Tamás Tófalvy
assistant professor
⌂ 1111 Budapest, Egry J. u. 1. E.713 ☎ +36 1 463-2060 ✉ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Tamás Tófalvy, PhD is a researcher, lecturer, consultant, and NGO activist. Areas of specialization: cultural aspects of and policies related to the transforming digital media ecosystem, especially in the fields of journalism and popular music. Currently he is assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Sociology and Communications, and Head of the Digital Media MA program of the Communications and Media Studies major. He is also secretary general at the Association of Hungarian Content Providers, and fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Media Research Group. He was the co-founding chair of IASPM Hungary and its sister organization, the Music Networks Association. In 2012-13 he was a Fulbright fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, in 2011-12 he spent a semester as a Julius Rezler fellow at Indiana University Bloomington. He published two monographs (in Hungarian) in 2017, "The Making of Digital Good and Evil: Technology, Culture and the Boundaries of Journalism" (L’Harmattan), and "Beyond Subculture and Back: Popular Music Scenes, Genres and the Internet" (Műút). With Emilia Barna, he recently co-edited the book Made in Hungary: Studies in Popular Music (2017, Routledge).
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Education
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| 2014 | PhD, BME TFTT |
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Professional experience
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| 2013- | Assistant professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics |
| 2013- | Secretary general, Association of Hungarian Content Providers |
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Courses taught
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| Courses on internet, media, digital media policy and cultural research | |
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Research projects
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| Hungarian Online and Digital Media History (MODEM) project | |
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Recent conferences
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| Tofalvy, Tamas (2017) How are the 'media capture' and the 'aggregator problem' connected and what are the consequences of it? Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, Oxford, UK, 29 June. | |
| Tofalvy, Tamas (2017) Music storage, technology and the communication of musical identity. Communicating Music Scenes Conference, HAS Institute of Musicology, Budapest, 19 May. | |
| Tofalvy, Tamas (2016) Improving Digital News Literacy Skills. Possible tools, methods, platforms. News Literacy Summer Institute. Poznan, Poland. 15 July. | |
| Tofalvy, Tamas (2016) The Making of Digital Good and Evil: Technology, Cultural Values and Professional Boundary-work in 21st Century Journalism. Workshop on the changing patterns in journalistic roles and performances in Central and Eastern Europe. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary. 5 February. | |
| Tofalvy, Tamas (2015) Of Vinyl, Mp3s and Cultural Capital: The Social Construction of Audio Technologies. 18th Biennial IASPM Conference. Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Campinas, Brazil. 30 June. | |
| Tofalvy, Tamas (2014) The Third Underground. Technology, Music and the Reproduction of Underground Cultural Capital. Keep it simple, Make it fast! Underground music scenes and DIY cultures conference. University of Porto. Porto, Portugal. 11 July. | |
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Memberships in professional organizations
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| 2014– | European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) |
| 2009– | International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) |
Office hours
Friday 13:00-15:00
Courses
Research areas, thesis supervision