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📢 We’ve published DIACOMET’s policy recommendations on civic accountability mechanisms!

Based on research across eight European countries, they set out both EU-level and national recommendations to strengthen transparent, inclusive, and accountable public dialogue in digital public spheres. 🇪🇺💬

👉🔗 Read more and explore the recommendations: https://diacomet.eu/publications_type/policy-recommendations-on-civic-accountability-mechanisms/

🎧 In this episode of the , we spoke with European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, former journalist and diplomat.

"I will always defend talking to everybody. The easiest part is not to talk to anybody; it is sometimes more difficult to stay in a dialogue and have the guts to explain why this is important. Dialogue really helps people who disagree to remain part of the same society," our guest emphasized.

🎙️👉 https://diacomet.eu/diacomet-podcast-with-european-commissioner-marta-kos-dialogue-helps-people-who-disagree-to-remain-part-of-the-same-society/

Join us for the upcoming NGO Network meeting, where we will present key project results, findings, recommendations, and future directions.

🕙 29 May 2026, 10:00 AM CET
💻 Online via Zoom
📝 Register to receive the Zoom link
👉 https://diacomet.eu/event/diacomet-ngo-network-meeting-2/

📢 New publication acknowledging !

Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, has published an edited volume Digital Media Shadowing Democracy: Technology, Communication, and Power, featuring a chapter written by our partner from Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas / Vytautas Magnus University.

✨ Auksė Balčytienė: Engaging in Civic Dialogue or Opinion Battles? The Epistemic Risks Informed Approach to Platform Governance

👉🔗 https://diacomet.eu/new-scientific-publication-acknowledges-diacomet/

🎧 In this episode of the , we sat down with Divina Frau-Meigs, Professor of Media and ICT Sociology at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and UNESCO Chair Savoir Devenir in digital sustainable development.

"The platforms have become a rogue actor in this; they are part of the problem. They are cornering the market of data and cognition, and they are now part of an ideology, an ideological agenda that is not pro-human," our guest emphasized.

🎙️👉 https://diacomet.eu/diacomet-podcast-with-unesco-chair-divina-frau-meigs-its-a-human-problem-not-a-tech-problem/

Our partners from USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Official Page) marked World Press Freedom Day with the event "Truth Under Attack: Press Freedom Today".

The event featured short film screenings and a discussion on press freedom in Switzerland and around the world.

👉🔗 https://diacomet.eu/event/truth-under-attack-press-freedom-today/

Our Hungarian partners invite you to their closing event:

"Media, Polarization, Ethics: The Chance of Free Dialogue in the Digital Communication Space after the New Regime Change in Hungary"

📍 Location: Budapest, Hungary
📅 Date: 28 May 2026
🗣️ The event will be held in Hungarian.
📝 Registration is required.

👉🔗 https://diacomet.eu/event/closing-event-media-polarization-ethics-the-chance-of-free-dialogue-in-the-digital-communication-space-after-the-new-regime-change-in-hungary/

🎯 We’re pleased to share our concept for an inclusive system in dialogic communication .

This publication outlines key foundations, accountability instruments, and tools for strengthening competences, including listening, negotiation, and participation.

It also highlights the Dialogue Lab, our designed to support ethical awareness and more effective dialogic communication.

👉🔗 https://diacomet.eu/new-publication-on-inclusive-accountability-in-dialogic-communication-ethics/

📸 A few snapshots from the recent CoCoCo 2026 in Budapest, where our partners presented research on the role of ethical codes and guidelines in journalism’s uncertain future.

The conference was a great opportunity to exchange ideas on how communication practices are challenging contemporary power structures and shaping today’s changing social, political, and digital landscape.

👉🔗 https://diacomet.eu/impact/presenting-our-research-on-journalism-ethics-at-cococo-2026/

As part of the Long Night of Research, the dilemma game the Dialogue Lab was presented by our Austrian project partners at the Johannessaal of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

👉🔗 https://diacomet.eu/the-dialogue-lab-at-the-long-night-of-research/