Klaus Neumann-Braun

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Klaus Neumann-Braun (2012)

Klaus Neumann-Braun (born December 8, 1952 ) is a German sociologist and communication scientist . He is professor / emeritus for media studies at the University of Basel .

Educational biography

Klaus Neumann-Braun studied sociology at the University of Tübingen and subsequently at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg with the minor subjects psychology , educational science, social pedagogy and ethnology . He passed his exams ( Magister Artium ) in Freiburg in 1978, and received his doctorate there in 1982 with a dissertation based on social theory : The beginning of communication between mother and child Structural analysis of mother-child interaction (1983). In 1993 he completed his habilitation at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in the subject of sociology with the media and communication-sociological habilitation thesis: Rundfunkunterhaltung. For staging communication events close to the audience (1993).

Teaching and professional activity

From 1992 to 2005, Neumann-Braun carried out his teaching and research activities at the universities of Trier , Frankfurt / Main , Koblenz-Landau as part of sociological, media and communication science professorships, and as a visiting professor at the University of Vienna in 2002, 2019 and 2020 . Further teaching assignments followed in Freiburg i.Br., Siegen, Lucerne and Portland / Oregon / USA. From 2005 to 2020 he was Professor of Media Studies at the University of Basel with a research focus on media and communication studies as well as cultural sociology , popular culture analyzes , audience, impact and reception research, digital media studies, interpretative methods of media and social research as well as youth media protection and media literacy promotion. Since 2010 he has been a representative of the science division on the Advisory Board of the Safer Internet Center Germany, part of the EU's Safer Internet Program.

From 2013 to 2016 Neumann-Braun was Dean of Research at the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Basel .

Together with Henry Keazor and Axel Schmidt, he publishes the “Short-Cuts / Cross Media” series at Nomos Verlag . Since 2012 he has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the specialist journal “Pop. Culture and Criticism ”( Transcript Verlag ).

The two research projects he is (co-) headed and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) are dedicated to the research topics “School education and digitization” and “The future of Swiss public service as reflected in the media generations and milieus”.

Works (selection)

As editor

  • Language acquisition and media use. Series of publications: ScriptOralia. Vol. 27. Tübingen: Narr, 1990 (together with M. Charlton).
  • Public, culture, mass communication: contributions to the sociology of media and communication. Oldenburg: Library publisher of the university, 1991 (together with St. Müller-Doohm ).
  • Cultural productions. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1995 / 2nd edition 1996 (together with St. Müller-Doohm ).
  • VIVA MTV! Pop music on TV. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1999 / 3rd edition 2004.
  • Media and communication sociology. An introduction to central terms and theories. Series: Basics of Sociology. Weinheim: Juventa, 2000 (together with St. Müller-Doohm ).
  • Popvisionen - Links to the Future. Frankfurt / Main: Suhrkamp, ​​2003 (together with A. Schmidt, M. Mai).
  • Friendship and fellowship on the social web. Image-related action and peer group communication on Facebook & Co. Series: “Short-Cuts / Cross Media”, Vol. 2. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011 (together with U. Autenrieth).
  • The Visual Worlds of Social Network Sites. Images and Image-Based Communication on Facebook and Co. Series: “Short-Cuts / Cross Media”, Vol. 4. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011 (together with U. Autenrieth).
  • Popular music - media music ?. Series: “Short-Cuts / Cross Media”, Vol. 3. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2011 (together with Ch. Jost, D. Klug, A. Schmidt).
  • ON AIR. Thirty years of local radio in Switzerland. Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2013 (together with W. Rüegg, R. Thiriet ).

As an author

  • The beginning of communication between mother and child: structural analysis of mother-child interaction. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 1983.
  • Media childhood - media youth. An introduction to current communication science research. Munich: Quintessenz, 1992 (together with M. Charlton).
  • Broadcasting entertainment - for staging communication events close to the audience. Series: ScriptOralia. Vol. 48. Tübingen: Narr, 1993.
  • Media Childhood - Brand Childhood. Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2004 (together with I. Paus-Hasebrink, St. Aufenanger, U. Hasebrink).
  • The world of goths - scope for darkly connoted transcendence. Wiesbaden: Verlag Sozialwissenschaften, 2005 (together with A. Schmidt).
  • Coolhunters - youth cultures between media and market. Book publication for the exhibition of the same name at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZMK), Karlsruhe 2005.
  • I armies. To deceive. Camouflage. Drill. Munich: Fink, 2006 (together with B. Richard).
  • Video clips and music television. A problem-oriented commentary on the current research literature. Publication series media research of the State Institute for Media (LfM, NRW), vol. 52. Berlin: Vistas, 2006 (together with L. Mikos).
  • Computerized analysis of audiovisual media products. Series: Qualitative Social Research. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2013 (together with Ch. Jost, D. Klug, A. Schmidt, A. Reautschnig).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.halem-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/9783869622989_le.pdf
  2. ^ University of Basel - Institute for Media Studies - klicksafe.de. Retrieved March 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Portrait ( Memento from December 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Seminar for Media Studies. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  4. ↑ Short Cuts | Cross media
  5. ↑ »Pop. Culture and Criticism «Topics, orientation, editor and advisory board of the magazine by Thomas Hecken March 8, 2013» POP-ZEITSCHRIFT. Retrieved on March 14, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) | P3 research database | Projects - People - Publications. Accessed March 14, 2018 (English).
  7. ↑ Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) | P3 research database | Projects - People - Publications. Accessed March 14, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Neumann-Braun, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1952