Alexander Filipović

The university's president Johannes Wallacher called him the "ideal candidate" and referred to his "interdisciplinary work on issues in communication science and media ethics.".

In reference to Berhard Pörksen's utopian idea of the "editorial society" (redaktionelle Gesellschaft), Alexander Filipović has proposed the term "post-editorial society" to describe the era of real time publication of factual claims on social media without the necessary verification processes in place that mark one of the core tenets of journalism's professional ethics: fact-checking.

In an interview with the German newspaper taz, Filipović used the 2016 Nice truck attack and the 2016 Munich shooting as examples: "We have no editorial boards for our public communication.

"[6] About another key image of the civil war in Syria, Mahmoud Raslans photo of the Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh who was injured by air strikes in Aleppo in August 2016,[7] Alexander Filipović has said in Der Tagesspiegel that it increased public pressure and could give policy makers a push: "It can accomplish a lot, because it gives suffering a face.

"[8] After the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo published a controversial caricature of the dead refugee child Alan Kurdi with the tagline "so close to the finish,"[9] Alexander Filipović connected the issues of political correctness and satire in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung: "There is a society-wide regulation of what counts as politically correct, of what may and may not be said in society.