Michael Meyen

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Michael Meyen (* 1967 in Bergen auf Rügen ) is a German communication scientist .

Career

Meyen studied journalism in Leipzig from 1988 to 1992. From 1991 to 1997 he worked as a journalist and news editor in the daily press, radio and teletext. In 1995 he received his doctorate in Leipzig, followed by his habilitation in 2001.

He was a lecturer at the Universities of Leipzig (1995 to 2001) and Halle (2000/2001). Since 2002 he has been professor for general and systematic communication science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

His research and teaching focus on journalism and media organization, GDR , the history of communication science, and qualitative methods.

criticism

On November 7, 2018, an event planned by the Meyen department took place at the Ludwig Maximilians University with the title “Israel, Palestine and the Limits of the Sayable” together with Andreas Zumach . Several organizations, including the Association of Jewish Students in Bavaria and the Jewish Agency , had requested the President of the LMU, Bernd Huber , in an open letter to cancel the event.

According to an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on May 25, 2020, Meyen offered “a forum for questionable views” in a blog he published on “Media Reality” and saw Ken Jebsen as a “professional journalist”. The management of the Institute for Communication Science (IfKW) at LMU Munich publicly distanced itself from this on May 25, 2020. On June 2, 2020, Meyen published a statement on the discourse that had arisen on his blog and announced the cessation of blog operations. Meyen himself describes the problem that his blog was instrumentalized for "fights that have nothing to do with the blog". Among other things, Meyen names (in a comment of June 4, 2020 on his above-mentioned statement) his role in the process against the anti- BDS decision of the city of Munich as a possible background for the "criticism". With a statement published on June 5, 2020, the institute replaced the previous notification and emphasized the professors' independence from instructions from the institute. Meyen's statement was welcomed and it was made clear that contributions by individual professors do not always reflect the uniform point of view of the institute. In addition, it was announced in the statement that the institute is working on a platform "which serves the dialogue between science and society". Meyen started the media reality blog with a similar goal.

Publications

  • Leipzig's bourgeois press in the Weimar Republic. Interrelationships between social change and newspaper development (= university publications of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Verein ). Rosa-Luxemburg-Verein, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-929994-58-5 (also dissertation, University of Leipzig 1995).
  • "We lived more freely": The GDR in the collective memory of the Germans (culture and media theory) Transcript (paperback) 2013. ISBN 978-3-8376-2370-3 .
  • Breaking News: The World in a State of Emergency: How the Media Rule Us. West end; Frankfurt 2018. ISBN 978-3-86489-206-6 .
  • (with Kerem Schamberger) The Kurds: A people between oppression and rebellion. West end; Frankfurt 2018. ISBN 978-3-86489-207-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Michael Meyen - Institute for Communication Science and Media Research (IFKW) - LMU Munich. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Thorsten Schmitz: Israel Debate - The main thing is against. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sebastian Krass: LMU Munich: Displeasure with Michael Meyen's blog. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Michael Meyen: Controversy about "media reality". In: MEDIA REALITY. Accessed June 7, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Michael Meyen: Controversy about "media reality". In: MEDIA REALITY. Accessed June 7, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R: Judge skeptical about anti-BDS decision. May 28, 2020, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  7. ^ Statement of the institute on the current controversy about the blog "Media Reality" - Institute for Communication Science and Media Research (IFKW) - LMU Munich. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Michael Meyen: Inspiration from a professional: Why we start “Media Reality”. In: MEDIA REALITY. Accessed June 7, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Meyen, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountains on Rügen