Media

This area of work aims to promote a dynamic and ongoing exchange between media professionals on the challenges facing the sector and on the impact news reporting can have on public perceptions, community harmony and international relations. With the ever-expanding global reach of traditional and new media and with an ever-growing need for mutual understanding in a globalised world, the projects in this area operate in a variety of contexts including Europe-China relations and the perception and production of media in minority communities in Europe.

This area of work contains the following projects and initiatives:

ISD has launched a Europe-China Media Exchange initiative, aimed at creating opportunities for senior journalists from Europe and China to gain an informed insight into each other’s societies

This research project, which will include  interviews in France, the UK and Germany, will also investigate diversity of media production and programming and its relationship to inter-community attitudes.

This experimental action research project seeks to understand the impact of social media on attitudes and intolerance in Europe and explore the levers of change to allow these views to be tackled through social media channels.

Phoenix explores the moral, philosophical and practical underpinnings for developing a more robust and confident centre ground capable of marginalising different ideological extremes.

 Between 2005 and 2009, ISD co-organised the M100 Colloquium, an annual meeting point of media and public figures from across today's most sensitive geo-political and communal fault lines.