Concluded PhD Projects
Jana Bernhard-Harrer: Multiple voices in democratic discourse: Keeping up with professional political communication
Concluded in February 2024
Supervisor(s): Hajo Boomgaarden
Funding/Project: digitize!
Annika Ahrens-Schwabe: The influence of digital reading devices on fictional literature reading
Concluded in November 2023
Supervisor(s): Hajo Boomgaarden
Funding/Project: Books on Screen
- Related Study: Experiencing literature on the e‐reader: The effects of reading narrative texts on screen, Journal of Research in Reading, online first (2021).
- Related Study: Literatur am Bildschirm - Zum Stand der empirischen Leseforschung. Orbis Litterarum 75(5), 213-229 (2020).
Alina Nikolaou: The Persuasive Effect of Immersive Virtual Environments on Attitudes
Concluded in June 2023
Supervisor(s): Hajo Boomgaarden, Sophie Lecheler
Funding/Project: uni:docs Fellowship for Doctoral Students of the University of Vienna
- Related study: Changing social attitudes with virtual reality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of the International Communication Association 46(1), 30-61 (2022).
Tobias Heidenreich: Mapping European Migration Discourses on Social Media
Concluded in September 2021
Supervisor(s): Hajo Boomgaarden, Jakob-Moritz Eberl
Funding/Project: REMINDER, Tango on a Tightrope
- Related Study: Media Framing Dynamics of the ‘European Refugee Crisis’: A Comparative Topic Modelling Approach. Journal of Refugee Studies 32(1), i172-i182 (2019).
- Related Study: Political migration discourses on social media: a comparative perspective on visibility and sentiment across political Facebook accounts in Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46(7), 1261-1280 (2020).
- Related Study: Political elites' migration discourses on social media. In: Media and Public Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe - A Comparative Approach (eds. J.Strömbäck, C. E. Meltzer, J.-M- Eberl, C. Schemer, H.G. Boomgaarden); Routledge (2021).
- Related Study: Discontentment trumps Euphoria: Interacting with European Politicians’ migration-related messages on social media. New Media and Society, online first (2022).
Fabienne Lind: Multilingual Computer-Assisted Content Analysis
Concluded in June 2021
Supervisor(s): Hajo Boomgaarden, Jakob-Moritz Eberl
Funding/Project: REMINDER, MIRROR, OPTED, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Related study: When the Journey Is as Important as the Goal: A Roadmap to Multilingual Dictionary Construction. International Journal of Communication 13, 4000-4020 (2019).
- Related study: Now you see me, now you don’t: applying automated content analysis to track migrant women’s salience in German news. Feminist Media Studies 21(6), 923-940 (2021).
- Related Study: Building the Bridge: Topic Modelling for Comparative Research. Communication Measures and Methods, online first (2021).
- Related Study: Greasing the Wheels for Comparative Communication Research: Supervised Text Classification for Multilingual Corpora. Computational Communication Research, online first (2021).
Esther Greussing: "Looking, clicking, learning? Knowledge effects of textual, visual and interactive elements in science-related online news"
Concluded in December 2020
Supervisor(s): Hajo Boomgaarden
Funding: uni:docs Stipend
- Related Study: Promises and Pitfalls: Taking a Closer Look at How Interactive Infographics Affect Learning From News. International Journal of Communication 15, 3336-3357 (2021).
- Related Study: Simply Bells and Whistles? Cognitive Effects of Visual Aesthetics in Digital Longforms. Digital Journalism 7(2), 273-293 (2019).
- Related Study: Learning From Science News via Interactive and Animated Data Visualizations: An Investigation Combining Eye Tracking, Online Survey, and Cued Retrospective Reporting. Science Communication 42(6), 803–828 (2020).
- Related Study: Powered by Immersion? Examining Effects of 360-Degree Photography on Knowledge Acquisition and Perceived Message Credibility of Climate Change News. Environmental Communication 14(3), 316-331 (2020).
Petro Tolochko: Determining Political Text Complexity
Concluded in June 2019
Supervisor(s): Hajo Boomgaarden; Hyunjin Song
Funding/Project: CCL
- Related Study: Determining Political Text Complexity: Conceptualizations, Measurements, and Application. International Journal of Communication 13, 1784–1804 (2019)
- Related Study: Analysis of Linguistic Complexity in Professional and Citizen Media. Journalism Studies 19(12), 1786-1803 (2018).
- Related Study: “That Looks Hard!”: Effects of Objective and Perceived Textual Complexity on Factual and Structural Political Knowledge. Political Communication 36(4), 609-628 (2019).
- Related Study: What you expect is (not) what you get: the impact of initial and post-hoc judgments of message characteristics on political information recall. Media Psychology 25(1), 128-154 (2022).