THE PRESS IN SMALL COUNTRIES AND REGIONS IN EUROPE - METHODOLOGICAL SEMINAR - POZNAŃ (POLAND) 8-9 November, 2018, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU)

Faculty of Political Science and Journalism, 89a Umultowska St., Poznań, Poland

The Department of Press Systems and Press Law, Faculty of Political Science and Journalism and the Polish Media Law Association organised 8-9 November, 2018 a seminar "THE PRESS IN SMALL COUNTRIES AND REGIONS IN EUROPE - METHODOLOGICAL SEMINAR", with the participation of prominent foreign and national representatives of media and science practice:

- Prof. Frédéric Antoine (Professor of Louvain, President of the BAC in Communication

  UCL, President of GRER (Radio Research and Study Group), Research Observatory on

  Media and Journalism, School of Communication and Leuven Journalism School, Louvain-

  la-Neuve, Belgium)

- Prof. Stanisław Jędrzejewski (Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland)

- Prof. Bohdan Jung (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland)

- Mario Viola de Azevedo Cuhna (Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, 

  European University Institute, Florence, Italy)

- Prof. Karin Raeymaeckers (University of Ghent, Belgium),

- Prof. Gordana Vilović (Zagreb, Croatia)

- Prof. Elsa Costa e Silva (University of Minho, Portugal),

- Marina Dekavalla (University of Sussex, UK)

- Rémy Bersipont (University of Louvain, Belgium)

- Dominik Księski (Member of the Board of the Press Publishers Chamber, Owner of the

  “Wulkan Publishing House”, Editor-in-chief of “Pałuki” weekly, Poland)

- Maciej Hoffman (Director of The Polish Association of Journalists and Publishers

  "Repropol")

- Jacek Wojtaś - The EU Affairs Co-ordinator of the Polish Chamber of Press Publishers

This seminar was a consequence of a series of previous such events, organised by the Research Observatory on Media and Journalism, which took place in 2016 and 2017 at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, with the participation of representatives of a research group from many European countries, under the guidance of Prof. Frédéric Antoine.

It seems that today one of the most important research questions is to determine whether, and to what extent, the European countries' policy should support the process of digitisation of media market (especially the printed press), and what are the challenges and threats to this process, whether State support systems are necessary for this sector and who is responsible for the digital future of the media and finally how to perceive the principle of media freedom in this context.

During the conference, researches gave presentations and shared experiences from many European small countries and regions.

Please find an enclosed link to recorded discussion from the two panels of the seminar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtL5KwicZ8g

prof. Jedrzej Skrzypczak
Head of Department of Press Systems and Press Law
Adam Mickiewicz University
Faculty of Political Science and Journalism
Umultowska 89a, 61-614 Poznan, Poland