Ass. Prof. Dr. Tales Tomaz

 Assistant Professor Division Media Politics and Media Economics
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Room: 3rd floor, Sigmund-Haffner-Gasse 18, 5020 Salzburg

Office hours: by appointment

Phone: +43-662-8044-4195

Mail: tales.tomaz@plus.ac.at

Tales Tomaz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg (Austria) and coordinator of the Euromedia Ownership Monitor (EurOMo), funded by the European Commission. He is an active member of the Euromedia Research Group (EMRG) and vice-chair of the ECREA Section Communication Law & Policy (CLP). His current research focuses on ownership structures in European media and the regulation of digital platforms.

In addition to numerous publications, he has been involved in various research projects, including The Media for Democracy Monitor 2021 (MDM), European Media and Platform Policy (EuromediApp), and Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age (ReMeD). For five years he was a board member of the Austrian Society for Communication Science (ÖGK).

He has been with the department since 2019; previously, he worked in Brazil as an assistant professor and as a member of the research groups FiloCom/ECA/USP and Geccom/Unasp.

Research Interests

  • Digital media and democracy
  • Media Philosophy

Networks

  • ÖGK – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kommunikationswissenschaft

Documentation of Research

The current research documentation can be found here.