German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies
The German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK) is a scientific specialist society for communication scientists and communication practitioners, i.e. those working in media research, journalism , journalism , journalism training and public relations . The DGPuK was founded in 1963. Its aim is to promote common interests in journalism and communication studies.
The chairman is the communication scientist Lars Rinsdorf ( University of the Media ).
Emergence
In 1963, the DGPuK was founded as an association under the name "German Society for Media and Newspaper Science" and entered in the register of associations. The founding members included Emil Dovifat , Fritz Eberhard , Manfred Rühl , Günter Kieslich and Kurt Koszyk .
The professional association has had its current name since 1972. With the increasing expansion of the subject since the beginning of the 1970s, the DGPuK also grew. While there were around 100 members at the end of the 1960s, their number grew to over 200 in 1979 and over 300 in 1987. The DGPuK currently has 1068 members.
Specialist groups
The specialist groups meet regularly and organize their own conferences. There are currently the following specialist groups:
- Digital communication
- International and intercultural communication
- Journalism / journalism research
- Communication and politics
- Communication and media ethics
- Communication history
- Media, public and gender
- Media economics
- Media education
- Media language - media discourses
- Methods of journalism and communication studies
- PR and organizational communication
- Reception and impact research
- Sociology of Media Communication
- visual communication
- Advertising communication
Publications
- The journalism - quarterly issues for communication research appear since 1956 in connection with the DGPuK.
- An editorial board of the DGPuK has been responsible for the e-journal "Studies in Communication | Media" since 2013.
- Aviso is the name of the DGPuK's internal information service.
- The DGPuK series of publications now comprises more than 30 volumes.
Congresses
Every year the society organizes an annual conference with a main topic. A conference volume with the most important contributions will then be published.
# | year | date | place | Main topic | Website |
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65. | 2020 | March 10-12, 2020 | Munich | #Media #human #society. Questions and answers from communication and media studies in times of rapid media change | [1] |
64. | 2019 | 09-11 May 2019 | Muenster | Integration through communication in digitized publics | [2] |
63. | 2018 | 09-11 May 2018 | Mannheim | Self-determination in the digital world | [3] |
62. | 2017 | March 30th - April 1st | Dusseldorf | Networking. Stability and change in social communication | [4] |
61. | 2016 | March 30th - April 1st | Leipzig | 100 years of communication science in Germany: from a specialty to an integration discipline | [5] |
2016 | March 30 | Leipzig | Pre-Conference: "Technical Innovations - Media Innovations?" | [6] | |
60. | 2015 | May 13-15 | Darmstadt | Responsibility - Justice - Public | [7] |
59. | 2014 | May 28-30 | Passau | Digital public (s) | [8th] |
58. | 2013 | May 8-10 | Mainz | From the Gutenberg Galaxy to the Google Galaxy. Old and new boundary measurements after 50 years of DGPuK | [9] |
57. | 2012 | May 16-18 | Berlin | MediaPolis - communication between the boulevard and parliament | [10] |
56. | 2011 | June 1-3 | Dortmund | Theoretically practical !? Application options and social relevance of communication and media research | [11] |
55. | 2010 | May 12-14 | Ilmenau | Media innovations. How media developments are changing communication in society | [12] |
54. | 2009 | April 29th - May 1st | Bremen | Media culture in transition | [13] |
53. | 2008 | April 30th - May 2nd | Lugano | Identità e varietà delle scienze della comunicazione - Identity and diversity of communication studies | [14] |
Web links
- DGPuK website
- Annual conference for the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the specialist society www.dgpuk2013.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Board of the DGPuK | DGPuK - German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies. Retrieved September 10, 2018 .
- ↑ DGPuK: Earlier annual meetings ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Last accessed: February 11, 2013.