Three publications competing for the Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award 2024
Three publications have been nominated for this year’s edition of the Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award.
On April 4, 2024, the Selection Committee reviewed proposals submitted for the 7th edition of the Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award – supporting significant contributions to media systems, policies, ethics, and public service media. Scholarly contributions published in 2023 and 2024 were submitted by members of the Leadership team of the International Association of Public Service Media Researchers (IAPMR), Editors, and Associate Editors of “Central European Journal of Communication” (CEJC), previous Award winners and the Selection Committee.
Through evaluation of three highly interwoven criteria: 1) methodological correctness, 2) contribution to media knowledge and 3) impact on democratic society, the following scholarly works and authors have been nominated:
- Tiziano Bonini & Emiliano Treré (2024). Algorithms of Resistance. The Everyday Fight against Platform Power. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Gergely Gosztonyi (2023). Censorship from Plato to Social Media. The Complexity of Social Media’s Content Regulation and Moderation Practices. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46529-1.
- Ewa Nowak-Teter (2023). Opinia publiczna online [Eng. Public Opinion Online]. Lublin: Wydawnictwo UMCS.
The Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award was established in 2018 by Małgorzata Semil-Jakubowicz and the Polish Communication Association. The Winner of the Award will be announced on April 28, 2024 – the anniversary of the passing of Dr. Karol Jakubowicz.
More information about the Award can be found on the Polish Communication Association’s website.
Dagmara Sidyk-Furman and Michał Głowacki