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Péter Csigó
tudományos munkatárs
⌂ 1111 Budapest, Egry J. u. 1. E704 ✉ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Peter is a social theorist and media scholar. His main research mania/field is the process of "collective speculation on popularity" - which in his view has grown into a key structural force in news media, politics, social media and the networked public sphere.
Work Experience
2018 - Budapest U of Technology  
2015-17  Institute of Political History   
2014-5 U of Óbuda  
 2013-4 Institue for Social and European Studies, Kőszeg   
 2012-3 Institute of Political Science  
 2004-10  Budapest U of Technology  
 2001-4  Institute of Political Science  
     
Academic qualification
  PhD in Media Studies, ELTE, Budapest  
  DEA in Sociology, EHESS, Paris  
     
Organizational membership
   Hungarian Sociological Association  
     
     
     
Key publications
 2016  The Neopopular Bubble. Speculating on the People in Late Modern Democracy. Budapest: CEU Press  
     
     
     
     
     
Researches, projects
   The speculative algorithmization of the public sphere  
   The "middleman" project  
     
     
     
Office hours
Wednesday 11:45-12:45
Courses
Research areas, thesis supervision
mediatized politics
populism and political representation
new media, democracy and the networked public sphere 
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