In deep waters: tracing media ownership through imprints, company reports, and business registries

Media ownership transparency is increasingly framed in Europe as a tool to safeguard pluralism and strengthen accountability. This presentation discusses how and why this is still more of a goal than a reality. Based on the Euromedia Ownership Monitor (EurOMo, https://media-ownership.eu), it shows the steps to ascertain ownership and control of two major media groups, namely DPG Media (Belgium) and Czech Media Invest (Czechia), cross-referencing imprints, annual reports, filings, and registries. European media policy will improve some of the problems, but many issues will likely remain.

Speaker: Tales Tomaz (KoWi Salzburg)

Date: 16th June 2026 12:00 bis 13:00 o’clock // Room 382 // Faculty of Social Sciences – Rudolfskai 42 – Salzburg

 

„Kommunikationswissenschaft“: ein neues und neuartiges Lehrbuch stellt sich vor

Im Lunchtalk wird das 2024 erschienene Lehrbuch „Kommunikationswissenschaft. Eine Einführung in die kommunikativen und medialen Grundlagen der Gesellschaft“, herausgegeben von Ulrike Röttger, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen und Elisabeth Klaus, vorgestellt.

Der Band bietet Lehrenden, Lernenden und allen an öffentlicher Kommunikation Interessierten einen umfassenden Überblick über unser Fach. Es informiert in 14 Kapiteln über dessen zentrale Theorien, Methoden und Forschungsfelder. Neben Elisabeth Klaus waren mit Thomas Birkner, Ricarda Drüeke und Christine Lohmeier drei weitere Professor:innen des Fachbereichs an diesem neuen und durch seine zahlreichen didaktischen Elemente und Abbildungen auch neuartigen Lehrbuch als Autor:innen beteiligt waren. Sie werden gemeinsam die Inhalte des Lehrbuchs vorstellen und seine Einsatzmöglichkeiten in der Lehre diskutieren.

Vortragende: Elisabeth Klaus (Universität Salzburg)

Termin: 11. November 2025 12:00 bis 13:00 Uhr HS 383

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The enduring pains toward technological self-determination: AI governance and the case of Brazil’s Applied AI Research Centers

The consequences of widespread control over technological infrastructure, economy, and data have become key talking points by critical scholars. Many have asked what exactly can be done to democratize access to data and AI infrastructure. Particularly in the Global South, which has historically been a source of raw material and a testbed for Big Tech, how can countries and their institutions foster strategic developments that facilitate sovereign and nation-centric technological infrastructure? The Lunch Talk will offer a glimpse of just how researchers, policymakers, private actors, and local communities have been grappling with that question through a presentation of Brazil’s first AI policy instrument in action: the creation of Applied AI Research Centers. Based on data from a series of interviews, the presentation paints a picture of a policy initiative that navigates between a push for sovereignty and renewed dependency, opportunities offered by a thriving scientific community and limitations such as a funding crunch.

Vortragender: Guilherme Cavalcante Silva (Institute for Technoscience & Society, York University, Canada)

Termin: 3. Juni 2025 12:00 bis 13:00 Uhr HS 382

Bild: https://unsplash.com/de/fotos/ein-computergeneriertes-bild-des-buchstabens-a-ZPOoDQc8yMw

 

Das Jahrhundert des Journalismus – Vom Scrollytelling zu den Anfängen des modernen Journalismus

Haben die neuen medialen Bedingungen im 21. Jahrhundert das Prinzip der umgekehrten Pyramide des Nachrichtenjournalismus auf den Kopf gestellt? Wie hat es sich im 20. Jahrhundert, über Kriege und Diktaturen hinweg, entwickelt? Unter anderem diesen Fragen sind wir im Rahmen unseres von der DFG geförderten Projekts in den vergangenen vier Jahren nachgegangen. Neben den Ergebnissen, die wir auch auf der diesjährigen ICA präsentieren werden, fokussiert der Lunchtalk vor allem die Publikation der Ergebnisse.

Vortragende: Thomas Birkner, Annika Keute, Konstantin Schätz

Termin: 13. Mai 2025 12:00 bis 13:00 Uhr HS 382

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Healthy Algorithms? How Social Media Algorithms are Shaping the Future of Health

This talk explores the impact of social media platforms on health, with a focus on algorithms. Drawing on empirical findings from multiple studies of social media and health information seeking, the talk examines how, although social media provides valuable opportunities for health promotion, community building and agency, algorithms driven by capitalist platform agendas may have unintended consequences in shaping public health perceptions and behaviours. The discussion will highlight the necessity of an informed perspective on the social and health impacts of the algorithms that drive our social media consumption for media and communications scholars.

Vortragende: Lisa Garwood-Cross (University of Salford, UK)

Termin: 1. April 2025 12:00 bis 13:00 Uhr

Ort: HS 382 (Rudolfskai 42; Salzburg)

Bild: https://www.pexels.com/de-de/foto/blumen-abstrakt-technologie-pflanzen-18069421/

 

 

Audio media and young people: A long-term relationship to navigate

Research on audio media and young people has come a long way, from pirate radio in Europe to podcasts in kindergartens during COVID-19, in high schools and female youth podcasts to identity empowerment in the BBC. In times of political and social crisis, and more recently health crisis, audio media such as radio have been a source of resistance. Audio media have been a means of community building in difficult times and a means of identity maintenance and identity building, especially in minority communities and at very young ages. My presentation will attempt to highlight the history of audio media and its current position in relation to young people in Europe and the rest of the world.

Vortragende: Theodosiadou Sofia (Faculty of Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Termin: 25. März 2025 12:00 bis 13:00 Uhr

Ort: HS 382 (Rudolfskai 42; Salzburg)

Bild: https://www.pexels.com/de-de/foto/gold-kondensatormikrofon-in-der-nahe-von-laptop-computer-755416/