[Air-L] Call for applications for the Postgraduate Course 'Platformisation of cultural and audio-visual sectors in the European Union: new policies for new stakeholders', 9-14th of May 2022, Interuniversity Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia

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Call for applications

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

Course lecturers:

Valerija Barada, University of Zadar, Croatia
Paško Bilić, Institute for Development and International Relations 
(IRMO), Croatia
Lilian Hanania, Hanania Consulting and Sciences Po Paris, France (via 
Zoom)
Ole Marius Hylland, Telemark Research Institute, Norway
Kylie Jarrett, Maynooth University, Ireland
David Nieborg, University of Toronto, Canada
Jaka Primorac, Institute for Development and International Relations 
(IRMO), Croatia
Aleksandra Uzelac, Institute for Development and International Relations 
(IRMO), Croatia
Bjarki Valtysson, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

About the course:

Regulation of digital technologies is high on the EU policy agenda. 
Platforms capture the attention of policy makers due to their dependence 
on user data, impacts on traditional cultural and audio-visual supply 
and demand, transnational reach, and excessive concentration of power. 
Academic approaches focusing on different facets of platforms have been 
many (e.g. Gillespie, 2010; Jin, 2015; Mansell, 2015; Srnicek, 2017; 
Rochet and Tirole, 2003) with selected authors speaking of the rise of 
platform society (van Dijck et al, 2018) and platformisation of cultural 
production (Poell et al, 2021). The main focus of this course will be on 
the role of EU policies on online platforms that affect supply and 
demand of cultural and audio-visual production. Attention will be given 
to unpacking social, political and economic dimensions of 
platformisation, moving beyond deterministic usage of term.

Questions that the course will tackle are: How can we interpret changes 
in EU policies relating to online platforms and cultural and 
audio-visual sectors? How are they balancing market competition with 
cultural diversity and pluralism? Can we talk about European digital 
cultural policies and what are they entailing? What new stakeholders are 
emerging and what new policies are created? What new types of creative 
labour practices are brought about by the online platforms? What 
theoretical frameworks would be best suited to interpret these changes?

We welcome PhD candidate submissions from a wide variety of theoretical 
and/or empirical approaches (e.g. sociology, cultural studies, economy) 
to the study of the impact of platforms on (policy) developments of 
cultural and audio-visual sectors.

The course is offering 2+2 ECTS points (2 for participation and 2 for 
presentation).

Limited number of partial scholarships available.

Deadline for applications: 10th of April 2022

Decision on acceptance: 18th of April 2022

Application form is available at the following link

Contact: platEU(at)irmo.hr, jaka(at)irmo.hr,

https://plateu.irmo.hr/en/

This postgraduate course is part of activities of the Erasmus+ Jean 
Monnet project ‘European Union Policies and the Platformisation of 
Cultural and Audio-visual Sectors – platEU’ (2020-2022) dedicated to 
promoting discussion and reflection on EU policies related to the impact 
of online platforms on cultural and audio-visual (AV) sectors in Europe. 
More information can be found at the website of the project: 
https://plateu.irmo.hr/en/

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