Michael Freund (journalist)

Michael Freund (2019)

Michael Freund (* 1949 in Vienna ) is an Austrian journalist, social and media scientist .

Freund graduated from the German School in Milan and then studied psychology and sociology at the University of Vienna and the University of Heidelberg . He completed his doctorate in 1978 at Columbia University in New York City. He worked as a social scientist and since 1981 as a freelancer for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) , mainly in radio. In 1983 Freund became a lecturer in social sciences and media communication at the universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt and Salzburg . Since 2005 he has been an instructor and head of the Media Communications Department at Webster University Vienna in Vienna. He is now also a professor of media communications at Webster University.

From 1979 to 1981 Freund played a leading role in the Marienthal 1930–1980 project . Review and socio-psychological inventory in a rural industrial community - a follow -up study to the well-known Marienthal study . From 1989 to 2003 Freund was the head of the weekend supplement Album des Wiener Standard , where he still works as an editor. He is a cousin of the ORF presenter and MEP Eugen Freund .

Fonts (selection)

• People in front of the screen. A photo essay. (= 25 years of television. Reports on media research 5) Österreichischer Rundfunk, Vienna 1980.
• Mental flashes. Portraits of important Austrian scientists. Springer, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85447-748-1 .
• Class A. Austrian product culture today. Photos by Berhard Angerer, Bibliophile Edition, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-9500956-0-8 .
• with Walter Lürzer (Ed.): Schlagobers. 30 years of advertising from Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann. Brandstätter, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85498-066-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography on the page of the Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria.
2. ↑ Michael Freund on the Webster University website.