Globalization and Changing Patterns in the Public Sphere, the 4th International Conference at NSPAS

Keynote Speakers

Claes H. de Vreese

Claes H. de Vreese is Professor and Chair of Political Communication and Scientific Director of The Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. He is the founding Director of the Center for Politics and Communication (www.polcomm.org). He is also Director of NESCoR, the Netherlands School of Communications Research, the national research school in communication science, recognized by the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW. Finally, he is Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Southern Denmark.

His research interests include comparative journalism research, the effects of news, public opinion and European integration, effects of information and campaigning on elections, referendums and direct democracy. His research is funded by several science foundation grants, including Veni and Vici grants from the Dutch Science Foundation, as well as grants from the EU research programs. He has received awards for research from the International Communication Association, the Danish Science Foundation, and the Norwegian Holberg Foundation. He is a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and he is listed as one of the most prolific communication science scholars in Europe. He has published more than 60 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including Communication Research, Journal of Politics, Journalism Studies, Political Communication, Journal of Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Scandinavian Political Studies, European Journal of Communication, West European Politics, European Union Politics, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Mass Communication & Society, and European Journal of Political Research. He has presented more than 100 papers at international conferences and he has held lectures in a dozen of counties. He serves on the Editorial Board of several ISI ranked journals and reviews manuscripts for 25+ journals in communication science, political science and European studies.

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Martin Löffelholz

Martin Löffelholz is Professor in Communication and Media Studies and head of the Department of Media Studies at the Institute of Media and Communication Science of Ilmenau University of Techno¬lo¬gy (Germany), where he has taught since 1998. Furthermore, he serves as the academic director of the International Crisis Communication Research Group and as the chair of newly founded Network Intercultural and International Communication. From 1997 to 2000, he was the chair of the Journalism Research Division of the German Communication Association.

Professor Löffelholz is author of Politics in the System of Science: Planning and Implementation of Academic Journalism Education (1989) and co-author of The Future of Journalism (1994), Trends of the Information Society (1995) and Journalism Education in Pakistan (1996). He is editor of War as Media Event (1993), Theories of Journalism (2000), War as Media Event II (2004), Theories of Journalism 2nd edition (2004) and co-editor of Online-Journalism (2000), Media - Military - Politics (2002), Basic Texts of Trans-cultural Communication (2002), The new Science of Communication (2003), Global Journalism Research (2008), and Handbook of War and Crisis Coverage (2008). He has published more than 120 articles and book chapters on journalism education, trends of journalism, journalism theories, crisis and war communication, cross-cultural communication, and political communication. Moreover, he has presented approximately 110 papers (invited or peer-reviewed) at conferences around the globe. Martin Löffelholz has published in English, German, Arabic and Indonesian.

He earned his Ph.D. in communication research and political science from the University of Münster in 1988, after working as an editor on daily newspapers, the German Press Agency (dpa) and as television and radio reporter on Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Cologne). Since 1988, he has worked and taught at several universities in Germany (Münster, Hamburg, Leipzig) and as a visiting professor in Indonesia (2000 and 2001) and the Philippines (2004) mainly in the areas of journalism theories, journalism education, cross-cultural communication and crisis and war communication. Professor Löffelholz has lectured on these topics in Australia, Austria, Bos¬nia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Mongolia, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Senegal, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, and the U.S.A.

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