Louis Bosshart

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Louis Bosshart (born January 7, 1944 in Fischingen TG ) is a Swiss communication scientist and professor emeritus for media and communication studies at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) .

His specialty is research on mass media entertainment in film or television. In addition to media entertainment, his focus is on teaching and research in journalistic occupational research , the relationship between media and politics as well as pop culture and individual communication .

Life

From 1965 Louis Bosshart studied German and journalism in Freiburg im Üechtland and spent a semester abroad at the Free University of Berlin in 1967/68 . He received his doctorate in 1972 with a name -based work with Professor Eduard Studer , and his habilitation in journalism and communication studies in 1979 with Professors Florian H. Fleck and Ulrich Saxer .

From 1982 Louis Bosshart was full professor and first director at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies, later President of the Department for Media and Communication Studies at the University of Freiburg. Between 1990 and 1992 he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. Bosshart has worked as a visiting professor and lecturer at the universities of Zurich , St. Gallen , Lugano , Klagenfurt and Munich as well as at Stanford University . In 2013 he retired as a professor.

Outside the university, he was president of the Swiss Society for Communication and Media Studies (SGKM) from 1984 to 1993 and presided over numerous commissions and juries.

Bosshart is married and has two grown sons.

Works (selection)

  • Dynamics of television entertainment. A communication science analysis and synthesis , Freiburg 1979 (= public social communication, vol. 13). Habilitation thesis.
  • TV entertainment from the perspective of communicators . In: Media Perspektiven, No. 8 (1984), pp. 644-649.
  • The Pope's visits to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein - two major media events , Freiburg 1987.
  • Reflections on a theory of entertainment . In: Louis Bosshart; Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem (Ed.): Medienlust und Mediennutz. Entertainment as public communication, Munich 1994, pp. 28–40.
  • Stimulation and relief through media-cultural communication . In: Ulrich Saxer (Ed.): Medien-Kulturkommunikation. Opladen 1998, pp. 299-309.
  • (together with Ilaria Macconi): Media Entertainment . In: Communication Research Trends 18, 1998, No. 3, pp. 3-8, 19-38.
  • (as editor, together with Matthias F. Steinmann): " Lüthi und Blanc ". The integration potential of a "soap opera" (Media Paper No. 13). Freiburg 2002.
  • On the genesis of entertainment research in German-language media and communication studies . In: Werner Wirth; Holger Schramm; Volker Gehrau (ed.): Entertainment through media. Theory and measurement. Cologne 2006, pp. 12–24.
  • Information and / or entertainment . In: Armin Scholl; Rudi Renger; Bernd Blöbaum (Ed.): Journalism and entertainment. Theoretical approaches and empirical findings. Wiesbaden 2007, pp. 17-29.

Book for Louis Bosshart

  • Ursula Ganz-Blättler; Diana Ingenhoff (Ed.): You can't not entertain. Contributions to entertainment journalism ; LIT, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-80148-7

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Bosshart: Motives for giving first names in the canton of Schaffhausen from 1960 to 1970, examined in the communities of Beggingen, Beringen, Ramsen, Stein am Rhein, Thayngen and Wilchingen . Dissertation Freiburg / Switzerland 1973.
  2. ↑ "I liked dealing with media waste" , srf.ch, May 24, 2013, accessed on May 28, 2013.
  3. ↑ Ursula Ganz-Blättler & Diana Ingenhoff: Introduction: Researchers and Teachers. Motivator. Door opener , in: Ursula Ganz-Blättler; Diana Ingenhoff (Ed.): You can't not entertain. Contributions to entertainment journalism , Münster 2013, p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Bosshart, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischingen TG