Jörg Matthes is Professor of Communication Science and Head of the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria. He received his PhD from the University of Zurich.
His research focuses on digital media effects, advertising effects, political persuasion, and empirical methods. He has published more than 200 journal articles and his research received awards from the German Communication Association, the International Communication Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the German Psychological Association, the World Association for Public
Opinion Research, and the Swiss Association for Market and Social Research. In 2014, he received the Young Scholar Award by ICA and two years later, he received AEJMC’s Hillier Krieghbaum Under 40 Award. He served as Associate Editor of The Journal of Advertising, the Journal of Communication, Communication Methods & Measures, and Human Communication Research as well as Editor-in-Chief of Communication Methods & Measures.
He is currently Editor of Communication Theory.
More information can be found on his website.
