Ferenc Hammer, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. He teaches and conducts research in the fields of media representations of inequalities and conflict, and on cultural history areas such as consumption and outfit in communism or social histories of colours.

He teaches at the Doctoral Programme in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture, a new centre of research in contemporary culture at ELTE University. From September 2011 May 2012 he will join Canterbury Christ Church University’s Department of Media under the Visiting Fellowship scheme of The Leverhulme Trust, he will conduct research on public service content provision in the digital context. In 2006 he was a research fellow at Birkbeck College in the Cultures of Consumption Programme, funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK. In 2002/3 he was a fellow at the International Policy Fellowship of the Center for Policy Studies and the Open Society Institute in Budapest conducting research on policy implications of media portrayals of social inequalities.