Instruction - Postgraduate study

ERASMUS Intensive Program and Summer School - Turkey 2013 - ‘Library, Information and Cultural Management – Academic Summer School’ (IP LibCMASS)
Fieldwork - Vukovar 2014 - The department organizes fieldwork in all areas of study of information and communication sciences.
The European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL) - Co-organized by the Department of Information Management of Hacettepe University, Department of Information and Communication Sciences of Zagreb University and the IUT Paris Descartes

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Igor Kanižaj, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

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Phone: +385-1-4642000

Resume:

Igor Kanižaj, Ph.D is Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, Journalism Department at the Faculty of Political Science. On Department of Journalism and Media Production he holds courses in Print Media, Media and Diversity, Media and Violence, Newsroom. From 2012 he is teaching Media and Children on Doctoral Study Information and Communication Science, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is a lecturer at the Military Diplomatic School, of the Ministry of Defence, and host lecturer at Croatian Defence Academy „Ban Josip Jelačić“. From 2010 he is executive editor of Media Studies journal. He is also Vice president of the Association for Communication and Media Culture (DKMK.hr, and djecamedija.org) and has experience as a communication expert in several EU funded IPA and CARDS projects. He is the co-author of the first public opinion research on Media Literacy in Croatia. Participated in several international research projects and networks: COST project ISO906 „Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies“, ANR TRANSLIT (Media and Information Literacy Policies in Croatia (2013), DIMLE – Digital international media literacy ebook project, EU KIDS ONLINE and Y-NEX (European Youth News Excahnge). He is also one of the authors of UNESCO Paris Declaration on MIL in Digital Era from 2014.

Fields of interest:

Media education,
Media literacy,
Media and children

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Projects:

EU Kids Online,
ANR TRANSLIT,
ERASMUS+ Y-NEX EUROPEAN YOUTH NEWS EXCHANGE

Memberships:

ICA,
ECREA,
DKMK

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aslavic photo Aida Slavić, PhD, Associate Professor

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Aida Slavic is the editor-in-chief of the Universal Decimal Classification for the UDC Consortium in The Hague (Netherlands). She is responsible for the development and the maintenance of the scheme and is editor of the official annual UDC publication Extensions & Corrections to the UDC and chief editor of the UDC Online Hub and is project manager of Multilingual UDC Summary. Aida is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia where she teaches as a guest lecturer on the postgraduate courses of indexing languages, knowledge organization and information retrieval. She holds a doctoral degree in library and information studies from University College London and Masters and a Bachelor degrees in library and information sciences from University of Zagreb. She is the author of over 80 papers and conference presentations on the topics of knowledge organization, subject access, subject metadata, classifications (construction and modelling and their use in resource discovery) and the Universal Decimal Classification.

Aida serves on the Editorial Board of the Knowledge Organization journal, Scientific Advisory Council of the International Society for Knowledge Organization and IFLA Subject Analysis and Access Section.

She participates on the programme committees of a number of international conferences related to metadata and knowledge organization (Dublin Core, ISKO, NKOS Workshops) and is a programme chair of International UDC Seminars, a series of biannual conferences on classification research and application. She is a recipient of the 2015 World Library Leaders Professional Excellence Award from Satija Research Foundation in Library and Information Science.

Fields of interest: knowledge organization, subject access, theory of classification, metadata, information organization and discovery, information integration, Semantic Web

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Google Scholar

Research Gate

Projects:

COST Action KNOWeSCAPE – Analyzing the dynamics of information and knowledge landscapes

Memberships:

American Society of Information Science & Technology
International Society of Knowledge Organization
Charted Institute of Library and Information Professionals (United Kingdom)

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Nada Zgrabljić Rotar, PH.D. Associate Professor

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Resume:

Nada Zgrabljić Rotar, PH.D. Associate Professor, is the Head of the Department of Communication Sciences of the Croatian Studies University of Zagreb. She is also a member of faculty at the graduate and postgraduate studies of journalism and media at the Universities of Ljubljana and Maribor as well as at the postgraduate studies of the Department of Information and Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. She is the founder and the editor-in-chief of the journal Medijska istraživanja/Media Research (founded in 1995). She is a researcher in many national, international and European projects. She is the author, co-author or the editor of the following books: Digital Age. Mass Media and Digital Culture (2011); Croatian Media System - According to UNESCO's Indicators of Media Development (2011); Radio – Myth and Information, Dialog and Democracy (2007); Media Research and Media Discipline from 1995-2005 (2005); Media Literacy and Civil Society (2006), Life with Media (1999); Kraljski Dalmatin – 200 Years of Journalism in Zadar and Croatia in European Context (2007). She is also the author of numerous papers published in international journals. She is a member of the Council for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She was the President of the Programme Council of the Croatian National Radio and Television, vice-president of the Executive Board of the Croatian news agency HINA and the associate member of the Media Board of the Croatian Parliament. She was President of the Croatian Association of Scholars of the French Government. From 1981 – 2006 she worked at the Croatian National Radio and Television.

Fields of interest:

Media policy
Media effects
New and old media
Media literacy

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Projects:

Head of the Projects

2008. "Tradition in Croatian Political Public Communication“, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia (No. 269-0000000-3600)
2007. "Strangers our Friends! Are Differences Bridges or Obstacles tu Join EU, Department for Tourism and Communication sciences, University of Zadar (financed by Touristic Organization of Zadar)
1999. 2000. “Media and Democratic Discourse: Dialogue Genre in Croatian Radio Broadcasting”
(Research Support Scheme Grant (RSS) No.948/1999).

Researcher on the Projects:

2005. 2009. COST A 30 „East of West: setting a New Central and Eastern European Media Research Agenda”, http://www.cost.esf.org
2004. 2006. COST A20 “Digital Radio Cultures in Europe”- "The Impact of the Internet on the Mass Media in Europe", http://www.drace.com/
2003. 2006. “Media, Civil Society and Culture”, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia (Head of the project prof.dr.sc. Zrinjka Peruško) Institute for International Relations– IMO, Zagreb.
1995. 1997. "Croatian Democracy and Media, Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia (Head of the project prof.dr.sc. Pavao Novosel), Fakultet političkih znanosti, Sveučilište u Zagrebu.

Memberships:

Member of the Croatian Communication Association
Member of the Council for film, theater, radio and television of the Croatian Acadamy of Sciences and Arts
Member of the Center for investigation of the freedom of speach of the Croatian Journalistic Association
Member of the NGO Pretplatnik (Subscriber) for Croatian radio and television

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Program:

Course of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study of the Department of Information and Communication Sciences (2016) - in English

Regulations and rules:

The Rules for the Selection of Candidates at the Postgraduate Doctoral Study of Information and Communication Sciences - in English

Regulations on Doctoral Studies at the University of Zagreb (2010) - in English

Forms:

Doctoral Forms - also available in English

Strategy documents:

PhD program in Information & Communication Sciences: Research strategy 2015–2020 - in English

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Gordana Vilović , PhD, Full prof.

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Phone: +385+91-4550861

Resume:

Gordana Vilović, PhD, is Professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Production at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. She is an author and co-author of six books that deal with journalism, journalism ethics, media history and journalism education. She has published more than 40 scientific and other articles. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the Faculty of Political Science. She also teaches a course on the doctorate level (information and communication science) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. During 1990s she organized and led trainings and workshops for young journalists from Southeastern Europe.

Fields of interest:

Mass media
Child rights and media
Media ethics
Journalism
Diversity reporting

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Memberships:

GONG
Hrvatsko politološko društvo

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Stjepan Malović, Ph.D, retired Professor of journalism on Zadar University.

Phone: +385+98+323213

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Resume:

Malović is teaching journalism classes on doctoral study of information and communication sciences of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and VERN, School for applied sciences, Zagreb.
Malović is an experienced journalist veteran who is oriented to media research and teaching today. Until now he was the author, coauthor or editor of more than 15 books on media issues.
Malović was head of the Department for tourism and communication science of Zadar University till September30, 2012.
He was director of the International Center for Education of Journalists (ICEJ) from 1998 till 2008.
From 2005 till 2010 he was teaching journalism on Dubrovnik University. He was Head of the Communication Department of Dubrovnik University in period 2008-2010.
Malović was a visiting professor on Vienna University teaching "Media in transition in Post-Socialists Countries", and professor on the following universities: Faculty of Political Sciences of Zagreb University, PR master program of Tuzla University in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Podgorica University in Monte Negro and lecturing "News writing" on High School of Journalism "Media Plan" in Sarajevo.
He is experienced media trainer, participating in various workshops, who actively participated in over 50 international and 30 national media workshops, seminars, roundtables or conferences.
Malović coordinated Tempus project Journalism Education and Training in Croatia (JETiC) in cooperation with Vienna University, and High School for Journalism from Lille.
He is founder of SEEMO (South East Media Organization), initiated by the International Press Institute (IPI), Vienna, as an organization of eminent journalists trying to improve the media environment on the region. Malović was member of the Council for Media, a collective media ombudsman in Croatia. Malović was Vice Dean of Faculty of Political Science of Zagreb University in period 2000-2002.
Malović was the President of the Trainers Committee of the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM) and consulter of The Thomson Foundation, Cardiff.

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Fields of interest:

Mass communication
Media
Journalism

Projects:

Tempus project "Journalism Education and Training in Croatia (JETiC)" in cooperation with Vienna University, and High School for Journalism from Lille.
Project "Media accountability by MediaAct"

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Danijel Labaš, PhD, Associate prof.

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Phone: +385-1-2457640

Resume:

He was born in 1964. He studied philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome (Pontificia Università Gregoriana), and acquired a PhD in communication sciences in 1996 at Università Pontificia Salesiana in Rome. His professional development includes working at Radiotelevisione Italiana in Rome and Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne. Permanently employed at the Centre for Croatian Studies since 2007, with the functions of the commissioner for international and interuniversity cooperation and the ECTS coordinator. As the main course instructor he teaches Media pedagogy, Media in teaching, Teaching methodology of social sciences (communication sciences), Fundamentals of communication sciences, Journalism Ethics, Semiotics in mass communication, Film and religion, History and theory of film, Great directors of European cinematography, Media and children, Media and violence, Political communication, Sociological aspects of mass communication, Media and bioethics, Introduction to global communication, and Medienkommunikation und Öffentlichtkeitarbeit. He has participated in numerous scientific conferences in Croatia and abroad and published several books and academic papers in Croatian journals

Fields of interest:

Interpersonal communication and media communication
Media and Society - media and children, youth, adults and new media
Media Ethics
Media and Information Literacy

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Projects:

„Hrvatska obitelj u suvremenom medijskom okruženju“
„Djeca medija za aktivno građanstvo – treninzi medijske pismenosti“
"Croatian family in the modern media environment" (researcher, scientific project).
"Children of media for active citizenship - training media literacy"

Memberships:

Matrix Croatica
Association for Communication and Media Culture (President)
Croatian Association of Catholic Journalists
A member of several editorial boards of scientific journals and organizing committees of scientific conferences

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Jelena Jurišić, PhD, Assistant prof.

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Phone: +385-1-2457-644

Resume:

Jelena Jurišić received her PhD in Philology, specialising in Journalism, from the Moscow State University in 1998. Since autumn 1998, she has been teaching at the Department of Journalism (now named the Department of Communication Sciences) of the Centre for Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb. She is currently Assistant Professor in communication sciences. Her courses at undergraduate, graduate and post graduate studies cover journalism, print media, history of communication studies, media theories, media convergence, social media and geopolitics.

She started her journalistic career in 1993 as a foreign correspondent for the Croatian daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija in Moscow, where she worked until the end of 1998. After moving to Zagreb, she wrote for the most popular newspapers in Croatia, covering foreign affairs, particularly the region of former Soviet Union; from 1999 to the end of 2007 for Jutarnji list, and in 2008 for Vecernji list. After finishing her journalistic career, she has continued to be present in Croatian and regional media as a commentator: expert for Russia and other countries from post Soviet region.

She is a member of COST Action „The Digital Literacy and Multimodal Practices of Young Children“ (DigiLitEY). She is head of research project named Croatian family in contemporary media environment, which focuses on media consumption and its influence on family and media and digital literacy of family members as well. In addition, her current research interests include influence of social media on journalism, trust in the media, political campaigns in mass media and on social media, covert advertising and media covering of current topics, e.g. refugee crisis.

Fields of interest:

Journalism
Mass media/communication theories
Media convergence,
Covert advertising
Social media
Political communication
Geopolitics

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Projects:

"Croatian family in contemporary media environment"

Memberships: ECREA

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MajaJokic Maja Jokić, PhD, Prof.

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Phone: +385-98-9136224

Resume:

Maja Jokić graduated biology 1978 from the Faculty of science University of Zagreb. She gained master and doctoral degree in information science as well a professor status at the Faculty of social sciences and humanities University of Zagreb. She started to work in the National and University library in 1980. In 2010 she started to work at the Institute for social research in Zagreb. Her professional interests are scientometrics, scholarly communication processes, and scientific and scholarly journals. She was leader or associate at a few R&D projects. Among them is current national research project “Developing a model for the evaluation of scientific work in Croatia”. She is an author of more than 50 scientific and professional papers, 5 books and few book chapters. Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=nQ6iBrEAAAAJ&hl=hr

Fields of interest:

Bbibliometrics
Scientometrics
Science policy
Scientific journals
Evaluation of scientific work

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Projects:

Principal investigator:
- 2015 – 2019 Research activity, collaboration and orientation in social sciences in Croatia and other post-socialist European countries (RACOSS) – IP-09-2014-9351
- 2007 – 2013 “The development of the evaluation model of scientific and scholarly work in RH for all fields”- Ministry of Science, Education and Sport Republic of Croatia
- 2009 – 2010 “Cooperative portal of digitized old Croatian newspapers and journals” – Ministry of Culture Republic of Croatia
- 2008 – 2009 “Pilot project of digitization of old Croatian humanities journals” – Ministry of Culture Republic of Croatia
- 2002 – 2006 “Textual database of Croatian scholarly journals”- Ministry of Science, Education and Sport Republic of Croatia
Associate on the project
- 2015-2017 Investigating the Impact of the Innovation Union (I3U). Horizon2020
- 2007 – 2013 The social actors of scientific and technological development, Ministry of Science, Education and Sport Republic of Croatia
- 2005 – 2006 Tempus project – “A Model of the University of Zagreb Library System”

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Inoslav Bešker, PhD, full professor

Resume:

(born 30 January 1950 in Zagreb) is a Croatian journalist and scholar who lives and works in Italy.
Bešker graduated from the Classical Gymnasium in Split in 1966. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Zagreb. He obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative Slavistics from the University of Milan in 2001.

Bešker started his journalistic career in 1967. Since the eighties he was one of the pioneers in the introduction and use of information technology in journalism. Since 1989 he was working as a correspondent from Rome for Vjesnik, Večernji list, BBC, Radio 101, Danas, Croatian Radio-Television and Globus. Since 2000 he is a correspondent and columnist for Jutarnji list and since 2016 for Globus and Slobodna Dalmacija too, working occasionally for some other media, as AlJazeera Balkans, mostly as vaticanist.

Bešker has developed his research mainly in two fields: in philology, obtaining a degree of scientific adviser and full professor, and in science of information communication as senior research associate. His other interests include in particular cultural anthropology, with emphasis on the religion.

He started his academic career in philology at the Oriental University in Naples in 1996, and then he taught at La Sapienza University in Rome and at the University of Bologna. He currently teaches at the University of Split (Comparative Slavic Literatures, and Mediterranean Literary Characters). Since 2003 he has been teaching communication sciences at the University of Zagreb, and since 2013 at University of Dubrovnik, where he teaches The Culture of Religion too. Bešker is a co-director of the annual International Conference on Information Technology and Journalism, held in Dubrovnik since 1996.

Among his books are I Morlacchi nelle literature europee, La Musa violenta, Filološke dvoumice (Kiklop award for essays 2007), Goli blagdani, Istraživačko novinarstvo.

Bešker was named Journalist of the Year by the Croatian Journalists' Association in 2003 and received the Otokar Keršovani Life Achievement Award from the same organization in 2007. For his activities in defense of human rights through journalism Bešker received the Premio Calabria in 1996, the Otto von Habsburg Award in 2015, and the Joško Kulušić Award in 2016.Projects:

Projects:

„Hrvatska rječnička baština i hrvatski europski identitet“
„Halieutica Adriatica – filološka i antropološka istraživanja jadranske kulture“
“Jadranska priča – Interdisciplinarno istraživanje jadranskih narativa“

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LJBakicTomic Ljubica Bakić-Tomić, PhD, Full professor

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Phone:+385 91 454 3112

Fields of interest:

Inovative communication
Persuasive communication
Hiperpersonal communication, business communication
Educator communication competence

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Projects:

Project "Informacijsko-komunikacijske kompetencije edukatora» (2007.-2014.)
Project "Jednake mogućnosti za sve - bolja integracija roma u obrazovni sustav RH" (2013.-)
Project "Psychology and Sociology of Ecomomic Behaviour" (2007-)

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Viktorija Car, PhD, Associate professor

Office hours: by appointnemt

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Phone: +385 1 4642000; +385 98 718381

Resume

Viktorija Car is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb. She teaches Public Service Media and Media Text Research Methods at MA level, and Media Policy and Media Regulation, Visual Culture and Photojournalism at BA level. She was invited to give lectures and seminars to BA, MA or PhD students at the Linnaeus University (Kalmar and Vahjo, Sweden) University of Lund (Sweden) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain). In focus of her researches are public service media, media policy, visual media, digital media, digital activism, television, narratives in media texts, etc.
She is editor-in-chief of the Media Studies journal (www.mediastudies.fpzg.hr). She was MC member of the COST Action IS0906: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies, she was member of the Croatian public service radio-television (HRT) Program Council, and she is one of the founders of the Free and Responsible Media group within the Human Rights House Zagreb.
Previously, she worked as a journalist and a screen-writer for Croatian public service television (HTV) 1998-2002, in Education Program; she was general manager of the Croatian Association of Fine Artists (HDLU) 2003-2004.

Fields of interest:

Media and communications,
Public service media,
Visual media,
Media narratives,
Digital activism

Publications listed in the Croatian scientific bibliography (CROSBI)

Projects:

CARDS project “Student Radio-television”, 2004.
2015.-2016. project "Govor mržnje u Hrvatskoj"
2012.-2014. project "Javnost, elite, mediji i komunikacijska strategija ulaska Hrvatske u EU"
2006.-2013. project "Metaforizacije političke zajednice u javnom diskursu: Hrvatska i Europska Unija"
2002.-2006. project "Mediji i društvo"

Courses:

Društvena povijest vizualnih medija
Javni medijski servisi i neprofitni mediji kao društveni kapital
Metodološke radionice: Metode istraživanja medijskog teksta I, II, III i IV
Digitalni aktivizam (projektni seminar)

Memberships:

ICA
ECREA
ISA

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At Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences you will have access to diverse library collections, excellent study spaces, and professional library staff.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Library
Information sciences library collections

Subject librarian:

Ms. Irena Kranjec
Phone: +385-1-4092 217
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Fax: +385-1-615-6879
URL: http://inf.ffzg.unizg.hr/index.php/en/library/the-information-sciences-collection

Address:

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Filozofski fakultet)
Library (Knjižnica)
The information sciences collection
Ivana Lučića 3
10 000 Zagreb
CROATIA

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Tuition fee

The tuition fee for the Postgraduate Doctoral Study is (per semester, per student): 10.000,00 kn

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Admission requirements

Completed Graduate University Study program in social sciences or humanities with an average grade of at least 3,5 and recommendations;
Two recommendations of university professors;
Letter of motivation;
Applicants with completed Graduate University Study program in other scientific fields may apply for admission to the Postgraduate Doctoral Study with additional obligations determined by the Committee for Postgraduate Doctoral Studies at the Department for information and communication sciences;
Applicants which applied to the equivalent Postgraduate Study before 2005 and completed that Study with a master's degree may apply for admission to the Postgraduate Doctoral Study with lesser obligations determined upon the decision of the Committee for Postgraduate Doctoral Studies at the Department for information and communication sciences.

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Study duration

The duration of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study of information and communication sciences is three years (six semesters) with workload equivalent to 180 ECTS credits. Upon completion of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study, student is awarded an academic degree of Doctor of information and communication sciences.

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Information and communication sciences

Postgraduate Doctoral Study name:

Information and communication sciences

Head of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study:

Sonja Špiranec, PhD, Full professor
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Deputy head of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study:

Krešimir Pavlina, PhD, Full professor
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Postgraduate doctoral study of information and Communication Sciences administrative contact:

Ivan Dunđer, PhD, Assist. prof.
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Postgraduate Doctoral Studies Office:

Biserka Pešec
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Phone: +385-1-4092024

Scientific field:

Social sciences

Scientific branch:

Information and communication sciences

About Postgraduate Doctoral Study:

Postgraduate Doctoral Study of information and communication sciences represents the highest degree in scientific research advancement in the scientific field of social sciences and the scientific branch of information and communication sciences (information systems and informatology, librarianship, archivistics and documentation, museum and heritage management, communicology, public relations, mass media, journalism, lexicography and encyclopedic sciences). The Postgraduate Doctoral Study is oriented to training for most complex research and professional jobs and research based career in academic sector, industry, public sector and private sector.

The duration of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study program is three academic years. During the first four semesters student enrolls four mandatory courses, works on four elective research topics and collaborates with the mentor on scientific projects and scientific papers. During the last two semesters, focus is on the student’s independent research and work on his / her PhD thesis.

The Postgraduate Doctoral Study program is structured around four basic modules: 1) scientific theories, 2) research methodology, 3) research topics, and 4) transferrable skills, which ensures dynamics in studying and integral approach to the applicant’s career development.

The field of information and communication sciences carries a strong interdisciplinary potential as the main determinant of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study program in information and communication sciences. The content of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study is oriented towards research of interactions between individuals, data/information/media content, research of interactions between digital technologies and society and towards conceptualization and development of modern information and media systems which support such interactions. Such research contributes to development of capacity of an individual, organizations (educational organizations, heritage and public sector organizations, and economy as a whole) and society for efficient and meaningful management, use and communication of data, information and media content.

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Postgraduate Doctoral Study in Information and Communication Sciences
Department for Information and Communication Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Zagreb
Ivana Lučića 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Head of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study:

Krešimir Pavlina, PhD, Full professor
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Deputy head of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study:

Sonja Špiranec, PhD, Full professor
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Postgraduate doctoral study of information and Communication Sciences administrative contact:

Ivan Dunđer, PhD
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Postgraduate Doctoral Studies Office:

Biserka Pešec
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Phone: +385-1-4092024

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Library
Information sciences library collections

Irena Kranjec
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http://inf.ffzg.unizg.hr/index.php/en/library/the-information-sciences-collection

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The possibilities for a full or partial integration of the programme into joint study programmes in collaboration with the universities from other countries

The structure and organization of the Postgraduate Doctoral Degree Course in Information Sciences enables its integration into joint study programmes with the universities from other countries which will be possible to organize after this doctoral degree course shows its first results.

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Introduction

Reasons for initiating the programme

Information sciences play an important role in the development of today’s information society. Although it may seem that the rise of information society is a result of the development of information and communication technology and therefore entirely depends on its further advancement, information technology is actually only one of the components in the structure of information society. Information society primarily consists of organized and ordered segments, and the identification, organization and ordering of these segments depend on individuals who have the knowledge necessary to select, organize and arrange them. Information is also an essential element in modern economies of highly developed countries which create their new products on the basis of information. It is therefore of crucial importance for Croatia to have educated individuals who understand the importance of information and the role it plays in society. The Postgraduate Doctoral Degree Course in Information Sciences trains highly educated and specialized professionals who understand how information society is created and organized, professionals who are able to recognize, select, transfer and protect information relevant for Croatian citizens and Croatian society as a whole.

The Postgraduate Doctoral Degree Course in Information Sciences is being initiated due to growing demands for specialists in social and human sciences, research projects in the field of information technology and basic research projects prompted by new insights. The course has been brought into accordance with various research projects on Croatian identity with special emphasis on information sciences and the development of information sciences through the development of information systems, informatology, library science, archival and documentation science, museum study, lexicography and encyclopaedistics.

The programme of the course is based on scientific research projects and its aim is to train students to fully understand the fundamental elements of information sciences within social and human sciences. The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach will make students capable of conducting scientific research in the field of information sciences and making appropriate research evaluations.

The proposal for the programme of this course has been brought in accordance with the provisions of the Law on scientific-research activity and high education institutions, the Statute of the University of Zagreb and the Croatian Rector’s Conference Guidelines for the formulation of proposals for postgraduate programmes. During the outlining of the programme of this course special consideration was given to making it compatible with similar programmes offered at European universities.

The proposer’s previous experience in the organization of postgraduate programmes

Since 1994 the Department of Information Sciences has been organizing and conducting the Postgraduate Research-Oriented Course in the field of information sciences which offers several different programmes – archival science, library science, museum science and social-humanistic informatics. During the past fourteen years this programme has continuously been updated through a regular introduction of new topics, course subjects and materials as a result of rapid and constant changes in the field of information sciences. The postgraduate course is organized in accordance with the programme regulations of the new graduate programme that were accepted by the University of Zagreb in 2005.

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Facilitating the mobility of students

Since the course is structured in accordance with the ECTS credit system, it allows a high level of mobility of students as well as teachers. The students will be encouraged to participate in international exchange programmes as much as possible. Various visiting international lecturers are already included in the programme, and further efforts will be made to include as many of such lecturers as possible.

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General outline

The name of the course is thePostgraduate Doctoral Degree Course in Information Sciences. The course belongs to the field of social sciences, the area of information sciences and its basic branches are information systems and informatology, library science, archival and documentation science, museum science, lexicography and encyclopaedistics. In terms of its interdisciplinary approach the course is related also to human sciences and the field of philology, to technical sciences and the field of computer science as well as to natural sciences and the field of mathematics.

The institution that conducts the programme is The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Department of Information Sciences, in collaboration with archive, library, museum and lexicographic institutions whose staff members jointly participate in the realization of the programme of this course.

The institutional strategy of the development of doctoral degree courses is based on further development of interdisciplinarity both within the field of information sciences and its branches and other scientific fields and areas. The programme of this course is structured in such a way as to give a balanced approach between scientific research and multidisciplinary cooperation.

The innovativeness of the course lies in its interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach as well as in its close cooperation with various information institutions.

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Information and communication sciences

Postgraduate Doctoral Study name: Information and communication sciences
Head of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study:
Sonja Špiranec, PhD, Full professor
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Deputy head of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study:
Krešimir Pavlina, PhD, Full professor
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Postgraduate doctoral study of information and Communication Sciences administrative contact:
Ivan Dunđer, PhD, Assistant professor
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Postgraduate Doctoral Studies Office:
Biserka Pešec
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Phone: +385-1-4092024
Scientific field:
Social sciences
Scientific branch:
Information and communication sciences

About Postgraduate Doctoral Study:

Study duration: the duration of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study of information and communication sciences is three years (six semesters) with workload equivalent to 180 ECTS credits. Upon completion of the Postgraduate Doctoral Study, student is awarded an academic degree of Doctor of information and communication sciences.

Admission requirements:

Completed Graduate University Study program in social sciences or humanities with an average grade of at least 3,5 and recommendations;
Two recommendations of university professors;
Letter of motivation;
Applicants with completed Graduate University Study program in other scientific fields may apply for admission to the Postgraduate Doctoral Study with additional obligations determined by the Committee for Postgraduate Doctoral Studies at the Department for information and communication sciences;
Applicants which applied to the equivalent Postgraduate Study before 2005 and completed that Study with a master's degree may apply for admission to the Postgraduate Doctoral Study with lesser obligations determined upon the decision of the Committee for Postgraduate Doctoral Studies at the Department for information and communication sciences.

Postgraduate Doctoral Study Web site: http://inf.ffzg.unizg.hr/index.php/en/study-programmes/postgraduate-study

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University of Zagreb

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Information and Communication Sciences

Postgraduate Doctoral Degree Course in Information Sciences

Introduction

Reasons for initiating the programme

The proposer’s previous experience in the organization of postgraduate programmes

Facilitating the mobility of students

The possibilities for a full or partial integration of the programme into joint study programmes in collaboration with the universities from other countries

General outline

The innovativeness of the course lies in its interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach as well as in its close cooperation with various information institutions.

Exchange programmes

Student activities

Conferences

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INFuture

The Future of Information Sciences (INFuture) is a series of biannual international conferences aimed at researchers and professionals from the broad field of information and communication sciences and related professions. The objective of the conference is to provide a platform for discussing both theoretical and practical issues in information organization and information integration.

ECIL

Information Literacy, Media Literacy and Lifelong Learning being the main theme, ECIL aims to bring together researchers, information professionals, media specialists, educators, policy makers, employers and all other related parties from around the world to exchange knowledge and experience and discuss current issues, recent developments, standards, techniques, challenges, theories, and good practices.

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS)
Department of Information and Communication Sciences
Ivana Lučića 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
phone: +385-1-4092302
fax: +385-1-6156879

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