Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Research
| Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Research (CMC) of the ÖAW and AAU | |
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| founding | 2013 |
| place | Vienna , Austria |
| director | Matthias Karmasin |
| Employee | approx. 14 |
| Website | www.oeaw.ac.at/cmc |
The Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Research (CMC) is a research facility of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and the University of Klagenfurt . The institute has been headed by Matthias Karmasin (Director) and Josef Seethaler (Deputy Director) since it was founded.
history
The institute was founded on January 1st, 2013 and is the successor to the Commission for Comparative Media and Communication Research. This was set up on February 1, 1994 under the name Commission for Historical Press Documentation and emerged from the working group of the same name set up on April 24, 1991 of the then commission for the elaboration of an Austrian Biographical Lexicon. The commission was renamed on October 14, 2005.
Focus of work
Research at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Research focuses on the role of the media in political communication since the emergence of the mass press in the late 19th century. The research program encompasses the change in the structural conditions of the media system as well as the communication and interaction processes of the media and political actors. Independence, interdisciplinarity and international orientation characterize the research work of the institute. The basic communication and political science perspective is linked to a topic with approaches from historical studies, social psychology and sociology. Particular attention is paid to long-term analyzes and the development of suitable methodological procedures.
Publications
- " Relation " - bilingual peer-reviewed book series
- Josef Seethaler, Matthias Karmasin, Gabriele Melischek & Romy Wöhlert (2013) Selling war: The role of the mass media in hostile conflicts from World War I to the 'War on Terror' . Bristol: Intellect; Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Jens Tenscher, Philipp Scherer (2012) Youth, Politics and Media . Political orientations and behavior of young people in Rhineland-Palatinate. Berlin, Münster, Vienna, Zurich, London: LIT Verlag. Series: Studies on Political Communication, Volume 4, 2012.
- Helmut Koziol, Josef Seethaler, Thomas Thiede, ed. (2010) Media Policy and Law: Media Governance, Duty of Truthfulness and Appropriate Liability. Vienna: Jan Sramek.