Hans Wagner (communication scientist)

Hans Wagner (* 11. January 1937 in Nesselwang / Allgäu ) is an emeritus professor of communication studies and media research .

Life

From 1954 to 1960 , Hans Wagner studied philosophy , psychology and newspaper studies (communication science) in Dillingen / Donau and at the University of Munich . At the same time he worked as a freelancer and intern for various newspapers, magazines and radio . He obtained his doctorate in 1965. phil. with an action-oriented work on the factual order of social communication .

From 1962 to 1972 he headed the press office of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and the press office of the German Bishops' Conference. From the winter semester of 1965/66 onwards, he took up teaching positions in the theory of social communication at the Munich Institute for Newspaper Studies. In parallel to his practical work, he was a research assistant at this institute from the winter semester 1966/67. In 1967 and 1968 he held a chair for media studies at the University of Salzburg .

In 1975 Wagner qualified as a professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Munich in communication studies (newspaper studies). In his habilitation thesis, he presented a historical-systematic theory of mass communication as an alternative to the rhetorical-oriented models that had been common up until then. From 1975 to 1980 he was a private lecturer and scientific advisor; In 1980 he was appointed professor at the institute.

Since 1971 Wagner was also a member of the teaching staff and since 1981 a member of the Senate of the Munich School of Politics . He has been retired since the end of the 2001/02 winter semester.

Focus of work

Professor Wagner's teaching and research focuses on the theory of communication and mass communication as well as the public , the history of theory and ideas, and the history of systematic communication and journalism. The concept of "social orientation" as a new approach to a theory of communication and media effects is a consequence of this basic research. The development of new, expanded methods of content analysis as well as a scientific justification for structural criticism of journalism are areas of application of the position represented by Wagner, to which his particular research interests apply.

Fonts

• The actual order of social communication , Munich 1965
• The end of the Catholic press , 3 vols. Stein am Rhein 1974, ISBN 3-557-94164-7
• Media taboos and communication bans. The manipulable reality , Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7892-8470-X
• Limited Liability Journalism? Collected contributions to journalism and media criticism , Munich 2003, ISBN 3-88927-326-2
• The council and the media. In: Konrad Hilpert (Ed.): Generation Council. Contemporary witnesses report. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30916-8 , pp. 35-62.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Wagner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography on the website of the University of Munich