Thomas Petersen

Thomas Petersen (born September 9, 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German communication scientist and opinion researcher . Petersen was president of the international specialist society World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) during the 2009/2010 term of office . Together with Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , he is the author of the book “Alle, not everyone”, a standard work for academic teaching and the practice of survey research .

Life

Thomas Petersen studied journalism , ancient history and prehistory in Mainz . After graduating in 1993, he became a research assistant at the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy . Since 1999 he has been WAPOR's National Representative for Germany. In 2001 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the methodology of the field experiment in survey research. Thomas Petersen completed his habilitation in 2010 at the Philosophical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden in a cumulative procedure on the subject of "The effect of image signals in media reporting on the formation of public opinion" .

Petersen regularly takes on teaching positions at the universities of Krems an der Donau and Mainz . In 2007 he represented the professorship for methodological and historical foundations of political science at the University of Hamburg . He was spokesman for the visual communication section of the German Society for Media and Communication Studies . His research interests and publications include visual communication and opinion polling methods as well as electoral research and the theory of public opinion.

Works

Book publications

• Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Thomas Petersen: Everyone, not everyone. Introduction to the methods of public opinion polling . dtv, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-423-04688-0
• Thomas Petersen: The field experiment in survey research . Campus, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-593-37014-X
• Thomas Petersen: PR work in antiquity. How Augustus became perhaps the most successful politician of all time . Signum, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7766-8001-6
• Thomas Petersen, Tilman Mayer: The value of freedom . Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 2005, ISBN 3-451-20917-9
• Meinhard Miegel, Thomas Petersen: The programmed standstill. The contradicting relationship of the Germans to economic growth and increased material prosperity . Olzog, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7892-8258-4 .

Articles in scientific journals

• Thomas Petersen (2005): Testing Visual Signals in Representative Surveys . In: International Journal of Public Opinion Research 17, pp. 456-472.
• Thomas Petersen, Olaf Jandura (2007): Testing Visual Signals in Representative Surveys in Combination with Media Content Analyzes of the 2002 German Federal Election Campaign . In: International Journal of Public Opinion Research 19, pp. 89-96.
• Thomas Petersen (2006): An experiment on the potential effect of counter-statements as a counterweight to scandalous reporting . In: Publizistik 51, pp. 153–167.
• Nikolaus Jackob , Thomas Petersen, Thomas Roessing (2008): Structures of the Effect of Rhetoric. An experiment on the relationship between text, emphasis and body language . In: Publizistik 53, pp. 215–230.
• Thomas Petersen (2016): Changes in Christianity in Germany. In: The new order , number 5/2016, pp. 324-335 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://wapor.org/about-wapor/past-presidents/
2. ^ Author information in Petersen, Thomas: Das Felddexperiment in der Umfrageforschung . Campus, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-593-37014-X and Petersen, Thomas: PR work in antiquity. How Augustus became perhaps the most successful politician of all time . Signum, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7766-8001-6 .
3. ↑ http://www.dgpuk.de/index.cfm?id=3764  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Petersen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Contributions to salon columnists