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The Centre for Media and Communication Research (Centar za istraživanje medija i komunikacije CIM) has emerged as the first university center for the study of media and communication in Croatia. It established in 2007 as a scientific research centre of the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb . CIM aims to become the central research and education institute in Croatia, capable of collecting, analyzing and evaluating information and processes with regard to the media and communication in their social, political, economic, cultural, scientific and technical aspects. CIM is a non-governmental and non-profit organization seeking to undertake scientific analysis from different paradigmatic and methodological approaches. CIM is dedicated to supporting excellence and to contributing to the development of media studies in Croatia through cutting edge research, innovative teaching, publication and networking.

In this way CIM also hopes to contribute to the development of the media and media policy in Croatia.

Upcoming events:


    Comparative Media Systems:
    Media Development in Southeastern Europe, IUC Dubrovnik, 2-5 April 2012


    Course directors:

    Zrinjka Peruško, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Snježana Milivojević, University of Belgrade, Serbia
    Slavko Splichal, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Carmen Ciller, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

    Course description:

    In recent years the interest in comparative study of media systems has perked up within the filed of media/mass communication studies. The course aims to contribute to this growing interest in understanding what shapes media systems and how they in turn shape societies. The course will address media systems in Europe and the world in relation to technological, economic, political, social and cultural changes that influence their development. The course will analyze these changes in a comparative way, engaging with recent methods of comparative analyses of media systems.

    In 2012 the course will be focusing on media system development of the new democracies in Southeastern Europe, primarily in terms of their democratic potential. We will examine the convergence and divergence of the media systems of the post-socialist states of the region, which were Republics in the Second Yugoslavia until their independence in 1990’s. The course will examine the compatibility of two recent approaches to analyzing media systems: the UNESCO media development indicators adopted by the UNESCO IPDC in 2008, which have been applied in the past few years to a number of countries internationally as well as to the countries of the Southeastern Europe, and the approach developed by Hallin and Mancini (2004) in constructing their three models of media systems in Western Europe.

    Each year the topic of the course will focus on one, or a combination, of structural areas which define media systems: media markets (including aspects of ownership structures, concentration, audience behavior and media use, etc.), media and state (including media policy and regulation), political parallelism (or the relationship of the media, journalists, and the political sphere, including political communication and political culture), and professionalization of the journalists and the media.