The EMSOC project is, in terms of research and work programme, structured into two main levels. First, there is emphasis on the three main research topics of user empowerment: inclusion, literacy and privacy. Within these work packages a specific task is foreseen to bridge the elements (integrated) and to act as a liaison to the utilisation activities. For the use cases the academic researchers link up with various stakeholders. These activities are executed in a separate work package (WP4), by the same people that are also responsible for the liaison and integration task in the thematic work packages.
Work package 1: Inclusion
Human-centered empowerment by inclusion
1. State-of-the-art report on ICT-based initiatives for inclusion (May 2011)
2. Report on risk factors of exclusion from society (October 2011)
3. Model of determinants and ICT for inclusion: which ICT for inclusion strategy for which vulnerable groups? (March 2012)
4. Roadmap towards bottom-up, do-it-yourself approaches to inclusion in society (November 2012)
5. Guidelines, concepts, prototypes and tools for supporting a bottom-up, do-it-yourself process of inclusion for practitioners (June 2014)
6. PhD thesis on human-centered empowerment by inclusion (December 2014)
Multidimensional and inclusive regulatory strategies
1. State of the art on regulatory trends in media (and related sectors) (June 2011)
2. Interim legal report on the current regulatory framework for media pluralism and protection of minors (June2012)
3. Interim legal report on the use of rating and labeling systems to empower parents, educators, minors (December 2012)
4. Practical legal guide for users: rights & obligations in a user-centric media environment (December 2013)
5. Model for community guidelines & internal charters (content providers) (June 2014)
6. PhD thesis on user-driven, multidimensional and inclusive regulatory strategies for social media (December 2014)
Integrated
Three reports, one with indicators for monitoring inclusion and diversity and two with recommendations for policy and regulation (June 2012, December 2013, June 2014)
Work package 2: Literacy
The end-user perspective
1. Report on conceptual framework (December 2011)
2. Report on measurement instrument (December 2012)
3. Validation report: empirical results of the two case studies (December 2013) 4. PhD thesis on new media literacy from an end-user perspective (December 2014)
The cultural and educational perspective
1. Report on a rhetorical analysis of the debate (public and academic) about game-culture (December 2011)
2. Report on the theoretical frame and empirical tool for analysing the case-studies (illustration: the first case study (June 2012)
3. Report on the empirical research on two other case-studies (June 2013)
4. PhD thesis from a cultural and educational perspective (December 2014)
Integrated
Model for monitoring user empowerment levels of people in a social media culture (December 2013)
Three reports with recommendations for policy and regulation, learning and awareness-raising (March 2014, June 2014, September 2014)
Work package 3: Privacy
User dimension of privacy and corporate surveillance in social media
1. Mapping and in-depth analysis of corporate profiling techniques (December 2011)
2. Analysis of business practices in profiling (June 2012)
3. Analysis of everyday user practices in relation to privacy (awareness, practices, skills and attitude perspective) (June 2014)
4. Report on personalisation/privacy and self-expression/categorisation in relation to profiling, Ph D thesis (December 2014)
Legal dimensions of privacy in the convergent society
1. Report on existing knowledge on privacy in the convergent society (December 2012)
2. Report on legal challenges linked to profiling and data mining practices (June 2013)
3. Final recommendations in relation to privacy in the convergent society: a user empowerment perspective (September 2014)
4. PhD thesis on privacy and profiling. (December 2014)
Integrated
Report on differences between user and legal perspective on privacy and profiling (September 2013)
Report on translating user and legal findings in monitoring, policy, awareness raising and learning tools (September 2014)
Work package 4: Utilisation
1. Establishing EMSOC Working Groups to participate at use cases (April 2011)
2. Synthesis reports of the tools, tool kits and guidelines for new media learning
a. For young people, parents and teachers (March 2014)
b. For employees and employers (September 2013)
3. Synthesis report of the (mock-ups for) awareness campaigns
a. For sensitising young people (June 2013)
b. For sensitising employees (December 2013)
4. Survey report on the social media use and experience of the Flemish population (June 2014)
5. White paper on user empowerment in social media culture (September 2014)
