Klaus Krippendorff

Klaus Krippendorff

Klaus Krippendorff (1932 Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German cyberneticist and professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

Overview

Krippendorff was born in 1932 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He graduated as Ingenieur in 1954 at the State Engineering School Hanover, and in 1961 he received a diploma in Design from the Ulm School of Design, Ulm, Germany. In 1967 he received a Ph.D. in communications at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Krippendorff started working as Research Assistant at the Institute for Visual Perception at the Ulm School of Design in 1961. For two years he was became a Ford International Fellow and went to the States working at the University of Illinois for two years to end up at the University of Pennsylvania, were he would keep working at the Annenberg School for Communication since 1980 as a Professor of Communication. [http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/krippendorff/page2vita.htm CV Klaus Krippendorff] , retrieved sept 2007.]

He is member of the editorial boards of 18 journals as "Communication and Information Science", "Communication Research", "Cybernetics & Human Knowing", "International Journal of Cultural Studies" and the "Journal of Communication". And he has been reviewer for a dozen instutitutes and journals from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to "The Sociological Quarterly", the "Journal of the American Statistical Association", "Journal for Peace Research", the "Management Communication Quarterly" and the "Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism".

He was award 1971 an MA (Honorary) from the University of Pennsylvania, the 1971 Award for "On Generating Data in Communication Research" as the most outstanding contribution to The Journal of Communication in 1970. He further received the Norbert Wiener Medal in Cybernetics in gold by the American Society for Cybernetics in 2001, the ICA Fellows Book Award for Content Analysis, An Introduction to Its Methodology in 2004 and the Norbert Wiener/Hermann Schmidt Prize by the German Society for Cybernetics, German Society for Pedagogy and Information, at the University of Vienna.

Work

Klaus Krippendorff research interests reach from epistemology to design:
* Constructivist epistemology and second-order cybernetics;
* Mathematical foundations of cybernetics, general systems, communication and information theories.
* Content analysis
* Disagreement and reliability analysis
* Critical scholarship;
* Design principles for the information age.

Besides supporting various initiatives to develop content analysis techniques and continuing work on reliability measurement, Klaus Krippendorff’s current interest is fourfold: With epistemology in mind, he inquires into how language brings forth reality. As a critical scholar, he explores the conditions of entrapment and liberation. As a second-order cybernetician, he plays with recursive constructions of self and others in conversations; and as designer, he attempts to move the meaning and human use of technological artifacts into the center of design considerations, causing a redesign of design – all of them exciting projects. [ [http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=502518 Klaus Krippendorff] , Sage publications, 2006.]

See also

* Concordance correlation coefficient
* Content analysis
* Social entropy
* Satisficing
* The Semantic Turn

Publications

Klaus Krippendorff has published widely on cybernetics and systems theory, on methodology in the social sciences, and on human communication: [ [http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/krippendorff/page3pub.htm Klaus Krippendorff's Publications] ]
* 1967, "An Examination of Content Analysis: A Proposal for a Framework and an Information Calculus for Message Analytic Situations", Ph.D. Dissertation, Urbana: University of Illinois, 400 pp.
* 1980, "Content Analysis; An Introduction to its Methodology", Beverly Hills CA: Sage, 188 pp.
* 1986, " [http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/INDEXASC.html A Dictionary of Cybernetics] ", Norfolk VA: The American Society for Cybernetics.
* 1986, "Information Theory: Structural Models for Qualitative Data", Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 96 pp.
* 1989, with Reihhart Butter (Eds.) (1989). Product Semantics. "Design issues",
* 1994, "Design: A Discourse on Meaning; A Work Book", Philadelphia PA: University of the Arts.
* 2006, "The Semantic Turn; A New Foundation for Design", New York: Taylor & Francis CRC, 349 pp.

Articles, a selection:
* 1970, "Bivariate agreement coefficients for reliability of data", in E. F. Borgatta: "Sociological Methodology". San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 139–150.

References

External links

* [http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/krippendorff/ Klaus Krippendorff's] Homepage at asc.upenn.edu
* [http://spmc.open.ac.uk/2003july15-17-spmc-ukss-ouss-21cen-visions.htm Systems practice for managing complexity] , International conference 15-17th July 2003, St Anne's College, Oxford.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • The Semantic Turn — Infobox Book name = The Semantic Turn: a new foundation for design title orig = translator = image caption = author = Klaus Krippendorff illustrator = cover artist = country = flagicon|USA United States language = English series = subject =… …   Wikipedia

  • Content analysis — or textual analysis is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the content of communication. Earl Babbie defines it as the study of recorded human communications, such as books, websites, paintings and laws. According to Dr. Farooq… …   Wikipedia

  • Satisficing — (a portmanteau of satisfy and suffice ) is a decision making strategy which attempts to meet criteria for adequacy, rather than to identify an optimal solution. A satisficing strategy may often be (near) optimal if the costs of the decision… …   Wikipedia

  • HfG Ulm — Die Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, meistens kurz HfG Ulm, wurde 1953 von Inge Aicher Scholl, Otl Aicher, Max Bill und weiteren in Ulm gegründet und bestand bis 1968. International genoss sie einen hervorragenden Ruf und war Wegbereiter und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm — Die Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (HfG Ulm) wurde 1953 von Inge Aicher Scholl, Otl Aicher, Max Bill und weiteren in Ulm gegründet und bestand bis 1968. Sie gilt als die international bedeutendste Design Hochschule nach dem Bauhaus. International… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Concordance correlation coefficient — In statistics, the concordance correlation coefficient measures the agreement between two variables, e.g., to evaluate reproducibility or for inter rater reliability. Definition Lawrence Lin has the form of the concordance correlation coefficient …   Wikipedia

  • List of systems scientists — This is a list of systems scientists, people who made notable contributions in the field of the systems sciences: [This list is based on the following sources: * ASC cybernetics, A history of cybernetics , website 2007. * Charles François,… …   Wikipedia

  • Social entropy — is a macrosociological systems theory. Social Entropy is a measure of the natural decay within a social system. It can refer to the decomposition of social structure or of the disappearance of social distinctions. Much of the energy consumed by a …   Wikipedia

  • American Society for Cybernetics — Infobox Non profit Non profit name = American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) Non profit Non profit type = Professional Organization founded date = 1964 founder = location = Washington DC, USA origins = key people = Louis H. Kauffman (current… …   Wikipedia

  • Constructivist Foundations — is a four monthly interdisciplinary peer reviewed academic journal that focusses on constructivist approaches to science and philosophy, especially radical constructivism, enactive cognitive science, second order cybernetics, biology of cognition …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”