Full Professor
Department of Media and Communication Faculty of Political Science University of Zagreb
Address: Ul. Lepušićeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA
Email: zrinjka.perusko@fpzg.hr

Zrinjka Peruško, MAE, is full Professor of media sociology and mass communication at the Department of Media and Communication, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, and Founder Chair of its Centre for Media and Communication Research. She is Director of the Media and Politics stream in the Doctoral Program in Political Science at the University of Zagreb, and Founder Co-Director of the international post-graduate course Comparative Media Systems at the Inter University Centre Dubrovnik. She was Visiting Research Fellow at Department for Media and Communication Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Visiting professor in the European Regional Master’s Program in Democracy and Human Rights in Southeast Europe (Sarajevo), the Department of Journalism and Audiovisual Media, Faculty of Humanities, Communication and Documentation, University Carlos III Madrid, Fulbright Visiting Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has received research funding from the Croatian Ministry of Education and Science, the University of Zagreb, the Council of Europe, the Open Society Institute (Budapest), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Croatia), UNESCO (Paris), the Croatian Foundation for the Development of Civil Society (Zagreb) and participated in EU HORIZON projects. Peruško is involved in major international research networks funded by the EU COST initiative and UNESCO. Peruško is Chair of the Academia Europaea Section on Film, media, and visual studies. As a comparative communication scholar, she is engaged with the analysis of media systems, media cultures, journalism and audience dynamics and their transformations in connection to broad processes of mediatization, democratization and autocratization. Her book Comparing Post-socialist Media Systems: the Case of Southeast Europe (Routledge 2021) was awarded the Croatian Science Prize 2021 and was short listed for the Karol Jakubowicz Media and Democracy 2021 Award. Her latest book European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication: Risks and Opportunities. (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics) was published in 2024.

Complete bibliography: https://www.croris.hr/crosbi/searchByContext/2/14970