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The project Media for Citizens is developed
by the Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, with the support
of the European Commission, to address issues of media pluralism
and communication rights of citizens, and to empower citizens,
especially minority groups, for active participation in media
society.
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Why and how (project reasonsing and description) |
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Communication rights of citizens are endangered
by media ownership concentration and deficiency of public service
media. Minority groups face problems with access to the media
and media (mis)representations. There is lack of effective regulatory
and self-regulatory instruments on national and European level
that would provide media diversity and pluralism, and media
accountability.
Our work focus on monitoring, policy research, advocacy,
training/education and publishing activities with purpose
to contribute to public awareness as well as to changes in
media policy and media practices towards increase of media
content diversity, pluralism of media ownership, media accountability
and better access of minority groups and citizens to the media
in Slovenia. The project includes empowerment activities to
increase critical and active relations of citizens and minority
groups to the media.
The project combines monitoring, policy research and media
content analysis with public awareness, policy influence and
empowerment activities. It is built on four angles. The first
angle called MONITORING MEDIA OWNERSHIP PLURALISM includes
conduction of monitoring and policy research activities on
the media ownership regulation and situation in Slovenia.
The second angle TV NEWS MONITORING will include monitoring
and content analysis of two main TV news editions produced
by main private national TV channel POP TV (owned by American
cooperation Central European Media Enterprises) and public
service TV Slovenija 1st channel. The third angle MONITORING
MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES will include monitoring
and content analysis of the selected media with regard to
their reports on minorities (emphasize on Roma, Muslims, and
homosexuals). It will also result with a report. The fourth
angle MEDIA FOR CITIZENS will bring all previous work to the
point, and will include production of publications and organisation
of public debate and training events. The web site Media for
Citizens will be developed providing monitoring results in
transparent way with possibility for regular up-date and debate
on the issues; including also public awareness section to
encourage citizens for media activism. All publications and
the web site will include English translation. |
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