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Global Media & Internet Concentration Project

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

The advent and massive expansion of the Internet and planetary scale digital platforms has breathed urgent new life into the enduring, simple, yet profound, question that animates this project: Have the media industries, individually and collectively, become more or less concentrated over time? This project brings together a multidisciplinary team of more than 50 scholars and almost a dozen non-academic external partners to more consistently apply existing approaches and create new conceptual and methodological tools to address this question today.

The Global Media & Internet Concentration Project has four objectives: 1) Collect Data: Map and analyze developments in two dozen media industries in nearly 40 countries. 2)

Expand Methodologies: Apply and adapt existing research tools, and create new ones as needed, to better understand concentration in the context of the platformization of media.

3) Prepare New Researchers: Train an international cohort of students in interdisciplinary and empirically-driven media industries research. 4) Public Outreach: Influence policy-making, scholarship, and public debate on media concentration in Canada and worldwide through open data and effective public outreach.

Outputs

Petr Szczepanik, Jan Bergl, Petr Lelek, Martin Mišúr, Jan Hanzlík, Communications, Media and Internet Concentration in the Czech Republic, 2019-2022. GMIC Project, Czech Republic Report, 2025.

Team

Dwayne Winseck

principal investigator

Petr Szczepanik

head of the research team

Grant provider

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Project duration

2021-2028

Grant recipient

Carleton University, Ottawa

Cirg - about

CIRG – the Cultural Industries Research Group focuses on research into cultural and media industries, particularly on current issues, challenges, and conflicts arising from tensions between intellectual property law, the business models of cultural industries, the digitalization and platformization of cultural sectors, and changing consumer habits. The group’s name is an acronym of its English title, Cultural Industries Research Group. CIRG is an informal association of experts from media studies, intellectual property law, media law, media ethics, cultural economics and cultural management, sociology of culture, and data analysis. The group operates on the basis of project-based funding through applied research projects (TAČR, NAKI, EEA and Norway Grants, OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation), basic research projects (GAČR, ZIF Bielefeld, OP VVV Excellent Research, DFG), as well as contract research (State Cinematography Fund, Association of Audiovisual Producers).

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