Ferenc Hammer, habil. Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Media and Communications Department at ELTE University in Budapest since 1997. His teaching areas, research fields and project topics comprise disinformation, media representations of inequalities and conflict, cultural history areas such as everyday life in Communism, or the sociology of consumption.
He has worked as a scholar in the UK, in Germany and in the US, a recent fellow alumnus as a Y. and Y. Elkana fellow at The New Institute, a current fellow at KWI Essen. His works have been published in five languages. Active in international academic cooperations and media policy initiatives.
His most recent work addresses certain dimensions of silencing, self-censorship, and intimidation in academia. This approach involves a plan for implementing a mentoring system designed for scholars at risk, and to introduce an information technology-based communication system into the academic publication process, which ensures a reduced level of visibility in order to protect scholars facing risks in their academic pursuits.
For these projects he established Mesh – Academia Without Borders gGmbH, a not-for profit organisation in Germany.
