Klaus Krippendorff
Born(1932-03-21)March 21, 1932
Frankfurt, Germany
DiedOctober 10, 2022(2022-10-10) (aged 90)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known forKrippendorff's alpha
Content analysis
Human-centered design[1]
Academic background
EducationUlm School of Design
Princeton University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Academic advisorsW. Ross Ashby[2]
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania

Klaus Krippendorff (March 21, 1932 – October 10, 2022) was a communication scholar, social science methodologist, and cyberneticist. and was the Gregory Bateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. He wrote an influential textbook on content analysis and is the creator of the widely used and eponymous measure of interrater reliability, Krippendorff's alpha.[3] In 1984–1985, he served as the president of the International Communication Association, one of the two largest professional associations for scholars for communication.[4]

Overview

Krippendorff was born in 1932 in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. His father was an engineer at Junkers.[2] In 1954, he graduated with an engineering degree from the State Engineering School Hannover (now Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts). In 1961, he graduated as diplom-designer from the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm), Germany. And in 1967, he received his Ph.D. in communications from the pioneering Institute for Communication Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Krippendorff started to work as an engineer and during the last year of his graduate study of design he was a research assistant at the Institute for Visual Perception at the Ulm School of Design. In 1961 he came to the United States with a two-year Ford International Fellowship, first to Princeton University but completing his second graduate education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1964, he joined the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.[5]

He is or was a member of the editorial boards of multiple academic journals, such as Communication and Information Science, Communication Research, Constructivist Foundations, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, International Journal of Cultural Studies and the Journal of Communication.[5]

In 1971, he was awarded an honorary MA from the University of Pennsylvania. In the same year, he received an award for "On Generating Data in Communication Research" as the most outstanding contribution to The Journal of Communication, published in 1970. In 1979, he became a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1982, fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA) in 1985, and fellow of the Japanese Society for Science and Design Studies in 1998.

In 1998, graduate students named him as the teacher of the best doctoral course taken at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2000, he became the Gregory Bateson professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the Annenberg School for Communication. In 2001 he was awarded the Norbert Wiener Medal in Cybernetics in gold by the American Society for Cybernetics. Also in 2001, he received the ICA Fellows Book Award for his influential text Content Analysis, An Introduction to Its Methodology. In 2004, he received the Norbert Wiener/Hermann Schmidt Prize from the German Society for Cybernetics and German Society for Pedagogy and Information, at the University of Vienna.[5]

In 2012, the Linnaeus University in Kalmar/Växjö, Sweden, awarded him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa.

Personal life

His grandson is professional soccer player Quinn Sullivan.[6]

Krippendorff died at the age of 90 in October 2022.[7]

Selected publications

Krippendorff has published widely on cybernetics and systems theory, methodology in the social sciences, human communication, conversation, and discourse.[8] Among his major works are the following:

  • 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.
  • 1970, "Bivariate agreement coefficients for reliability of data", in E. F. Borgatta: Sociological Methodology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 139–150.
  • 1980, Content Analysis; An Introduction to its Methodology, Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 188 pp. (Translated into Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Hungarian)
  • 1986, 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, Product Semantics. With R. Butter (Eds.) Design issues, 5.
  • 1994, Design: A Discourse on Meaning; A Work Book, Philadelphia PA: University of the Arts.
  • "Design in the Age of Information, A Report to the National Science Foundation (NSF)". 1997. p. 184.
  • 2006, The Semantic Turn; A New Foundation for Design, New York: Taylor & Francis CRC, 349 pp. (Translated into Japanese)
  • 2009, The Content analysis Reader. With M. A. Bock (Eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 481 pp.
  • 2009, On Communicating; Otherness, Meaning, and Information. F. Bermejo (Ed.). New York: Routledge, 372 pp.
  • 2012, Content Analysis; An Introduction to its Methodology, 3rd Edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 441 pp.
  • 2013, Die Semantische Wende. Eine neue Grundlage für Design. Edited by R. Michel, Birkhäuser De Gruyter

See also

References

  1. ↑ Miles, Gary (2022-10-25). "Klaus Krippendorff, celebrated expert on human-centered design and content analysis, and Penn professor emeritus, has died at 90". Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  2. 1 2 Meyen, Michael (2012-05-30). "Klaus Krippendorff". International Journal of Communication (Online): 1699–1708.
  3. ↑ Krippendorff, Klaus (2018-05-09). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-5063-9567-8.
  4. ↑ International Communication Association (2022). "Past Presidents". Retrieved 2022-10-11.
  5. 1 2 3 CV Klaus Krippendorff Archived 2012-11-30 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved September 2007.
  6. ↑ "Meet the Sullivans, America's next big soccer family". Backheeled. May 17, 2023.
  7. ↑ Twitter https://twitter.com/annenbergpenn/status/1579550058491412480. Retrieved 2022-10-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "Klaus Krippendorff's Publications". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2007-09-25.
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