G-Versity: Achieving Gender Diversity

Carola Richter, Margreth Lünenborg

Oct 01, 2020 — Sep 30, 2024

The European Union is funding the network "G-VERSITY - Achieving Gender Diversity" with a total of 4.1 million euros from 2020-2024. In the network, 15 doctoral students analyze how which factors influence the educational and career path of women, men as well as sexual and gender-specific ...

Higher Education Dialogue „Digital Transformation and Societal Consequences“

Carola Richter, Katharina Nötzold

Jan 01, 2023 — Dec 31, 2024

In this network, research and mobility project we cooperate with 10 Arab univerisities to foster media literacy education. The project builds on the AREACORE network that was founded in 2013 at Freie Universität. In the project, several subprojects take place such as summer schools, joint ...

Participatory and Hybrid Media in West Africa: A Case Study on Call-In Radio Shows in Benin

Tilo Grätz

Oct 01, 2021 — Sep 30, 2026

The research project examines current changes in communication practices and the political culture in West Africa, illustrated by case studies analysing interactive-participatory radio shows on social problems in the Republic of Benin. The project focusses on frequent participants to these ...

Flight 2.0

Prof. Dr. Carola Richter (FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Martin Emmer (FU Berlin)

Apr 01, 2016 — Dec 31, 2016

The research project "Flight 2.0" utilized a representative quantitative survey in refugee housing in Berlin in order to investigate the refugees’ use of mobile devices during the journey from their home countries to Germany. The object of scientific analysis was the refugees’ media usage not only during , but also before and after the flight.

Global Media Journal – German Edition

Carola Richter, Katharina Nötzold

Feb 01, 2020 — Mar 10, 2023

The Global Media Journal is an open-access academic refereed publication in various national or regional editions around the globe. GMJ-German Edition is affiliated with the Freie University Berlin/Germany and the University of Erfurt/Germany and hosted by Carola Richter and Christine Horz. ...

Higher Education Dialogue

Prof. Dr. Carola Richter, Partners: Bayan College , Oman Faculty of Mass Communication , Ahram Canadian University, Cairo, Egypt (previously Faculty of Mass Communication and Journalism , Cairo University, Egypt) Institut de Presse et des Sciences de l'Information , Université La Manouba, Tunisia Media and Development Center , Birzeit University, Palestine Department of Mass Communication , Qatar University, Qatar College of Mass Communication , San’a University, Yemen Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies , American University in Beirut, Lebanon Jordan Media Institute , Amman, Jordan Faculty of Media, Al-Iraqiyah University, Iraq Faculté de l’Information et de la Communication , Université Alger 3, Algeria

Jan 01, 2014 — Dec 31, 2016

Networking project funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in the framework of the program "Higher Education Dialogue with the Muslim World" 2014 - 2016

Higher Education Dialogue „Media Literacy in the Arab World and Europe“

Carola Richter

Apr 01, 2020 — Dec 31, 2022

In this network, research and mobility project we cooperate with 10 Arab univerisities to foster media literacy education. The project builds on the AREACORE network that was founded in 2013 at Freie Universität. In the project, several subprojects take place such as summer schools, joint ...

Journalism in Egypt

Freie Universität in cooperation with Cairo University

Prof. Dr. Carola Richter

Jan 01, 2015 — Jan 31, 2015

Aim of the reasearch project is to examine Egypt's journalism strife for autonomy during the transformation phase after the revolutionary upheavals in 2011.

Media Functions in Transition

Prof. Dr. Carola Richter (FU Berlin), Dr. Indira Dupuis (FU Berlin)

Jan 01, 2016 — Sep 30, 2019

DFG-Projekt "Medienfunktionen in beginnenden Transformationsprozessen - Eine Modellbildung durch einen Vergleich von Akteurskonstellationen und Strukturbedingungen in Ländern Osteuropas 1989 und Nordafrikas 2011"

News Coverage on Islam

Carola Richter

May 01, 2021 — Dec 31, 2021

Public Diplomacy in Authoritarian Regimes – The Case of Turkey

Vedat Demir

Dec 21, 2021 — Dec 20, 2023

The project aims to understand the use of public diplomacy by authoritarian regimes with a particular focus on Turkey. Public diplomacy defined as the strategies of communicating with publics abroad to form opinions in the peoples' of other countries that inform the implementing country's ideas ...

‘Lessons to Learn from a Conflict Region’: Comparing Inclusion Policies related to Abaza – Adyghe (Circassian) Refugees from Syria in Istanbul and Repatriates in Sukhum.

Aug 01, 2020 — Mar 31, 2023

This research project aims to discuss the proactive decision-making process of the government in Abkhazia (2013), a partially recognized, less developed and conflict region, and Turkey’s welcoming of Abaza-Adyghe (Circassian) refugees or repatriates from Syria—together with their resettlement ...