doc. Mgr. Michal Bočák, PhD.
Born 1982 in Trenčín (Slovakia).
Education:
- 2020: habilitation procedure in general linguistics
- 2008: PhD in general linguistics, University of Prešov in Prešov
- 2005: MA in phonetics & media studies, University of Prešov in Prešov
Occupation:
- 2021 – 2023: Vice-Dean for Educational Affairs
- 2012 – 2021: chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Prešov in Prešov
- 2020 – present: associate professor in media studies (Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Prešov in Prešov)
- 2008 – 2020: assistant professor in media studies (Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Prešov in Prešov)
- 2009 – present: visiting lecturer in gender and queer studies (Department of Journalism, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic)
Memberships:
- Center for Cultural, Media and Communication Studies in Olomouc, Czech Republic (member)
- Media Studies: Journal for Critical Media Inquiry (Czech Republic; editorial board member)
- Jazyk a kultúra [Language and Culture] (Slovakia; editorial board member)
Research areas:
- representation of food in the media
- discursive structure of culinary magazines
- discourse theory and discourse analysis
- television news (focus on media logic and news formats)
- representation of identities in media
- construction of identities in pornography
- queer studies a gender studies
- media studies as a scientific and a field of study
For current list of Michal Bočák's publications see his personal website.