The International Advisory Committee supports the postgraduate programme by providing advice on its strategic direction, quality assurance, links with the labour market, and its promotion at the international level. Its members are:
Petros Iosifidis is Professor of Media Policy and Associate Dean at City St George’s, University of London. He has long-standing experience as a teacher and researcher in the field of communication policy at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, has published 9 books and numerous academic articles. In addition, he is Editor of the academic journal Journal of Digital Media and Policy, and founder of the book series Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business.
Christian Ruggiero is Professor of Sociology of Media at the Department of Communication and Social Research of Sapienza University of Rome. His main research topics concern the sociology of journalism and political communication, with an emphasis on the relationships between formal and informal actors in the hybrid communication ecosystem. He participated in the 2021 edition of the Media for Democracy Monitor project and was principal investigator of the Italian research team in the pilot project Euromedia Ownership Monitor (EurOMo), co-funded by the European Commission.
Antonis Kalogeropoulos is Associate Professor of Communication at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. He is mainly interested in the changing ways in which we consume news and political information online. His research topics include news avoidance, trust in news, online disinformation, and the use of mobile messaging applications. He is currently leading the ERC Starting Grant research project INEQNEWS, which examines social inequalities in digital news consumption across four countries. He also collaborates as an external researcher with the Digital Democracy Center at the University of Southern Denmark and as a research associate with the Center for Digital Politics, Media & Democracy at the University of Liverpool.
Yannis Theocharis is Professor and holds the Chair of Digital Governance at the Department of Governance of the School of Social Science and Technology, Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is also a core member of the Munich Data Science Institute and Director of the Content Moderation Lab at the TUM Think Tank. His work uses experimental and computational methods to understand how social media transform the political information environment: they empower users by enabling new forms of political participation, but they also distract, marginalize, and polarize audiences.
Benjamin Krämer is Heisenberg Professor of Communication with a focus on media use and media history at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich. He studied media management in Hanover. He has received awards such as the DGPuK dissertation award and the habilitation award of the University Society of Munich. His research interests include news consumption, political communication, and changes in the media landscape.