Institute for Media and Communication Policy

The Institute for Media and Communication Policy ( IfM) was established as an independent research institution in the fall of 2005 and opened in February 2006 in Berlin- Charlottenburg. At the interface between communication and political science, sociology and computer science, the Institute analyzes the media and communications policy field. The IfM is funded by both public and private media companies and works with the Federal Agency for Civic Education together.

Carrier

The Institute is sponsored by companies in the German media industry, including ARD, ZDF, Sky Germany, FAZ, Axel Springer AG, Spiegel publishing house as well as by the media authority of Berlin -Brandenburg. The Scientific Advisory Board of the IfM has approximately 25 researchers who have reported in recent years by publications on media and communications policy. Founding director is the journalist and media researcher Lutz Hachmeister. The Institute has its headquarters in Berlin- Charlottenburg, and maintains a research department in Cologne. It is constituted of a charitable company.

Tasks

The Institute is loud statute "Forum for the media industry, communication research and the trading policy." It should offer " concrete models and options for resolving media policy tasks " and discussed this with political representatives. That should help the media policy associate those strategic value, the zukäme her from journalistic and economic reasons. Focus of the Institute's work is a constantly updated online database for international business media (press, radio and television, online media ) with a ranking of the world 's largest media groups. Further research topics are:

  • Theoretical and empirical foundation of basic concepts and models of media policy
  • Analysis of the " language of the political" in the traditional and new (network) Media
  • Research into the economic and journalistic relations of print and online media, especially in its impact on the professional journalism
  • Publishing and editorial management of the " Yearbook television"

The institute was known primarily for his "Media Political Colloquien ". So far, among others, Greg Dyke (British Film Institute ), Ernst Uhrlau (President of the Federal Intelligence Service ), Alan Rusbridger were ( chief editor of the Guardian), Mathias Müller von Blumencron & Georg Mascolo (Mirror chief editor ), Viviane Reding (EU- Commissioner for Information Society and media), Holm Friebe (Central intelligence Agency ), Peter Altmaier ( Federal Environment Minister ), David Weinberger ( Harvard University) and Yevgeny Morozov (Stanford University) as a guest.

The Institute was selected by the Goethe Institute in the framework of " Germany Thinks " as one of four outstanding non-university institutes for media research.

Views

The Institute holds the current, oriented to the concept of broadcasting media policy of the federal states for obsolete and overdue. Broadcasting policy, it formulated the founding director Lutz Hachmeister in a dispute with the responsible for this policy area Staatskanzlei boss Martin Stadelmaier ( Rhineland -Palatinate ), would " soon be as important as the management of the Illyrian provinces in the 19th century " ( see also ). Traditional media and new network policies should be designed and organized together. Apart from rather ordo-liberal or libertarian viewpoints is oriented the work of the Institute to the models of the British media and cultural policy, such as the matter of regulating the media sector through a central supervisory agency ( such as the British Ofcom ) or in shaping the relationship between broadcasters and television and film producer. In order to prevent concentration and Vermachtungsprozesse as in the case Murdoch and to sensitize the public to the fact a stronger monitoring of Group interdependence, business models and journalistic standards required by the IfM. In addition, the IfM has brought the idea of ​​a non-profit " Foundation journalism" this week.

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