Team

We are researchers from the University of Ljubljana who study young people's media and technology. We cover a wide range of theoretical fields and use complementary qualitative and quantitative methods in our empirical research.

  • Barbara Brečko

    Barbara Brečko, PhD, is Head of Centre for Social Informatics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: methodology, statistical analysis, qualitative and quantitative studies, evaluation, online surveys.

  • Nuša Detiček

    Nuša Detiček is junior researcher at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: media history, memory studies, gender studies.

  • Dejan Jontes

    Dejan Jontes, PhD, is full professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: television studies, television audiences, reality and documentary television, media production, critical approaches to journalism studies.

  • Katja Koren Ošljak

    Katja Koren Ošljak, PhD, is assistant professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: media education and literacy(ies), digital culture, digital wellbeing in everyday life, qualitative methods, digital ethnography.

  • Tina Lengar Verovnik

    Tina Lengar Verovnik, PhD, is assistant professor at the Department of Journalism, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: the norm and codification of standard Slovenian, language culture in journalistic texts, stylistics of spoken journalistic discourse.

  • Breda Luthar

    Breda Luthar, PhD, is full professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: media and popular culture, cultural consumption and class, audience studies, consumer culture, consumer culture and everyday life in socialism.

  • Meta Novak

    Meta Novak, PhD, is associate professor and research associate at the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Administration, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: policy analysis, public administration, implementation and evaluation of public policies, design and implementation of European policies.

  • Tanja Oblak Črnič

    Tanja Oblak Črnič, PhD, is full professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: studies of digital technologies and social media, young people's digital cultures, digital citizenship, political communication and digital activism.

  • Ajda Petek

    Ajda Petek is assistant at the Centre for Social Informatics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: safe and responsible use of internet and new technologies.

  • Jure Plaskan

    Jure Plaskan is assistant at the Centre for Social Informatics, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: cultural studies, quantitative methodology.

  • Maruša Pušnik

    Maruša Pušnik, PhD, is full professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: media and cultural studies, anthropology of media, cultural history of media, popular cultures and cultures of everyday life, collective memory and nationalism as a communication process, women's genres, fashion and media communication.

  • Anamarija Šiša

    Anamarija Šiša, PhD, is assistant professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: new media, the political economy of dating, relations between technology and sexuality, the sociology of intimacy.

  • Nika Šušterič

    Nika Šušterič, PhD, is assistant professor at the Department of Basic Pedagogical Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education.

    Areas of expertise: inclusion, diversity and equality in education.

  • Veronika Tašner

    Veronika Tašner, PhD, is associate professor of the sociology of education at the Department of Basic Pedagogical Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education.

    Areas of expertise: meritocracy and education, fairness and equality in education, comparative education systems, gender and education, sociology of the family, the future of education, public and private schooling.

  • Andreja Trdina

    Dr. Andreja Trdina is assistant professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences.

    Areas of expertise: media studies, popular culture and media, sociology of class and distinction, and contemporary material/consumer culture.

  • Mojca Žveglič Mihelič

    Mojca Žveglič Mihelič, PhD, is associate professor at the Department of Basic Pedagogical Studies, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education.

    Areas of expertise: educational methodology, methodology of educational research, assessment of knowledge, and teacher education.