Manuel Puppis

Prof. Dr.

media policy, regulation and governance; media economics; media organizations and journalism; media change and digitization; Swiss media system and international comparison of media systems
 

Biography

Manuel Puppis is Full Professor of Media Structures and Governance in the Department of Communication and Media Research DCM, University of Fribourg and serves as vice-chair of the Swiss Federal Media Commission (FMEC).

 

Puppis holds a PhD in Communication Science and an M.A. in Communication Science, Political Science as well as Economic and Social History from the University of Zurich. His research interests include media policy, media regulation and media governance, media systems in a comparative perspective, the digitalization and platformization of the public sphere, media organizations and journalism, as well as media economics and critical political economy.

 

He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam (2023), the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Steinhardt School, New York University (2018), the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institute in Hamburg (2023, 2012) and the Centre for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (2011). For fall term 2012 Puppis was appointed as a Visiting Resident Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. From 2020 to 2023 he also served as a member of the Council of Europe MSI-REF and MSI-RES committees of experts.  

 

In 2024, Puppis received the «C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy» from the International Communication Association (ICA).

 

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Research and publications

  • Publications
    163 publications

    Governance der Online-Kommunikation , in Handbuch Online-Kommunikation
    Puppis, Manuel and Donges, Patrick, ed. by Schweiger, Wolfgang and Beck, Klaus and Karnowski, Veronika (Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2025), ISBN: 9783658180171 | Book chapter

  • Research projects

Teaching and courses

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