What we see around us and how today will affect tomorrow is all depending on our creativity. Our intelligent life is inspired from our imagination. Since the world exists the main source of ideas has derived from the fairy tales and fables that humanity learned in its infancy.
Can 5G be dangerous in any way? What are the major challenges in the full 5G infrastructure rollout? What are the benefits and expected impacts of the 5G technologies on the economy and socio-technical reality tomorrow? Can broadcasters and other media benefit from 5G straightaway? These questions and more have been answered in our 5W…
COMPACT recent report provides an in-depth insight into i) Progress in the implementation of EU standardization policies; ii) Strengths and weaknesses of national, regional and international (pre)standardization organizational setting; iii) European digital industry position in a global context; iv) Distance from ethical universalism principle of equal power share in samples of standardization bodies at all…
In our study, we analyzed a varied range of information governance initiatives covering different issues related to information disorder. The results show that most of the initiatives currently active are of a national type, indicating a serious lack of trans-border collaboration and impact. One important insight is that most of the activities are being performed…
READ FULL SOCIAL MEDIA AND GENDER REPORT HERE Our recently released report on Gender Aspects and Social Media could be analysed in its stadardisational aspect among others. It cites the Recommendation CM/Rec (2007)17 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on gender equality standards and mechanisms further states that gender equality is not a…
Our report examines judicial approaches to social media and convergence. It identifies the jurisprudence of supreme, constitutional and appellate courts in a selected set of European Union (EU) countries. Our findings show that the judicial treatment of social media cases heavily draws on the existing ‘generic’ legal framework. Many of the rules that currently apply…
Our report on current policies and regulatory frameworks for social media and content convergence: information disorder, human rights and regulatory implications, provides a comprehensive insight into regulatory and governance initiatives addressing the human rights concerns related to information disorder in social media and a better understanding of the regulatory and governance implications, including their potential…
For the last couple of years, social media platforms have been facing serious issues related to the propagation of fake news, broadly understood disinformation and manipulation of audiences. Moreover, general advertising, online political campaigns and freedom of speech online policies have been a subject of strong debate. Despite significant efforts made by platforms and policymakers…
We present our compendium on R&D Programmes, Activities and Issues in the area of technological convergence related to AR, VR, MR, Social Media Influencers, Bots, Deep Fakes. Our report presents a comprehensive overview of the situation and feedback from National Authorities on the discussed topics. READ FULL REPORT HERE
In the last five years many academics, CEOs´ social media platforms and politicians in the EU have increasingly accepted both the urgency and the necessity of social media regulation. A large combination of the public-journalistic-academic opinions presented in the media started voicing suggestions on how to regulate social media in EU countries and a few…
The COMPACT project aims at enhancing awareness about the latest scientific discoveries – state of the art research on social media and convergence – among key stakeholders in the context of social media and convergence. For this purpose, we analysed over 1,200 mostly academic articles dealing with convergence and social media, published in more than…
Gender & Social Media – COMPACT Report Technological development and convergence require comprehensive exploration of how various dimensions of our life are affected by the new technologies, and by social media, in particular. Among its awareness-raising goals, COMPACT also analyzes how social networks respond to the gender challenges in the digital environment in a special…
From Fairy Tales to smart concepts: Storytelling for VR What we see around us and how today will affect tomorrow is all depending on our creativity. Our intelligent life is inspired by our imagination. Since the world exists the main source of ideas has derived from the fairy tales and fables that humanity learned in…
Immersion is often discussed during the topic of virtual reality rather like biscuits and tea, but what is immersion and why is it important?
The main problem with VR film is attention. How can we have as filmmakers control what the viewer sees so as to not miss pivotal story elements?
When we first think about scriptwriting, we tend to imagine that of a screenplay or feature film; TV, or Advertisement. We don’t often think about gaming or the virtual world. This thesis aims to explore exactly that. How does the process of scriptwriting change when applied to virtual reality? Are there similarities to current gaming…
If we think about the last decades, everything has become much more story-centric, digital media, visual media, written media, even journalism or advertising uses stories to help themselves sell better
With Virtual Reality emerging quickly as a new and popular media, storytellers have had to learn quickly on how to utilize this media to its potential to deliver a memorable and engaging experience for the audience. Looking at examples from over the years, we can learn about how this media has greater advantages than others…
E. Psychogiopoulou and F. Casarosa, ‘Fundamental Rights in National Social Media Jurisprudence: A Study of Higher and Appellate Courts’, [2020] European Human Rights Law Review, issue 2, p. 164-175 Abstract This article examines national court decisions on social media in a selected set of EU Member States, aiming to identify and analyze their fundamental rights…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This research and policy paper summarises the key findings and recommendations from up-to-date performance analyses of European organisations and initiatives fighting fake news. These findings and recommendations represent the direct outcome of the piloting of an entirely novel methodology for defining key indicators for performance evaluation of fact-checking organisations in a number of…
Educational video for Medical Realities on Basic Life Support During Covid – 19 for training medical staff. The project was created during lockdown in UK using entirely online network methodology for media production. Students from Escape studios volunteered to contribute to the production aiding NHS by working from home computers and using online tools for…
Mediaframe Studios presents: Episode 1: “Identity Theft” by Brigita Auskalnyte Content creators usually have a following – followers. It is portrayed as a crowd that follow the creator. Within the crowd there is always someone there wanting to use the artist. So they sneak up, steal either their work or even their identity and use…
Mediaframe Studios presents: Episode 2: “Wild Wild Web” by Isaac Linkens Information disorder is a term that is increasingly being used as an umbrella for the concepts of disinformation, misinformation and malinformation. It proliferated as a novel and useful term to describe the unwanted state of information pollution online, which has sparked an intensive academic…
Mediaframe studios presents: “Bittersweet” by Shazell Vassal Hall We start from the basic premise that gender equality comprises an important aspect of the general issue of equality in society perceived as social involvement, use of and benefiting from all social opportunities on an equal footing by everyone. It is a fundamental human rights’ principle and…
Tackling information disorder – The Good, the Bad and the Urgent A contribution by Tanja Pavleska from Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia to Better Internet for Kids Newsletter on our findings from the work in WP2 in COMPACT H2020 Published on 29/06/2020 at Betterinternetforkids On Thursday, 11 June 2020, at the European Dialogue on Internet Governance…
Germans place the highest value on privacy compared to the U.S. and Latin American countries. Across countries, people place the highest value on keeping financial and biometric information private —balance and fingerprint data in particular. Germany’s status as the country with highest value for privacy is driven largely by extremely strong preferences for keeping…
Speaker presentations Stakeholder discussions
Sofia Symposium 2019 “Technology and regulation in a convergent environment. The role of social media and its implications” was held on 11th-12th November 2019 at Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria. Agenda of the event. Please find below the discussion materials: EuroDIG 2019: Highlights of messages IGF 2018 Key Messages: Media&Content IGF 2018 KEY MESSAGES: DIGITAL…
The materials cover the following topics: Digital identity and why to regulate What are bots and are they dangerous to democracy? Current challenges for bot-related policy. Regulatory challenges of immersive technologies. Where is the harm in microtargeting and how does it impact democracy? What are social media influencers (influencer marketing) and why / how should they be…
Dr. Bissera Zankova, Media 21 Foundation 1. General observations The primary objective of standardisation is to define voluntary, technical or quality specifications with which current or future products, production processes or services may comply (REGULATION (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on European Standardisation). Standardization is…
Andrej Školkay, Gergö Hajzer, Juraj Filin, Tomasz Anusziewicz, Ľubica Adamcová, Veronika Vighová, Igor Daniš The purpose of this study is meta-research on academic research on social media and convergence in four Central-Eastern European countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Sometimes, these countries are referred to as Visegrad Four or V-4. The selection of these…
Minutes from Adria Information Disorder AI Tools 2018 Workshop, held on June 29-30, 2018, in Koper, Slovenia. Andrej Školkay opened the meeting, welcoming and introducing the others physically present – John Boyd, Bence Ságvári and Francesco Adolfo Danza, (later arrived Peter Matzneller and Michal Hradický) and those online (Juraj Filin, Nikolau Stefanos, Bernie Bencoe, Boris…
The Council of Europe activities comprise a part of the WP1 study “Research agendas and roadmaps” and Media 21 Foundation (M21) was entitled to provide information about the output of the organization’s bodies for the period 2013 – up to 2018. The M21 was also asked to make conclusions how and to what extent the adopted recommendations, resolutions and decisions impact social media in a convergent era.
The Czech Constitutional Court accepted constitutional complaint that both the Police and County Court broke constitutional rights with respect to issuing fine 380 EUR for private libel communication by an individual via Facebook in communication between two persons. The Czech Constitutional Court (III.ÚS 3844/13 ) acknowledged that the Police obtained data from Facebook account in…