Alexander Filipović

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Alexander Filipović

Alexander Filipović (born January 8, 1975 in Bremen ) is a German social ethicist, media ethicist and theologian. Since September 2013 he has held the endowed professorship for media ethics at the Munich University of Philosophy .

biography

Alexander Filipović studied Catholic theology , communication studies and German at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . He completed his master's degree in 2000 with a thesis on public relations and ethics . He wrote his dissertation initially with a grant from the German National Academic Foundation ; From 2002 he was a research assistant at the chair for " Christian Social Teaching and General Sociology of Religion " at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg. His dissertation on media ethics entitled “Christian Social Ethics and Public Communication in the Knowledge Society” (reviewed by Marianne Heimbach-Steins and Rüdiger Funiok ) was awarded the Bavarian Culture Prize in 2006. In the 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 winter semesters, he held teaching positions in media ethics at the Technical University of Ilmenau and in philosophy at the Ludwigsburg University of Education . In 2009 he moved to Münster, where he worked at the Institute for Christian Social Sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University . There he was a member of the editorial team of the Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences . In his habilitation (completed in 2012), assessed by Marianne Heimbach-Steins and Klaus Müller , he dealt with fundamental questions of moral philosophy and applied ethics with recourse to philosophical pragmatism . Since autumn 2011 he has been an advisor to the journalistic commission of the German Bishops 'Conference and co-author of the media-ethical impulse paper “Virtuality and Staging” of the German Bishops' Conference .

The CDU / CSU parliamentary group named him as an expert for the Study Commission Artificial Intelligence - Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological Potential, which was set up in 2018 .

Media ethics

Filipović has been active in the network media ethics working group since 2002 . Between 2009 and 2014 he was spokesperson or co-spokesperson for the Communication and Media Ethics Section within the German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK) . He took part in the 12th Petersburg Dialogue in Moscow as an expert on media ethics . In his weblog and occasionally in the press, he publishes media ethical statements on current media reporting, e. B. to the Wulff affair or to the photos taken by Alan Kurdi . He is co-editor of the media ethical journal Communicatio Socialis and the series “Communication and Media Ethics”. Together with Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen, he has been the head of the newly founded zem :: dg - Center for Ethics in the Media and the Digital Society since 2016 .

The endowed chair for media ethics at the Munich School of Philosophy, which Filipović has held since September 2013, is initially financed by the donors for a period of five years. In addition to the institutions Bayerischer Rundfunk , ZDF , Hubert Burda Media , the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria , the German Bishops' Conference , the Bavarian State Center for New Media and the Association of Bavarian Newspaper Publishers, the founders also include individuals such as the media entrepreneur Thomas Haffa , whose work as chairman of the EM. TV AG gave cause for scandal reports.

Publications (selection)

  • with Ingrid Stapf and Marlis Prinzing (eds.): Society without discourse? Digital change and journalism from a media ethical perspective. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2017 (Communication and Media Ethics, 5), DOI: 10.5771 / 9783845279824 .
  • Filipović, Alexander (2017): Common good as a media ethical term. About public communication and social responsibility . In: Communicatio Socialis 50 (1), pp. 9-19. DOI: 10.5771 / 0010-3497-2017-1-9 .
  • with Christopher Koska: Design issues of digitality. On the socio-ethical challenges of artificial intelligence, big data and virtuality . In: Ralph Bergold, Jochen Sautermeister and André Schröder (eds.): Giving change a human shape. Socio-ethical perspectives for tomorrow's society . Freiburg: Herder 2017, pp. 173–191.
  • Filipović, Alexander: The catastrophe as a media event mode. Media ethical perspectives on the relationship between event reality and media event . In: Michael Reder, Verena Risse and Mara-Daria Cojocaru (eds.): Catastrophes - Perspectives . Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2016 (Globale Solidarität, 26), pp. 137–158.
  • Filipović, Alexander (2015): Experience - Reason - Practice. Christian social ethics in conversation with philosophical pragmatism . Paderborn ao: Schöningh (Justice - Ethics - Religion, 2). - Released December 10, 2014.
  • with Michael Jaeckel and Christian Schicha (eds.): Media and civil society. (Communication and media ethics, 1). Weinheim: Juventa 2012.
  • Ethics of the media rituality of youthful identity development. In: Petra Grimm and Oliver Zöllner (eds.): Media - Rituals - Youth. Perspectives on media communication in the everyday life of young people. (Media ethics, 9). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2011, pp. 29–41.
  • Literacy and the importance of social participation. Media and educational ethics considerations. In: Wimmer, Michael; Reichenbach, Roland, Pongratz, Ludwig (eds.): Media, technology and education. (Series of publications of the Education and Training Philosophy Commission of the DGfE). Paderborn: Schöningh 2009, pp. 159–173.
  • The democratic ethos as a practice. Philosophical pragmatism and the question of social cohesion. In: Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences , vol. 50, 2009, pp. 133–164.
  • Public communication in the knowledge society. Social ethical analyzes (Forum Bildungsethik, 2). Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann Verlag 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Munich School of Philosophy ( memento of August 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) of July 2, 2013. Website of the Munich School of Philosophy, accessed on July 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ The curriculum vitae of Alexander Filipović on his private website . Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  3. ^ Yearbook for Christian Social Sciences - website and eJournal . Website of the University Library of Münster. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
  4. ↑ Virtuality and staging. On the move in the digital media society . Website of the German Bishops' Conference. Retrieved July 2, 2013
  5. ↑ Study Commission "Artificial Intelligence". Expert. In: German Bundestag. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Ethicists on Wulff: Failed only as a statesman. In: Focus . January 8, 2012, accessed July 1, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Peter Maxwill: "Such images burn themselves into the retina". In: Spiegel Online . September 3, 2015, accessed September 4, 2015 .
  8. ^ Series of publications "Communication and Media Ethics" . Website of the media ethics network. Retrieved July 2, 2013
  9. ↑ See website des zem :: dg In: zemdg.de, accessed on February 23, 2017.
  10. ↑ Sebastian Krass: Wissenschaftlich glotzen , Süddeutsche Zeitung, October 30, 2013.
  11. ^ University of Philosophy: Donors, Cooperations and Links ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 6, 2013
  12. ↑ Haffa brothers have to pay . manager magazine online. April 8, 2003. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Filipović, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Filipović, Alexander Stefan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, media ethicist and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen