Speaker Bio
Václav Štětka is an academic and researcher in the field of media and communication. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic, where he then worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies and Journalism.
Between 2009 and 2013 he was a senior research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, working on a project funded by the European Research Council on media and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Between 2013 and 2015 he worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Charles University in Prague, where he established and led the Political Communication Research Group (PolCoRe) which focuses on the role of social media in political communication and civic participation. He was forced to leave the Institute in 2015 after exposing the unethical publishing practices of some members of staff. In 2016 he joined the Department of Social Studies, Loughborough University, becoming lecturer and member of the new Center for Research in Communication and Culture.
Dr. Štětka‘s research interests encompass political communication, media ownership and journalistic autonomy, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe. He currently serves as vice chair of the political communication section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the international online forum promoting the exchange of ideas between communication scholars throughout Europe and beyond.
He is also a member of several pan-European research networks and projects, including Media Pluralism Monitor in cooperation with the European Commission, the Reuters Institute Digital News Report at the University of Oxford, and an action on populist political communication in Europe under the auspices of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) framework.
Between 2009 and 2013 he was a senior research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, working on a project funded by the European Research Council on media and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Between 2013 and 2015 he worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Charles University in Prague, where he established and led the Political Communication Research Group (PolCoRe) which focuses on the role of social media in political communication and civic participation. He was forced to leave the Institute in 2015 after exposing the unethical publishing practices of some members of staff. In 2016 he joined the Department of Social Studies, Loughborough University, becoming lecturer and member of the new Center for Research in Communication and Culture.
Dr. Štětka‘s research interests encompass political communication, media ownership and journalistic autonomy, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe. He currently serves as vice chair of the political communication section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the international online forum promoting the exchange of ideas between communication scholars throughout Europe and beyond.
He is also a member of several pan-European research networks and projects, including Media Pluralism Monitor in cooperation with the European Commission, the Reuters Institute Digital News Report at the University of Oxford, and an action on populist political communication in Europe under the auspices of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) framework.
Full Name
Václav Štětka
