Klaus Arnold (media scientist)

Klaus Arnold (2014)

Klaus Arnold (born September 30, 1968 in Nuremberg ; † May 29, 2017 in Trier ) was a German communication scientist and professor for media and communication studies at the University of Trier .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1987, Klaus Arnold helped set up the newly founded first private radio station in his hometown, first as a trainee, later as editor and deputy editorial manager at Radio N1 . From 1989 he studied journalism and Slavic studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Lomonossov University in Moscow. After graduating as a journalist with a thesis on Das Deutschlandradio and its two programs in 1995, he became a research assistant for Ursula E. Koch at the Institute for Communication Studies and Media Research at Ludwig Maximilians University. In 2001 he completed his doctorate and began working as a research assistant for Jan Tonnemacher at the Department of Journalism II at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . After completing his habilitation in 2009, he was appointed professor for media and communication studies at Trier University in 2010.

Klaus Arnold was married to the journalist Antje Eichler since 2001 and had three children. At the age of 48, Klaus Arnold died of a glioblastoma that was discovered during a routine examination seven months before his death.

science

His research interests were media and communication history, communication and journalism theory, audience research and quality and ethics in journalism. In teaching, his focus was on media structures, journalism, quality and ethics, audience research and empirical methods of communication research such as content analysis and surveys.

Klaus Arnold's work comprises theoretical, historical and empirical work. His main focus is on the history of the media and the quality of journalism. In his doctorate Cold War in the Aether. He not only worked on a substantial part of the radio history of the GDR for the German broadcaster and the GDR's western propaganda , but also dealt with the past and present of propaganda . Later on, Klaus Arnold also became politically active in media history: from 2006 to 2010 as spokesman for the section on communication history in the German Society for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK) and from 2009 to 2012 first as a co-founder and then as chair of the Communication History section in European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Here he most recently worked with Susanne Kinnebrock and Paschal Preston on the European Handbook of Media History , which was published in October 2019.

Klaus Arnold made his most important scientific contribution with his habilitation thesis on quality journalism. With the integrative quality concept drawn up in it and an extensive survey of the newspaper audience, he made an important contribution to measuring the quality of media offers and to the discussion about the future of the newspaper. With a large-scale DFG project, Klaus Arnold finally devoted himself to local journalism. Anna-Lena Wagner completed the local journalism project in Germany in 2018.

Scientific publications (selection)

• The Handbook of European Communication History. Hoboken: Wiley 2019 (Ed. Together with Susanne Kinnebrock and Paschal Preston).
• The services of local journalism. An empirical study on the quality of local reporting in newspapers and online offers. In: Publizistik, Volume 63 (2018), Issue 2, pp. 177–206. (together with Anna-Lena Wagner)
• Quality in journalism. In: Meier, Klaus / Neuberger, Christoph (Hrsg.): Journalism research. Stand and prospects. 2nd act. u. exp. Edition Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016, pp. 141–157.
• Quality of journalism. In :öffelholz, Martin / Rothenberger, Liane (ed.): Handbuch Journalismustheorien. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2016, pp. 551-563.
• Journalism. Basics of an organizational field of action. Munich: Oldenbourg 2013 (together with Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen)
• Quality in journalism. In: Meier, Klaus / Neuberger, Christoph (Hrsg.): Journalism research. Stand and prospects. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2013, pp. 77–88
• Are the Media Capable of Fair Reporting? Remarks on the Principle of Fairness in Journalism. In: Kals, Elisabeth / Maes, Jürgen (Ed.): Justice and Conflicts. Theoretical and Empirical Contributions. Berlin / Heidelberg: Springer 2012, pp. 329–343 (together with Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen and Tanja Kössler).
• Methodological Approaches to European Communication and Media History. About comparisons, transfers and a European public sphere. In: medien & zeit (media & time), 26th year (2011), issue 4, pp. 36-48
• From the politicization of the media to the medialization of the political? On the relationship between media and politics in the 20th century. Leipzig: Universitätsverlag 2010 (Ed. Together with Christoph Classen, Edgar Lersch, Susanne Kinnebrock and Hans-Ulrich Wagner).
• Ethics and profit. In: Schicha, Christian / Brosda, Carsten (ed.): Handbook of media ethics. Wiesbaden: VS 2010, pp. 331–347 (together with Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen).
• History journalism. Between information and staging. Berlin: Lit 2010 (Ed. Together with Walter Hömberg and Susanne Kinnebrock).
• Quality journalism. The newspaper and its audience. Constance: UVK 2009.
• Communication history. Positions and tools. A discursive handbook and textbook. Berlin: Lit 2008. (Ed. Together with Markus Behmer and Bernd Semrad).
• Propaganda research. In: Sander, Uwe / Gross, Friederike von / Hugger, Kai-Uwe (eds.): Handbook of media education. Wiesbaden: VS 2008, pp. 192-197.
• Old media - new media. Theory perspectives, media profiles, fields of application. Festschrift for Jan Tonnemacher. Münster: VS 2005. (Ed. Together with Christoph Neuberger).
• Between pop and propaganda. Radio in the GDR. Berlin: Links-Verlag 2004. (Ed. Together with Christoph Classen).
• Propaganda as ideological communication. In: Publizistik, Volume 48 (2003), Issue 1, pp. 63–82.
• Cold war in the ether. The German broadcaster and the GDR's western propaganda. Münster / Hamburg / London: Lit 2002.

Web links

• Homepage of Klaus Arnold at the University of Trier
• Literature by Klaus Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.wir-medienkinder.de (Klaus Arnold's private blog)
• Obituary by Walter Hömberg in the Biographical Lexicon of Communication Studies

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Arnold - Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science . In: Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science . June 13, 2017 ( halemverlag.de [accessed November 4, 2017]).
2. ↑ The Handbook of European Communication History | General Communication & Media Studies | Subjects | Wiley. Retrieved October 10, 2019 (American English). 
3. ↑ Michael Harnischmacher: Why should things be easy to understand? An obituary for Klaus Arnold. (No longer available online.) In: Aviso. German Society for Media and Communication Studies, October 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 4, 2017 (German).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ^ Klaus Arnold - Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science . In: Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science . June 13, 2017 ( halemverlag.de [accessed November 4, 2017]).
5. ^ Anna-Lena Wagner (MA) - Institute for Journalism. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .