[5] The center's research projects focused on identifying trends and challenges in the use of information technologies and advancing policy discussions about the regulation of data and media.

Projects of CMDS included Creative Approaches to Living Cultural Archives,[6] Ranking Digital Rights,[7] Strengthening Journalism in Europe,[8] Research on Violent Online Political Extremism.

[citation needed] The center was also known for its monitoring work on media policy in Central and Eastern Europe and Hungary in particular.

[9] Since its launch in 2017, the Media Influence Matrix project designed by Marius Dragomir expanded to over 50 countries.

Its last director, Marius Dragomir published studies that attempted to define[11] and analyze[12] the media capture phenomenon.