Dr G\u00e1bor Poly\u00e1k is professor for media law and media policy at the E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, he is head of the Media and Communication Department. He also works for the Institute for Legal Studies of the Centre for Social Sciences as a senior research fellow. Further, he is the leading researcher of Mertek Media Monitor, a Hungarian NGO dealing with media policy issues. Before, ha was the head of the Department for Communication and Media Studies at the University of P\u00e9cs between 2016 and 2020. He was research fellow at the University of M\u00fcnster, Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law from 2014 to 2016, and associate professor at the University of P\u00e9cs, Institute for Information and Communication Law from 2001 to 2014. His educational background includes law and media studies at the University of P\u00e9cs, Master of Laws degree in ICT law at the University of Vienna, PhD degree and habilitation at the University of P\u00e9cs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He teaches and does research in the fields of media law, IT law, media policy, and he also teaches media literacy for media teachers. In 2016, he was an expert for the Committee of the Regions in the process of reviewing the AMD directive. In 2018, he took part in the International Visiting Leadership Project of the US State Department. His last books are Medienpolitik in Osteuropa. Theoretischer Rahmen und mediale Praxis (Berlin: B & S Siebenhaar Verlag, 2018); Algoritmusok, keres\u0151k, k\u00f6z\u00f6ss\u00e9gi oldalak \u00e9s a jog \u2013 A forgalomir\u00e1ny\u00edt\u00f3 szolg\u00e1ltat\u00e1sok szab\u00e1lyoz\u00e1sa [Algorithms, Search Engines, Social Media – Regulation of Intermediaries] (Budapest: HVG-Orac, 2020). In 2020, he was awarded by the Voltaire Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Differences of the University Potsdam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1704,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":""},"class_list":["post-1696","researcher","type-researcher","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vardd.200.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/researcher\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vardd.200.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/researcher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vardd.200.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/researcher"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vardd.200.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vardd.200.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}