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Peter Blank
Information:
Department of Telecommunications
blankp 'at' indiana 'dot' edu
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Biography:
Peter enrolled as an MA grad student in 2009 and focuses on uses of media and effects of media on society and psychology of mind. He hopes to experience many inspiring moments and gradually start teaching in the field of Media Studies. In 2004, Peter received his MA in Communication Science from the University of Amsterdam where he specialized in political news and informational campaigns. He has worked professionally and as an intern in many matching environments, such as a foundation for public politics, a local press agency, a telecommunications company. He traveled through India and the Middle East before studying ontology of media, media archeology, cybernetics and system theory at the Humboldt University in Berlin. As an intern of the European Commission and the International Campaign for Tibet in Berlin he broadened his experience in public affairs and campaigning. After his Berlin studies, Peter worked shortly as a media analyst in an Amsterdam-based media research agency before becoming a first-degree German teacher in Dutch middle and high schools. The Germanic language and cultural studies in Amsterdam lead him to research on the role of media in German political history (WWII, 1968, RAF), as well as dive deeper into the research and thought on media in the German scientific tradition.
