February 15, 2024

Brussels (Belgium)

It is invitation to the conference ‘Monitoring Mediascapes for Democratic Communication in Europe’, in Brussels on 15 February 2024. 

With the conference we are marking the end of the 3-year project Mediadelcom - the most comprehensive study of its kind done in Europe identifying the risks and opportunities for deliberative communication in today's polarized Europe. With more than 60 major elections scheduled worldwide in 2024, including within the European Union, and arguments that democracy itself could be at stake, now is an apt moment to focus on deliberative communication – a prerequisite of deliberative democracy.

The event includes:

• A keynote speech by Marius Dragomir, Director, Media and Journalism Research Center,  The future of European media: the need for change. Media capture and disinformation in Eastern Europe in a major election year
  
• And panel discussions: 
  
• • Media for Democracy: Crossing the East/West Divide
  • Freedom of expression and freedom of information – who are the agents under pressure and which agents have too much power?

You can see more details about the event in the attached documents. If you want to attend in person, please register via this link. If you want to watch online no registration is needed. You can watch online here.