Jo Groebel

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Jo Groebel with his wife Grit Weiss at Lambertz Monday Night in February 2016.

Franz-Josef "Jo" Groebel (born November 11, 1950 in Jülich ) is a German media psychologist .

Life

Jo Groebel is considered to be one of the founders of modern media psychology and television research in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1981 he published his dissertation on television and fear at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen , where he got his first job as a research assistant. At the seminar for communication psychology and media pedagogy at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Education in Landau , he then held the rank of academic senior councilor . He was a member of the chaired by Winfried Schulz for the German Research Foundation conducted inquiry on the situation of media impact research in Germany and conducted research in particular on the effects of television violence on children. In 1989, together with Peter Winterhoff-Spurk and Peter Vitouch (* 1947), he founded the magazine Medienpsychologie - magazine for individual and mass communication and in the same year summarized the most important research results of the 1980s for the still young discipline with Winterhoff-Spurk under the title Empirical Media Psychology Years together in one editorial volume.

From 1995 to 1999 he worked for the Dutch branch of the management consultancy KPMG .

From 1999 to 2006 he was Director General of the European Media Institute Düsseldorf / Paris (EIM). With the EIM he participated in the World Internet Project , an international research project on Internet use. Since 2000, Groebel has been increasingly concerned with media policy issues. In this context, several books were published, for example on the topics of privacy and publicity and digitization as well as advice to national and international media, companies and political institutions.

He has been the founding director of the German Digital Institute Berlin since 2006 , of which he is the only employee.

Groebel was married to the German television presenter Heike Maurer until 2003 .

Controversy

He was sharply criticized by members of the international supervisory board for his office as general director of the EIM, which had to lay off all twelve employees at the end of 2004, while Groebel's contract of employment continued to run. Groebel himself declared the end of the institute, which had been active in Düsseldorf since 1991, with the difficult economic situation in the media.

In addition, Groebel has been accused by journalists of his frequent public appearances as a prominent media expert , who is quoted in the German mass media on a wide variety of topics with sometimes extremely general statements. Media journalist Stefan Niggemeier criticized the fact that "as a professor he says exactly what popular anger in affect also means". Groebel later replied: “I like to express myself on the boulevard. But my main job is my scientific work. "

Doubts about independence

In December 2015, Stern magazine published a critical article about Groebel under the title “The media professor and his PR connection”. He appears on various occasions as "Director of the German Digital Institute (DDI)". After research by the Stern, the suspicion arises that this institute is a "hidden appendage of the Berlin PR and lobby agency WMP Eurocom ". The agency is the owner of the DDI's website domain and the office address is the same for both. In a telephone directory of the WMP, the DDI is listed in a row with the own subsidiaries of the WMP with Groebel as the only employee. According to Stern, the agency's customers include Microsoft , which has been running a worldwide campaign against its competitor Google since 2012. As a supposedly independent expert, Groebel took several critical positions in public against Google. According to Stern, from this point of view, Groebel's appearances seem like “indirect, covert PR at the expense of Google”.

Awards

  • Outstanding Contributions Award, International Council of Psychologists, Tokyo, 1990
  • Socrates-Lezing, Humanist Verbond, Amsterdam, 1996
  • Honorary membership of the Association of European Journalists, 2001.

Publications (selection)

As main or co-author

  • with Uli Gleich: Violence profile analysis of German television . Leske & Budrich, 1992
  • with Walter Klingler: Children and Media 1990: a study by the ARD / ZDF media commission. With the collaboration of Imme Horn and Karen Schönenberg, Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994
  • The new television: media use, typology, behavior. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014

As editor

  • with Peter Winterhoff-Spurk: Empirical Media Psychology, Munich 1989
  • with Robert A. Hinde: Aggression and War . Cambridge University Press, 1991
  • with Robert A. Hinde: Cooperation and Prosocial Behavior . Cambridge University Press, 1992
  • with Eli Noam and Darcy Gerbag: Internet Television . Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2004
  • with Eli Noam and Valerie Feldmann: Mobile Media . Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2006

Essays

  • Television and Video Violence: The Current State of Research. In: Education Sciences 14 (2), 1987, pp 154-162
  • Political talk: (K) An obituary . In: Sascha Michel / Heiko Girnth (ed.): Polit-Talkshows - Bühnen der Macht. A look behind the scenes. Bonn: Bouvier. 2009. pp. 68-82.

Web links

Commons : Jo Groebel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jo Groebel in the catalog of the German National Library, accessed on August 13, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Sabine Trepte : Zur Geschichte der Medienpsychologie, p. 12, in: Textbook of Media Psychology, edited by Roland Mangold, Peter Vorderer and Gary Bente, Hogrefe, Göttingen 2004
  3. ↑ a b Jo Groebel, in: Kress Köpfe, accessed on August 13, 2014
  4. ↑ Trepte: On the history of media psychology, p. 15
  5. ^ The European Institute for the Media: Germany and the Digital World. ( Memento from August 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), Düsseldorf 2003 (English)
  6. ↑ Interview with Jo Groebel, Frankfurter Rundschau from September 13, 2010
  7. ↑ Heike Maurer: After eleven years, the War of the Roses is over in: presseportal.de on November 5, 2008. Accessed on March 12, 2013.
  8. ↑ Die Medienmächtigen, in: taz.de of February 14, 2006, accessed on August 13, 2014
  9. ↑ Media research: Unscrupulous renovation, in: Der Spiegel from December 20, 2004, accessed on August 13, 2014
  10. ↑ Medieninstitut closes, in: Kress.de of October 7, 2004, accessed on August 13, 2014
  11. ↑ Jo Groebel muss einpacken, glossary in: taz.de of December 23, 2004, accessed on August 13, 2014
  12. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : ZDF: Charming in every situation, in: Stuttgarter Zeitung of November 28, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2014
  13. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier : Jo Groebel , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from October 19, 2008, accessed on August 14, 2014
  14. ↑ Hertha and Jo, glossary in: taz.de from March 3, 2006, accessed on August 14, 2014
  15. ↑ Stefan Niggemeier: What Jo Groebel finds “unbelievable”, in his own blog from October 19, 2008, accessed on August 14, 2014
  16. ↑ Birte Bühnen: Jo Groebel: What are you doing at the moment? in: Kress Report of August 8, 2014, p. 30
  17. ↑ cf. Ulrike Simon: Interview with Jo Groebel: Boulevard is fun, in: Frankfurter Rundschau from September 13, 2010, accessed on August 18, 2014
  18. ^ Hans-Martin Tillack: The media professor and his PR connection . In: Stern magazine (December 18, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Groebel, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groebel, Franz-Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Jülich