Lukáš Slavík

Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University

media research methods, media audiences, journalism and news media, and trust in the media


Lukáš Slavík is a doctoral candidate and researcher at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. His research focuses on media trust, news credibility, and media audiences in a convergent and fragmented media environment, as well as on transformations of the media landscape related to digitalization and platformization. He has participated in numerous national and international research projects addressing topics such as public service media and media consumption. He has extensive experience with both quantitative and qualitative research methods and contributes to teaching media research theories and methodologies. He has also gained international academic experience through a research stay with the Advertising and Media Psychology Research Group (AdMe) at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna.

Cirg - about

CIRG – the Cultural Industries Research Group focuses on research into cultural and media industries, particularly on current issues, challenges, and conflicts arising from tensions between intellectual property law, the business models of cultural industries, the digitalization and platformization of cultural sectors, and changing consumer habits. The group’s name is an acronym of its English title, Cultural Industries Research Group. CIRG is an informal association of experts from media studies, intellectual property law, media law, media ethics, cultural economics and cultural management, sociology of culture, and data analysis. The group operates on the basis of project-based funding through applied research projects (TAČR, NAKI, EEA and Norway Grants, OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation), basic research projects (GAČR, ZIF Bielefeld, OP VVV Excellent Research, DFG), as well as contract research (State Cinematography Fund, Association of Audiovisual Producers).