PhD Jernej Amon Prodnik
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Political economy of communication; critical theory; public sphere; history of journalism; normative and practical approaches to journalism.

Jernej Amon Prodnik is an Associate Professor at the Department of Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), and researcher at the Social Communication Research Centre, which is based at the same institution. Between 2014 and 2015 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences (PolCoRe research group), Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). In 2024 he was a visiting professor at the University of Paderborn. Jernej defended his PhD in media and communication studies at the University of Ljubljana in 2013 under the title "Political Economy of Communication and Structural Transformations of Capitalism". His principal research interests encompass critique of political economy and historical transformations of capitalist societies with emphasis on journalism and communication. His research also focuses on the wider social context of technological changes and democratic potentials brought by the new information and communication technologies, including historical aspects of the development of journalism. In the past he related these interests to different facets of political communication and possible new models of democracy by connecting them to e-democracy and e-participation, public sphere, and potentials for new social movements through/because of the new ICTs. His future research will focus on the social history of journalism. His research is mainly based in different strands of critical theory. Since 2013, Jernej is a member of the editorial board of international journal for critical studies of media, information and power in capitalist societies TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique (ISSN: 1726-670X) and since 2016 of the book series Critical Digital and Social Media Studies (University of Westminster Press). Between 2012 and 2021, he was a member of the editorial board of Slovenian critical journal Casopis za Kritiko Znanosti (Journal for the Critique of Science, ISSN: 0351-4285). In 2014 he published his first monograph entitled Protislovja komuniciranja: h kritiki poblagovljenja v politični ekonomiji komuniciranja (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Press). In the same year he co-edited a themed issue of the journal tripleC entitled Philosophers of the world unite! Theorising digital labour and virtual work - definitions, dimensions, and forms together with Marisol Sandoval, Christian Fuchs, Sebastian Sevignani and Thomas Allmer. His authored or coauthored articles and book chapters appeared in journals such as Critical Sociology, Info, Javnost—the Public, TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Teorija in praksa, The Political Economy of Communication, Dialogues on Digital Society, Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino, Medijska istraživanja and publishers such as Palgrave, Routledge, Brill, University of Westminster Press. LabCom, Rodopi, Notabene (Ankara) and others. In the past he worked at the Centre of Electronic Democracy (Institute of Ecology, Ljubljana). He also worked as a journalist for Slovenian national newspaper Vecer.