Zrinjka Peruško, PhD, professor (chair)
Dr. Zrinjka Perusko is full professor of sociology of communication and media at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. Perusko is founder and Chair of the Centre for Media and Communication Research, director of the Media and politics stream in the Doctoral program in political science at the University of Zagreb, and Founder Co-director of the international post-graduate course Comparative Media Systems at the Inter University Centre Dubrovnik. Perusko teaches in the Democracy module of the European Regional Master in Human Rights (ERMA), and was visiting professor at the Department of Journalism and Audiovisual Media, Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Documentation, University Carlos III Madrid, and Fulbright visiting professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has received research funding from the Croatian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, the Council of Europe, Open Society Institute (Budapest), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Croatia), UNESCO (Paris), the Croatian Foundation for the Development of Civil Society (Zagreb), and was involved in major international research networks funded by the EU COST and UNESCO. Her research focuses on comparative media systems, audience dynamics and cultures and media democratization reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Her recent book (with co-authors Dina Vozab and Antonija Čuvalo) Comparing Post-Socialist Media Systems: the Case of Southeast Europe (London: Routledge, 2021) explains successes and failures of media democratizations and development in six countries of Southeast Europe from a historical and comparative perspective.
Contact: zperusko@fpzg.hr
Zlatan Krajina, PhD, associate professor (vice chair)
Zlatan Krajina was awarded MA and PhD in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is presently Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb, where he specialises in media cities, media audiences, and qualitative methodologies. Krajina is the author of Negotiating the Mediated City (Routledge, 2014), which was shortlisted for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, and a number of papers concerning urban media cultures. He also acts as a managing member of the Media & the City group within ECREA, which organises regular conferences, seminars and teaching collaborations on urban communications. In his most recent, co-edited volume, EU, Europe Unfinished (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), he sought to relate issues of identity, space and representation with matters of urbanity and cultural practice.
Contact: zlatan.krajina@fpzg.hr
Antonija Čuvalo, PhD, assistant professor
Antonija Čuvalo is an assistant professor at the Department of Media and Communication, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb and vice-chair of the Centre for media and communication research. She obtained her doctorate in sociology at the Department for Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She participated in the working group « New Media Genres, Media Literacy, and Trust in the Media « of the COST ISO906 «Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies». Research interests include media practice, spacio-temporal and social structures of everyday life, media audiences, trust in media, mediatization, media generations, digital culture and everyday life. Her doctoral dissertation deals with young peoples› media use in everyday environments.
Contact: antonija.cuvalo@fpzg.hr
Marijana Grbeša-Zenzerović, PhD, associate professor
Marijana Grbeša teaches courses in Political Marketing, Methods of Mass Media Research, Media and the Public and Pop Politics at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. She holds an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK and a PhD in Communication Sciences from the Faculty for Social Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her area of expertise is political communication and mass media research. She has published number of papers in Croatia and abroad. She teaches at several international schools for public relations, media and political communication. She was a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Social Survey of the European Science Foundation and a member of the Negotiating Team for Croatia’s Accession to the EU, working group for the Chapter 25: Science and Research.
Contact: marijana.grbesa@fpzg.hr
Hrvoje Jakopović, PhD, assistant professor
Hrvoje Jakopović is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science University of Zagreb where he teaches courses in public relations at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level. He received his PhD degree in Information and Communication Sciences from University of Zagreb. He is deputy director of Postgraduate Program in Public Relations at the University of Zagreb and member of the Department of Strategic Communication. Some of his research interests include public relations evaluation, sentiment analysis, big data implementation in public relations and strategic communication. He has published scientific articles in academic journals and book chapters on various topics in public relations.
Contact: hrvoje.jakopovic@fpzg.hr
Dunja Majstorović Jedovnicki, PhD, assistant professor
Dunja Majstorović Jedovnicki is an assistant professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Production, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. After graduating at the Faculty of Political Science (degree in journalism) she enrolled in the Postgraduate Doctoral Study in Information and Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb where she received her PhD. Her research interests are directed towards media ethics, media and children and studying newspapers (old and new) as a potential source of information for the study of historical, political and (pop)cultural phenomena. She is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Medijske studije (Media Studies).
Contact: dunja.majstorovic@fpzg.hr
Marina Mučalo, PhD, professor
Marina Mučalo is Professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Production at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, where she teaches courses related to radio media: the history of radio and radio journalism. She was a reporter for the Croatian Radio (HRT), a member and vice president of the Council for Radio and Television (2000-2004), Head of the Department of Journalism (2004-2008) and a member of the HRT Programme Council (2013-2015). She is interested in legal regulation of the media, media laws and journalism in the digital age.
Contact: marina.mucalo@fpzg.hr
Tena Perišin, PhD, professor
Tena Perišin is Professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Production at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, where she teaches television journalism and production and newsroom convergence. She was a reporter, editor and producer in the News department at the Croatian radio television, the public service broadcaster (HRT), and has received Croatian and international awards for this work. She was head of the project of digitalization of news production and the project of the HRT News channel. Perišin studied at Harvard University, and at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University (USA). Her academic interests focus on the future of journalism, convergence and television news in the multimedia environment. She is one of the founders of Student TV established at the University of Zagreb.
Contact: tena.perisin@fpzg.hr
Gordana Vilović, PhD, professor
Gordana Vilović, PhD, is Professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Production at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. She is an author and co-author of six books that deal with journalism, journalism ethics, media history and journalism education. She has published more than 40 scientific and other articles. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the Faculty of Political Science. She also teaches a course on the doctorate level (information and communication science) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. During 1990s she organized and led trainings and workshops for young journalists from Southeastern Europe.
Contact: gordana.vilovic@fpzg.hr ; gordana.vilovic@zg.t-com.hr
Dina Vozab, PhD, assistant professor
Dina Vozab is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. She graduated in sociology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social sciences at the University of Zagreb. She earned her PhD in political science at the Faculty of Political Science, the University of Zagreb with the topic “Media audiences and democracy in Croatia: social stratification as a predictor of media use and its role for political participation”. She is teaching at the undergraduate course Introduction to Media Systems and graduate courses Theories of Mass Communication, Media Audience Research and Media, Democracy and Participation at the Department of Media and Communication. Her research interests are media and democracy, political communication, media systems, media in post-socialist Europe, and media audiences. A list of her published work can be found here: https://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor=329553.
Contact: dina.vozab@fpzg.hr
Iva Nenadić, PhD, teaching assistant
Iva Nenadić, PhD, studies the digital transformation of journalism, and media pluralism in content moderation policies of online platforms. She is an instructor in courses on Media Policy and Media Regulation, Data-driven Strategic Communication, and Academic Writing, at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. Iva is also a research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, where she collaborates in the European Digital Media Observatory project and in the EU-wide Media Pluralism Monitor. In 2015/2016, she was a visiting researcher at Stuttgart Media University in Germany. Prior to her academic work, Iva collaborated with a number of media in Croatia as a journalist, editor, and producer. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Osijek, Croatia, and MA in Journalism from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. A list of her publications can be found here: https://www.bib.irb.hr/pregled/znanstvenici/366940
Contact: iva.nenadic@fpzg.hr
Emil Čančar, MA
Emil Čančar holds a Master’s degree (MA) in Journalism from Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. To complete the research for his Master’s thesis, mentored by Dr. Viktorija Car, he was a Short-Term Visiting Scholar at the Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University. After graduating, he worked mostly in public relations: at European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Communication (Robert Schuman scholarship) and on resettlement project of persons under international protection, led by Croatian Ministry of Interior and the Jesuit Refugee Service in Croatia. His academic interests include media studies, visual culture and communication in general. His undergraduate focus was on television and print media. Emil also studied courses related to political science; international relations mostly, throughout his education. He has received several international awards and recognitions for his essays and he continues to publish in the field of media studies (so far, as co-author only). Emil plans on pursuing a doctoral degree in the near future.
Contact: e.cancar@outlook.com
Jasmina Jovev, PhD candidate
Jasmina Jovev holds a Master’s degree (MA) in Journalism from Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. After graduation, she worked 20 years in journalism (newspapers, radio and television). In 2016. she earned title of University Specialist in foreign policy and diplomacy from Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. Since 2019. she has been a doctoral student in the study of Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. Her main academic interest is corruption research.
Contact: jasmina.jovev@gmail.com
Ana Hećimović, PhD candidate
Ana Hećimović is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. Her dissertation deals with the issue of media ownership transformation since 1991 and the connection between this process and democracy in Croatia. Ana has extensive (8+ years) research experience as a lead researcher and coordinator in several multi-country EU-funded projects as well as academic (FP7 and HORIZON) projects in the fields of media, good governance and anti-corruption.
Contact: hecimovicana@gmail.com
Barbara Mašić, PhD candidate (web editor)
Barbara Mašić holds a Master’s degree (MA) in Political Science (2012) and Law (2011) from University of Zagreb. After graduating, she worked in a law office as a trainee. During her study, her academic interests were election and party systems and the way they function. For the last few years, she has been working in the Ministry of Administration, in the field of national minority affairs. She is a member of several working groups dealing with human and national minority rights. Since 2019, she has been a doctoral student in the study of Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb.
Contact: barbara.masic@studenti.fpzg.hr
Filip Trbojević, MA, PhD student, teaching assistant
Filip Trbojević holds master’s degrees in Journalism, Sociology, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. He is employed as an assistant at the Department of Media and Communication at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Zagreb, where he is also a Ph.D. student. He is developing his doctoral thesis on the field of political communication – his research focuses on movements in illiberal media systems in Central and Eastern Europe, more precisely on the relation between hybrid (media) regimes and deliberative democracy / communication. His research interest focus is on media systems, democratic transformations, and qualitative and quantitative research methodology. The list of his published papers is available on: https://www.bib.irb.hr/profile/37309.
Contact: filip.trbojevic@fpzg.hr
Paula Čatipović, MA, PhD student, teaching assistant
Paula Čatipović is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb, where she studies in the field of Media and Politics. At the Faculty of Political Science, she teaches seminar classes in Communication Studies to undergraduate students. She also does freelance work focused on moderating events and PR projects. She completed propaedeutics of psychotherapy at the Edward Bernays University of Applied Sciences and introductory training in Transactional Analysis (TA 101). She is a lecturer at the Zagreb Center for Youth, where she deals with subjects of mental health and young people. She is also one of the four ambassadors in Zagreb included in the project “Youth in Croatia active around the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)” for the Center for Social Innovation, with the support of the Central State Office for Demography and Youth and in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development.
Contact: paula.catipovic@yahoo.com
Karla Martinić, MA, PhD student
Karla Martinić is a PhD student in Information and Communication at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She holds a master’s degree in Journalism. She is developing her doctoral thesis on the rise of femicide in Croatia – her research provides a theoretical overview of toxic masculinity, femicide, and misogyny in general, and she focuses on the way news media are approaching the topic, how often, and in what style. Her research interest focuses on media, feminism, media audiences, and qualitative and quantitative research methodology. She recently published an article about critical discourse analysis of gender stereotyping in online news media in pre-election campaign during local elections in 2021 (https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/447890). The article problematizes gender stereotyping in election campaigns as a discourse practice in media coverage, but also the discourse strategies used by candidates during elections where they are negotiating between gender identity and their party positions. She is participating in the project Rewriting the story: Gender, media and politics, led by the International Federation of Journalists. She is currently working as a journalist and radio host.
Contact: karlamartinic21@gmail.com
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