Date of Birth: 1974
e-mail: csigo-at-mokk.bme.hu, csigo-at-mtapti.hu
Courses taught this semester:
Introduction to Sociology
Foundations of Social Analysis
Communication
Politology – The Political System of Democracies
Professional Experience
2004- assistant lecturer, Centre for Media Research and Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
2004 Assistant Lecturer, Center for New Media Research
Research Fellow, Institute for Political Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Teaching experience
2004 Representation and performance. Seminar taught at Institute of Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences.
2004 Media theory. Seminar taught at Budapest University for Technical and Economic Sciences.
2001 Research seminar in media studies taught at Institute of Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences
2000 Media Reception Studies. Seminar taught at Institute of Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences and at College Széchenyi István.
Education:
1999 – ongoing: PhD student at des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, under the tuition of Daniel Dayan
1999 DEA (MA) degree in sociology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. Qualification: excellent (5). Subject: Reception analysis of information programs. Consultant: Luc Boltanski
1998: Degree in sociology at the Institute of Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, in Budapest. Qualification: excellent (5). Subject: The discourse of consolidation. Consultant: Dénes Némedi
Scholarships:
2000-2002 French Government’s Scholarship for PhD studies at EHESS.
1998-1999 French Government’s Scholarship for MA studies at EHESS.
1997-98 State Scholarship (Ministry of Education)
1997-98 Students for Science Scholarship (Foundation Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungariae)
1997-98 Research Scholarship of College Széchenyi István
Academic awards:
1999 Research Prize of College Széchenyi István
1998 1st Prize in Sociology at Budapest University of Economics
Papers presented
2004 Media commercialization and public consciousness – a Hungarian case study. Second International Conference of Young Scholars: Communication in the Global World. Ljubljana
2002 Why tabloid news have no effects? Media and politics workshop, MTA PTI.
2001 The duality of statements and speech-acts: dynamic network analysis of a discursive innovation. Presentation at the workshop of CODES group, Columbia University.
2000 Information genres – the construction of public sphere. Erasmus International Conference on “Transformation of Communication Culture”.
2000 The Transformation of Public Sphere in Hungary after Transition. Annual Conference of Századvég
1997 Structuralist Discourse Analysis. Section paper presented in the Annual Conference of Hungarian Sociological Association.
Research experience:
2003-5 Popular media and the tabloidization of politics. OTKA research.
2002 - ongoing The performative uses of media: public knowledge, media reception and the commercialization of mass media (PhD research).
2002 Public agenda in the press and the public’s agenda perception.
2000 – 2001 Media reception and public consciousness. – The construction of public issues in printed and broadcast media
1999 – 2000 Information genres
1998 The discourse of consolidation – a structuralist discourse analysis
Publications:
in English:
Csigó Péter – Vedres Balázs (2002): Negotiating the End of Transition: a Network Approach to Political Discourse Dynamics, Hungary 1997. ISERP Working Paper 02-06. Columbia University, New York.
Csigó Péter (2000): Information Genres: The Construction of Public Affairs. In: Schleicher Nóra (szerk.): Communication Culture in Transition, 99-118., Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest
Csigó Péter – Kovács Éva (2000): The Hungarian-Romanian Basic Agreement: Positions and Issues in the Debate. In: Sík Endre (szerk): New Diasporas in Hungary, Russia and Ukraine: Legal Regulations and Current Politics, 142-190. Open Society Institute/Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute
in Hungarian:
Csigó Péter (2004a). Miért nincs hatása a kereskedelmi híradóknak? – valóság-hatás és performatív hatás a kereskedelmi média korában. In: Bayer, J. (szerk) Média, politika, globalizáció. Budapest:MTA PTI
Title: Why tabloid TV news have no effects? – reality effects and performative effects in the era of commercial television
Csigó Péter (2004b). Törzs-közönségek. Identifikáció és közéleti tudás a kereskedelmi média korában. In: Lánczi, A. (szerk.) XXI. Század Intézet Évkönyve. Budapest: XX. Század Intézet.
Title: “Tribal publics”. Identification and public consciousness in the era of commercial television.
Csigó Péter (2003). Identitás és politika. A 2002. évi magyar választások két botránya. Politikatudományi Szemle. 12/2, 173-207.
Title: Identity and politics. Two political scandals in the 2002 election campaign.
Csigó Péter (2002). A televíziós hírműsorok a választási kampány időszakában. In: Sükösd, M. – Vásárhelyi. M. (szerk) Hol a határ? 329-344. Budapest: Élet és Irodalom.
Title: An exploration of television news programs’ performance in the 2002 election campaign.
Csigó Péter (2000): Információs műfajok és közéleti tudatosság. Jel – Kép, 4.
Title: Information Genres and Public Consciousness
Csigó Péter – Kovács Éva (2000): Európai integráció vagy/és kisebbségpolitika – a magyar-román alapszerződés sajtóvitája. In: Sík Endre – Tóth Judit (szerk.): Diskurzusok a vándorlásról, 252 -278.o., Nemzetközi Migrációs és Menekültügy Kutatóközpont, Budapest
Title: The Hungarian-Romanian Basic Agreement: Positions and Issues in the Debate.
Csigó Péter – Letenyei László (2000): Véleményhálózatok. Falu, város, régió, 10.
Title: Opinion Networks
Csigó Péter (1998): A gazdasági stabilizációs diskurzus. Szociológiai Szemle, 3.
Title: The Discourse of Consolidation of Transition
Csigó Péter (1997): Vázlat a Bokros-csomag vitájának elemzéséhez. Politikatudományi Szemle, 4.
Title: A Rough Analysis of the Discourse of Consolidation of Transition