Irena Reifova - Biography#
Doc. Irena Reifova has research and teaching interests in cultural studies, theory of popular culture, television studies and post-socialist mediated memory. Her methodological focus is on qualitative methodology. She completed her PhD and joined Charles University in 1999. In 2011-2015 she worked as the Research Director at the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism. She was a founding member and later Vice-Chair of ECREA Central and East-European Network. Irena Reifova was member of Management Committee of COST Action IS0609 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies in 2011-2014 and she was a principal leader of two nationally-funded research projects. In 2015 and 2016 she was a part of Czech critical initiative focused on unethical publishing practices.
She publishes her research nationally and internationally in edited books and peer-reviewed journal. She is a member of an editorial board of CM: Communication Management Quarterly (Serbia) and Iluminace (Czech Republic). In 2016 she was Chair of Local Organising Committee of the 6th ECREA conference in Prague. She currently is Vice-President of ECREA.
Prof. Reifova is an active scholar, researcher and writer. She has a very extensive list of publications
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Professor Reifova is active in media policy-making process, networks of media scholars (ECREA, IAMCR, ICA, CEECOM and communications related regional conferences) and media activists.