Main topics in Research and Lectures
Recent Research Projects
- Celebrity Politics: The short careers of Austrian journalists as members of national, regional and EU-parliaments, 2017
- Best Practice in der Krise – Analyse medienunternehmerischer Strategien, 2016
- Beobachtungsstelle für Wandel im Journalismus, Feasibility Study for the Austrian School of Journalism, 2015
- Journalismus im Wandel [Journalism in Transition], 2012
- Careers in Journalism, 2010
Prof. Roman Hummel
Director
Career
- 2016: Lecturer at the Department of Communication/University of Vienna
- 2006–2016: Chair of Journalism at the Department of Communication/ University of Salzburg
- 2004–2006: Professor at the Department of Communication/ University of Vienna
- 2004: Guest Lectures at UNISA, Pretoria
- 2001–2003: Professor at the Department of Communication/ University of Vienna
- 2000–2001: Visiting Professor Department of Communication/ University of Erfurt, Germany
- 1996–2000: Professor at the Department of Communication/ University of Vienna
- 1990: Habilitation (postdoctoral research): venia legendi in communication
- 1981–present: University Lecturer
- 1980–1996: Counsellor of the Austrian Trade Unions, Department for media workers
- 1971–1978: Studies in Communication, Psychology and Political Science in Vienna/Austria and Berlin, PhD 1978
Selection of Publications
- Mediale Integration. Eine Herausforderung für den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk. [Integration through Media. A Challenge for Public Broadcast], In: Neuberg, Alexis/Margarete Gibba (Ed): (2011) In: Verantwortungsbewusster Journalismus. Afrikas Dimension in der westlichen Medienlandschaft. Wien; Berlin 2011. LIT. S. 79 -82
- ‘‘We Used To Be Queens And Now We Are Slaves’’ Working conditions and career strategies in the journalistic field. In: Journalism Practice, Vol. 6/2012 – Issue 5&6, 722-731; with Susanne Kirchhoff & Dimitri Prandner
- Limitations of Journalism in War Situations: A Case Study from Georgia. In: Josef Seethaler, et al.: Selling War. The Role of the Mass Media in Hostile Conflicts. Chicago 2013: Intellect, 315-329.
- Wissenschaftstheorie der Kommunikationswissenschaft [Theory of Science in Communication]. With Christian Steininger. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2015
- Foreign Correspondents in Austria. Vienna: a Central and Eastern Europe-Base in Transition; with Johanna Dorer & Gerit Götzenbrucker. In: Terzis Georgios (Ed.): Mapping Foreign Correspondence in Europe. New York, London: Routledge 2015. S. 7-17
- Convergence Culture in European Newsrooms. Comparing editorial strategies for cross-media news production in six countries. In: Journalism Studies. With Michael Menke, Susanne Kinnebrock et al. In: Journalism Studies 2016. Routledge
- Krisenmanagement in Medienunternehmen [Crisis Management in Media Industries]. In: Jan Krone & Tassilo Pellegrini: Handbuch Medienökonomie. Wiesbaden 2016