Tamas Tofalvy

I am a researcher and consultant interested in the cultural construction of digital media platforms, writing mainly about journalism and popular music scenes.

Currently I am associate professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Department of Sociology and Communications.

Latest publications:

Tofalvy, Tamas (2022) Platformization, Facebook and Content

Consumption: A Hungarian Case Study In: Takas,

Emmanouil; Jebril, Nael; Iordanidou, Sofia (eds) Journalism

and Digital Content in Emerging Media Markets. Palgrave

Macmillan pp. 69-87.

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04552-3_5

Tofalvy, Tamas and Julia Koltai (2021) “Splendid Isolation”: The Reproduction of Music Industry Inequalities in Spotify’s Recommendation System. New Media and Society (online first) doi.org/10.1177/14614448211022161

Tofalvy, Tamas and Emília Barna (2020)eds. Popular Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem: From Cassettes to Stream. Palgrave Macmillan.

doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44659-8

Tofalvy, Tamas (2020) ‘We have never been part of the journalistic profession’: Self-perceptions and professionalization of online journalists in the early era of Hungarian digital media. Media History (online first) doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2020.1825931

Tofalvy, Tamas (2020) Niche Underground: Media, Technology, and the Reproduction of Underground Cultural Capital In: Tofalvy, Tamas; Barna, Emília (eds) Popular Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem: From Cassettes to Stream. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 59-76. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44659-8_4

Tofalvy, Tamas (2020) Continuity and Change in the Relationship Between Popular Music, Culture, and Technology: An Introduction. In: Tofalvy, Tamas; Barna, Emília (eds) Popular Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem: From Cassettes to Stream. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-19. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44659-8_1

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