Tales Tomaz PhD

Project assistant Division Media Politics and Media Economics
Tales Tomaz PhD

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 wrote his doctoral thesis at the Universidade de São Paulo and was a lecturer at a Brazilian private university until 2018. For political reasons, he left Brazil and now he is a research associate at the Division of Media Politics and Media Economics. In his research and teaching activities he focuses mainly on critical political-economic and philosophical aspects of digital media. Currently, his research interests include the economic impact of platformization on news media structure and the economics of alternative Digital Information Intermediaries based on Free and Open-Source Software. He is project manager of “ Euromedia Ownership Monitor“, a project funded by the EU Commission. He was assistant in the project “ Media for Democracy Monitor 2021 (MDM)“, having edited its three books with Josef Trappel.

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.