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Call for Papers of the Book Series “Relation: Communication Research
in Comparative Perspective”

Media Structures and Media Performance: Current Research and New Perspectives

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Die österreichische Medienlandschaft im Umbruch [The Changing Austrian Media Landscape]
Relation: Communication Research in Comparative Perspective, n.s., Vol. 3

Edited by Birgit Stark and Melanie Magin,
Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2009
ISBN: 978-3-7001-6614-6

The new issue of Relation is devoted to the specific structures of the Austrian media system, the effects these have on the diversity of the media offering, and media policy in the context of global changes to the media system since the middle of the 1990s.

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Medien & Kommunikationsforschung im Vergleich
[Comparative Media and Communication Studies]

Edited by Gabriele Melischek, Josef Seethaler & Jürgen Wilke
(Proceedings of a conference organized by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communi­cation, University of Mainz, and the Commission for Comparative Media and Communication Studies)
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008
ISBN: 978-3-531-15482-4
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"Because of its comparative scope, its thematic variety, its systemic approach and the excellent selection of authors this book is an enormous enrichment for media and communication research." (International Journal of Public Opinion Research 1/2008)

War, Media, and the Public Sphere

An International Symposium of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt
5-7 March 2009
Vienna, Austria

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Commission of Media and Communication Studies has joined
the Worlds of Journalism project

In June 2008, the Commission of Media and Communication Studies has joined the Worlds of Journalism project. The international project sets out to explore differences and similarities in journalistic cultures across diverse nations, different types of news organizations and various professional milieus. Carried out as a collaborative effort involving researchers from 22 countries, the study breaks new ground in the field of journalism research. Project coordinator is Dr. Thomas Hanitzsch from the University of Zurich. The Austrian part is conducted by Dr. Josef Seethaler and Dr. Christian Oggolder with the collaboration of Dr. Daniela Kraus (Medienhaus Wien).

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ÖAW Topic of the Month March 2008: Medienforschung [Media Research]
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J. Seethaler: Wissenschaft in den Medien - Das Publikum [Science in the Media - The Audience]. Presentation at the SciCom08, Vienna. November, 20-22, 2008.
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B. Stark und D. Kraus: Crossmediale Strategien überregionaler Tageszeitungen. In Media Perspektiven 6/2008, 307-317.                                                                                                            Download (pdf)

G. Melischek: Der publizierte WählerInnenwille [The electoral mandate]. In Der WählerInnenwille, ed. by Form Politische Bildung, 20-28. Wien: Studien-Verlag, 2007.
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Reklamesammlung (Prof. Dr. Günter Schweiger) more

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