Mario Nottas

Marios Nottas is a scholar/education activist in Journalism and Technology. He studied Sociology, Economics and Communication Science (broadcasting) at Boston University. In the context of his collaboration with the Communication Science Lab 2003-2009 and the Austrian public university UWK (former DUK), he is the head of the interdisciplinary postgraduate programs “Communication and Emerging Technologies”, which lead to Master of Arts degrees. The programmes are offered by the European Institute of Communication, which is a synergy between public benefit bodies, European research institutions and higher education. Mario Nottas serves ECI as an executive member of the Board of Directors.

ECI is based in Vienna and is a Synergy of public entities from Greece and Austria. Part of its mission is to deepen and improve the quality of European integration at the citizen level. It pursues its goal through Technology and Quality Journalism, while offering Postgraduate Communication Studies to citizens and professionals in the fields of communication and social sciences. MN has been teaching topics related to privacy and new technologies since the Institute’s founding in 2006. Taking a critical stance against the unconditional culture of social media, as a public speaker he focuses on Communication, Political Science and Citizens’ Rights, in a field that ECI invented (2014) and developed, Citizen Literacy.