Pasko Bilic holds a double MA in sociology and history (2008), and a PhD in sociology (2013) from the University of Zagreb. He is a senior research assistant at the Department for Culture and Communication.
In 2011/12 he was a visiting doctoral research fellow at the Wirth institute, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. He worked in several research projects including the EU FP7 project European Media Policies Revisited (MEDIADEM), a comparative research project of 14 European countries. The project resulted in several case study reports and two book chapters at Palgrave Macmillan.
In his doctoral thesis he focused on networked content production and did ethnographic research about high-impact global media events. He received the Best student paper award from the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) in 2012 for a paper presenting a part of his doctoral research. He participated in international conferences (ECREA, ESA, iConference, WikiSym) and has published in peer-reviewed journals including New Media & Society, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture and Društvena istrazivanja [Social Research]. He is a member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and the Croatian Sociological Association (HSD) where he is head of the Media sociology section.
He is also a member of the management committee of the European Union COST Action Dynamics of Virtual Work and deputy coordinator of the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) project Networks of Public Communication: Mediatisation of the Public Sphere and the Challenges of New Media (NETCOMM). His research interests include media sociology, media systems, media and communication policies, online social interaction and collaboration and qualitative research methods.
