Natascha Just

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Office: Room AND 3.40

Mag. Dr. Natascha Just is a Senior Research and Teaching Associate in the Division on Media Change & Innovation, Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research (IPMZ), University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is also a Fellow of the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF). She holds a M.A. in Communication Science/Romance Philology (1997) and a Ph.D. in Communication Science (2001) from the University of Vienna. She was the recipient of a three year Hertha Firnberg Grant from the Austrian National Science Fund and worked as Hertha Firnberg Scholar at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria (2005-2008). She was a Visiting Researcher at Stanford Law School (2007), a Post Doctoral Fellow on International Communication at the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2004-2005); a Research Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as part of the research group "European Information Society" (1998-2004); and a lecturer for media economics and politics at the Department for Communication, University of Vienna (2003).

Natascha Just’s current research centers on the transformation of statehood in the convergent communication sector with a special emphasis on changing governance structures, competition policy, and market power control. Her research has been published in books and refereed journals such as Media, Culture & Society, Telecommunications Policy, Communications & Strategies, and Knowledge, Technology & Policy. She is co-author of the book "Self- and Co-regulation in the Mediamatics Sector. Alternative Regulation between State and Market" (2002, in German).