Author: Klaus Krippendorff

Affiliation

Board Member of Constructivist Foundations

University of Pennsylvania, USA

Short Bio

Klaus Krippendorff is the Gregory Bateson Professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He holds a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Illinois, where he studied with W. Ross Ashby, and a graduate degree in design from the avant-garde, now defunct, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Communication Association, the East-West Center in Hawaii, and Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He is a Past President of the International Communication Association, founder of the International Federation of Communication Associations, and active in the American Society for Cybernetics. Krippendorff has published over 100 journal articles and several books on communication, social science methodology, system theory, cybernetics, and design. Among his books are The Analysis of Communication Content (co-ed.); Information Theory; Content Analysis (translated into everal languages); Communication and Control in Society (ed.); A Dictionary of Cybernetics; Design in the Age of Information (ed.); The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design; The Content Analysis Reader (co-ed.); and On Communicating, Otherness, Meaning, and Information. He is currently exploring the role of language in the social construction of selves, others, and social organizations; issues of conceptual entrapment and emancipation; the human use of cyberspace; and the design of future technologies.

Constructivist Approaches

Radical Constructivism · Radically Social Constructivism

Background Disciplines

Communication Science · Social Science

Publications in Constructivist Foundations

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Klaus Krippendorff (2009)

Conversation: Possibilities of its Repair and Descent into Discourse and Computation

Constructivist Foundations 4(3): 138–150

Radically Social Constructivism > Communication Science

Klaus Krippendorff (2008)

Towards a Radically Social Constructivism

Constructivist Foundations 3(2): 91–94

Radical Constructivism > Social Science