Horst Pöttker

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Horst Pöttker (2011)

Horst Pöttker (born December 29, 1944 in Bad Segeberg ) is a German social scientist , university professor and publicist .

Life

After graduating from high school, Horst Pöttker graduated from the Walddörferschule in Hamburg in 1964 , studying social sciences , humanities , philosophy and mathematics in Hamburg, Zurich, Kiel and Basel. In 1978 he received his doctorate from the University of Basel (Dr. phil.-hist.). He then worked from 1982 to 1985 as a research assistant in sociology at the University of Siegen. 1985–1996 he was the editor in charge of the magazine "medium" in the community work of Protestant journalism. At the University of Leipzig from 1992–1995 he was a visiting professor for communication studies (focus: ethics of journalistic action). In 1995 he qualified as a professor at the University of Siegen in the subject sociology (focus: sociology of communication and public media). From 1995 to 2013 he taught and researched as a professor for theory and practice of journalism at the University of Dortmund . Since 2001 guest professorships and lecture tours have taken him to the universities of Rostov-on-Don , Iowa , Stavropol , Vienna and St. Petersburg .

In spring 2013 , Horst Pöttker retired from TU Dortmund University and was appointed Senior Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg in the 2015 summer semester.

From 2002–2013, Horst Pöttker was the managing director of the News Enlightenment Initiative (INA), the counterpart to the American media democracy initiative Project Censored . In 2004 he founded the Association for the Promotion of Journalistic Self-Control (FPS) together with Wolfgang R. Langenbucher and Achim Baum. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Network for Eastern Europe Reporting (n-ost) and the Council for Migration . In 2018 he founded the bilingual journal "Journalistik" / "Journalism Research" with four colleagues.

Fonts

  • with Christina Kiesewetter, Juliana Lofink (ed.): Migrants as journalists ?: A study on career prospects in the immigration society . , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3658012557 .
  • with Aleksandr I. Stan'ko (Ed.): Efforts of Modernity. German and Russian publicists of the 19th century (German / Russian), Herbert von Halem, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-86962-100-5 .
  • with Anke Vehmeier (Ed.): The misunderstood department. Problems and Perspectives of Local Journalism. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01139-0 .
  • with Alla G. Bespalowa, Evgenij A. Kornilow (eds.): Journalistic genres in Germany and Russia. Manual (German / Russian), Herbert von Halem, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-938258-76-7 .
  • with Josef Kurz, Daniel Müller, Joachim Pötschke and Martin Gehr: Stylistics for journalists. Textbook. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-33434-9 .
  • with Rainer Geißler (ed.): Mass media and the integration of ethnic minorities in Germany. Research Findings. (= Media breaks. Volume 30). transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1027-7 .
  • with Achim Baum, Wolfgang R. Langenbucher and Christian Schicha: Handbook of media self-control. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14821-4 .
  • Rejected Past: Contributions to German Remembrance of National Socialism. Herbert von Halem, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-931606-94-5 .
  • with Svennik Hoyer (Ed.): Diffusion of the News Paradigm 1850–2000. Nordicom, Göteborg 2005, ISBN 91-89471-30-X .
  • with Rainer Geißler (ed.): Mass media and the integration of ethnic minorities in Germany. Problem outline - state of research - bibliography. (= Media breaks. Volume 9). transcript, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-8376-1027-6 .
  • as publisher: the public as a social mandate. Social science classics on journalism and media. Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 2001, ISBN 3-87940-632-4 .
  • Alienation and Illusion: Social Action in Modernity . Habilitation thesis . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-16-146641-1 .
  • On the democratic level of the content of supraregional West German daily newspapers: Theory of Science and Methodology - Normative Theory of Democracy - Quantitative Content Analysis. Dissertation . SOAK-Verlag, Hannover 1978, ISBN 3-88209-028-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senior Professorship for Journalism at wiso.uni-hamburg.de
  2. ^ Previous day on November 7, 2016: "Lügenpresse" - media criticism as a popular political sport. Historical and basic information on the term, video at lecture2go (University of Hamburg)
  3. ↑ The blind spot.
  4. ^ Members of the RfM
personal data
SURNAME Pöttker, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist, sociologist, university lecturer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Segeberg