Biography
Born in 1949 in Ukraine. Graduated from the Department of Cybernetics of the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine in 1971. Received Ph. D. in Journalism in 1974 and Doctor of Sciences in Journalism in 1989. Since 1971 was lecturing at the Department of Cybernetics, Institute of Journalism, Institute of International Relations (all at the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University), and the recently created National Academy of Public Administration.
Georgii Pocheptsov has founded and was the first head of the Department of International Communications and Public Relations at the Institute of International Relations at the Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University. Subsequently, he founded and headed the Information Policy Department at the National Academy of Public Administration.
Between 2002 and 2005 Dr. Pocheptsov has served as the head of the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Administration of the President of Ukraine (during Leonid Kuchma’s presidency).
After 2005 he was involved in developing educational programs in communication theory and public relations engineering at several institutions of higher education including International Solomon University, the Information Policy Department at the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Department of Social Communications at Mariupol State University.
During his career, he has authored over 50 books (used extensively as textbooks) in the fields of communication theory, strategy, information warfare, and public relations. In addition, he is also a member of the Writers Union (of the former USSR and Ukraine). He published 20 fiction books for children.
Selected Courses Taught
- Semiotics.
- Communications theory.
- International Communications.
- International Public Relations.
- Informational warfare.
Selected Books (2008 — 2014)
- Information warfare. — Kyiv, 2014.
- From Facebook to glamour and WikiLeaks: media communications. — Kyiv, 2014 (second edition).
- Merlin, Superman, and Harry Potter. Constructing of nonmaterial matter in popular culture. — Kyiv, 2013 (in Ukrainian).
- Control of mind. — Kyiv, 2012 (in Ukrainian).
- From Facebook to glamour and Wikileaks: media communications. — Kyiv, 2012 (in Ukrainian).
- Information policy (Russian translation).
- Drums of propaganda. Information conflicts on the post-Soviet territory. — Tallinn, 2009 (in Estonian).
- Strategic Warfare. — Tallinn, 2009 (in Estonian).
- Strategic Warfare. — Kyiv, 2009 (in Russian).
- Image-making. — Moscow, 2009 (in Russian).
- Global projects: constructing the future. — Kyiv, 2009 (in Ukrainian).
- Media: theory of mass communications – Kyiv, 2008 (in Russian).
- Communication engineering. — Kyiv, 2008 (in Russian).
- Strategic communications. — Kyiv, 2008 (in Russian).
- Information policy. Second edition. — Kyiv, 2008 (in Ukrainian).
Selected Articles in English
- Processes in political communication in the USSR // Political discourse in transition in Europe 1989 — 1991. Ed. by P. Chilton a.o. — Amsterdam, 1998.
- Ukraine: Information operations in the countries of the former Soviet Union. — IO Sphere, 2008, Special edition, P. 32 — 37.
- Symbols are dying first // Russian Journal of Communication. — 2014. — Vol. 6. — I. 2. — P. 191 — 193.
- Information war in the concepts of Russian experts // Russian Journal of Communication.
- The first cognitive war in the world (Russia, Crimea, Ukraine).