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Bio

Born 27 years ago in Bulgaria, spent the best part of the first 25 in the city of Sofia.

Photo by cweti

Photo by cweti

Present occupation

Currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Communication with a focus on media and technology at the Annenberg School for Communication, USC.

Teaching assistant experience includes:

  • COMM 200 – Communication as a Social Science
  • COMM 201 – Communication as Liberal Art
  • COMM 306 – The Communication Revolution and the Arts
  • COMM 310 – Media and Society

Tommy Trojan, USC

Tommy Trojan, USC

Education

Graduated from Sofia High School of Mathematics “Paisii Hilendarsky” in 1999.

Received B.Sc. in Computer Science from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics in 2004.

Received M.A. in Virtual Culture from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Philosophy in 2006.

FMI

Faculty of Mathematics & Informatics

Professional Experience

In 2000 started work at Economedia, the largest business media group in Bulgaria (currently part of Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt). Spent close to seven years with Capital Weekly’s great team of highly competent (and refreshingly wacky) employees.

Capital Weekly

Capital Weekly

Responsibilities as a journalist included observing trends in emerging technologies, online business and society, as well as performing research and analysis of telecom regulation and Internet governance. In 2006-2007, fun new tasks – visual editing and data representation – were added to the list.

Interviews taken for Capital Weekly include:

  • Not Every New Technology is a New Market – Interview with Georg Serentschy, CEO of RTR-GmbH, the Austrian Broadcasting and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
  • Don’t Shut Down the Internet, Prosecute the Criminals – Interview with Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford
  • Of Google, the Internet and Outer Space – Interview with Vinton Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google

Interview - Vinton Cerf

Interview - Vinton Cerf

Other Projects

Consultant/analyst on IT, telecom regulation and new media for a number of projects, including the e-Bulgaria 2005 & 2006 reports and FISTERA Technology and Innovation Foresight for Bulgaria and Romania (ForeTech).

Reporter for the Bulgarian National Television (2001-2002) and Radio Tangra (2002-2003).

Sofia High School of Mathematics “Paisii Hilendarsky”