helmut Peissl, “Divergent Paths within a Shared Tradition: the Role of Journalistic Standards in Germany’s and Austria’s Changing Media Ecosystems,” in News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation: A European Perspective, ed. by Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer. London: Palgrave Macmillan [accepted]. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19316600 

Šimková, Karolína, and Jeffrey Wimmer, “(Post-)Digital Transformation of Conflicts: Perceived Threats to the Media Environment in the Czech Republic,” AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (2025). https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.15372 , https://zenodo.org/records/18349318 

Šimková, Karolína, and Jeffrey Wimmer, “The Invisible Rhizome: The Characteristics, Roles, and Challenges of Community Media in the Czech Republic,” in News Journalism and Its Role in Democratic Participation: A European Perspective, ed. by Beata Klimkiewicz, Josef Seethaler and Jeffrey Wimmer. London: Palgrave Macmillan [accepted]. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19316600 

Coming soon:

Ferri, Giulia, Elisabetta Risi and Andrea Miconi (Eds.), Media and Democracy in the Eye of the Users. Special issue: ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies Vol. 19, issue 1(37).

Accepted:

Miconi Andrea, Ferri Giulia, Nico Carpentier, Beata Klimkiewicz and Josef Seethaler (Eds.), Platformed Democracy: Media, Trust, and Political Imagination in Europe. Routledge.

Miconi, Andrea, Giulia Ferri, Nico Carpentier, Beata Klimkiewicz, & Josef Seethaler (Eds.), Platformed Democracy: Media, Trust, and Political Imagination in Europe. Routledge.

Klimkiewicz, Beata, Monika Szafrańska and Katarzyna Vanevska, A Potential and Limits of an Epistemic Public Sphere: Media, News Ecosystem and Democracy in Poland. Elgar Publishing.