Klaus Krippendorff

Klaus Krippendorff
Born(1932-03-21)March 21, 1932
Frankfurt, Germany
DiedOctober 10, 2022(2022-10-10) (aged 90)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known forKrippendorff's alpha
Content analysis
Human-centered design[2]
Academic background
EducationUlm School of Design
Princeton University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Academic advisorsW. Ross Ashby[1]
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania

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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Gale was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Miles, Gary (2022-10-25). "Klaus Krippendorff, celebrated expert on human-centered design and content analysis, and Penn professor emeritus, has died at 90". Retrieved 2023-06-01.
  3. ^ Krippendorff, Klaus (2018-05-09). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-5063-9567-8.
  4. ^ International Communication Association (2022). "Past Presidents". Retrieved 2022-10-11.