Research and Projects

Center for Media and Communications Studies at Central European University - With the technical assistance of the Stanhope Centre, Central European University has established a Center for Media and Communications Studies (CMCS) in close cooperation with Budapest Technological University.

Media Lawyers Association - The Media Lawyers Association Project will create a network of media lawyers in Central and Eastern Europe, the "Media Lawyers Association". The aim of the Association is to provide a forum for the exchange of information, ideas and strategies on the critical issues in media law and policy in transitional countries. The project stems from a four-week training program, initiated and funded by the Justice Initiative and held in Oxford under the aegis of Program for the Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) in summers 2002 and 2003.

Middle East Media Research - Stanhope has been actively researching the rapidly changing landscape of Middle Eastern media for over a year. Among our projects are the Iraq Media Developments Newsletter; a comprehensive policy recommendation for the restructuring of Iraqi media policy; and studies from the Media Development Paper Series.

Media Development Paper Series - Stanhope is working to shape a network of graduate students and young scholars in media studies who bring critical analysis to current scholarship relating media development to the shaping of democratic societies. Case studies on media assistance in Afghanistan, South Africa and Egypt were completed last year as masters theses at LSE's Development Studies Institute, with Stanhope guidance. A similar case study on Iraq was recently commissioned.

Language and Broadcasting - In 2003, Professor Price served as co-editor (with Bethany Davis Noll and Tarlach McGonagle) of the 500 page study "Minority Language-Related Broadcasting and Legislation in the OSCE."

There is a surprisingly large number of language-related mandates and restrictions that affect the shape of broadcasting and the media and therefore have an impact on human rights, national identity and the life of minorities. Language, of course, is one of the most significant elements for establishing a cohesive force for nation-states and for linguistic groups within nation-states. This study reports the basic regulations of minority-language related broadcasting of the 55 OSCE States.

The Stanhope Werkstätte - The Stanhope Werkstätte is a policy laboratory that brings together diverse group of the brightest young researchers from a variety of universities to develop new understandings of the general problem of Internet technology and policy. The members are a small group of academics—researchers just finishing their postgraduate degree, postdoctoral researchers, or young faculty members in as diverse a mix as possible that bears on our mandate.