Josef Trappel
is Professor of Media Policy and Media Economics and Head of the Department of Communication Research at the University of Salzburg in Austria, and there, he is also Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Studies and Resarch in ICTs and Society (ICT&S).
Before, he was head of IPMZ transfer, Center for Knowledge Transfer and Applied Media Research at the Institute for Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich in Switzerland and Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (2008-2009). From 1996 to 2003 he was head of the media research department at Prognos, an international consultancy company based in Basel, Switzerland. His research work concentrates on changes in mass media structures and their implications on mass communication (media structures, media policy, media economics)
