Authors
ANA AZURMENDI is Professor of Media Law at the School of Communication in the University of Navarra. She has authored books and articles focused on three areas of interest: Public Service Media, Privacy and Big Data, and European and Spanish Media Law. She was the Main Researcher for the Research Project “Transformation of Regional Public Television”, comprised of 12 projects across seven Spanish universities (2013–2017). She was editor of the journal Comunication and Society (2007–2013) and, recently, Councelor (2014) and Director (2017) of the Center for Internet Studies and Digital Life at the University of Navarra. She has been Co-ordinator of AE-IC (the Spanish Association of Communication’s Research) in Section Estructura y Políticas de Comunicación (Media Management and Communication Policy) since 2007.
ALEXANDER DHOEST (Ph.D. 2002 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is Professor at the University of Antwerp where he serves as Chair of the Department of Communication Studies, Vice-Chair of the Media, Policy and Culture research group and Co-Chair of the Antwerp Gender and Sexuality Studies Network. His Ph.D. dissertation was about the representation of Flanders in television drama. His later research investigates dif- ferent aspects of the production, text and reception of television, focusing on issues of identity and diversity. His most recent research dealt with minority audiences, working in particular on the intersections of national, cultural, ethnic and sexual identities.
He has published widely on these issues in sixty peer-reviewed articles, seven books as author or editor, and over thirty chapters in edited volumes. He is also an editorial board member for six journals, including European Journal of Cultural Studies.
NICOLE GONSER (Ph.D. 2009 University of Music, Drama, and Media in Hanover) is Senior Program Researcher at the Bavarian Broadcasting Organisation (Bayerischer Rundfunk). She was a key researcher in the Department of Journalism and Media Management at the FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW in Vienna, and Co-ordinator of two large research projects: “Public Value – The future of quality journalism between social value for public service media and growing commercial competition” and “Public Value goes international” (2009–2017) – both funded by Vienna Municipal Department 23 for Economic Affairs, Labour and Statistics (MA23).
PETER GOODWIN (Ph.D. 1999 University of Westminster) is Principal Research Fellow at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at the University of Westminster in the UK, where he was previously Head of the Department of Journalism
and Mass Communication (2004–2007) and Director of Research for the Faculty of Media, Arts and Design (2008–2015). He is the author of Television Under the Tories:
Broadcasting Policy 1979–97, and a contributor in each of the last four RIPE readers.
MARKUS GRAMMEL (M.A. 2013 FHWien University of Applied Sciences) teaches languages at an Austrian vocational school and is an external lecturer at FHWien University of Applied Sciences in Vienna. He was Research Associate in the Depart- ment of Journalism & Media Management at FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW and contributed in the research project “Public Value goes international”
(2013 – 2016) funded by Vienna Municipal Department 23 for Economic Affairs, Labour, and Statistics (MA23).
JOHANN GRÜNDL (M.A. 2013 University of Vienna) is a pre-doctoral Research Associ- ate at the Department of Government in the University of Vienna. He was a Research Associate at the Department of Journalism & Media Management at FHWien Uni- versity of Applied Sciences of WKW, Vienna and contributed to the research project
“Public Value goes international” (2014 – 2016) funded by the Vienna Municipal Department 23 for Economic Affairs, Labour, and Statistics (MA23). His dissertation project is in political science with a focus on populist attitudes among the electorate.
STIG HJARVARD (Ph.D. 1994 University of Copenhagen) is Professor of Media Stud- ies at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication in the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include journalism, media sociology, media and globalization, digital book publishing, media and religion, and mediatization theory.
He is Chief Editor of several journals Northern Lights (Intellect Press) and Journal of Media, Cognition and Communication (Royal Danish Library). His recent books in English are: Mediatization and Religion: Nordic Perspectives (co-edited with Mia Lövheim, Nordicom 2012), The Mediatization of Culture and Society (Routledge 2013), The Dynamics of Mediatized Conflicts (co-edited with Mette Mortensen and Mikkel Eskjær, Peter Lang 2015), and Dynamics of Mediatization (co-edited with Olivier Driessens, Göran Bolin, and Andreas Hepp, Palgrave 2017).
CHRISTINE HORZ (Ph.D. 2011 University of Erfurt/Germany) is post-doc Lecturer and Researcher at Ruhr-University Germany. She was Visiting Professor at Ernst- Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald Germany in 2017. Her research focus is on audience participation in PSM, media governance in a digital environment, and media and migration. In 2013, she founded the public science project Initiative for Audience Councils (Initiative Publikumsrat e.V., www.publikumsrat.de) that strives to revive informed public debate about audience participation in PSM. Since 2011 she has been co-editor of the bilingual Global Media Journal (www.globalmediajournal.de) and her recent publications include the monograph Medien-Migration-Partizipation (2011);
The Politics of Diversity and Public Service Media in Germany (2016 in Richter, Dupuis
& Averbeck-Lietz), and Publikumsperspektiven auf Transparenz und Finanzierung der öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien (2017 in Torun, Herzog, Hilker & Novy).
JONATHON HUTCHINSON (Ph.D. 2013 Queensland University of Technology) is Lec- turer in Online Communication and Media at the University of Sydney. His research explores public service media, cultural intermediation, everyday social media use, the role of social media influencers within co-creative environments, and social media within cyber-security. He is the NSW Representative on the Executive Committee for the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA). Hutchinson is an award-winning scholar and the author of Cultural Intermediaries: Audience Par- ticipation and Media Organisations (2017) published by Palgrave Macmillan.
GREGORY FERRELL LOWE (Ph.D. 1992 University of Texas at Austin) is Professor in Residence at Northwestern University-Qatar. He is a founder and the Continuity Director for the RIPE initiative for the development of public service in media. Lowe previously worked as Senior Advisor for Corporate Strategy and Development at Yleisradio (1997–2007), the Finnish public service broadcasting company, and was Head of Yle Programme Development (2002–2005), and established the graduate studies programme in media management and economics at the University of Tampere in Finland. Lowe has edited and co-edited the series of RIPE Readers published by NORDICOM since 2003 and published journal articles and book chapters on PSM and media management. He was President of the European Media Management As- sociation from 2012–2016, and will take become the Chair position for the World Media Economic Conference in May 2018.
DAVOR MARKO (Ph.D. candidate, University of Belgrade) is non-resident Research Fellow at Analitika, the Centre for Social Research in Sarajevo, and in the Centre for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. He is the author of many local and regional research papers and publications, and has collaborated with leading academic and research institutions in the Western Balkans and abroad. In his book entitled Zar na Zapadu postoji drugi Bog? (Does another God exist in the West?), he analyses dominant stereotypes and prejudices of Islam in the media of the Western Balkans. He is co-editor of State or Nation? Challenges for Political Transition of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2011). Fields of professional interest and expertise include strategic communication, media development, and the trans- formation of public broadcasters in post-socialist countries.
RUTH McELROY (Ph.D. 1998 Lancaster University) is Professor of Creative Industries and Co-Director of the Centre for Media and Culture in Small Nations at the Uni- versity of South Wales. She is a founding member and former chair of the Institute of Welsh Affairs’ Media Policy Group and currently serves on Ofcom’s Advisory Com- mittee Wales. She regularly provides expert evidence on public service broadcasting
and minority-language media to inquires conducted by the UK Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales. Her research includes work on television genres, gender, and media policy, most of which has been published in international journals. Her most recent book is an edited collection, Contemporary British Television Crime Drama (Routledge 2017). In 2015–2016, McElroy led lead an Arts and Humanities Research Council international network on Television in Small Nations. In 2018, she will work with Dr Caitriona Noonan on a comparative project on European screen agencies.
MARIA MICHALIS (Ph.D. 1997 City University in London) is Associate Professor in Com- munication Policy at the University of Westminster in the UK. She is author of Governing European Communications (Lexington 2007) and numerous book chapters as well as academic articles in journals such as Media, Culture and Society; the European Journal of Communication; Review of International Political Economy; and the International Jour- nal of Digital Television and Telecommunications Policy. She is currently investigating the interplay between the technological convergence of television and the internet with a focus on PSM in policy and business models. She is a VLV Trustee (Voice of the Listener and Viewer UK) and involved in the EU Horizon 2020 research project on internet community networks (http://netcommons.eu/). Michalis was Secretary General of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) from 2012–2016), and is currently Vice Chair of the Media Industries & Cultural Production section of the European Communication Research and Education As- sociation (ECREA).
MERCEDES MUÑOZ SALDAÑA is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at the University of Navarra. She teaches communication law and advertising ethics in the Advertising and Public Relations degree and works for the MA programme in Political and Corporate Communication and is Co-ordinator of the Communication Doctoral Programme. Her current research is focused on audio-visual policy in ques- tions about the redefinition of public service broadcasting and new regulatory tools.
Muñoz published a proposal on audience participation in regional public television in Spain that looks at BBC reforms (El Profesional de la Información 2016), as well as research on public regional television and the development of multilevel governance in Europe (Communication and Society 2016), and about the Importance of self-regulation and co-regulation in the new digital audio-visual market (Observatorio 2015).
GRAHAM MURDOCK is Professor of Culture and Economy in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, and Vice President of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). His research focuses particularly on the political economy of public culture. He has held the Bonnier Chair at the University of Stockholm and the Teaching Chair at the Free University of Brus- sels, and was a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Auckland, California at San Diego, Mexico City, Helsinki, Curtin Western Australia, and Bergen. His writings are
available in twenty-one languages. His recent books include, as co-editor: The Idea of the Public Sphere (Lexington 2010); The Blackwell Handbook of Political Economy of Communication (2011); Money Talks: Media, Markets, Crisis (2014): and Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Crisis (2017).
CAITRIONA NOONAN (Ph.D. 2009 Glasgow University) is Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. Her research focuses on television production, creative labour and public service broadcasting. Her work has published in journals that include Critical Studies in Tel- evision, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Popular Television.
In 2018, she will lead an AHRC-funded project on the contribution of screen agencies to the economic and cultural sustainability of film and television sectors in several small European nations. She was part of a successful bid to the AHRC Research Networking Scheme for a project on Television from Small Nations, a collaboration between academic and industry partners. She is on the steering group of the Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations.
MANUEL PUPPIS (Ph.D. 2009 University of Zurich) is Full Professor in media systems and media structures at the Department of Communication and Media Research (DCM) in the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He currently serves as board member of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM) and is a member of the extra-parliamentary Swiss Federal Media Commission (FMEC). From 2012–2016 he was Chair of ECREA’s Communication Law and Policy section. In the autumn term of 2012, Puppis was appointed as a Visiting Resident Scholar for the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his current position, he was a senior research and teaching associate at the University of Zurich.
TIM RAATS (Ph.D. 2014 Vrije Universiteit Brussel) is Lecturer on the Political Economy of the Creative Industries and media policy courses at the Free University Brussels.
He is Senior Researcher at i-mec SMIT (Studies on Media, Innovation and Technol- ogy), a research department connected with his university. His Ph.D. is in Media and Communication Sciences and his dissertation study was about the role of PSM in a networked society, with particular focus on analyses of partnership policy, strategies and practices. He co-ordinated and contributed to several contract research projects for VRT, the Minister of Media and the Council for Media in Belgium. Raats has published widely in edited collections and peer-reviewed journals, including Javnost/
The Public and Media, Culture and Society. He is a Board member of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund.
GISELA REITER (M.A. 2007 University of Vienna) is Lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna (since 2007) and Teaching & Research Associate in the Department of Journalism & Media Management at FHWien Univer-
sity of Applied Sciences of WKW, Vienna (since 2011). She contributed to two large research projects: “Public Value – The future of quality journalism between social value for public service media and growing commercial competition” and “Public Value goes international”, both funded by Vienna Municipal Department 23 for Economic Affairs, Labour, and Statistics (MA23).
HERMANN ROTERMUND (Ph.D. 1976 Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frank- furt/Main) is 2017–2018 fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany. He was previously a lecturer and researcher at the University of Bremen and Managing Director of a publishing agency. He worked for ARD, the German public broadcaster, from 1996–1998 as co-ordinator of the ard.de website and was (1997–2000) Project Manager for an interactive ARD TV channel. In 2004, he be- came Professor of Media Studies at the Rheinische Fachhochschule in Cologne. From 2013 to 2016 he was Visiting Professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg and head of Grundversorgung (Public Service Media) 2.0, a project funded by the European Union.
CORINNE SCHWEIZER (Ph.D. 2016 University of Zurich) is Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Institute of Communication Science and Media Research (IKMZ) of the University of Zurich, and a former journalist. Schweizer conducts research on media policy and regulation for the Office of Communications in Switzer- land, amongst others, and was a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Media and Com- munications of the London School of Economics and Political Science (2015–2017).
In 2016, she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on public service media and the commons (see her chapter in the RIPE@2015 Reader).
JANNICK KIRK SØRENSEN (Ph.D. 2011 University of Southern Denmark) is a Post- Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Communication, Media and Information technologies (CMI) in the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. Starting 2007, his research has focused on contradiction and tensions within and between public service media and personalisation technologies. His re- search extends to the design of ICT services, embodiment of ICT service encounters, and web privacy measurements. He is 2017–2018 Visiting Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Hans-Bredow Institute for Media Science at the University of Hamburg, Germany, contributing to a research group project on “Algorithmed Public Spheres”.
HILDE VAN DEN BULCK (Ph.D. KU-Leuven) is Professor of Communication Stud- ies and Head of the Media, Policy & Culture research group at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp. She obtained an MA on Communications from KU-Leuven, an MA in Mass Communications from U Leicester and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences from KU-Leuven. She combines complimentary expertise in media culture and identities with media structures and policies. Much of her research is on public service media, recently focusing on the impact of digitisation and convergence. She has
published widely on these issues. She is founding member of the Netherlands Flanders Communication Association, Chair of the Communication, Law and Policy section of ECREA, and a member of the Flemish Sectorial Council for Media.
MARLEEN TE WALVAART (M.A. 2013 University of Utrecht) is a PhD student and Teaching Assistant at the University of Antwerp in the Department of Communica- tion Studies. Working in the Media, Policy and Culture research group, her doctoral research is focused on television production perspectives into audience engagement.
DIRK WAUTERS (MSc Engineering and Economics, KU Leuven and MBA, Stanford University) is Visiting Professor for Innovation Management at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. He was co-founder of the first spin-off company from the university and has held senior management positions including Division President for Alcatel Paris and CEO of Siemens Networks in Belgium. He served as the CEO of VRT, the public broadcaster for the Flanders region in Belgium. Wauters is co-author of the book Het nieuwe TV kijken (‘The New TV Watching’) published in 2014. He is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.
