MMag.a Dr.in Eva Tamara Asboth, Bakk.a phil.

Postdoc (OeAW)

Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC)
Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Klagenfurt
A-1010 Wien, Bäckerstraße 13 / 1. Stock, Austria

Phone (+43-1) 51581-3115
Email: eva.asboth(at)oeaw.ac.at

 

Eva Tamara Asboth is a historian and communication scholar working as a postdoctoral researcher at the CMC since 2022. Her transdisciplinary work focuses on the intersections between media, memory and crisis. Her monograph "Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives on the Balkans, 1850-1918", examines how actors encountering new spaces and cultures mediated and transferred their knowledge and influenced media content. She spent two short-term research stays in New York during her doctoral studies. Research into the oral history of the post-Yugoslavian generation accompanied her focus on Southeast Europe. One of her current projects uses group oral histories to explore young generations’ historical and democratic dispositions through social media in the context of current crises. As a media historian, she is interested in the development of female publics. Her main project reconstructs the women’s media landscape in inter-war Austria and links it to their lifeworlds during the rise of fascism.

Research interests

Media and Communication History; Media History; Political Myths; Transregional History and Transfer Studies; Oral History (‘Erfahrungsgeschichte‘); Historical Anthropology

Current projects

Communication & Transfers

The Austrian News Media Infrastructure (ANMI) - Data, Trends, Analyses

 

 

Academic Education

2014-2019 Doctoral studies in Contemporary History, University of Vienna (PhD./Dr.); (Thesis: ‘Mapping the Serbs. Ursprünge und Umdeutungen westlicher Geschichtsbilder über Serbien und die serbische Bevölkerung.‘)

2009-2011 Master Studies in Media and Communication Sciences, University of Vienna (Mag. phil.)

2006-2011 Studies in History, University of Vienna (Mag. phil.)

2006-2009 Bachelor Studies in Media and Communication Sciences, University of Vienna (Bakk. phil.)

Professional Career

Since April 2022: PostDoc at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC), Austrian Academy of Sciences / Research Group ‘Media, Politics & Democracy (MePD)’

2019-March 2022 PostDoc Researcher at the Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies, University of Vienna / Research Project: The Youth in the Balkans and their Cultures of Communication, Non-Communication, and their Notions of Reconciliation

2019-March 2022 Project coordinator in the international ‘Scientific & Technological Cooperation’ (S&T Cooperation) programme funded by the Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) / Research project: Heritage Tourism and Community Development in Austria and Montenegro

2015-2019 PraeDoc Researcher at the Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies, University of Vienna / Research Projects: Generation In-between.
 The 'Europeanness' of the Balkan War Children; How Civic Engagement Leads to Political Participation. Learning from Young Active Europeans in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia; Durch ‚Autokratie‘ zur Demokratie? Der Hohe Repräsentant für Bosnien und Herzegowina (1999 bis 2002)

2016-2017 Research Assistant at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) / Research Project: Glaube, Leben, Hoffnung der Generation In-Between. Auswirkungen aktueller Krisen auf den Glauben junger, postjugoslawischer Erwachsener in Österreich

2012-2014 Research Assistant at the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) / Research project: Gemeinsame Geschichte? Österreichische und serbische Mythen von 1914 bis 2014

2011 Research Assistant at the Vienna Museum of Science and Technology working with the collection ‘information and communication’ / research topic: social history of photography

Reviewing and Consulting Activities

Vice-Chair of the ECREA-Section Communication History

AUSSDA User Advisory Board

Member of Magazine Media Research Network (MagNet) and Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2nd Edition of the Future of Magazine International Conference

ICA

ECREA

DGPuK

Public Outreach

Teilnahme am Netzwerktreffen zum 1. Europäischen Kongress der CPPD (Coalition of Pluralistic Public Discourse) in St. Pölten im Rahmen des Festivals Tangente

Wissenschaftsbotschafterin for the project "Young Science" (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung)

Fellowships and Awards

2024: Best Paper Award, International Communication Association (ICA), Communication History Division, for the paper “How to research past global publics? A methodological approach combining transfer studies and communication studies

2023: Förderung für das Publikationsprojekt “Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives on the Balkans, 1850 and 1918”, vergeben durch: DDr. Franz-Josef Mayer-Gunthof Wissenschafts- und Forschungsstiftung

2021/2022 Research grant funded by the ‘Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien’ / Research project affiliated at the the Sigmund Freud University and in cooperation with the Österreichische Mediathek/Technisches Museum Wien: ‘Wien ist anders’? – Geschichte des Images der Stadt am Land. Ländliche Wien-Aneignungen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert

2015 & 2017 Förderungsstipendium für die Dissertation nach dem Studienförderungsgesetz der Studienpräses der Universität Wien

2017 Dissertation grant funded by the Austrian Social Democratic party

2015 ‘Short-term grant abroad’ funded by the University of Vienna, research stay at the New York public library and archives in New York City/USA

 

Memberships in Professional Associations

Since 2022: International Communication Association (ICA)

Since 2022: European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)

Since 2022: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kommunikationswissenschaften [German Communication Association] (DGPuK)

Since 2022: Nachwuchsforum Kommunikationsgeschichte (NAKOGE)

Arbeitskreis für historische Kommunikationsforschung (Rechnungsprüferin)

Congress Organization

Historical (communication) research in-between analog-born and digital-born data. Workshop, CMC, Vienna, 3 & 4 August 2023. 

Austrian News Media Infrastructure. Work-in-progress-Workshop, CMC, Vienna, 23 November 2023.

Austrian News Media Infrastructure. Reflections on a digital research infrastructure. Workshop, CMC, Vienna, 4 November 2022. 

Longing for ‘Communism’? 21st Century Youth Cultures in Past, Present and Future Eastern Germany, and Southeast and Eastern Europe
in cooperation with the Chair of Modern History, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; the Chair for Transformation Processes in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, University of Vienna, Austria; Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies, Transdiciplinary Chair at the Department of Contemporary History and the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria.
Vienna, 23 October 2017.

Generation on the Move. Children of the 90s in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, and Serbia,
in Cooperation with the Center for Advanced Studies for Southeastern Europe, Rijeka. Rijeka/Croatia, 9 – 10 October 2015.

Collaborations

2024-2026: OeAD WTZ-Grant together with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Marija Brujic), University of Belgrade, and Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (Doris Wydra & Roman Puff), Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, project: “Migrants in Need? The Sociocultural Effects of Contemporary Crises on Serbian Migrants in Austria and Returnees in Serbia”

2024-2026: OeAD WTZ-Grant together with the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (Marija Brujic), University of Belgrade, and Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (Doris Wydra & Roman Puff), Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, project: “Migrants in Need? The Sociocultural Effects of Contemporary Crises on Serbian Migrants in Austria and Returnees in Serbia”

2024-2026: OeAD WTZ-Grant together with Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management of University of Montenegro (Jovana Janinovic), and Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (Karolina Taczanowska), BOKU University, project: “Hospitality of memory, hostility of heritage: re-branding of Austro-Hungarian fortresses in Montenegro”

2023-ongoing: Faculty of International and Political Studies (Mateusz Kamionka), Jagiellonian University I Department of Studies in Culture and Religion, University of Hradec Králové (Luděk Jirka), project (funds by the Jagiellonian University): “Collective Memory In Crises: A transnational perspectives of today’s youth”.

2023-ongoing: European History Research Centre (Pierre Purseigle), University of Warwick I Department of History (Nel de Mûelenaere), University of Brussels, project: “Urban resilience in the era of the First World War, 1914-1939”

2022-ongoing: Institute of History Robert Schümann, geb. Scholz), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenber, publication project: Historical Communication Research between analog born and digital born data.

Assoz.-Prof. Dr. Sanja Bojanić, Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Gries, Leiter des Fachbereiches Psychologische und Historische Anthropologie an der Fakultät für Psychologie der Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Wien; Inhaber des Franz Vranitzky Chair for European Studies am Institut für Zeitgeschichte und am Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Universität Wien (2014 bis 2022).

Prof. Dr. Silke Satjukow, Inhaberin der Professur für Geschichte der Neuzeit am Institut für Geschichte der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

Pavel Zahrádka, Ph.D., Department of Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism at the Palacký University, Olomouc.

Publications 

Publications pre-2022

Complete list of publications: ORCID

 

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Asboth, E. & Nadjivan, S. (2017). Neither here nor there – Ni ovde, ni tamo. Religiously Connoted Social Media Self-Representations of the ‘Generation In-Between’, in: Contemporary Austrian Studies Vol. 26, New Orleans-Innsbruck.

Asboth, E., Griesbeck M. & Nadjivan, S. (2017). „MY MILK LASTS LONGER THAN MY VISA“. The Longings of the „Generation on the Move“ in Kosovo, in: zeitgeschichte, 44. Jg., 1/2017.

 

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Pensold, W., Nadjivan, S. & Asboth, E. (2015). Gemeinsame Geschichte? Ein Jahrhundert

österreichischer und serbischer Mythen, Wien: Studienverlag.

 

OTHER ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Asboth, E. (2019). The West as the Balkan’s cartographer. An analysis of historical images of the West about Serbia and the Serbs during the nineteenth and twentieth century, in: Moreno Seco, Mónica (coord.); Fernández Sirvent, Rafael y Gutiérrez Lloret, Rosa Ana (eds.). Del siglo XIX al XXI. Tendencias y debates: XIV Congreso de la Asociación de Historia Contemporánea, Universidad de Alicante 20-22 de septiembre de 2018. Alicante: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.

Asboth, E. (2016). Europe through the gaze of the „Illustrirte Zeitung“ anno 1858. Tracing the narrative „The Balkans are Europe’s powder keg“, in: Medien & Zeit, 1/2016.

Asboth, E. (2016). Der politische Mythos in massenmedialen Gesellschaften: Konzept für die Erforschung von (transferierten) westlichen Narrativen über den Balkan, in: Diotima Bertel et al. (eds.), Junge Perspektiven auf Partizipation in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Wien.

Asboth, E. & Nadjivan S. (2016). Im Dienst des Krieges: der Habsburger- und Kosovomythos, in: Jahrbuch für Mitteleuropäische Studien 2014/2015, Andrássy Universität Budapest.

Asboth, E. & Nadjivan S. (2015). Gute Freunde - beste Feinde. Die (Um-)Deutung einstiger Selbst- und Fremdbilder in Wien und Belgrad nach 1945, in: Der Donauraum, 53. Jg., 2/2013.

 

POPULAR PUBLICATIONS

Asboth, E. (2021). Mein Gold ist der Zukunft Sonnenlicht. Landwirtschaftliche Lebenswelten der Burgenländer:innen seit hundert Jahren, in: Arbeitsbauernbund Burgenland (eds.), Parndorf: CRM Medientrend.

 

Books and Monographs

  • Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives on the Balkans, 1850-1918. Historical Balkan Narratives supported by Felix Philipp Kanitz, Mary Edith Durham, and Mihailo Pupin in the transnational public sphere. / Asboth, E.
    Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series (PMSTH)).
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  • Kritische Zugänge zur Daten-Nachnutzung und zum Datenmanagement in den Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften. Open Science-Perspektiven aus Österreich. [Medien Journal, 47(3), 2-4]. / Asboth, E (Herausgeber:in); Schulz-Tomancok, Andreas (Herausgeber:in).
    2023.
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  • Transnationale und transatlantische Bilder vom »Balkan«, 1850-1918. / Asboth, E.
    Bielefeld: transcript, 2023.
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  • Der »europäische Orient«. Transnationale und transatlantische Bilder vom »Balkan«, 1850-1918. [The »European Orient«. Transnational and transatlantic images of the "Balkans", 1850-1918.]. / Asboth, Eva Tamara.
    Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2023.
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Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

  • “On killing Serbs”—A. M. Rosenthal as public memory dissent in reporting on the Yugoslav wars in The New York Times. / Asboth, Eva Tamara.
    in: Publizistik, Jahrgang 70, 22.04.2025, S. 235-259.
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  • Country Report: Germany: Deliverable 4.3: Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Actions Grant Agreement 101094984 – Task 4.2 . / Thomaß, Barbara; Asboth, Eva Tamara; Schulz-Tomancok, Andreas et al.
    Media production in ten EU countries – Country reports and preliminary takeaways. Hrsg. / B. Klimkiewicz; M. Szafrańska ; K. Vanevska . Krakow: MeDeMAP – Mapping Media for Future Democracies, 2025. S. 58-66.
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  • Authentic conflicts in Post-Yugoslavia: A model of a post-war generation’s communication system. / Asboth, E.
    in: Communications, Jahrgang 2024, 20.11.2024, S. 1-21.
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  • "Children of the Balkan Wars”—Responses and resistance regarding war-related media content in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia. / Asboth, E; Griesbeck, M; Shah, M (Herausgeber:in).
    Children and youth as "Sites of Resistance’“ in armed conflict. Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (SSCY). Cambridge: Emerald Publishing, 2024. S. 25-38.
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  • Das Wien-Image auf dem Land im 20. Jahrhundert: Ein digital-quantitativer Zugriff auf lebensgeschichtliche Interviews [The image of Vienna in the countryside in the 20th century. A digital-quantitative approach to biographical interviews]. / Asboth, E.
    in: Medien und Zeit - Kommunikation in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Jahrgang 39, Nr. 1, 08.07.2024, S. 35-49.
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  • Junge Lebensgeschichten aus Post-Jugoslawien: Reflexion über die Rolle der Forschenden im lebensgeschichtlichen Interview [Young Life Stories from Post-Yugoslavia: Reflection on the Role of the Researchers in Life Story Interviews]. / Asboth, E; Griesbeck, M.
    in: SWS - Rundschau, Jahrgang 64, Nr. 1, 02.07.2024, S. 77-94.
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  • How to make an Austrian News Media Infrastructure? Eine Reflexion zu konzeptionellen und praktischen Herausforderungen bei der Errichtung einer vergleichenden online Forschungsinfrastruktur zu Nachrichtenmedien. / Schulz-Tomančok, A; Asboth, E; Melischek, G et al.
    in: Medien Journal, Jahrgang 47(3), 01.11.2023, S. 5-22.
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  • Inherited border regions. Remembrance strategies among young adults in post-Yugoslavia and their multi-layered perspective on the past. / Asboth, E.
    in: Oral History, Jahrgang 51, Nr. 2, 01.09.2023, S. 67-79.
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  • 'Kossovo Day’, New York, 1918: How the Serbian National League of Defense tied the future of their country of origin to American history. / Asboth, E; Powell, Tina (Herausgeber:in); Suppes, Sagasti (Herausgeber:in).
    Transnational American Space. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2022. S. 193-211.
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Other Articles and Book Chapters

Research Papers

  • Country Report: Austria. Deliverable 4.3: Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Actions Grant Agreement 101094984 – Task 4.2. / Seethaler, Josef; Asboth, Eva Tamara; Peissl, Helmut et al.
    Krakow: MeDeMAP – Mapping Media for Future Democracies, 2025. 8 S.
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  • Comparative Assessment of Media Supply and Production in Ten EU Countries. Deliverable 4.4: MeDeMAP - Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Actions Grant Agreement 101094984 – Task 4.3. / Klimkiewicz, B; Safrankova, J; Vanevska, K et al.
    MeDeMAP – Mapping Media for Future Democracies, 2025.
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Popular Articles and Book Chapters

  • Wie es „Die Wiener Hausfrau“ mit dem Wahlrecht hielt [How “The Viennese Housewife” felt about the right to vote]. [Interview]. / Asboth, Eva Tamara.
    in: ÖAW, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 23.04.2025.
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Lectures

Lectures pre-2022

Imaginations of the ‘Oriental Europe’ in Austria’s and Germany’s public sphere in the 19th century, Conference: Haunted Landscapes of German Eastern Europe, University of Edinburgh,
4.-6. August 2021.

Preparing the ‘Oriental Europe’ for Habsburg’s Expansion. Felix Kanitz and the Viennese scientific circle as spatial knowledge producer on the Balkans in the 19th century, Conference: Knowledge Systems and Ottoman-European Encounters: Spatial and Social Dynamics, Zurich University,
9.-11. Juni 2021.

Poster presentation ‘Mapping the Serbs. Tradierte Geschichtsbilder als gesellschaftliche Meinungsbildung‘ at the ‘Langen Nacht der Forschung’, 13. April 2018.

Poster presentation ‘How civil society engagement leads to political participation? Learnings from young active Europeans in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia’, 1st CATCH-EyoU Conference, Athen, 2.-4. März 2017.

Der Balkan als Wiege der Demokratie. Metaphernanalyse in der US-amerikanischen Berichterstattung über Serbien, Conference: under.docs – young scholars conference on communication, Wien, 13. Nov. 2015.

Myths of War and Peace, 9th Graduate Conference in European History (GRACEH 2015) at the University of Vienna, 24. April 2015.

Gemeinsame Geschichte? Österreichische und serbische Mythen von 1914-2014, Conference: Der Große Krieg und seine Mythen im Donauraum von 1914 bis 2014, Vienna, 22. Sep. 2014.

Im Dienst des Krieges: Habsburger- und Kosovomythos, Conference: Zum Gedenktag des 100. Jahrestags des Beginns des I. Weltkrieges, Andrássy Universität Budapest, 10. Sep. 2014.

Keynotes

Invited Lectures

  • N/A

    Modern history through the pink glasses? What does the new generation see?

    Asboth, E. T. (Speaker)

    20 Nov 2025

  • Krakow

    The Russian-Ukrainian war as a crisis situation from the European perspective. Presenting results of the focus group research

    Asboth, E. T. (Speaker)

    19 Nov 2025

Lectures

  • Thessaloniki

    “I Am Fed Up with the Conflict in Ukraine”: The Interplay of Young European’s Crisis Memory, Social Media Use and Their Democratic Dispositions

    Asboth, E. T. (Speaker) & Schulz-Tomancok, A. (Speaker)

    28 Aug 2025

  • Denver, Colorado

    Diversity is not a problem? A comparative analysis of the journalistic representation of cultural, social, and political diversity in different media genres in Germany and Austria

    Schulz-Tomancok, A. (Speaker), Asboth, E. T. ((Co-)Author), Thaqi, E. ((Co-)Author) & Seethaler, J. ((Co-)Author)

    14 Jun 2025

  • Rome

    Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the Austrian news media landscape since 1848: Insights from a News Media Infrastructure project

    Schulz-Tomancok, A. (Speaker), Asboth, E. T. (Speaker), Melischek, G. ((Co-)Author), Wenger, J. ((Co-)Author), Seethaler, J. ((Co-)Author) & Alexander, M. ((Co-)Author)

    5 Jun 2025

  • Rome

    Diversity is not a problem? A comparative cross-media analysis of the journalistic representation of cultural, social and political diversity in Germany and Austria

    Asboth, E. T. (Speaker) & Schulz-Tomancok, A. (Speaker)

    4 Jun 2025

  • Vienna

    Diverse Öffentlichkeit? [Diverse public?]

    Krakovsky, C. (Speaker), Braun-Rozgonyi, K. (Speaker), Asboth, E. T. (Speaker), Schulz-Tomancok, A. (Speaker) & Rathmann, M. (Speaker)

    23 Apr 2025

  • Bamberg

    Ungleiche Frauen-Öffentlichkeiten? Eine vergleichende Analyse von zwei österreichischen Frauenzeitschriften in den Nachkriegsjahren 1918-1920

    Asboth, E. T. (Speaker) & Tyll-Schranz, J. (Speaker)

    10 Apr 2025

  • Luxembourg

    I Am Fed Up with the Conflict in Ukraine: The Interplay of Young Europeans’ Crisis Memory, Social Media Use, and Their Democratic Disposition

    Asboth, E. T. (Speaker) & Schulz-Tomancok, A. (Speaker)

    20 Mar 2025

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