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, which includes books, articles in monographs and journal publications, as well as lists an extensive list of conference presentations on such issues as conceptualisations and theoretical frameworks for the study of the cultural memory, or, alternatively, proposing socio-constructivist approaches to mediated identity analyses, and others.

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.