On 17th of October 2022 the wrap up event of a two-year Jean Monnet project entitled 'European Union Policies and the Platformisation of Cultural and Audio-visual Sectors – platEU' co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union was held. The event consisted...

The public lecture by professor David Nieborg from University of Toronto under the title ‘Next Steps in Culture, Platforms and Regulation’ was held from on 17th of October 2022 at F22 Hall, Academy of Dramatic Arts, Frankopanska 22, Zagreb. The lecture was organised...

We cordially invite you to the wrap up event of the platEU project within which a public lecture by David Nieborg entitled 'Next Steps in Culture, Platforms and Regulation' will be held. The wrap up event of a two year Jean Monnet project entitled 'European Union...

It is our pleasure to announce a lecture by David Nieborg entitled ‘Next Steps in Culture, Platforms and Regulation’, that will be held on 17th of October 2022 at 18h in F22 Hall of the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Frankopanska 22, Zagreb. About the lecture: This talk...

Platforms have become ubiquitous in our daily lives influencing both our personal and our working spheres in multifaceted ways. With the growth of online platforms, new modes of platform-mediated working have been developed, thus, opening space for what is called ‘gig work’, ‘platform work’, ‘virtual work’, ‘digital labour’ etc. Research on the gig economy show global inequalities in the type of work done and relationships to work, levels of state regulation and data protection, as well as worker power. However, within the literature on the gig work, platform work and digital labour in general, there has been a lack of focus on the platform-mediated creative work.

Within the platEU project the round table discussion entitled ‘Creative Labour as Platform Work: Infrastructures and Interactions’ was held on the 6th of June 2022 at 20h in Filodrammatica Gallery in Rijeka. The participants of the round table discussion were Ana Alacovska, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Jamie Woodcock, The Open University, UK, while the moderator of the discussion was Valerija Barada, University of Zadar, Croatia. The introductory notes on behalf of the organizer of the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations were given by project coordinator Jaka Primorac.

Within the platEU project the round table discussion entitled ‘Creative Labour as Platform Work: Infrastructures and Interactions’ will be organized on the 6th of June 2022 at 20h in Filodrammatica Gallery in Rijeka. The participants of the round table discussion will be Ana Alacovska, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Jamie Woodcock, The Open University, UK, while the moderator of the discussion will be Valerija Barada, University of Zadar, Croatia. Round table is organized by the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb and Drugo more, Rijeka.

Postgraduate course ‘Platformisation of cultural and audio-visual sectors in the European Union: new policies for new stakeholders’ was held at the Interuniversity Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 9-14th of May 2022. The postgraduate course was organized as a part of the activities of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet project entitled ‘European Union Policies and the Platformisation of Cultural and Audio-visual Sectors – platEU’ that is been executed by IRMO from 2020-2022.

Project coordinator Jaka Primorac presented platEU project within the programme of the Eleventh Festival of Croatian Digitisation Projects (DFEST) that was held online from 12 to 13 May 2022 and organized by the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK).

Postgraduate course ‘Platformisation of cultural and audio-visual sectors in the European Union: new policies for new stakeholders’ will be held at the Interuniversity Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 9-14th of May 2022.

Johan Lau Munkholm, PhD candidate from the University of Copenhagen, was a visiting scholar at the IRMO Department of Culture and Communication within the auspices of the platEU project. During his two-week research visit, Johan Lau Munkholm held a number of meetings with members of the Department, while on the 8th of April 2022, he presented his doctoral research topic in the Library of the Institute.

As part of the Erasmus + Jean Monnet project ‘EU Policies and the Platformisation of the Cultural and Audiovisual Sectors – platEU’, the Department for Culture and Communication at IRMO organized the Masterclass Lecture with Antonios Vlassis from the Center for...

The Masterclass Lecture with Antonios Vlassis from the University of Liège, Belgium entitled ‘Online platforms, audiovisual industry and governance: lessons from the review of the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive’ was held in the hybrid format at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, F22 Hall, Frankopanska 22 in Zagreb and online on the 25th of March 2022 from 17h to 19h.

We cordially invite you to the Masterclass Lecture with Antonios Vlassis, University of Liège, Belgium, which will be held in hybrid format at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, F22 Hall, Frankopanska 22 in Zagreb and online on 25th of March 2022 from 17-19h. The event will also be streamed via IRMO Facebook page.

Call for applications for the postgraduate course entitled ‘Platformisation of cultural and audio-visual sectors in the European Union: new policies for new stakeholders’, that will be held from 9-14th of May 2022, at the Interuniversity Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia is now open.

Department for Culture and Communication at IRMO organized a round table entitled ‘Digital Cultural Politics: From Policy to Practice and Back’ as a part of the activities of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet project ‘EU Policies and the Platformisation of the Cultural and...