Chair of the Department of Sociology

Fields of interest: General Sociology, Sociology of Mass Media and New Media, Science and Technology ,

Consultation: After previous arrangement

Tlf: (+420) 221619684 (during consultation period)

E-mail: Petr.Lupac[at]ff.cuni.cz 

He comes from Jevišovice near Znojmo (Czech Republic). 1999-2005 master’s study at the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Arts, completed with the diploma thesis “Sociology and Sociotechnology: The Social Structure of the Internet”. Associated master’s study of pedagogy ended in 2005 with the thesis “Using Didactic Constructivist Procedures in Optimizing the Teaching of Sociology”. Winter semester 2007 study stay at Kansas State University, Department of Sociology, Kansas, USA. 2008 graduating from the Research Skills Workshop at the University of Liverpool, UK. 2008-2009 research scientist at the Institute of Moral and Political Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, since 2008 assistant at the Department of Sociology of Charles University. 2005-2013 doctoral studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the Charles University, completed with the defense of the dissertation thesis “Exploring the social conditionality of the current way of technological development”. A member of the World Internet Project and a representative of this project for the Czech Republic. In the years 2013-2015, the principal investigator of the project “World Internet Project – Czech Republic II: Analysis of Social and Political Aspects of Uneven Internet Use” (GA13-21024S), from 2024 to 2027, he is a member of the research team in the CoRe project.

In 2018, he published Beyond the Digital Divide: Contextualizing the Information Society (Emerald Publishing). He currently focuses primarily on issues related to factors and contexts of differentiated access to information, societal resilience and fragmentation, and the aspects of the diffusion and use of artificial intelligence.

As part of the compulsory curriculum, Petr Lupac teaches courses on Maintaining and Reproducing Social Order, Social Change, and Transformations of Contemporary Societies. Other regularly recurring elective courses include Sociology of Media, Internet and Society, and Diffusion of Innovation.

Career:

Since 2008 assistant at the Department of Sociology, since 2013 assistant professor, since 2025 Chair of the Department

A member of the Czech Sociological Society

Member of the Association of Internet Researchers