Marlene Radl, Bakk. BA MA

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Contact

Neues Institutsgebäude
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room: D 215
1010 Vienna
E-Mail: marlene.radl@univie.ac.at

Short CV

Marlene Radl is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. She holds a MA in Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in Developmental Studies and Economics. From 2021 to 2023 she worked as a research assistant within the international research project POPBACK (“Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in the European Union”) and as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna.

In her thesis, she explores the evolution of news media ownership configurations within the context of authoritarian-populist developments in various European countries. Theoretically, she employs perspectives of Political Economy of Communication (PEC), materialst state theory as well as feminist and intersectional approaches.

From July 2023 to July 2024, she was a visiting research fellow at the Peace Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia) as well as at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) of the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science (OeAD Marietta-Blau-Stipendium).

Research interests

Feminist state theories, media and populism, masculinism, authoritarian populism, authoritarian statism, feminist political economy, political economy of media and communication, media ownership

Selected Bibliography

  • Radl, M., Celik, B., Pajnik, M., & Sauer, B. (2024): Structural Masculinism and Women’s Media Ownership in the Context of Authoritarian-Populism: A Feminist Political Economy of Communication Perspective. In: International Journal of Communication, Special Section on “Media Property”. (forthcoming) (peer-reviewed)
  • Celik, B., Radl, M., Ribac, M., & Toth, F. (2024): The Structural and Temporal Curb of Populism: A Cross-Country Analysis of Authoritarian Populist Influences on Journalism. In: Journalism Studies. (forthcoming) (peer-reviewed)
  • Schnyder, G., Toth, F., & Radl, M. (2024): The EU’s new Media Freedom Act needs more teeth to protect media pluralism, in: LSE EUROPPBLOG, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2024/04/16/the-new-eu-media-freedom-act-needs-more-teeth-to-protect-media-pluralism/
  • Radl, M. (2024): Autoritär-populistische Konjunktur? Spuren der Autoritarisierung in Staat und Subjekt, in: Ludwig, G., & Sauer, B. (Eds.): Das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer? Annäherungen an intersektionale Staatstheorie, Campus: Frankfurt am Main/New York, p. 245-263.
  • Schnyder, G., Radl, M., Toth, F., Turnsek, T., Celik, B., & Pajnik, M. (2023): Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks within authoritarian-populist contexts: A comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey, in: Media, Culture & Society, 46 (1), p. 38-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231179366  (peer-reviewed)
  • Toth, F., Schnyder, G., & Radl, M. (2023): How Europe’s authoritarian populists maintain the illusion of a free press, in: The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/how-europes-authoritarian-populists-maintain-the-illusion-of-a-free-press-210910 
  • Radl, Marlene (2019): Staat, Autoritarisierung und Geschlecht. Feministische Perspektiven im Anschluss an Poulantzas, in: Kurswechsel 2/2019, S. 47 – 56.

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