Klaus Krippendorff
German cyberneticist (1932–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 of communication.[4]
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Klaus Krippendorff | |
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Born | (1932-03-21)March 21, 1932 Frankfurt, Germany |
Died | October 10, 2022(2022-10-10) (aged 90) |
Known for | Krippendorff's alpha Content analysis Human-centered design[1] |
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Education | Ulm School of Design Princeton University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Academic advisors | W. Ross Ashby[2] |
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Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
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