Professional Services
  1986- Member International Council of the Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes sur la Communication (IREC), Université de Paris 2, France  
  1987- Member Editorial Board Communicatio, published by University of South Africa  
  1993- Member Editorial Board Javnost, published by University of Ljubljana, Slowenia  
  1995- Member Editorial Board, The Harvard International Journal Press/Politics  
  1995- President Advisory Board, Association 'Citizens Question Journalists'  
  1996- Managing editor, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, published by Oxford University Press (position also held 1987-1994), editor since 1994  
  1997- President, German Association for Media Content Analysis  
  1999- Chairman ICA Liaison Committee  
  2002- Vice-president German Communication Association (DGPuK)  
  2000- Member Editorial Board, Conflict and Communication Online  
  2005- Editorial Board, Communication Theory  
  2006- Editorial Board, Human Communication Research   
  2006- General Editor of "International Encyclopedia of Communication" (Blackwell Publishing, in preparation)  
 
 
  1985 Chairman, program committee: conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) in Wiesbaden, Germany (1985)  
  1987 Chairman, program committee: Annual conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Montreux, Switzerland  
  1987-90 Chairman, publications committee, World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)  
  1987-94 Managing editor, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, (Editors: S.M. Lipset, E. Noelle-Neumann, R.M. Worcester)  
  1987-94 Managing editor, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, (Editors: S.M. Lipset, E. Noelle-Neumann, R.M. Worcester)  
  1988 Chairman, joint session "Mass Media and Public Opinion" of WAPOR and IAMCR, Barcelona, Spain  
  1989 Convenor and program chair: Seminar "Opinion Polls" of the European Society for Marketing and Opinion Research (ESOMAR), Sevilla, Spain  
  1992 Organizer and chair, Joint Session of WAPOR and IAMCR on "Mass Media and Public Opinion" at the IAMCR conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil  
  1992 Organizer and chair, Joint Session of WAPOR and ICA "Politics and the News in Democracies" at the ICA conference in Miami, Florida  
  1992-2002 President section Sociology and Social Psychology (renamed: Psychology and Public Opinion), program chair for section's annual programs and member of the International Council of the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR)  
  1993 Chairman program committee, WAPOR seminar "Public Opinion and Public Opinion Research in Eastern Europe", Tallinn, Estonia  
  1993 Invited organizer of the Open Submission Topic (OST) "Public Opinion" for the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Miami Beach, Florida  
  1995-96 President World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)  
  1995-96 Chairman program committee, ICA Political Communication Division  
  1996-98 Chairman Political Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA)  
  1996-2002 Chairman Program Committee and convenor, WAPOR seminar series on "Quality Criteria in Public Opinion Research", Cadenabbia, Italy (bi-annual seminars)  
  1998-2000 Member Research Committee, International Communication Association  
  2001 Chairman Program Committee, first joint symposium of ICA und IAMCR on "Digital Divide", Austin, Texas  
  2001 Member ICA Nomination Committee  
  2004-2005 President, International Communication Association (ICA)  
  2005/11 Member External Evaluation Committee, Amsterdam School of Communication  
  2007/4 Member External Evaluation Committee, School of Communication, Ohio State University  
 
 

Other services
  1993- President, Associations of the Friends of the Department of Communication TU Dresden  
  1996- Member of the Board, Dresden International School  
  1997-1999 Chairman, American Chamber of Commerce, Saxony  
  2003- Culture Senator of Saxony  
  2005- Member of the board of directors of Staatsschauspiel Dresden  
 
 

Membership in Professional and Academic Organizations
 
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaften (DGPuK)
  • International Communication Association (ICA)
  • International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
  • Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Research (AEJMC)
  • American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
  • World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR)
  • European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR)
  • Verein für Medieninhaltsanalyse e.V.
  
 
 

Awards, Invitations, Nominations
  2007 WAPOR's Helen Dinerman Award 2007  
  2003- Member, Senate for Culture of the State of Saxony  
  1999 Invitation as Lombard Visiting professor, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University  
  1990 Stipend of German Research Association for a joint research project at Syracuse University, New York  
  1990 Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JPSS), Tokyo, Japan  
  1989/90 Fellow, Gannett Center for Media Studies, Columbia University, New York  
  1988 Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), Pretoria, and South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Johannesburg, South Africa  
  1984 Invited scholar by the International Visitor Program of the United States Information Agency  
  1983-89 European-Council stipends for an investigation of the compatibility of programs and degrees in journalism and mass communications in Europe (England: 1983, France: 1985, Spain: 1989)  
 
 

Academic Institutions
 
    University of Dortmund, Germany
    University of Mainz, Germany
    Free University Berlin, Germany
    Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
    Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
    Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, NY, USA
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
 
 

Subjects
 
    Introduction to Communication Research
    Journalism
    News Decisions, Objectivity
    Media Effects
    Selective Exposure
    Public Opinion
    Political Communication
    Media and Elections
    Media Systems
    Empirical Methods
    Survey Research
    Experiments
 
 

Research Grants
 
    German Research Association (DFG)
    Konrad-Adenauer Foundation
    Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation
    Thyssen Foundation
    Bertelsmann Foundation
    Stiftung Demoskopie
    Verein für Medieninhaltsanalyse
    European Union
    Various corporations
 
 

Languages
 
    German (fluent)
    English (fluent)
    French (good)
    Spanish (some)