Organisation
The Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt was founded on 1 January 2013. It succeeds the Commission for Comparative Media and Communication Studies which was founded on 1 February 1994 and was originally named Commission for Mass Communication History (based on a 1991 founded study group at the Austrian Biographical Encyclopedia). The commission was renamed on 14 October 2005.