About Sim(o) / Stiftelsen Institutet för mediestudier
Democracy requires that citizens have access to qualitative and comprehensive information. To a very large extent, the citizens form their appreciation of society by consuming media in multiple forms. The goal of our work is to analyse, map and discuss how different media types manage their task to provide the citizens with good information.
The foundation The Institute for Media Studies was registered at Länsstyrelsen (the County Administrative Board) in Stockholm the 21 April 1999.
The goals of the foundation are to promote academic research within mass media and closely related fields of research in addition to spreading knowledge and initiating debates about research results, partly through the annual yield of the foundation’s capital, partly through means that have come in to the foundation as donations and grants.
For the objects of the foundation may on one or several occasions parts of the foundation’s capital be used; at the most 15 % annually but the capital must never fall below SEK 500 000.
The objects will be reached through the foundation’s own research and information work and through donations to individual external researchers, teams of researchers or research projects whose work – in conformity with the foundation’s own work – aim to present general, comprehensive and objective data to the public dialogue about the roles of journalism and mass media in society and opinion-forming.
Co-operation policy:
The foundation’s by-laws stipulate a distinct interest in co-operating with other institutes and organisations in the media world where co-operation promotes an increasing knowledge about the various media types and contributes to a vital discussion about the role of media and their importance in a democratic society.
In addition to the above, new co-operations should harmonise with our commitment and, if possible, render new contacts in the area and make us visible to new groups in society.
Institutet för mediestudier
Norra Benickebrinken 2
SE-111 31 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 8 656 78 30