Martin spoonwood

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Martin Löffelholz (born August 6, 1959 in Dortmund ) is a German professor of media studies .

Education and professional activities

After graduating from the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium in Dortmund, he served as a temporary soldier in the armed forces from 1978 to 1980 . After an eight-month world tour, he studied from October 1981 communication and political science , sociology and European Ethnology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster , where he in June 1988 with a dissertation on the political planning of university journalism education doctorate was. After a few years with a daily newspaper and a news agency in Germany, he experienced the beginning of the civil war in Sri Lanka in mid-1983 as a young reporter for the Ceylon Daily Mirror . From 1984 to 1988 he worked as a radio and television journalist at WDR .

From 1988 to 1994, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Journalism at the University of Münster. a. active in Pakistan and Mongolia . Between 1994 and 1998 he held a chair for journalism at the University of Leipzig , worked as a research assistant and was part of the founding team of the Leipzig university radio station “ mephisto 97.6 ”.

Activity as a university lecturer

Since 1998 he has been Professor of Media Studies at the Technical University of Ilmenau and from 1999 to 2001 he was the founding director of the Institute for Media and Communication Studies there . He was visiting professor at various universities abroad, including the Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta in Indonesia and the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines . In 2002 he founded the International Research Group on Crisis Communication (IRGoCC), which he has headed ever since. Since 2011 he has also headed the Ilmenau Center of Public Diplomacy Research and Training (ICPD). From 2012 to 2015, Löffelholz was released from his duties as a university professor by the Free State of Thuringia in order to take up the post of rector of the Swiss German University in Indonesia.

His teaching and research focuses include journalism , international and intercultural communication , public diplomacy , war and crisis communication , security and military communication, media and terrorism , communication cultures and media systems in Asia. In addition ,öffelholz has dealt with aspects of regional integration in Southeast Asia ( ASEAN ).

His publications also formed the basis for large parts of the article on theories of journalism .

Publications (selection)

  • Politics in the science system. Planning and implementation of university-related journalism training . Lit, Münster 1989 (= dissertation University of Münster 1988).
  • Together with David Weaver (Ed.): Global Journalism Research. Theories, Methods, Findings, Future . Blackwell Publishing, Malden, Oxford, Carlton 2008, ISBN 978-1-4051-5331-7 .
  • Together with Christian Trippe and Andrea C. Hoffmann (eds.): War and crisis reporting. A manual . UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 2008. ISBN 978-3-89669-570-3 .
  • Together with Danilo A. Arao: The ASEAN Guide. A Journalist's Handbook to Regional Integration in Southeast Asia . GIZ, Berlin 2011.
  • Together with Liane Rothenberger (Ed.): Handbuch Journalismustheorien . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016. ISBN 978-3-531-18157-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ official curriculum vitae on the website of the TU Ilmenau ( Memento from May 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ International Research Group on Crisis Communication (IRGoCC): Staff . Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  3. ^ Ilmenau Center of Public Diplomacy Research and Training (ICPD): Team ( Memento from February 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  4. ↑ Curriculum vitae on the website of the TU Ilmenau ( Memento from May 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ Martin Löffelholz & Danilo A. Arao (2011): The ASEAN Guide. A Journalist's Handbook to Regional Integration in Southeast Asia, GIZ: Berlin.
  6. ↑ Stefan Weber: Will the "reference wars" come after the "science wars" ? . In: telepolis of September 29, 2005, accessed on April 14, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Spoonwood, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication scientist, professor of media studies
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund