CV - Enes Osmancevic M.A.

Address: 3 500 Sutherland Ave. Apt. C-320 Knoxville, TN, 37919 USA

 

I was born in October 20. 1966. I received my Bachelors and Master degree from the Faculty of Political Sciences University of Sarajevo. I defended my Master thesis on Influence of Internet Communications on Forming of Public Opinion in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in March 2002. Updated, and rearranged master thesis have been published as the book Internet, Traditional and Virtual Audience, by Magistrat, Sarajevo in 2003.

 

The data I have researched have been quoted in book New Media in South-East Europe, by PhD. Orlin Spasov, and in scientific article The Internet and the Public in Bosnia - Herzegovina by PhD. Jelenka Vockic-Avdagic.

 

The academic year of 2003/2004 I am spending at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, as a Junior Faculty Development Fellow (program established and financed by the US Department of State), improving the courses that I am teaching at my home university: On-line journalism, Radio Journalism and Introduction to Communication Science.

I attended two specialist’s training programs: Relations Between Government and the Media, in USA 1999, and Federalism, Democracy and Human Rights at the ULB University in Brussels – Belgium in 2000. I have published six scientific-research articles about the implications of new communication technologies, new media, audiences and public opinion in journals: Pogledi, Stav, Socijaldemokrat, Obrazovanje odraslih and Zbornik radova Filozofskog fakulteta.

I have participated in several international and local conferences and symposiums about media issues. Conferences and activities that I want to mention are: discussion organized by Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe (where I participated as a Bosnian representative), and membership in IMC Working group (now Communications Regulatory Agency in BiH) for establishing of Press Council in BiH. I also want to mention my participation in several research projects as consultant.

 

At the Interregional Journalistic Workshop in Osijek (Croatia), Novi Sad (Serbia) and Tuzla (Bosnia) in period 2000 – 2002, I have held four instruction cycles in Freedom of Media, Media, Ethics and Law and Internet, Audience and Public Opinion.

 

I am scientific fellow-worker at the Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (Instituta za bliskoistočne i balkanske studije IFIMES) in Ljubljana – Slovenia.

 

I was TA at the University of Tuzla, from 1997 (Sociology of Mass-media), and from the 1998 worked as TA at the Journalism Department teaching courses of: Introduction to Communication Science, Methods and Techniques of Journalism and Journalism at Mass-media (Radio Journalism). I got my associate-teacher promotion in 2002, on the courses: Journalism at Mass-media III (Radio Journalism) and Introduction to Communication Science at the University of Tuzla – Journalism Department.

 

During my undergraduate study I used to work as a journalist of the student magazine Valter, and newspaper Bosanski pogledi, Nedjelja, Studentski list (Zagreb – Croatia). After graduation, I worked as a correspondent of daily newspaper Dnevnik (Ljubljana - Slovenia).

 

My radio experience started at the Radio Sarajevo 202, during my undergrad’s studies and continued after the graduation at Radio Free Europe, where I worked as correspondent. For the editing and directing radio program Dezurni mikrofon, at the Radio BiH, I received awards of Association of Journalists of BiH, for the best radio program in 1996 and 1997.

 

I made my first volunteers steps on TV Sarajevo, in News editorial starting from 1991. I have passed all professional levels on that TV station – from the news reporting to TV News ( TV Dnevnik) editing and directing. From 1997 to 2000 I worked for as a Public Relations Officer at the Tuzla County Government and after that as Public Relations Advisor of the President of Tuzla County.

 

I was elected President and Assembly President of Journalists Association of BiH.