Welcome!

The Media Governance and Industries Research Lab, established by Professor Sarikakis in 2011, studies the processes of and challenges posed by governance of communication processes and the media in relation to Democracy, Citizenship and Human Rights.

Governance is understood as a dynamic and process determined concept, which contains a sum of processes derived and impacted upon by institutions, the law, values and principles, regulatory frameworks, as well as practices that shape media and communicative spaces and processes.

Our principles

Our work is both theory and practice driven, aiming to bridge academic systematic enquiry and theory together with applicability and solution driven research. Our work is hostage to neither direction. Yet, the Lab's commitment is to engage actively with world affairs and real world research and to pursue research with social responsibility.

The Lab is hostage to no methodological dogmas: we engage in established and innovative research methods  as these may be useful to help us answer appropriate, relevant, timely research questions- not the other way around. Seeking the best methodological tools means being also  active in developing new methods that are best suited to help provide answers to the research questions we ask.

Our research and epistemological ethics is underpinned by a commitment to a margins-activated research, especially in providing critique standards and measures. As such, and with an ethical compass firmly on real world research, our research is engaged and engaging aiming to supportng the betterment of the human condition.