Handbook of Media and Communication Economics A European Perspective

Jan Krone
 is professor at the Department of Media Economics of the University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten, Austria. He mainly works on economic and political aspects of communication. Since 2006 he has been head of the module "Basic structures of the media system" and project manager at the Institute for Media Economics at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten, Austria. 



Tassilo Pellegrini
is professor at the Department of Media Economics of the University of Applied Sciences in St. Pölten, Austria. His research areas are digital business, economics of data and semantic systems. He is member of the International Network for Information Ethics (INIE), the African Network of Information Ethics (ANIE) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPUK). He is co-founder of the Semantic Web Company in Vienna, author and editor of numerous books and articles at the intersection of technology and economics and conference chair of the annual I-SEMANTICS conference series founded in 2005.