Research
The Institute's main areas of research includes the organisation and strategies of media and business enterprises, as well as local, national and international organisations active in the field of social media and legacy media (Internet, newspapers, cinema, radio, television); the historical evolution of media technologies and their role within the socio-political, economic and cultural contexts of reference; the analysis, also historical, of the ways in which different media products are accessed and consumed in different markets and by different social categories, especially young people; and the evolution of media professions, with particular attention to the field of journalism and growing influence of big data and AI.
Projects and publications
List of current and completed projects, and list of scholarly publications of the Institute of Media and Journalism:
Observatories
The Institute's two internal observatories contribute to the research activity:
- the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) engages in ongoing research on the dynamics of the publishing and journalistic worlds
- go to EJO - the China Media Observatory (CMO) studies the economic and socio-political evolution of the Chinese media system
- go to CMO
