GMICP - Key Persons
Afilipoaie, A., Donders, K., & Ballon, P. (2022). The European Commission's approach to mergers involving software-based platforms: Towards a better understanding of platform power. Telecommunications Policy, 46(5), 1-18. [102288]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2021.102288
Afilipoaie, A., Iordache, C., & Raats, T. (2021). The ‘Netflix Original' and what it means for the production of European television content. Critical Studies in Television, 16(3), 304-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020211023318
Evens, T., Donders, K., & Afilipoaie, A. (2020). Platform policies in the European Union: Competition and public interest in media markets. Journal of Digital Media and Policy, 11(3), 283-300. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdmp_00026_1
Agustín Espada has a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master's in Cultural Industries from the National University of Quilmes. In addition, he is the director of the Master's Degree in Cultural Industries at UNQ. His research work has as its main theme the adaptation of radio content to digital platforms. Furthermore, it analyzes public communication policies and the impact of economic concentration on media systems.
Schejter, A. (2021). "It is not good for the person to be alone" : The capabilities approach and the right to communicate. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Available here.
Job Titles:
- Lead Researcher
- Professor at the Section of Communication
Anders Henten is Professor at the section of Communication, Media and Information technologies (CMI) at the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. He is a graduate in communications and international development studies from Roskilde University in Denmark (1989) and holds a PhD from the Technical University of Denmark (1995). He has worked professionally in the area of communications economy and policy for more than 30 years.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Lead Researcher
Anna Sfardini (PhD) is Assistant Professor and teaches Intercultural Communication and Research Methods on Media Production and Consumption at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. She is Senior Researcher at Ce.R.T.A. (Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media at Università Cattolica), and didactic director of the Master's course "Fare TV. Gestione, Sviluppo Comunicazione". She has published articles and books on topics related to media convergence, with a particular interest in questions of audiences, TV genres, mediatization of politics, TV for Women.
Job Titles:
- Lead Researcher
- Researcher at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Argelia Muñoz Larroa is a postdoctoral researcher at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Cuajimalpa, Mexico). Her research has focused on the sustainability of audiovisual industries, for which she has developed an analytical framework to guide effective policy making-as a way to enhance regional economic development and cultural diversity. She has a PhD in management from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; an MA in international affairs; and a BA in history from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She has published in the International Journal of Communication, Political Economy of Communication, Journal of Digital Media and Policy, Media Industries Journal among others.
Job Titles:
- Expert and Head of Project of Átlátsz
- Lead Researcher
Attila Bátorfy is a data visualization expert and head of project of Átlátszó's visual journalism project ATLO Team. He is also master teacher of journalism, media studies and information graphics at the Media Department of Eötvös Loránd University, and research fellow and data advisor at the Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society. He serves on the editorial board of Médiakutató, a quarterly scientific journal of Media Studies. He also teaches data visualization at Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Media Culture at CUNY College of Staten Island
- Lead Researcher
Bilge Yesil is an Associate Professor of Media Culture at CUNY College of Staten Island and Doctoral Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on global media systems, industries and cultures with emphasis on the Middle East and Turkey. She is the author of Video Surveillance: Power and Privacy in Everyday Life (2009) and Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State (2016), and has published extensively on Internet policy, online surveillance, press censorship and transnational television. Her current book project, tentatively titled, Talking back to the West: How Turkey Deploys Muslim Identity Politics to Challenge the International Order and Silence Its Critics examines Turkey's various global media and communication projects undertaken by the ruling AKP government and its proxies.
Bruno Lefèvre holds a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences. His research in socio-economics and political economy of communication in the field of cultural industries, creative industries and creative economy questions the correlations between global social and economic phenomena and the modes of organisation and cooperation of local actors. His recent work focuses on the mobilisation of civil society against contemporary phenomena of territorialisation of global industrial actors in the creative economy.
Job Titles:
- Research Assistant
- Researcher
Cameron McTernan is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. His current project Media Power in the Age of Tech Giants examines pluralism in Australia's media industry using both existing revenue-based models and a proposed model for measuring the attention economy online. Cameron's previous research Popular Politics // Authentic Australians explored the prevalence of populist appeals on social media posts by Australian politicians ahead of the 2019 federal election. He is also an early career teaching academic at the University of South Australia, lecturing in Communication, Strategic Public Relations and Social Media.
Job Titles:
- Director and Distinguished Professor
- Lead Researcher
Dal Yong Jin is a Director and Distinguished Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada. He completed his Ph.D. at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Jin's major research and teaching interests are on digital platforms and digital games, globalization and media, transnational cultural studies, and the political economy of media and culture. Jin has published numerous books and journal articles, including Korea's Online Gaming Empire (MIT Press, 2010), New Korean Wave: transnational cultural power in the age of social media (University of Illinois Press, 2016) and Smartland Korea: mobile communication, culture and society (University of Michigan Press, 2017).
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto
- Lead Researcher
David B. Nieborg is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam and held visiting and fellowship appointments with MIT, the Queensland University of Technology, the University of Amsterdam, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. David published on the game industry, app and platform economics, and game journalism in academic outlets such as New Media & Society, Social Media + Society and Media, Culture and Society. He is the co-author of Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2021) with Thomas Poell and Brooke Erin Duffy.
Job Titles:
- Lead Researcher
- Professor of Media and Communications and Head of the Department of Media
Des Freedman (@lazebnic) is Professor of Media and Communications and Head of the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is one of the founding members of the Media Reform Coalition and was project lead for the Inquiry into the Future of Public Service Television, chaired by David Puttnam, that reported in 2016. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on media power and politics and is currently project coordinator of the UK Media Influence Matrix.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication
- Lead Researcher
Dmitry Epstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on the intersection of information, technology, policy, and society. Dmitry's work has been supported by funders such as the National Science Foundation, Program on Economics & Privacy at George Mason University Law School, and the Internet Society. He published in a number of venues such as The Information Society, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of Information Policy, and Wake Forest Law Review. Dmitry is currently serving as the vice-Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Lead Researcher
Gavin, M., S. Fitzgerald, and S. McGrath-Champ. 2022. "From marketising to empowering: Evaluating union responses to devolutionary policies in education." Economic and Labour Relations Review 32 (4): 1-20.
Dr Scott Fitzgerald is an Associate Professor in the School of Management at Curtin Business School, Curtin University. His research interests in the field of business and management are located in the broad areas of industrial relations, human resource management (3505), organisational behaviour and organisation studies (3507). His research expertise also spans various disciplines: sociology, political economy and media and communication studies.
Scott's research is presently split into two distinct areas. The first research area is focused on the changing nature of governance, professionalism and work in the education sector. This research connects with his broader interest in public services and the state. His second research area covers the networked media economy, cultural industry corporations, and cultural work.
Job Titles:
- Lead Researcher
- Professor in Sociology at Maynooth University
Dr. Aphra Kerr is a Professor in Sociology at Maynooth University in Ireland and she holds a PhD in Communication Studies (DCU, 2000). She is PI at the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, a multi-institutional national research centre in Ireland (2021-2027). Her books include Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy in the Networked Age, Routledge, 2017, and she was associate editor of The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. In 2020 she was accepted into the Academy of Europe and in 2016 she received a Distinguished Scholar award from the international Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA).
Job Titles:
- Co - Director
- Lead Researcher
- Professor at the School of Journalism
Dwayne Winseck is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, with a cross appointment at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University. His research interests include the political economy of telecommunications, the Internet and media as well as communications and media history, theory, policy and regulation. He is also the Director of the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project, a project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant.
2009 Winseck, D. & Pike, R. The Global Media and the Empire of Liberal Internationalism, circa 1910-1930. Media History, 2009, 15(1), 31-54. (70/30 contribution)
Job Titles:
- Lead Researcher
- Senior Fellow at the University of Haifa 's Center for Cyber
Dr. Moran Yemini is a Senior Fellow at the University of Haifa's Center for Cyber, Law and Policy (CCLP), a litigation partner at the law firm of Herzog, Fox & Neeman, a Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative. Moran has published articles in the fields of law, communications and philosophy (including both theoretical and empirical work), which have been frequently cited in academic articles, as well as by U.S. Federal courts. His research interests consist of various aspects of the intersection of technology, political theory, and law, including the relationship between technology and morality, the theory of Internet governance, constitutional rights in the digital age, and online freedom of expression. Moran holds an LL.B., magna cum laude, from Tel-Aviv University, an LL.M. from New York University School of Law (where he studied under the merit-based Vanderbilt Scholarship), and a Ph.D. in law from the University of Haifa.
Job Titles:
- Head of the Research
- Lead Researcher
Dr. Tobias Mast is head of the research programme "Regulatory Structures and the Emergence of Rules in Online Spaces" at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut since January 2022. His team investigates the rules under which new forms and practices of social understanding and self-assurance emerge in digital communication spaces, and especially in social networks. After studying law at the University of Freiburg with a focus on information and media law, he completed his doctorate at the HBI with a thesis on the state's public information activities from August 2015 until Ende of January 2019. He completed his legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court with stations at the Press Chamber of the Hamburg Regional Court, an internationally active commercial law firm and the Federal Constitutional Court. He then worked as a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court. A list of his publications and presentations can be accessed here (in German).
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Critical Media
- Lead Researcher
Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault, is Associate Professor of Critical Media and Big Data, School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University cross appointed as core faculty of the Collaborative MA in Digital Humanities and is faculty and board member of the Institute for Data Science. She is one of the founders of the field of critical data studies which applies social theory to the study of data, systems (AI/ML), and infrastructures. Her current research focuses on fair, just inclusive, and equitable data governance practices, including Indigenous data sovereignty and governance; the preservation of complex data systems such as smart grids and AI/ML; building a cooperative digital twin, investigating data brokers and open data, open government and Open Smart Cities.
Job Titles:
- Network Fellow at Harvard University
Job Titles:
- Full Professor
- Lead Researcher
Elena Vartanova is Full Professor and Dean at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Job Titles:
- Co - Director
- Lead Researcher
- Professor
Professor Noam focuses on the economics, management, and policy of media, Internet, and communications, both in America and around the world. He served as New York State's Public Service Commissioner regulating the telecommunications and energy industries, on the White House Presidential Board on information technology, and on private sector and NGO boards. His 31 books and over 400 articles cover telecom, film, TV, internet, e-finance, e-commerce and IT. He served recently as President of the International Media Management Academic Association.
Noam, E. (2018). Beyond the mogul: From media conglomerates to portfolio media. Journalism, 19(8), 1096-1130.
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Research and Teaching Assistant
Ely Lüthi is PhD Student, Research and Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Media and Journalism (Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society) at USI - Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland). She is currently also mid-level academic staff representative at USI Senate.
Her PhD research focuses on Swiss digitalisation history and policies, as well as on Swiss political economy of communication, while her research interests also include (digital) media history, media management, radio and TV broadcasting, media policy and policy analysis.
Her last publications include Media and Communication as Swiss Cohesive Forces? (Medien & Zeit, 2021) and «A story of friendship and misunderstandings»: the origins of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre 1985-1992 (Itinera, 2022, co-written with Paolo Bory and Gabriele Balbi).
Florencia Daniela Sosa has a degree in Social Communication and Master student in Cultural Industries: Policies and Management from the National University of Quilmes (UNQ); also she has a Diploma in University Teaching from the University of Buenos Aires. She was a Teaching and Research Training Scholar at UNQ and obtained the Stimulus Scholarship for Scientific Vocations granted by the National Interuniversity Council. He investigates Communication Policies and the processes of concentration and convergence in cultural industries.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Institute
- Lead Researcher
Gabriele Balbi is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Institute of Media and Journalism (IMeG), Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland).
At this institution, he is also program director of the Bachelor in Communication, director of the China Media Observatory, and vice director of the Institute of Media and Journalism. Furthermore, he is Chair of ECREA Communication History Section.
He received a BA and MA in Communication Sciences at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2002 and 2004 and a PhD in Communication Sciences and Social History of Communication at USI in 2008. He has been lecturer and visiting professor at several universities: Harvard, Maastricht, Columbia, Westminster, Oxford, Northumbria, Perugia, and Augsburg.
Job Titles:
- Lead Researcher
- Professor in the Department of Communication Science
George Angelopulo is Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa (Unisa). He most recently held a Research Professorship and has been recognised by the South African National Research Foundation as a "Rated Researcher". George focuses on connectivity, with particular attention on audience and market analysis, media and communication industries. He has developed diagnostics that include the iBrand Barometer® and Communication Prioritization Index® and completed media, market and audience research with, amongst others, the Media Policy and Democracy Project, Brand South Africa, South Africa's Reserve Bank and the Global Media and Internet Concentration Project. Prior to his academic career George was involved in the commercial operations of a number of South African and Namibian media companies.
Angelopulo, G. 2021. A comparative measure of inclusive urbanisation in the cities of Africa. World Development Perspectives 22(100313) ISSN 2452-2929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2021.100313
Job Titles:
- Project Administrator
- Research Fellow With the
Guy T. Hoskins is a post-doctoral research fellow with the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project where he is researching the rise of platform-led infrastructure in the global South. His forthcoming book with the University of Illinois Press examines the fate of digital rights at the periphery of informational capitalism through analysis of Brazil's legal framework of digital civil rights, the Marco Civil da Internet. Work published in Television and New Media and Internet Policy Review, and presented at conferences such as IAMCR, ICA and AoIR has examined similar questions of communication policy and the global political economy of the Internet. Guy speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently and locates much of his research in Latin America.
Job Titles:
- Lead Researcher
- Professor of Journalism at the University of Stavanger
Helle Sjøvaag is Professor of Journalism at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research focuses on media economics, digital infrastructures, datafication and regulation of the communication industries. She currently leads the project The datafication of communicative power: Towards an independent media policy for Norway's digital infrastructures, funded by the Research Council of Norway. Her most recent book is The markets for news: Enduring structures in the age of business model disruptions (Routledge, 2023).
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor in Digital Media at Aalborg University
- Lead Researcher
Jannick Kirk Sørensen is Associate Professor in Digital Media at Aalborg University, Dept. of Electronic Systems. Since 2007 he has researched the impact of datafication on public service media, with a special focus on the tension between personalisation and ‘public' in PSM recommender systems. Through longitudinal analyses of personalised PSM video on demand services the concept and praxis of ‘algorithmic public service media' is being identified. Research interests include also web privacy measurement and user agency in user experience design.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele - Information
- Lead Researcher
Jason Adam Buckweitz is the Associate Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at the Columbia Business School. He holds a Juris Doctorate from New York Law School and degrees in political science from Rutgers University, where he also achieved major technology proficiencies. His work has been published in several publications. At CITI, he has led many research projects and conferences.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor in the Department of Sciences
- Lead Researcher
Jessica Izquierdo-Castillo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sciences of Communication at University Jaume I. She is director of the research group OBCOP (Observatory of Content and Media Platforms). Her lines of research focus on the study of the media ecosystem, digital platforms, and women in the media industry. She has been a visiting scholar at different universities, such as Université Stendhal, Paris 13, Università degli Studi di Firenze, University of Vienna, or The City University of New York. She has numerous publications in books and journals with national and international approach. She leads two projects research about the role and representation of women in the media industry, financed by the Valencian regional government and University Jaume I.
Jing (Kristen) Zhang is a master's student in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC Charlotte. She graduated from Fudan University with a degree in communication studies. Her thesis focused on algorithmic news recommendations. Her research interests include communication technologies and society, social media, and media industry.
Josef Trappel is Professor for media policy and media economics and the head of the department for communication studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His research work concentrates on media and democracy, changes in media structures and their implications on mass communication, digitisation and innovation, national and international media and platform policy and media economics. He is the convenor of the Euromedia Research Group and Director of the EU Erasmus+ Joint Master Programme "Digital Communication Leadership". Since 2019, he is the coordinator of the Jean Monnet network "European media and platform policy" (EuromediApp).
Josefine holds a BA in Cultural Studies with a minor in Digital Media. Her academic focus on Postcolonial Studies and cultural analysis has been crucial for her professional path in the media development sector. It has provided her with various tools to understand the significance of historically determined power dynamics when situating any global event nowadays. She considers this recognition an essential part of every effort to communicate, since it acknowledges the connection between truth and power.
In the future she would like to work on solutions for the rising political polarization from a trans-disciplinary perspective including media production, reception and the increasingly globalized infrastructure of the information space.
Josefine has had special learning experiences through living in different countries. She is looking forward to pursuing her Masters in Canada with great anticipation, learning about new habits, exchanging recipes and creating communities.
Juan Carlos Miguel de Bustos holds a degree on Economics and a degree in Philosophy. He holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of the Basque Country-EHU (Spain). He also has a Master in Economy from the University of Grenoble.
Since 1987 he is a Professor at the University of the Basque Country, where he lectures on the economic aspects of the cultural industries. Since 2005 he is a full professor of the Area of Audiovisual Communication. He participates in PhD courses from different departments and countries. He occupied the UNESCO chair at the Universities of Grenoble and Lyon. He assesses research projects from different Spanish organizations.
He currently works on the Internet economy and about the GAFAM group of companies (Big Data, Blockchain and Creative Industries).
Dr. Schlosberg is a former Chair of the Media Reform Coalition and Edmund J Safra Network Fellow at Harvard University. He is co-founder and current Research Director of Truth Defence and has authored or co-authored several books about the media. His work is principally concerned with critical questions of media ownership, ethics and justice in a post digital, post consensus world.
Job Titles:
- Game Production Logics at Work
Lianrui Jia is a SSHRC-funded Ph.D. candidate in the Communication and Culture Program at York University. She holds an Honours degree and a M.A in Communications Studies from Carleton University. Her doctoral dissertation research examines the political economy of Chinese internet development and globalization. She is also a sessional instructor in the iSchool at the University of Toronto.
Job Titles:
- Lead Researcher
- Professor at the National University of Quilmes
Martín Becerra has a doctorate in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a degree in Communication Sciences from the UBA. He is a regular professor at UNQ, where he served from 2001 to 2003 as director of the Bachelor's Degree in Social Communication and, since then, as Academic Secretary.
He has been an editor and contributor to newspapers ( El Cronista , Extra , La Razón ), magazines ( Crisis , Humor , Buenos Aires , among others) and news agencies. He is an associate researcher at Conicet. Author of Information society: project, convergence, divergence (2003) and of Journalists and Tycoons: Structure and Concentration of Cultural Industries in Latin America , with Guillermo Mastrini (2006) and numerous chapters and articles on the structure and concentration of cultural industries.
Martín Becerra is Professor at the National University of Quilmes and University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) in communications policy and media regulation. He is also member of the CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina). He is postgraduate Professor at several Universities in Latin America and Spain. He holds a PhD and a MA. in Communication Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), where he was UNESCO Chair in Communications Sciences in 2005. Becerra is Director of the Center for Cultural Industries and Public Policy studies at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.
Massimo Scaglioni is Full Professor of Media History and Media Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He is also Adjunct Professor of Transmedia Narratives and Television: Industry and Languages at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano. He is the co-founder and current director of Ce.R.T.A. (Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media at Università Cattolica) and director of the Master's course "Fare TV. Gestione, Sviluppo, Comunicazione" at ALMED - Graduate School of Media Communication and Performing Arts of Università Cattolica. Massimo Scaglioni has been the Principal Investigator of the three-year research project CinCit. International Circulation of Italian Cinema funded by MIUR - Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, PRIN 2015 Program (http://www.italiancinema.it).
Massimo Scaglioni is the author of several books on media and broadcasting history and industry, including: La televisione nella pandemia. Intrattenimento, fiction, informazione e sport nell'anno del Covid-19. Annuario 2021 (Carocci, Rome 2021); A European Television Fiction Renaissance: Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation, (Routledge, London and New York 2021, with L. Barra); Cinema Made in Italy. La circolazione internazionale dell'audiovisivo italiano (Carocci, Rome 2020).
Mattia Galli is Media Analyst at Ce.R.T.A. - Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. In 2020 he gained a Master's degree with honors in Media Management at Università Cattolica in Milan; his dissertation focused on the evolution of the scripted format within the contemporary TV system. He has collaborated on several research projects on television production, distribution and broadcasting in Italy and he is currently working on a project aimed to define how mainstream media (TV series, movies, fiction books, video games) shape images of the future in different production contexts.
Job Titles:
- Researcher
- Researcher at the Institute of Media
Michele Martini is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Media and Journalism, Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland). His work focuses on the use of new media technologies by religious organisations for proselytisation purposes. To this aim, his studies combine media analysis with interviews and ethnographic observations to understand the interaction between online and offline media structures, especially focusing the construction of transnational communities, spiritual experiences and religious leadership. His research is primarily focused on computational social science and specifically on the development of methods for the analysis of unstructured datasets such as texts, videos, images and user interfaces.
Job Titles:
- Lead Researcher
- Research Manager of the Brahea Centre at the University of Turku
Mikko Grönlund is Research Manager of the Brahea Centre at the University of Turku. He has extensive experience in the field of creative and media industries and businesses, their structure, operations and markets. His studies have been supported by institutions such as the European Commission, Finnish ministries of communication, culture, education, employment and economy, industry federations, and media industry companies. He has authored several publications on media and creative industries.
Ornela Carboni has a Phd in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. A Master's degree in "Cultural Industries: policies and management" from the National University of Quilmes (UNQ) and a Bachelor's degree in Social Communication (UNQ). Is a professor and a researcher at the UNQ. Has participated in various congresses, conventions and national and international conferences related to the field of communication, specifically on issues related to the processes of productive organization and work in cultural industries. Has been a jury for undergraduate and graduate thesis. In addition, has participated in the review and evaluation of postgraduate courses and academic articles for scientific journals, and has participated in the academic training of students.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Media Theory at Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore
- Lead Researcher
Paolo Carelli (PhD) is Assistant Professor of Media Theory at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia and he also teaches TV History in the same university (Milan). He is Senior Researcher at Ce.R.T.A. (Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media at Università Cattolica, Milan) and didactic coordinator of the Master's course "Fare TV. Gestione, Sviluppo, Comunicazione" at ALMED - Graduate School of Media Communication and Performing Arts of Università Cattolica.
Job Titles:
- Founding Director of the Communication
- Lead Researcher
Paschal Preston holds a research professorship in the School of Communications in Dublin City University.
Paschal Preston is the founding director of the Communication, Technology and Culture (COMTEC ) research unit. Founded in 1991, COMTEC was one of the first social science research centres in the Irish university sector. COMTEC now has a distinguished 23-year record of successful collaborative and multi-country research projects.
Paulo Faustino has diverse professional experience (in the areas of communication, marketing, management and entrepreneurship) primarily in companies and organization related to the media sector. He also has academic and executive training in the area of business and communication sciences. Paulo Faustino has been focused, for the past eight years, on the academic activity, namely as an investigator, professor, in scientific associations and as an editor in the technical and scientific area.
Peter's broad area of interest concerns the political economy of media. Much of his published work concerns media policy, particularly in regard to public service media. He has closely followed recent developments in New Zealand and has published widely on the public broadcasting reforms under Labour from 1999-2008, most notably on the TVNZ Charter and public funding issues. He is a regular media commentator on public broadcasting issues and was appointed as Chair of the Working Party that reviewed public submissions on the revised TVNZ Charter and helped amend the Charter document (which is currently due to be abolished). He has also undertaken commissioned research projects for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage (on public broadcasting funding mechanisms in 30 OECD countries) and for NZ On Air (on approaches to measuring broadcasting quality in seven countries).
Philippe Bouquillion is professor of communication in university Paris Sorbonne Paris Nord. He is the director of the Laboratory of Information and Communication Sciences (LabSIC) and of the the Laboratory of Excellence « Cultural Industries and Artistic Creation » (Labex ICCA). He is coordinator of the axis "Cultural Industries and Arts" at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Paris Nord. His work focuses on cultural and creative industries and especially on the issues of concentration and financialisation, transnationalization and the transformations of public policies in culutral and creative industries. His most recent research deals with audiovisual digital platforms in Europe and India. He has notably managed several research contracts commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication on diversity in the sectors of cultural industries or on cultural policies.
Bouquillion, Philippe, « Cultural Diversity in the Country of Cultural Exception », in Luis A. Albornoz, Maria Trinidad Garcia Leiva, Audio-visual industries and Diversity. Economics and Politics in the Digital Era, Routledge, 2019.
Pradip Ninan Thomas is an internationally recognised scholar and academic, and is currently based at the School of Communication & Arts (SCA), University of Queensland. He has published widely in areas including communication and social change, the political economy of communication, media and religion, and Indian media. He is known specifically for his attempts to expand, redraw and renew theory in communication and social change, and his many writings have introduced both theorists such as E. P. Thompson and Raymond Williams and concepts such as ‘contentious action' from social movement studies to communication and social change theory.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor, M.Sc.E.E
- Lead Researcher
Henten, A. and Tadayoni, R. (2015) The dominance of the IT industry in a converging ICT ecosystem, in Mitomo, H., Fuke, H. and Bohlin, E. (red.) The smart revolution towards the sustainable digital society: Beyond the era of convergence, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 15-34.
Reza Tadayoni (b 1962), Associate Professor, M.sc.E.E., PhD, Head of section, Communication, Media and Information technologies (CMI) / Electronic Systems / Aalborg University. He holds a M.Sc.E.E. from DTU (Danish Technical University) specialized in broadband communication, and holds a PhD from DTU in the field of media convergence. His research and teaching areas have for the last 30 years been within the ICTs focusing on media convergence, including technology and business perspectives. He has participated as a project manager and partner in a number of international, European and Danish research projects and he has published a number of scientific papers and research reports in the areas of convergence, mobile/ wireless development, telecommunications regulation, technology assessment and demand forecasting.
Fanaee Marhamat, L., Tadayoni, R. & Reza Zali, M. (2019) Dimensions of entrepreneurial learning in media companies, International Journal of Innovation and Learning. 26, 4, s. 343-363 21
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- Lead Researcher
- Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Communication
Rodrigo Gómez García is a senior lecturer in Cultural and Communication Policies at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Cuajimalpa Unit, Mexico.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg
- Lead Researcher
Sergio Sparviero is an associate professor of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg, and the coordinator of the EU funded, Digital Communication Leadership (DCLead) master's programme. He holds a PhD in communication from Dublin City University (DCU, Ireland), and other degrees from University College Dublin and the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is specialized in media economics and business models of different types of media and communications' industries. He edited the book "Media Convergence and Deconvergence" with Gabriele Balbi and Corinna Peil, published by Palgrave in 2017. More recently, he focussed on studying the business model of non-profit and hybrid media and communications organizations. As part of this effort, he recently published the papers "The Case for a Socially Oriented Business Model Canvas: The Social Enterprise Model Canvas" in the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2019, 10(2); "Towards Digital Sustainability: The Long Journey to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030" with Massimo Ragnedda, in Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 2021, 23(3); and "A digital platform for ethical advertising and hybrid business models for news organizations: are they greening methods for ‘news deserts?", in Media, Culture & Society, 2021, 43
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- Lead Researcher
- Professor at the College of Informatics
Teppei Koguchi, PhD, is a Professor at the College of Informatics, Shizuoka University, Japan. He obtained BA, MA, and PhD in Economics from Kyushu University, Japan. His main research topics include economic analysis on personal data. Before assuming his current post, he worked for the Ministry on Internal Affairs and Communications. He is a member of the government's study group on personal data distribution platforms and study group to assess the state of competition in the telecommunications market. He is also a visiting researcher at a private think tank.
Kuroda, T., Koguchi, T, and Ida, T. (2019). Identifying the effect of mobile operating systems on the mobile services market. Information Economics and Policy, 46, 86-95.
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- Lead Researcher
- Professor of Digital Communication
Terry Flew is Professor of Digital Communication and Culture at the University of Sydney. His books include The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy (SAGE, 2012), Global Creative Industries (Polity, 2013), Media Economics (Palgrave, 2015) and Understanding Global Media (Palgrave, 2018), and Regulating Platforms (Polity, 2021). He was President of the International Communications Association (ICA) from 2019 to 2020 and is currently an Executive Board member of the ICA. He was elected an ICA Fellow in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), elected in 2019. He has held visiting professor roles at City University, London and George Washington University, and is currently a Distinguished Professor with the Communications University of China, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His most recent funded research projects have been on digital platform regulation, trust and mistrust in news, and valuing news from individual, institutional and societal perspectives.
Flew, T. & Wilding, D., 2021, The turn to regulation in digital communication: the ACCC's digital platforms inquiry and Australian media policy, Media, Culture & Society 43(1), pp. 48-65.
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- Lead Researcher
- Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences
Tim Raats is Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He holds a PhD in media and communication studies at the same university. Tim lectures Political Economy of the creative industries (BA3), EU Media and Communication Policies (Master NME), European Media Policy (Ba3) and Media Policy (BA2). Tim also coordinates the Medialab of the communication sciences department and coordinates the module ‘Audiovisual Production' in the Postgraduate Media Economics.
Komorowski, M., Iordache, C., Kostovska, I., Tintel, S., & Raats, T. (2021). Investment obligations for VOD providers to financially contribute to the production of European works: a 2021 update. Brussels: Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (SMIT).
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- Associate Professor
- Lead Researcher
Tokunbo Ojo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication & Media Studies, York University. His teaching and research interests are in global media studies, development communication, journalism studies, African media studies, geopolitics of international communication and political communication. His current research projects include news media sustainability, political economy of African media industries, international news flows, ICT4D, and China-Africa relations.
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- Assistant Professor in Media Industries and Technology Policy at the Department of Communication Sciences
- Lead Researcher
Tom Evens is an Assistant Professor in Media Industries and Technology Policy at the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium. Tom specializes in the economics and policies of digital media and technology markets, with particular interest in streaming platforms, sport media rights, business models and digital radio. He is the lead author of The Political Economy of Television Sports Rights (Palgrave, 2013) and Platform Power and Policy in Transforming Television Markets (Springer, 2018) and the co-editor of Media Management Matters: Challenges and Opportunities for Bridging Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2020).
Xiaofei Han is a Ph.D. student in the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University. Xiaofei holds an M.A. in Communications from Hong Kong Baptist University and an Honours B.A. in Communication Studies from Carleton University, with a specialization in Media Industry and Institutions. Her research and previous experience as a marketing communication professional working in Beijing have led Xiaofei to developed a keen interest in the extensive and innovative commodification models that are emerging on major Chinese internet platforms.
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- Full Professor
- Lead Researcher
Yolandi Botha (previously Slabbert) is a Full Professor in Organisational Communication in the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa and is involved in both pre and postgraduate tuition and supervision. She is rated researcher of the National Research Foundation (Y2) and has published locally and internationally on strategic communication, stakeholder engagement, change communication, stakeholder relationship building and social media. Prof Botha is an active member of various communication associations and serves on the Editorial and Reviewers' Board of the Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, an e-journal hosted by ATINER. She is also part of a research project hosted by Arizona State University that focuses on evaluating the value of business communication in academia and practice.
Botha, Y. 2021. Extending polyphonic strategic communication to stakeholder engagement: Exploring deliberate-emergent and radical-emergent approaches. Management Dynamics 30(2): 1-14.