Excellent! The 2026 Best PhD Seminar Paper Award goes to Nils Förster
Nils Förster was honored with the Best PhD Seminar Paper Award 2026 at the 8th International CSR Communication Conference held at LUT University in Finland.
Guest Lecture by Corinna Peil at Wayne State University
On September 28, 2026, Corinna Peil will give a guest lecture at Wayne State University in Detroit on the often-invisible prerequisites of digital participation in everyday life. The lecture will also mark the start of her research semester in the fall of 2026. Under the title “The Hidden Work of Digital Life & Everyday Media…
KoWi Salzburg Hosts Shumow Memorial Symposium
The University of Salzburg hosted the Shumow Memorial Symposium as part of the 20th Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
Zero Record project uses NLP to analyze censorship
A new transnational project investigates the erasure of gender-based violence and child abuse from Turkish digital media.
Decolonizing Communication Studies: Excursion to Schloss Leopoldskron
The seminar “Decolonizing Communication Studies” engaged students with current debates on artistic ownership, cultural representation, and institutional responsibility.
Building sustainable academic partnerships between Austria and Jordan
Thawab Hilal represented the University of Salzburg in the Erasmus+ Cooperation Seminar for “Austrian and Jordanian Higher Education Institutions” in Vienna.
ICA 2026: KoWi Salzburg in Full Force
Eight colleagues from KoWi Salzburg presented award-winning research at the 76th ICA Conference in Cape Town.
Call for applications – Study assistants
Call for applications for study assistant positions at the Department KoWi/University of Salzburg
Tales Tomaz gives media ownership workshop at HLW 19 in Vienna
As part of the OeAD’s Wissenschaftsbotschafter programme, Tales Tomaz delivered the workshop “Wem gehören die Medien in Europa?” at HLW 19 in Vienna on 27 April.
Hanan Badr co-author in new publication on Algorithmic Censorship
A new study shows how Facebook’s algorithms systematically suppress pro-Palestinian content — and how users fight back.
