Challenges in media research

Social Media Data in Research: Provenance Challenges

On the challenges of cross-national comparative media research

Funding bodies and policy imperatives increasingly favour comparative research. Stimulated also by the phenomena of globalisation and the concomitant rise of globalisation theory, researchers in media, communication and cultural studies increasingly find themselves initiating or invited to collaborate in multinational comparative projects. Given the growing prominence of comparative media and c...

Future User Centric Media: Research Challenges and the Road Ahead

This work presents relevant excerpts from two white papers recently published with the support of the Networked Media Unit of the European Commission, outlining a number of research challenges and the way ahead towards providing user centric media, as well as rich multimedia and multimodal content, via the Internet and Ambient Systems over the next decade. It will focus on key advances in Futur...

Audience research and social media data: Opportunities and challenges

The widespread adoption of social media platforms and other information and communication technology innovations not only pose new challenges for audience researchers but also provide exciting opportunities to re-invigorate audience research as an academic topic as well as a practical pursuit. In this paper, we outline some general methodological issues that arise when seeking to exploit these ...

Challenges in translational research

We have seen, with some paternal pride, the first issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine (EMM). I am pleased to see the quality of the articles and the many lively sections of the journal; even more so because despite the excitement for this new initiative, I was slightly apprehensive about what seems to be a neverending proliferation of scientific journals. In the case of EMM, however, I feel that t...