Two decades of media development and media research in the CEE region have generated lessons for an analysis of communication in transition. Sessions on the global communications theme will ask: How do the CEE developments compare with other regions in the world that are undergoing in social, economic and political transformations? Which connections can research on media and development draw?

Conveners of this theme are Oliver Boyd-Barrett, chair of the Global Comunication and Social Change division of the International Communication Association, and Colin Sparks, Westminster University and member of the COST A30 Action "East of West".