Project Delineation / Abstract

Our main idea / concept is to support the processes of democratisation and social development of South-Eastern European countries, and to accompany them critically. Media play a crucial role in this process. In this context, to provide for the qualitative development of media communication is a special challenge for all media-related enterprises, institutions and organisations. As a result, a separate platform becomes necessary in South-Eastern Europe a platform that takes efforts for the media-critical discourse. The main aim there is to mobilise the discourse between decision-makers of media, politics, economy, science and education and to support them in their responsibility and efforts for the inter-social and internal culture of communication.

DeScripto sees itself as the mouthpiece of this discourse. It aims to actively integrate a great diversity of media-relevant ventures from economy, politics, society into the discussion. In order to achieve this, deScripto is going to give an up-to-date account about relevant developments/changes in the South-Eastern European media landscape (screening), to deal with fundamental media-political/media-cultural positions (documentation/reflection), and to evaluate them critically and independently (monitoring; through the young perspective of journalism students).

DeScripto is going to be released quarterly in English.
The first date of publication is planned for fall 2004.

Project Partners

Project Executioner and Publisher: Mag. Oliver Vujovic, General Secretary of SEEMO South Eastern Europe Media Organisation
Editorship: O. Univ. Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Bauer, IPKW Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Universität Wien.
Consulting Service: Dardis NmcNamee, Webster University
Editorial Management: Axel Maireder /IPKW
Editorial Assistant: Mag. Kristina Bencotic, SEEMO
Administrative and editorial support: Mag. Daniela Suessenbacher, FH Journ.
Editorial Team/ Journalistic Program: students of FHf. Journalismus Wien, Institut f. Publizistik/Uni Wien, Webster University Vienna


Aims

The SEEMO Media Report pursues the following aims:

• to mobilise the critical discourse about media-social communication in the new democratic South-Eastern European countries (confrontation with current media problems, etc.)
  
  
• to develop the media discourse (media dialogue, process of exchange) between business ventures, political organisations and media ventures in Eastern and Southern Europe
  
  
• to provide a platform of orientation for a critical evaluation of the media landscape for the media ventures, media-political facilities, socially relevant institutions, that represent themselves medially in Eastern and South Eastern Europe and that rely on their economic and cultural functioning.
  
  
• to mobilise the media cooperation across South-Eastern European countries

At the same time, this project works as an training program with clear educational targets. By participting at the program, Austrian students of journalism receive the chance:

• to research independently, to discuss, and to publish features about the current media discourse in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe (learning by doing)
  
  
• to develop political-cultural awareness for the developing society in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
  
  
• to complete a journalistic internship and to use the according certificate as a device for their career.
  
  

Learn more
about the structure of deScripto Project on the Website of Thomas A. Bauer: www.thomasbauer.at