Louis Bosshart

Dr. Louis Bosshart

Visiting Professor in Communication

Directeur du Département des sciences de la société
Sociologie de la communication et des médias, Université de Fribourg

stanboss@stanford.edu

STUDIES

- 1965-70: University of Fribourg: German philology, German literature, Journalism-mass communication research
- 1967-68: Free University, Berlin (Germany)
- 1971-74: Research Officer, University of Fribourg
- 1974-75: Visiting Fellow, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester (GB)
- 1976-77: Research Scholar, Institute for Communication Research, Stanford University, Stanford (USA)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

1979-98: Senior Lecturer, University of St.Gallen for Business Administration, Economics, Law and Social Sciences, St.Gallen
- Senior Lecturer, University of Munich (Germany)
- 1982- : Full Professor, University of Fribourg-Freiburg
- 1992 / 1988 / 1988 / 1978 Guest Lecturer University of Zurich
- 1993: Distinguished Redford Professor of Journalism,Baylor University, Waco (USA)
- 1993-94: Visiting Swiss Professor, Stanford University, Stanford (USA)
- 1997: Guest Professor, University of Klagenfurt (Austria)
- 1999: Lecturer, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano
- 2002 : Visiting Professor, Stanford (Summer S.)
- 2007: Guest Lecturer, University of Salzburg (Austria)

PUBLICATIONS (SUMMARY)

- Television Entertainment
- Psychology of Entertainment
- Information and/or Entertainment?
- Construction and Deconstruction of Celebrity
- Sports and Media
- Women and Mass Media
- Covering Media Events
- Communication in Crisis
- Media and Popular Culture
- Media and Elections
- Local Communication

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