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On 19 June 2018 Minister Sven Gatz and VUB Rector Caroline Pauwels will launch the MediaHub Brussels and the new “MediaHub Brussels Conference” that will take place yearly. The MediaHub Brussel wants to stimulate cooperations between media companies, cross-disciplinary academic researchers, and policy makers, to strengthen the media industry. The launch event will also present the new degree “Postgraduate in …
This years’ World Media Economics and Management Conference (WMEMC) took place in Cape Town. Hundreds of academics exchanged new research and insights about the media industry in South Africa. On May 9, MCB researcher, Marlen Komorowski, presented the latest insights from the MCB project to an international audience at the conference. Cape Town welcomes media academics The topic of WMEMC …
Members of MCB have recently participated in a series of conferences and debates coordinated by Brussels Academy. The event series was called “Which Media for Brussels?”.Brussels Academy is a project that aims at putting together recent research on Brussels with academics and citizens from the Brussels Capital. The program was a developed together with Brussels Academy members: Tout Autre Information, the …
On Monday September 11, and in the context of the future Media Park at Reyers in Brussels, the social and economic council of the Brussels-Capital Region (Conseil économique et social – economische and sociale raad) invited to a conference named “Reyers: towards a multimedia pole”. Alice Webb, director of BBC Children and BBC North, was invited to share insights from …
Marlen Komorowski, researcher of MCB and doctoral student of the VUB, published her first MCB article in the International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics. The 12th Volume (2) of the journal published in June this year by Intellect, features a number of high quality articles in the area on politics of communication and cultural processes in their local, international …
More Deliverables on media workers can be found on the MCB website. After D4.1, it is the turn of D5.1. As you might remember, D4.1. set the basis for the study of media workers in Brussels by defining the differences between media professionals, media companies’ employees and media producers. It also explained why and how to study media workers’ profiles and skills. …
After the summer break and the beginning of the new academic year 2016-2017, Media Clusters Brussels is happy to make more Deliverables available within the coming weeks. The first one is Deliverable 2.1 – Report on Theoretical Framework: Media Institutions’ Activities and Networks about Media Institutions in Media Clusters. Deliverable 2.1 is dedicated to Work Package 2 – Media organisations’ …
Komorowski, M., (2016) “Untangling media clusters: Towards a new typology”, Presentation at the European Media Management Association (emma) annual conference: Creativity, Coopetition and Uncertainty in Media, Faculty of Arts (FLUP), Porto University, Porto (Portugal) 2-5 June 2016.
Click here to download MCB Deliverable 6.1
On 15th of April 2016, the yearly networking event organized by Innoviris took place. During this day, researchers focusing on a variety of topics (water management, social inclusion and mobility, health, logistics and of course media) tried to tackle some of the issues that Brussels face or will face in the near future.