Kaarle Tapani Jorma Johannes Magnus Bertel Nordenstreng (born June 9, 1941) is a Finnish sociologist and media scholar.Kaarle Nordenstreng: Promoting Democracy and Equality
In Michael Meyen & Thomas Wiedemann (eds.) ''Biografisches Lexikon der Kommunikationswissenschaft''. Köln: Herbert von Halem 2013. He is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the

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Life

Kaarle Nordenstreng studied psychology at the

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, gaining a PhD in 1969. He joined the faculty of the University of Tampere in 1965, and became head of research at the

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in 1967. In 1971 he was appointed Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Tampere. From 1971 to 1976 he was a Member of the

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Panel of Consultants on Communication Research, helping to articulate the rationale for a

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. From 1972 to 1978 he was Vice-President of the

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(IAMCR). From 1976 to 1990 he was President of the

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(IOJ). He was Honorary Professor at

Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the G ...

in 2008, and

Moscow University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 2009.

Works

* ''Television Traffic - a One-way Street?: A Survey and Analysis of the International Flow of Television Programme Material''. UNESCO, 1974 * (ed. with

Herbert Schiller Herbert Irving Schiller (November 5, 1919 – January 29, 2000) was an American media critic, sociologist, author, and scholar. He earned his PhD in 1960 from New York University. Schiller warned of two major trends in his prolific writings an ...

) ''National sovereignty and international communication'', 1979 * ''The Mass Media Declaration of UNESCO'', 1984 * (ed. with

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and

Hamid Mowlana Hamid Mowlana ( fa, حمید مولانا , Hamid Molana, born in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Imperial State of Iran) is an Iranian-American author and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of International Relations in the School of International S ...

) ''The Global media debate: its rise, fall, and renewal'', 1991 * (ed. with Herbert Schiller) ''Beyond national sovereignty: international communication in the 1990s'', 1992 * (with Clifford G. Christians, Theodore L. Glasser,

Denis McQuail Denis McQuail (12 April 1935, London – 25 June 2017)"Prof. dr. D. McQuail, 1935 -," at ''Album Academicum'' website, University of Amsterdam. was a British communication theorist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam, considere ...

and Robert A. White) ''Normative theories of the media: journalism in democratic societies '', 2009 * 'How the New World Order and Imperialism Challenge Media Studies', ''tripleC'', Vol. 11, No. 2 (2013) * (ed. with Clifford G. Christians) ''Communication theories in a multicultural world'', 2014 * (with Ulf Jonas Björk, Frank Beyersdorf,

Svennik Høyer Svennik Høyer (3 August 1931 – 8 January 2017) was a Norwegian political scientist. He was born in Bærum. He graduated as cand.mag. in political science from the University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; ...

and Epp Lauk) ''A history of the international movement of journalists: professionalism versus politics'', 2016

References

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