Prof. dr. Tom Evens

Professor at the research group for Media, Innovation and Contemporary Technologies, Department of Communication Sciences, Ghent University.

Tom Evens - 2024

 

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Media industries
Media/tech policy
Sports media rights
Business models
Platforms
Datafication

Tom Evens is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium. He holds Master’s Degrees in Communication Sciences (2005) and Business Administration (2006) from Ghent University. Tom teaches in Media Economics (Ba1), Innovation and Tech Policy (Ma) and Business Models in Media and Technology (Ma).

In 2013, Tom finished his PhD on the political economy of the television industry. He specialises in the economics and policies of digital media and technology markets, and has widely published on the media business in international peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He is the lead author of The Political Economy of Television Sports Rights (Palgrave, 2013), Platform Power and Policy in Transforming Television Markets (Springer, 2018), Sports Media Rights in the Age of Streaming and Platformisation (Routledge, 2024) and De Mediamachine. Hoe Geld en Technologie de Media-¬economie Regeren (Academia Press, 2025). Furthermore, he is the co-editor of Media Management Matters: Challenges and Opportunities for Bridging Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2020) and Media en innovatie in een veranderende samenleving (ASP Editions, 2021 > Owl Press).

Tom is an editorial board member of the Journal of Digital Media & Policy, Internet Policy Review, Communication & Sport, Media Industries Journal and Journal of Media Business Studies, for which he also serves as a co-editor. He served as the Deputy President of the European Media Management Association between 2017 and 2019 (emma).

Since 2016, he is appointed an independent expert member of the SARC Media.

 

 

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