Cultural and geographical dimensions of media pluralism

The Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) developed in the EU MPM Study offers an interesting example of incorporating the concepts of cultural and geographical diversity into the various layers of cultural and geographical space (KU Leuven — ICRI et al. 2009). As explained in the editors’ note, the study was prepared on behalf of the European Commission to detect and assess risks for media pluralism in the EU member states. The study proposed a quite robust scheme of empirical assessment of various dimensions of media pluralism, including cultural and geographical pluralism. These two types of diversity were distinguished to provide the member states with guidelines on how to eliminate threats and deal with risks to cultural and geographical diversity at the supranational (European), national and minority/local level.