NEWS
ICA Fellow Appointment - Laudation by Cindy Gallois, Singapore June 25, 2010 Listen –> ica_fellow-award-donsbach_cindy-gallois
DW-Beitrag zum Urteil im Fall Marwa deutsche-welle_ddverdict
DLF-Beitrag zum Fernsehduell vom 13.09.09 dlf_20090913_0813_ecc9c279
DLF-Beitrag zur NPD in Sachsen vom 26.08.09 dlf_20090523_1719_41167374
Just published: Haumer & Donsbach (2009): The Rivalry of Nonverbal Cues on the Perception of Politicians by Television Viewers. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 53, No.2, 262-279 rivalry_jobem
schekker.de: Interview zur BILD. Hier der Link
English language article on selective exposure to newspaper content will be reprinted in Communication Theory: Exposure to Political Content in Newspapers: The Impact of Cognitive Dissonance on Readers’ Selectivity. In: Schulz, P. (ed.): Communication Theory. Thousand Oaks et al.: Sage Publication (in print for 2010) [Reprint of article in European Journal of Communication 6 (1991), 155-186]
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Demystification of a profession - What people expect from journalists and how they get disapppointed. Konstanz: UVK Medien. We are grateful to the sponsors Stiftung Wert(e)volle Zukunft and the NRZ Foundation for their financial support and to the Institut zur Förderung des publizistischen Nachwuchses e.V. for their academic support
Deutschlandfunk “Markt und Medien” am 23.05.09 dlf_20090523_1719_41167374
Interview mit “Pressetext” (Österreich): http://pressetext.com/news/090519001/
Vorstellung des Buches beim Institut zur Förderung publizistischen Nachwuchses. Veranstaltungsankündigung
Vorstellung des Buches bei der Stiftung Wert(e)volle Zukunft in Hamburg Veranstaltungsankündigungeinladung-podiumsdiskussion-090709
Cognitive Dissonance Theory – Roller Coaster Career. How Communication Research Adapted the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance. In: Tilo Hartmann (ed.): Media Choice. A Theoretical and Empirical Overview. New York, London: Routledge, 128-149 269_08_media-choice
Interview. Series “Dialogue”featuring interviews with world-known scholars in social science in general and communication in particular. Communication and Society (in Chinese and English) dialogue
Donsbach, W. & Jandura, O. (2009): Die ‘vermachteten Medien’ - wem nützte die Berichterstattung vor der Bundestagswahl 2005 mehr? In: Oberreuter, H. (Hg.): Unentschieden. Die erzwungene Koalition. München: Olzog Verlag 2009, 71-90 (Verlag)
Top Three Faculty Paper Award
Our paper “The Ethics Gap. Why Germans Have Little Esteem and No Trust in Journalists” (Donsbach, Rentsch & Mende) has been selected as one of the top three faculty papers in the Journalism Studies Division of ICA. We will receive the award at the division’s business meeting on May 24 during the ICA conference in Chicago.
New Research Grant
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (equivalent to the NSF in the USA) has just granted to me a study on ‘news exposure and news knowledge of young people’. The study will investigate what news the citizens have been exposed to, where they got it from and what they remember of it. The questionnaire will be adjusted on a daily basis by an expert panel that decides upon the three most important issues of the day. The surveys are amended by quantitative content analyses of the news media used by the recipients. The study has a special focus on news exposure and political knowledge of the younger generation and the role of the internet in comparison to traditional media. Some parts of the research is designed after a study “Young People and the News” by Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
Carnegie-Knight Report is now out
The so-called Donsbach/Fiedler-Report on curriculum enrichment in journalism at top universities in the US is out. The report was commissioned by the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. See:
Evaluation of Communication Research in Israel
Wolfgang Donsbach has been invited to join the review committee to evaluate Israeli communication research. The committee ewill evaluate four colleges and three universities and the whole field of communication in Israel. Other international members of the committee are Joe Cappellla (University of Pennsylvania) and Ellen Wartella (University of California at Riverside). The committee is charged by the the Israeli Council of Higher Education. The task involves several field trips to Israel in 2009.
Honorary Membership in Polish Communication Association
The Polish Communication Association has awarded an honorary membership to me during their first annual conference in Wroclaw, on September 15, 2008
Recently published
Monika Fleischhauer, Sören Enge, Wolfgang Donsbach (2008): Multimodale Konstruktvalidierung: Ein Mehrmethodenansatz am Beispiel des Persönlichkeitsmerkmals ‘Need for Cognition’. In: Matthes, J., Daschmann, G., Fahr, A. (Hg.): Methoden und Forschungslogik der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Die Brücke zwischen Theorie und Empirie. Köln: von Halem Verlag, 326-354
Wolfgang Donsbach (General Editor): International Encyclopedia of Communication, 12 volumes, Malden, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing 2008 (Link)
Wolfgang Donsbach & Michael W. Traugott (eds.): Handbook of Public Opinion Research. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage Publishing, 2008 (Link)
Hot eller välsignelse? (Menace or Blessing: Public Discourses About Polls). In: Olof Petersson (Hg.): Mediena: folkets röst? Demokratiradets rapport 2008. Stockholm: SNS Förlag, 51-79
Factors Behind Journalists’ Professional Behavior: A Psychological Approach to Journalism Research. In: Martin Löffelholz & David Weaver (eds.): Global Journalism Research. Malden, Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell Publishing, 2008, pp. 65-78
Im Bermuda-Dreieck. Paradoxien im journalistischen Selbstverständnis. In: Bernhard Pörksen, Wiebke Loosen, Armin Scholl (Hg.): Paradoxien im Journalismus. Theorie – Empirie – Praxis. Festschrift für Siegfried Weischenberg. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008, 147-164
Forthcoming Activities
- 13.11.2009 Chicago: Panel “Discourses of Stability and Change”, Konferenz der National Communication Association (NCA)
- 14.-15.11.2009 Cadenabbia (Italien): Gesprächskreis “Neue Länder” der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
- 18.06.2010 Lisbon: Vortrag “Nothing is a practical as a good theory – What communication research can offer to assess PR success”? ACOP Annual meeting
