Selected international talks and presentations
Tofalvy, Tamas (2022) The Two Mainstreams: YouTube Hip-Hop, Gatekeepers, and Technologies of Taste. IASPM 21st Biennial Conference, Daegu, South Korea, July 7. (online)
Tofalvy, Tamas (2022) “There is a correlation hard to quantify, but its existence cannot be denied” – Cultural construction of business models in the early era of Hungarian digital media (1994-2000). Histories of Digital Journalism conference, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2022. June 24.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2021) "A path towards independence?" New pay model experiments in the Hungarian online media market". Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff University, UK. September 24. (online)
Tofalvy, Tamas and Koltai, Júlia (2021)The Reproduction of Geographic Inequalities in Spotify’s Recommendation System. Information Overload? Music Studies in the Age of Abundance, University of Birmingham, UK. September 9. (online)
Koltai Júlia and Tofalvy, Tamas: “Splendid Isolation”: A Network Based Reproduction of Geographic Inequality in Spotify’s Recommendation System. Networks 2021 Conference, Indiana University Bloomington, USA. July 5. (online)
Tofalvy, Tamas (2019) Genre similarity based on country of origin? The representation of spatial inequality in Spotify’s algorithmic recommendation system. 20th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, School of Music, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. June 25.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2019) “We didn’t really get the internet”: The early history of Hungarian digital media and online journalism. The web that was: archives, traces, reflections. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 20.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2018) The “broadcastization” of the Net: The algorithm-driven platform ecosystem and its consequences for digital journalism. Media, Polis, Agora: Journalism & Communication in the digital era. Thessaloniki, Greece. September 28.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2018) Facebook and the changing digital media ecosystem: the case of Hungary. 11th Central and Eastern European Communication and Media Conference (CEECOM) Szeged, Hungary. May 30.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2018) Between the Scylla of media capture and the Charybdis of the platform press: the example of the Hungarian digital media ecosystem. Media Systems under Pressure: Recent Developments in Media Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. May 18.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2018) When future visions and traditions of innovation collide: lessons for the future from the early reception of the iPad. “We are on a mission”. Exploring the role of future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology. Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. April 27.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2017) How are the 'media capture' and the 'aggregator problem' connected and what are the consequences of it? Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, Oxford, UK. June 29.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2017) Music storage, technology and the communication of musical identity. Communicating Music Scenes Conference, HAS Institute of Musicology, Budapest, Hungary. May 19.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2016) Improving Digital News Literacy Skills. Possible tools, methods, platforms. News Literacy Summer Institute. Poznan, Poland. July 15.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2016) The Making of Digital Good and Evil: Technology, Cultural Values and Professional Boundary-work in 21st Century Journalism. Workshop on the changing patterns in journalistic roles and performances in Central and Eastern Europe. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary. February 5.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2015) Of Vinyl, Mp3s and Cultural Capital: The Social Construction of Audio Technologies. 18th Biennial IASPM Conference. Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Campinas, Brazil. June 30.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2014) The Third Underground. Technology, Music and the Reproduction of Underground Cultural Capital. Keep it simple, Make it fast! Underground music scenes and DIY cultures conference. University of Porto. Porto, Portugal. July 11.
Tofalvy, Tamas (2011) “No Respect from Me.” Music Scenes, Work Ethic and Subcultural Conflicts in the Age of Social Media. Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change Cross-Disciplinary Symposium. London Met University. London, UK. September 15.