Institute for Media and Communication Policy

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Institute for Media and Communication Policy
legal form profit company
founding 2005
Seat Cologne
management Lutz Hachmeister and Leonard Novy
Website medienpolitik.eu

The Institute for Media and Communication Policy (IfM) is a research institution at the interface between communication and political science, sociology and computer science, which analyzes the field of media and communication policy . The IfM is financed by both public and private media companies and works with the Federal Agency for Civic Education and various foundations.

carrier

The institute is supported by five individual shareholders, including founding director Lutz Hachmeister. Until 2014 it was a subsidiary of HMR International, a consulting agency for media companies that was founded in 1995 by Lutz Hachmeister, Petra Müller and Martina Richter. Until 2014, the IfM worked mainly from Berlin's Fasanenstrasse 73. In 2014 the company moved to Cologne. The institute was entered in Cologne's commercial register in June 2005 after its articles of association had been signed in March 2005.

It is financially supported by media companies, including ARD , ZDF , Sky Deutschland , FAZ , Axel Springer AG , Spiegel-Verlag and the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg . The IfM Senate consists of around 30 academics and media professionals who have proven themselves through publications on media and communication policy in recent years.

tasks

According to its statute, the institute is a “forum for the media industry, communication research and active politics”. It is supposed to offer "concrete models and options for solving media-political tasks" and discuss these with political representatives. In this way, it is intended to help assign media policy the strategic importance it would have for journalistic and economic reasons. The main focus of the institute's work is a constantly updated online database on the international media industry (press, radio and television, online media) with a ranking of the world's largest media groups. Further research contents are:

  • Theoretical and empirical foundation of basic concepts and models of media policy
  • Analysis of the “language of the political” in traditional and new (network) media
  • Research into the economic and journalistic relationships between print and online media, particularly in terms of their effects on professional journalism
  • Editing and editorial management of the "Jahrbuch Fernsehen"

The institute was best known for its "Media Policy Colloquia". So far, among others: Greg Dyke (from the British Film Institute ), Ernst Uhrlau (former President of the Federal Intelligence Service ), Alan Rusbridger (former editor-in-chief of the Guardian ), Mathias Müller von Blumencron & Georg Mascolo (formerly in the editor-in-chief of the Spiegel ), Viviane Reding (former EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media), Holm Friebe (Central Intelligence Agency), Peter Altmaier (former Federal Environment Minister and Head of the Federal Chancellery, now Federal Minister of Finance), David Weinberger ( Harvard University ), Evgeny Morozov ( Stanford University ), Norbert Lammert ( former President of the German Bundestag ) and Lutz Marmor (former chairman of ARD , now director of NDR ) as guests.

In addition, the institute was selected by the Goethe-Institut as one of six outstanding non-university institutes for media research as part of the “Deutschland Denkt” program.

Cologne Futures

The institute has organized the Cologne Futures once a year since 2012 - until 2015 under the name Cologne Conference Futures. The conference is dedicated to the topics of media change - understood as media evolution - and technology assessment . Richard Barbrook , Nick Bostrom , George Dyson , Kevin Kelly , Kathrin Passig and Tim Wu spoke there . The Cologne Futures have been taking place in cooperation with the Cologne Academy of Media Arts since 2015 . The most important sponsor of the event is Deutsche Telekom . The lectures are documented in the journal Medienkorrespondenz .

Viewpoints

The institute considers the previous media policy of the federal states, based on the concept of broadcasting, to be outdated and overdue. Broadcasting policy, as founding director Lutz Hachmeister put it in a dispute with the head of the state chancellery, Martin Stadelmaier (Rhineland-Palatinate), will “soon be as important as the administration of the Illyrian provinces in the 19th century”. Traditional media and new network politics would have to be conceived and organized together. Apart from more ordoliberal or libertarian standpoints, the work of the institute is based on the models of British media and cultural policy, for example in the question of the regulation of the media sector by a central supervisory agency (such as the British Ofcom ) or in the design of the relationship between broadcasters and TV and film producers. In order to prevent concentration and bequeathing processes as in the Murdoch case and to raise public awareness of them, the IfM calls for greater monitoring of corporate interrelationships, business models and journalistic standards. In addition, the IfM has brought up the idea of ​​a non-profit "Journalism Foundation".

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b IfM: Imprint. Retrieved May 26, 2014 .
  2. ↑ HMR International website
  3. ↑ Genios : IFM Institute for Media and Communication Policy gGmbH. Retrieved May 26, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Senate. Institute for Media and Communication Policy, accessed on May 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / medienpolitik.eu
  6. ↑ http://www.mediadb.eu/
  7. ↑ http://www.jahrbuch-fernsehen.de/
  8. ↑ http://www.goethe.de/wis/fut/prj/for/med/deindex.htm
  9. ↑ http://medienpolitik.eu/cologne-futures/
  10. ^ "New way is overdue" - In the taz dispute, the publicist Lutz Hachmeister calls for a reorganization of media regulation in Germany. December 19, 2008; see. also The End of Broadcasting Policy - From Politics and Contemporary History 9–10 / 2009.
  11. ↑ http://medienpolitik.eu/cms/media/pdf/FK13-11%20Hachmeister_Vesting.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / medienpolitik.eu  
  12. ^ Leonard Novy: Journalism Foundation. (PDF; 369 kB) Funk-Korrespondenz , October 2011, p. 45 ff , archived from the original on July 31, 2012 ; accessed on December 16, 2017 .