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According to Wikipedia, Klaus Krippendorff 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. In 1984–1985, he served as the president of the International Communication Association, one of the two largest professional associations for scholars for communication.

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Klaus Krippendorff's Published Works

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Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (1980) (26885)
Answering the Call for a Standard Reliability Measure for Coding Data (2007) (3450)
Reliability in Content Analysis: Some Common Misconceptions and Recommendations (2004) (2096)
Krippendorff, Klaus, Content Analysis: An Introduction to its Methodology . Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1980. (1980) (988)
Qualitative Analysis (937)
Computing Krippendorff's Alpha-Reliability (2011) (814)
The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation For Design (2005) (702)
On the Essential Contexts of Artifacts or on the Proposition That "Design Is Making Sense (Of Things)" (1989) (550)
Estimating the Reliability, Systematic Error and Random Error of Interval Data (1970) (389)
The Content Analysis Reader (2008) (354)
Agreement and Information in the Reliability of Coding (2011) (323)
Product Semantics: Exploring the Symbolic Qualities of Form (1984) (275)
Measuring the Reliability of Qualitative Text Analysis Data (2004) (248)
Validity in Content Analysis (1980) (228)
Bivariate Agreement Coefficients for Reliability of Data (1970) (221)
Mathematical Theory of Communication (2009) (178)
Information Theory: Structural Models for Qualitative Data. (1986) (175)
The Analysis of Communication Content: Developments in Scientific Theories and Computer Techniques (1969) (108)
Major Metaphors of Communication and Some Constructivist Reflections on Their Use (1993) (106)
On the Reliability of Unitizing Continuous Data (1995) (99)
Redesigning Design; An Invitation to a Responsible Future (1995) (86)
Semantics: Meanings and Contexts of Artifacts (2007) (83)
Information of interactions in complex systems (2009) (82)
Models of Messages: Three Prototypes (1967) (80)
Communication and control in society (1979) (80)
A Dictionary of Cybernetics (1986) (74)
Product Semantics: A Triangulation and Four Design Theories (1989) (71)
Principles of Design and a Trajectory of Artificiality (2011) (69)
Ross Ashby's information theory: a bit of history, some solutions to problems, and what we face today (2009) (67)
Intrinsic motivation and human-centred design (2004) (65)
Design Research, an Oxymoron? (2007) (62)
On Communicating: Otherness, Meaning, and Information (2008) (62)
Commentary: A Dissenting View on So-Called Paradoxes of Reliability Coefficients (2013) (59)
The cybernetics of design and the design of cybernetics (2007) (53)
Some Principles of Information Storage and Retrieval in Society (1973) (51)
A second‐order cybernetics of otherness (1996) (50)
Association, agreement, and equity (1987) (47)
On the reliability of unitizing textual continua: Further developments (2016) (47)
A Recursive Theory of Communication (1994) (46)
On the Ethics of Constructing Communication (1987) (42)
The Past of Communication's Hoped-For Future. (1993) (40)
Systematic and Random Disagreement and the Reliability of Nominal Data (2008) (33)
Communication and the Genesis of Structure (1971) (32)
An Epistemological Foundation for Communication (1984) (31)
The Social Construction of Public Opinion (2005) (29)
On Generating Data in Communication Research1 (1970) (29)
Conversation or Intellectual Imperialism in Comparing Communication (Theories) (1993) (26)
The power of communication and the communication of power : toward an emancipatory theory of communication (1991) (25)
Propositions of Human-Centeredness; A Philosophy for Design (2000) (24)
Three concepts to retire (2017) (23)
On the reliability of identifying design moves in protocol analysis (2013) (23)
AN ALGORITHM FOR IDENTIFYING STRUCTURAL MODELS OF MULTI-VAR1ATE DATA (1981) (22)
On the Identification of Structures in Multivariate Data by the Spectral Analysis of Relations (1979) (22)
Information Systems Theory and Research: An Overview (1977) (21)
The Language of Objects (1989) (20)
The Reliability of Multi-Valued Coding of Data (2016) (20)
How Do User Stories Inspire Design? A Study of Cultural Probes (2017) (20)
OTHERNESS OF OTHERS [ Chapter for JVCiprut ] Ecological Narratives ; Reclaiming the Voice of Theorized Others (1998) (19)
Where Meanings Escape Functions (2010) (18)
Misunderstanding Reliability (2018) (18)
An Exploration of Artificiality (2007) (17)
Quantitative guidelines for communicable disease control programs. (1978) (17)
The Television World of Violence (1969) (16)
Conversation: Possibilities of its Repair and Descent into Discourse and Computation (2009) (15)
CHAPTER 14 – Paradigms for Communication and Development with Emphasis on Autopoiesis (1987) (15)
Towards a Radically Social Constructivism (2008) (14)
Cybernetics's Reflexive Turns (2008) (14)
A Trajectory of Artificiality and New Principles of Design for the Information Age (1997) (13)
The Changing Landscape of Content Analysis: Reflections on Social Construction of Reality and Beyond (2019) (13)
Social Organizations as Reconstitutable Networks of Conversations (2008) (13)
Monitoring a group's symbolic environment (1986) (13)
Reliability of recording instructions: Multivariate agreement for nominal data (1971) (12)
Information, Information Society and Some Marxian Propositions (1985) (12)
Beyond Coherence (1999) (10)
An Examination of Content Analysis: A Proposal for a General Framework and an Information Calculus for Message Analytic Situations (1967) (10)
The Dialogic Reality of Meaning (2003) (9)
Undoing Power (2015) (8)
Design in the Age of Information: A Report to the National Science Foundation (NSF) (1997) (8)
Values, modes and domains of inquiry into communication. (1969) (7)
Four (In)Determinabilities, Not One (2009) (7)
Discourses in Action (2020) (6)
On Generating Data in Communication Research ! (2015) (6)
Recent Developments in Reliability Analysis (1992) (6)
Socially shared inquiry : a self-reflexive emancipatory communication approach to social re-search (2001) (6)
Review of Lynn Segal, The Dream of Reality: Heinz von Foerster's Constructivism (1987) (6)
Human-Centeredness: A Paradigm Shift Invoked by the Emerging Cyberspaces (1997) (6)
Stepping Stones Towards a Constructivist Epistemology for Mass-Communication (1991) (5)
Designing in Ulm and Off Ulm (2008) (5)
The Dialogical Reality of Meaning (2015) (5)
Mathematical Theor y of Communication (2009) (5)
Reflexivity and Eigenform (2009) (5)
A Spectral Analysis of Relations (1976) (5)
Traces and Hopes of Design Research : An Interview with Gui Bonsiepe , Klaus Krippendorff , (2017) (5)
Figure 12 in Klaus Krippendorff's ‘Ross Ashby's information theory: a bit of history, some solutions to problems, and what we face today’, International Journal of General Systems, 38, 189–212, 2009 (2009) (4)
Discourse and the Materiality of Its Artifacts (2011) (4)
Design, an Undisciplinable Profession (2016) (4)
Transcending Semiotics: Toward Understanding Design for Understanding (1992) (4)
The Expression of Value in Political Documents (1970) (4)
Inviting Ethnographic Conversations to Inspire Design: Towards a Design Research Method (2020) (3)
Communication From a Cybernetic Perspective (1985) (3)
Review of The Construction of Social Reality , by John R. Searle (1996) (3)
A Field for Growing Doctorates in Design (1998) (3)
Two Paths in Search of (the) Meaning (of Things) (1993) (3)
Models and Metaphors of Communication (1990) (3)
Design Discourse: A Way to Redesign Design (1998) (2)
Erratum to: On the reliability of unitizing textual continua: further developments (2016) (2)
The Methodo-logic of Content Analysis (2010) (2)
Recollections of Heinz von Foerster, a rhetorical genius (2003) (2)
Reconciling Radical Constructivism with Social Organizations as Networks of Conversations and of Stakeholders (2008) (2)
On the Otherness That Theory Creates (2000) (2)
A Proposal for an Algorithm for Generating Loopless or Recursive Models of Multi-Variate Data (1982) (2)
Meaning of artifacts in use (2005) (2)
Research Methods and Resources (1981) (2)
A Spectral Analysis of Relations, Further Developments (1987) (2)
Review of Gregory Bateson and Mary Catherine Bateson, "Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred" (1988) (2)
Some Principles of Information Storage and Retrieval in Society (1978) (2)
A Method for the Strong Associative Clustering of 2m Data (1975) (2)
Merger of Two Strategic (Ir)reconcilables, 1962-1980 (2016) (2)
Design methods, research, and a science for design (2005) (2)
Writing: Monologue, Dialogue, and Ecological Narrative (2005) (2)
A Heretic Communication About Communication About Communication About Reality (1988) (2)
A Quadrilogy for (Big) Data Reliabilities (2021) (2)
Design Discourse (2020) (1)
Basic concepts of human-centered design (2005) (1)
Representation, re-presentation, presentation, and conversation (2012) (1)
Open Peer Commentaries (2008) (1)
Review of Niklas Luhmann, Ecological Communiaction (1991) (1)
Monologic versus Dialogic Distinctions of Selves (2017) (1)
Social Construction of Reality (2016) (1)
Comments on Richard Buchanan's "Declaration by Design" (1985) (1)
Communication, Conversation, Discourse and Design (2020) (1)
Afterword (2011) (1)
Carney, Thomas F. Content Analysis: A Technique for Systematic Inference from Communications. (1974) (1)
Meaning in an ecology of artifacts (2005) (1)
How Institutional Authority and Routine Exertions of Power Can Be Mobilized, Negotiated, and Challenged (2019) (1)
Self-organization and management of social systems: Insights, promises, doubts, and questions: H. ULRICH and G.J.B. PROBST (eds.) Volume 26 in: Springer Series in Synergetics, Springer, Berlin, 1984, ix + 155 pages, DM65.00 (1986) (1)
Conversation and Its Erosion Into Discourse and Computation (2011) (1)
Informacije, informacijsko drustvo i neke marksisticke tvrdnje (1985) (0)
On the Cybernetics of Time (1978) (0)
On the reliability of unitizing textual continua: Further developments (2015) (0)
From a Cybernetic Perspective (2015) (0)
Introduction : Why discourses in action? (2020) (0)
Comparisons of Qualitative Variates (1986) (0)
Discourses in the Design of Cultural Artifacts (2019) (0)
List of Symbols (1986) (0)
Meaning of artifacts in language (2005) (0)
The Reliability of Generating Data (2022) (0)
On the Otherness Th at Theor y Creates (2000) (0)
Fortran information theory programs (Construc, Spectral) (2014) (0)
Being Blind or Forgetting? Research After All Is Re-Search (2005) (0)
Information in Models and in Data (1986) (0)
A Constructivist Critique of Semiotics (2010) (0)
Review of "The Science and Praxis of Complexity" (1986) (0)
Review of Robert Weber, "Basic Content Analysis" (1987) (0)
Shannon's Theory of Communication (1986) (0)
A Recursive Framework for Communication Theories (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (1964) (0)
Experimente in Sachen Semantik (1985) (0)
Entropy, Diversity, Variety (1986) (0)
Adding Large Numbers by Computer (1973) (0)
Maximum Entropy Computations (1986) (0)
Conclusions From the ASC Conference on Communications and Control in Social Processes-October 31-November 2, 1974 at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) (1975) (0)
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers ( ASC ) Annenberg School for Communication 2009 Four ( In ) Determinabilities , Not One (2015) (0)
Models With and Without Loops (1986) (0)
Book reviews (1963) (0)
Imaging, Computing, and DESIGNING MINDS (2010) (0)
An Exploration of Artific iality (2007) (0)
An Introduction to Information Theory (2010) (0)
Sally Sedelow Archive - Complete (1964) (0)
Cybernetic Properties of Helping: The Organizational Level (1979) (0)
Meaning in the lives of artifacts (2005) (0)
SOME PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN SOCIETY by Klaus Krippendorff The Annenberg School of communications (2007) (0)
Book review (1967) (0)
On Reflex ivity in Human Communication (1989) (0)
Book reviews (1965) (0)
Book Reviews (1963) (0)
Suggested Domain and Structure of a Ph.D. Program in Social Communication Science (1965) (0)
ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers ( ASC ) Annenberg School for Communication 2011 Discourse and the Materiality of Its Artifacts (2015) (0)
Degrees of Freedom (1986) (0)
A Content Analysis of Bias in Consumer Reports on Automobiles (1982) (0)
Comparisons With Alternative Approaches (1986) (0)
Analisis isi : pengantar teori dan metodologi=Content analysis : introduction to its theory and methodology / Klaus Krippendorff; penerjemah: Farid Wajidi (1991) (0)
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers ( ASC ) Annenberg School for Communication 1993 Where Meanings Escape Functions (2015) (0)
Towards a Cybernetics of (Mass-Media) Institutions (1988) (0)
My Scholarly Life in Cybernetics (2019) (0)
The Significance of Information Quantities (1986) (0)
Erratum to: On the reliability of unitizing textual continua: further developments (2015) (0)
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers ( ASC ) Annenberg School for Communication 1980 Clustering (2015) (0)
History and aim (2005) (0)
Arguing in Support of the Proposition: Resolved that "Knowledge About Communication Can Only Be Known by the Knower" (1996) (0)
Roots in the Ulm School of Design (2005) (0)
A Calculus for Disagreements: A Categorial Equivalence to Variance Analysis (1971) (0)
An Alternative Paradigm (2010) (0)
On Reflexivity in Human Communication (1989) (0)

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