Matthias Karmasin#
| Membership Number: | 4644 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.oeaw.ac.at/cmc/the-institute/staff/matthias-karmasin |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2013 Director of the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt
- Since 2001 Full professor and chair for media and communications sciences at the University of Klagenfurt
- 2000 - 2001 Visiting Professor for Media Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Institut für angewandte Kulturwissenschaft)
- 1999 - 2001 Professor (Tenure Track) at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies of the TU Ilmenau (Technische Universität Ilmenau)
- 1996 - 2002 Faculty Member IMBA, WU-Wien/University of South Carolina
- 1997 - 1998 Sabbatical as Management Consultant (Nausner & Nausner Consulting Graz/Vienna)
- 1990 - 1999 Assistant Professor at the Department for Philosophy at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Fields of Scholarship
- Journalism
- Political communication
- Organizational communication
- Media ethics
- Media development
- Communication theory
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Award for the most cited Spanish paper in the past 5 years: “La regulación profesional ante los nuevos retos y modelos periodísticos: estudio comparativo entre España y Austria [Self-regulation and the new challenges in journalism: Comparative study across European countries]” by José-Alberto García-Avilés, José-Luis González-Esteban, Andy Kaltenbrunner and Matthias Karmasin, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 66 (2011)
- 2011 Elected Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (philosophic historic class)- kMI
- 2020 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Arts 1.st class
- 2021 Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (philosophic historic class)-wM
