Klaus Neumann-Braun

Klaus Neumann-Braun read Sociology, Social Pedagogics, Psychology, Education and Ethnology at the universities of Tübingen and Freiburg and was awarded a doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 1982 for his dissertation on »Der Beginn der Kommunikation zwischen Mutter und Kind«; in 1993 he obtained his university teaching qualification at the University of Oldenburg for his post-doctoral thesis on »Rundfunkunterhaltung. Zur Inszenierung publikumsnaher Kommunikationsereignisse« (Tübingen: Narr Vlg. 1993); from 1992 to 2005 he was engaged in teaching and research during his professorships of sociology and market, consumer and communication research at the universities of Trier, Frankfurt/Main and Koblenz-Landau as well as his guest professorship at the University of Vienna; since 2005 he has been Professor of Media Science and head of the Institute of Media Science at the University of Basel. The main focus of his teaching and research work is on culture, media and communication sociology; analyses of popular culture; audience, effectiveness and reception research; legal media protection for children and young people; and interpretative media research methods.

His publications include: »Medienkultur-Medienkritik«, (ed.) Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag 2002; »Popvisionen - Links in die Zukunft«, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp 2003 (ed.; with A. Schmidt & M. Mai); »Medienkindheit – Markenkindheit«, Opladen: Leske + Budrich 2004 (with I. Paus-Hasebrink, St. Aufenanger & U. Hasebrink); »Coolhunters - Jugendkulturen zwischen Medien und und Markt«, book on the exhibition of the same name at the ZKM. Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp 2005 (with B. Richard); »Ich-Armeen. Täuschen. Tarnen. Drill«, Munich: Fink (being printed) (with B. Richard).

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