Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D.

Visit COMM 000: Seminar in Message Analysis

Advanced topics in the analysis of verbal and non-verbal message content.

COMM 000: Information in Qualitative Data

The course develops multivariate methods for exploring a variety of qualitative data and simultaneously broadens concepts of information and communication in a variety of social settings.

COMM 000: Cybernetics, Systems and Media

An introduction to cybernetics and systems theory, whose concepts are fueling the present information revolution.

COMM 000: Semantics in Design

How artifacts, especially language-like or intelligent technologies, constitute themselves in various social practices and in their users' understanding. Key to this approach is the design of interfaces with technology.

COMM 380: Cybernetics and Society

Models of communication, control, self-organization, and autopoiesis are applied to various social phenomena and contrasted with other conceptual frameworks in the social sciences.

COMM 360: Language in the Social Construction of Realities

This course concerns the discursive practices that constitute the realities we come to live in and observe – demonstrated with a variety of concepts: facts, emotions, social problems, race, gender, hegemony, family, science, technology, and more.

COMM 380: Social Cybernetics

Basic ideas about communication in society are explored from a cybernetic and systems theoretical perspective. Evolutionary aspects of cultural artifacts, the lives of communication networks, and other information technologies.

COMM 660: Introduction to Qualitative Textual Research (formerly Semantics of Communication)

The course is ethnographic in its approach to data collection (interviews, observational accounts); analytical in the way it probes its data (with models drawn largely from cultural anthropology); qualitative in the empirical methods it encourages (metaphor, conversation, and discourse analysis); dialogic in its respect for multiple voices (as opposed to the more familiar monologue); and critical or emancipatory in the consequences it aspires to.

Content Analysis: An introduction to the analysis of large bodies of textual matter, its methods, empirical problems, theories underlying these analytical efforts, and computer aided text analysis.

COMM 760: Social Constructions of Reality

An inquiry into the principles and processes by which realities come to be socially constructed and discursively maintained.