Siegfried Weischenberg

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Siegfried Weischenberg (born March 24, 1948 in Wuppertal ) is a German communication scientist and sociologist.

Life

Weischenberg studied sociology , history , economics ( social sciences ) and communication science at the Ruhr University Bochum . After a traineeship and editorial work for a daily newspaper as well as his doctorate in 1976, he worked as a research assistant at the Pädagogische Hochschule Ruhr in Dortmund and was involved in setting up a university-related journalist training program at the Technical University of Dortmund . From 1979 to 1982 he taught as a professor of journalism before moving to the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . There he headed the journalism department at what is now the Institute for Communication Studies, of which he was director from 1994 to 1997.

Since 2000 he has headed the Chair of Journalism and Communication Studies at the University of Hamburg . From 2001 to 2008, Weischenberg was managing director of the Institute for Journalism and Communication Studies (IJK) and director of the Center for Media Communication (ZfM). From 2005 to 2007 he was also scientific director of the journalism course at the Hamburg Media School .

From 1999 to 2001 he was federal chairman of the German Association of Journalists (DJV).

Siegfried Weischenberg is a member of the board of trustees of Aktion Deutschland Hilft eV, the alliance of aid organizations.

theses

In 1978, Weischenberg complained that a sociology of technology “only rudimentarily” existed at that time. This is due to the distance between social science and society.

Fonts (selection)

  • Media crisis and media war. Do we still need journalism at all? Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-03088-9 .
  • Max Weber and the measurement of the media world. The empiricism and ethics of journalism - a track reading. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-17798-0 .
  • Max Weber and the disenchantment of the media world. Theories and quarrels - a different specialist story. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18717-4 .
  • The prompts of the media society. Report on journalists in Germany (with Maja Malik and Armin Scholl , 2006)
  • Media qualities (with Wiebke Loosen, and Michael Beuthner, 2006)
  • Handbook of Journalism and Media (editor, m. Hans J. Kleinsteuber and Bernhard Pörksen , 2005)
  • Journalism (new edition 1998-2004) (textbook, 3 vol.)
  • News Journalism (2001)
  • Journalism in Society (m. Armin Scholl, 1998)
  • The future of journalism (with Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen and Martin Löffelholz , 1994)
  • The Reality of the Media (Eds., With Klaus Merten and Siegfried J. Schmidt , 1994)
  • Journalism & Competence (Ed., 1990)
  • Message writing. Journalistic practice for study and self-study. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1988 (2nd edition 1990: ISBN 3-531-11942-7 )
  • Journalism in the Computer Society (1982)
  • The electronic editing - journalistic consequences of the new technology , Verlag Dokumenation Saur, Munich 1978

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Weischenberg: The electronic editorial department, page 54
  2. ↑ a b c Stephan Ruß-Mohl : Max Weber as a media sociologist. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from December 30, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Weischenberg, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal