Jernej Kaluža holds a PhD in philosophy and is employed as a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His professional research is focused on media, journalism and culture studies, critical theory and (post)structuralism. He is a former editor-in-chief of Radio Študent and currently engaged in the research project «Slovenian Folk-Pop as Politics: Perceptions, Receptions and Identities», in short «Alpenecho».