Barbara Pfetsch

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Barbara Pfetsch (2011)

Barbara Pfetsch (born November 26, 1958 in Laichingen ) is a German communication scientist . Her main research interests are political communication and international comparative communication science. She has been Professor of Communication Studies at the Free University of Berlin since 2008 .

Life

Barbara Pfetsch began studying German , American and political science at the University of Mannheim in 1979 . In 1983 she participated in the Fulbright program at the University of California at Los Angeles . In 1985, Pfetsch did her Masters in Political Science. In 1986 she got a position as a research assistant at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Mannheim. She held this position for five years until she did her doctorate with Max Kaase in 1991 . The title of her doctoral thesis is Political Consequences of the Dualization of the Broadcasting System in the Federal Republic of Germany . In the same year, Barbara Pfetsch received a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Georgetown in Washington, DC After her return from the USA in 1992, she worked as a university assistant for political science at the University of Mannheim. In 1994 she accepted a position as a research assistant at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) in the Public and Social Movements Department . She was employed there until her appointment as professor of communication science at the University of Hohenheim in 2001, with the exception of her second stay in the United States. Pfetsch completed a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press at Harvard University in Massachusetts in 1997 . She wrote her habilitation at the Free University of Berlin (2002) under the title Political Communication Culture - Political Speakers and Journalists in the Federal Republic and the USA in Comparison . Until 2008 she taught communication studies and media policy in Hohenheim, but turned down the offer of a professorship for comparative communication studies at the University of Zurich. In 2006, Barbara Pfetsch returned to Harvard for a Visiting Fellow at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies before she received a professorship at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies with a focus on communication theory and media impact research at the Free University of Berlin in 2008. From 2009 to 2011 she was the head of the institute. Five years after her last stay in the USA, Pfetsch worked from 2012 to 2013 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University , California. Barbara Pfetsch will take up the Lady Davis Grant of the Hebrew University Jerusalem from March 2018 to July 2018 and conduct research in Israel. Since 2017, Prof. Pfetsch has been involved in the application and, after approval, at the Weizenbaum Center Berlin. In the same year she received the award of an ICA Fellow. Barbara Pfetsch is and was a member of various committees and scientific advisory boards such as the European Communication Research Education Association (ECREA), the Committee for Scientific Libraries and Information Systems of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the International Communication Association (ICA) and the International Political Science Association (IPSA).

Scientific work

With a PhD in political science, Barbara Pfetsch is a career changer in the field of communication science. Her regular research stays in the USA are also reflected in her academic work. Pfetsch is particularly concerned with international comparative communication science and political communication. Due to this internationality and its interdisciplinary research, it was included in the AcademiaNet database for excellent women scientists in 2010 .

In her numerous publications, a large number of which are in English, Barbara Pfetsch deals with different media systems and communication cultures. She is particularly interested in the United States in comparison to Germany and Europe. In this context, Pfetsch dedicates herself to the media landscape and politics of these states and their relationship to one another, as for example in her habilitation “Political Communication Culture - Political Speakers and Journalists of the Federal Republic and the USA” or the anthology “MediaPolis - Communication between Boulevard and Parliament ”, which she created together with colleagues from the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at the Free University of Berlin, can be read.

Publications (selection)

Monographs and editorships

  • Barbara Pfetsch (Ed.): Political Communication Cultures in Europe. Attitudes of Political Actors and Journalists in Nine Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke / New York: 2014, ISBN 1-349-33745-5 .
  • Barbara Pfetsch, Janine Greyer, Joachim Trebbe (eds.): MediaPolis - Communication between the Boulevard and Parliament: Structures, developments and problems of the political and civil society public. UVK, Konstanz 2013, ISBN 3-86764-414-4 .
  • Frank Marcinkowski, Barbara Pfetsch (ed.): Politics in the media democracy . Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15939-3
  • Barbara Pfetsch, Adam (Ed.): Mass media as political actors; Concepts and Analysis . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-15473-2
  • Christiane Eilders, Friedhelm Neidhardt, Barbara Pfetsch (eds.): The voice of the media; Press comments and political public in the Federal Republic . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-322-80557-7
  • Frank Esser, Barbara Pfetsch (Ed.): Political Communication in International Comparison; Basics, applications, perspectives . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-13625-9
  • Political communication culture; Political speakers and journalists in Germany and the USA in comparison . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-13708-5
  • Political consequences of the dualization of the broadcasting system in the Federal Republic; Concepts and analyzes of television programs and audience behavior . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1991, ISBN 3-7890-2555-0 .

Articles in trade journals

  • Barbara Pfetsch, Maier, Miltner, Waldherr: Online-Networks of Challengers in Food Policy: A comparative Study of Structures and Coalitions in Germany, UK, US and Switzerland . In: International Journal of E-Politics , 2016.
  • Peter Maurer, Barbara Pfetsch: News Coverage of Politics and Conflict Levels. A cross-national study of journalists 'and politicians' perceptions of two elements of mediatization . In: Journalism Studies , No. 15 (3), pp. 339–355, doi: 10.1080 / 1461670X.2014.88947 .
  • Political Communication in the Era of New Technologies; Introduction and Edition of the Special Issue of Central European Journal of Communication . In: Central European Journal of Communication . No. 7, 2011, pp. 187-192.
  • Agents of Transnational Debate across Europe; The Press in Emerging European Public Sphere . In: Javnost - The Public , No. 15 (4), 2008, pp. 21-40, ISSN  1318-3222 .

Contributions to edited volumes

  • (together with P. Miltner, D. Maier) Old and New Dynamics of Agenda Building in a Hybrid Media System . In: Vowe Gerhard, Henn Philipp (Eds.): Political Communication in the Online World: Theoretical Approaches and Research Designs . Routledge, New York / Abingdon UK 2016, ISBN 978-1-138-90008-0 , pp. 45-58.
  • (together with T. Moring) European Political Communication Cultures and Democracy. In: Barbara Pfetsch (Ed.): Political Communication Cultures in Europe; Attitudes of political actors and journalists in nine countries . Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, New York ISBN 1-349-33745-5 , pp. 287-301.
  • Spokesman for public opinion; Commentators of the national daily newspapers as journalistic personalities. In: Wolfgang Duchkowitsch, Fritz Hausjell, Horst Pöttker, Bernd Semrad (eds.): Journalistic personality; Fall and Rise of a Phenomenon . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-938258-82-8 , pp. 249-265.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Pfetsch. In: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de. September 16, 2008, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Barbara Pfetsch. In: academia-net.de. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Pfetsch. In: polsoz.fu-berlin.de. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Barbara Pfetsch. Retrieved January 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Barbara Pfetsch. Retrieved December 10, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Barbara Pfetsch: Political Communication Culture . 1st edition. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-531-13708-5 .
  7. ↑ Barbara Pfetsch, Janine Grayer, Joachim Trebbe (ed.): Mediapolis - communication between Boulevard and Parliament . 1st edition. UVK Verlagsgesellschaft Konstanz - Munich, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86764-414-3 , p. 11-19 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfetsch, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Laichingen