Krippendorff, Klaus

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    Conversation and Its Erosion Into Discourse and Computation
    (2011-01-01) Krippendorff, Klaus
    In my answer to Ernst von Glasersfeld's (2008) question "Who conceives Society?" I proposed a radically social constructivism (Krippendorff, 2008a) that overcomes what I perceive to be an unfortunate cognitivism in von Glasersfeld's, Heinz von Foerster's, and Humberto Maturana's work. Since then, I published two other papers on the subject. One (2008b) moves the notion of human agency into the center of my project, focusing on its role in conceptions of social organizations - a concept less grand than "society" and one (2008c) teases out several reflexive turns that have grown in cybernetics but cannot be subsumed by the epistemology of radical constructivism and second-order cybernetics, which privileges observation and a representational theory of language over participation in conversation and cooperative constructions of reality. In all of these efforts, conversation has become the starting point of my conceptualizations of being human. In this essay, I wish to discuss what conversation entails, how it is maintained, and under which conditions it degenerates into something else.
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    Schritte zu einer konstruktivistischen Erkenntnistheorie der Massenkommunikation
    (1993) Krippendorff, Klaus
    Als langjähriges, aber größtenteils abwesendes Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft freue ich mich, daß ich der Einladung folgen konnte. Vor allem fühle ich mich geehrt, für die Aufgabe vorgesehen zu sein, hier eine häretische Theorieperspektive vorzutragen sowie einige herausfordernde Fragen aufzuwerfen, denen wir uns als Praktiker, als anwendende Forscher und als Theoretiker der öffentlichen Kommunikation zuwenden sollten.
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    Models and Metaphors of Communication
    (1990-01-18) Krippendorff, Klaus
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    Women's Perception of Group Support and Adaptation to Breast Cancer
    (1998) Krippendorff, Klaus
    Formal cancer support groups are assumed to assist women adapt to the physiological and psychosocial sequelae of breast cancer. To shed some light on this untested clinical assumption, this Roy Adaptation Model of Nursing-based study was designed to explore women's own reports about their adaptation to breast cancer and their participation in support groups. This article reports the results of the quantitative content analysis of structured telephone interviews with 70 women who participated in breast cancer support groups. Almost three-quarters of the women expressed a positive change in attitude toward breast cancer, and all regarded participation in the support groups as positive. A majority reported adaptive physiological, self-concept, role function, and interdependence mode effects of breast cancer and support group participation. Additional research is needed to show how different types of support groups contribute to women's responses. Research is also needed to separate the effects of support groups from other sources of social support that may have contributed to the women's responses, and to further explore feelings of normalization expressed by some women. Clinicians who conduct cancer support groups are encouraged to work with researchers to identify women's responses to the groups.
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    On the Ethics of Constructing Communication
    (1987-04-01) Krippendorff, Klaus
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    Die Produkt-Semantik öffent die Türen
    (1984-03-01) Krippendorff, Klaus
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    An Epistemological Foundation for Communication
    (1984) Krippendorff, Klaus
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    The Cybernetics of Design and the Design of Cybernetics
    (2007-10-01) Krippendorff, Klaus
    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to connect two discourses, the discourse of cybernetics and that of design. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes a comparative analysis of relevant definitions, concepts, and entailments in both discourse, and an integration of these into a cybernetically informed concept of human-centered design, on the one hand, and a design-informed concept of second-order cybernetics, on the other hand. In the course of this conceptual exploration, the distinction between science and design is explored with cybernetics located in the dialectic between the two. Technology-centered design is distinguished from human-centered design, and several axioms of the latter are stated and discussed. Findings – This paper consists of recommendations to think and do things differently. In particular, a generalization of interface is suggested as a replacement for the notion of products; a concept of meaning is developed to substitute for the meaninglessness of physical properties; a theory of stakeholder networks is discussed to replace the deceptive notion of THE user; and, above all, it is suggested that designers, in order to design something that affords use to others, engage in second-order understanding. Originality/value – The paper makes several radical suggestions that face likely rejection by traditionalists but acceptance by cyberneticians and designers attempting to make a contribution to contemporary information society.
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    Comments on Richard Buchanan's "Declaration by Design"
    (1985) Krippendorff, Klaus
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    The Changing Landscape of Content Analysis: Reflections on Social Construction of Reality and Beyond
    (2019-01-01) Krippendorff, Klaus
    Prof. Klaus Krippendorff is Gregory Bateson Emeritus Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in communications from the University of Illinois (Urbana) in 1967. He has received numerous awards and honours over the years. To name just a few, he received a Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from the Linneaus University in Kalmar/Växjö, Sweden in 2012. He is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA) and was its president in 1984–85. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1982. His book Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology received the ICA Fellows Book Award in 2004. He has published extensively in many fields including communication, research methodology, semantics, information theory, design, cybernetics, etc. In this academic dialogue, he talks about how he first came to the U. S. from Germany and his early encounter with the method of content analysis. He elaborates on his unique approach to the methodology of content analysis, its changes in practice over the years, as well as his insights on communication scholarship. His organic involvement in and cross-pollination of many related fields listed above is also revealed.