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Sergio Sparviero | Lead Researcher
University of Salzburg
Sergio Sparviero is an associate professor of the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg, and the coordinator of the EU funded, Digital Communication Leadership (DCLead) master’s programme. He holds a PhD in communication from Dublin City University (DCU, Ireland), and other degrees from University College Dublin and the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is specialized in media economics and business models of different types of media and communications’ industries. He edited the book “Media Convergence and Deconvergence” with Gabriele Balbi and Corinna Peil, published by Palgrave in 2017. More recently, he focussed on studying the business model of non-profit and hybrid media and communications organizations. As part of this effort, he recently published the papers “The Case for a Socially Oriented Business Model Canvas: The Social Enterprise Model Canvas” in the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2019, 10(2); “Towards Digital Sustainability: The Long Journey to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030” with Massimo Ragnedda, in Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 2021, 23(3); and “A digital platform for ethical advertising and hybrid business models for news organizations: are they greening methods for ‘news deserts?”, in Media, Culture & Society, 2021, 43(7).
Selected publications
Sparviero, Sergio, and Massimo Ragnedda (2021). “Towards Digital Sustainability: The Long Journey to the Sustainable Development Goals 2030.” Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance 23, no. 3 (2021): 216–28. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-01-2021-0015.
Sparviero, Sergio (2021). “A digital platform for ethical advertising and hybrid business models for news organizations: are they greening methods for ‘news deserts’?” Media Culture & Society 43, no. 7 (2021), 1328-1339. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211040676
Sparviero, Sergio (2021). “The Contribution of Global Media to Ethical Capitalism.” In The Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Globalization, edited by Jin Dal Yong, 53–64. Routledge, 2021.
Sparviero, Sergio (2020). “Hybrids before Nonprofits: Key Challenges, Institutional Logics and Normative Rules of Behavior of News Media Dedicated to Social Welfare.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 97, no. 3 (2020): 790–810. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699020932564.
Sparviero, Sergio (2019). “From Passive Consumption of Media Goods to Active Use of Media Brands: On Value Generation and Other Differences.” Communication & Society 32, no. 3 (2019): 67–79. https://doi.org/10.15581/003.32.3.67-79.
Josef Trappel | Lead Researcher
University of Salzburg
Josef Trappel is Professor for media policy and media economics and the head of the department for communication studies at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His research work concentrates on media and democracy, changes in media structures and their implications on mass communication, digitisation and innovation, national and international media and platform policy and media economics. He is the convenor of the Euromedia Research Group and Director of the EU Erasmus+ Joint Master Programme “Digital Communication Leadership”. Since 2019, he is the coordinator of the Jean Monnet network “European media and platform policy” (EuromediApp).
Selected publications
Trappel, Josef (ed.) (2019): Digital Media Inequalities. Policies against Divides, Distrust and Discrimination. Gothenborg: Nordicom. ISBN 978-91-88855-10-7
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d’Haenens, Leen/Sousa, Helena/Trappel, Josef (eds.) (2018): Comparative Media Policy, Regulation and Governance in Europe. Unpacking the Policy Cycle. Bristol: Intellect. ISBN: 978 1 78320 886 9
Trappel, Josef (2017): What Democracies Better Learn from the Third Wave. In: Bajomi-Lázár, Péter (ed.): Media in Third-Wave Democracies. Southern and Central/Eastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective. Paris, Budapest: L’Harmattan, pp. 229-234.
Trappel, Josef / Enli, Gunn S. (2011) ‘Online Media: Changing Provision of News’, pp. 97-113 in J. Trappel, W. A. Meier, L. d’Haenens, J. Steemers and B. Thomass (eds.) Media in Europe Today. Bristol: Intellect.
Nieminen, Hannu / Trappel, Josef (2011) ‘Media Serving Democracy’, pp. 135-51 in J. Trappel, W. A. Meier, L. d’Haenens, J. Steemers and B. Thomass (eds.) Media in Europe Today. Bristol: Intellect.
Lund, Anker B. / Raeymaeckers, Karin / Trappel, Josef (2011) ‘Newspapers: Adapting and Experimenting’, pp. 43-59 in J. Trappel, W. A. Meier, L. d’Haenens, J. Steemers and B. Thomass (eds.) Media in Europe Today. Bristol: Intellect.
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