Katharina Esau

About

Dr. Katharina Esau is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at the Queensland University of Technology. She holds a PhD in Communication and Media Science from the University of Dusseldorf. Her research focuses on political communication, digital public spheres and democratic innovations.

Work

Queensland University of Technology

Australia

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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Postdoctoral Research Associate

Germany

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Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

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Research and Teaching Associate

Germany

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Education

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Philosophische Fakultät

Germany
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Master of Arts

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Philosophische Fakultät

Germany
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Bachelor of Arts

Publications

Polarised media framing of climate movements: A comparative mixed-methods analysis of Australia and Germany

Media International Australia

journal-article

Amplifying the News: An Analysis of the Factors Driving Republication and Facebook Engagement with News

Journalism Practice

journal-article

Destructive polarization in digital communication contexts

Information Communication and Society

journal-article

Online-Öffentlichkeit(en) [Digital Public(s)]

Handbuch Online-Kommunikation [Handbook Digital Communication]

book-chapter

The Quality of Connections: Deliberative Reciprocity and Inclusive Listening as Antidote to Destructive Polarization Online

Social Media + Society

journal-article

The Quality of Connections: Deliberative Reciprocity and Inclusive Listening as Antidote to Destructive Polarization Online

Social Media and Society

journal-article

Polarization

The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict

book-chapter

Polarization in Online Spaces

The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning

book-chapter

Amplifying the News

Journalism Practice

journal-article

Destructive polarization in digital communication contexts: a critical review and conceptual framework

Information, Communication & Society

journal-article

Book Review: Hyperconnectivity and its Discontents

Media International Australia

journal-article

Automating political text classification with LLMs: generalisation across languages and platforms for stance detection towards diverse target categories

Selected Papers in Internet Research 2024

conference-paper

QUT DMRC Submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications

other

For deliberation sake, show some constructive emotion! How different types of emotions affect the deliberative quality of interactive user comments

Javnost: The Public

journal-article

For Deliberation Sake, Show Some Constructive Emotion! How Different Types of Emotions Affect the Deliberative Quality of Interactive User Comments

Javnost - The Public

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Content analysis in the research field of incivility and hate speech in online communication

Standardized Content Analysis in Communication Research: A Handbook

book-chapter

Kommunikationsformen und Deliberationsdynamik: Eine relationale Inhalts- und Sequenzanalyse politischer Online-Diskussionen auf Beteiligungsplattformen [Forms of communication and deliberation dynamic]

Politische Kommunikation und demokratische Offentlichkeit

book

What Creates Listening Online? Exploring Reciprocity in Online Political Discussions with Relational Content Analysis

Journal of Deliberative Democracy

journal-article

BRAT Rapid Annotation Tool

Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft

journal-article

Partizipation, Deliberation und Hochaktive - eine vergleichende Analyse der Beteiligungsquantitat und -qualitat unterschiedlicher Nutzergruppen [Participation, deliberation and super users]

#meinfernsehen 2021 - Burgerbeteiligung: Wahrnehmungen, Erwartungen und Vorschlage zur Zukunft offentlich-rechtlicher Medienangebote [#meinfernsehen 2021 - Citizen participation: Perceptions, expectations and proposals for the future of public service media]

book-chapter

Incivility (Hate speech/Incivility)

DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis

encyclopedia-entry

Hate speech (Hate speech/Incivility)

DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis

encyclopedia-entry

Impoliteness (Hate speech/Incivility)

DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis

encyclopedia-entry

Different Arenas, Different Deliberative Quality? Using a Systemic Framework to Evaluate Online Deliberation on Immigration Policy in Germany

Policy & Internet

journal-article

Linking news value theory with online deliberation: How news factors and illustration factors in news articles affect the deliberative quality of user discussions in SNS' comment sections

Communication Research

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Framing the Ukraine crisis

International Communication Gazette

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Online-Partizipation jenseits klassischer Deliberation: Eine Analyse zum Verhaltnis unterschiedlicher Deliberationskonzepte in Nutzerkommentaren auf Facebook-Nachrichtenseiten und Beteiligungsplattformen [Online participation beyond classic deliberation: The relation between different deliberation concepts in user comments on Facebook news pages and participation platforms]

Politische Partizipation im Medienwandel [Political participation in media change]

book-chapter

Capturing citizens' values: On the role of narratives and emotions in digital participation

Analyse und Kritik

journal-article

Deliberation follows Design. Eine Analyse der Einflusse des Plattformdesigns auf die Qualitat von Nutzerkommentaren zu Nachrichtenartikeln [Deliberation follows design. An analysis of the impact of platform design on the quality of user comments about news articles]

Vernetzung. Stabilitat und Wandel gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation [Connectivity. Stability and change of social communication]

book-chapter

Deliberation follows Design. Eine Analyse der Einflüsse des Plattformdesigns auf die Qualität von Nutzerkommentaren zu Nachrichtenartikeln

Vernetzung. Stabilität und Wandel gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation

book-chapter

Design Matters! An Empirical Analysis of Online Deliberation on Different News Platforms

Policy & Internet

journal-article

Text Mining für Online-Partizipationsverfahren: Die Notwendigkeit einer maschinell unterstützten Auswertung

HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik

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Online deliberation in academia: Evaluating the quality and legitimacy of cooperatively developed university regulations

Policy & Internet

journal-article

Crisis talks: The framing of the Ukraine Crisis on German talk show debates

Media and the Ukraine Crisis: Hybrid media practices and narratives of conflict

book-chapter

What to do with an airport? Mining arguments in the German online participation project Tempelhofer Feld

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining2016)

conference-paper

Das Netz der Andersdenkenden? Eine Inhaltsanalyse der Online-Diskussionen zur Wulff-Affäre auf Nachrichtenseiten, in Weblogs und bei Facebook [The network of dissidents? A content analysis of online discussions about the Wulff affair on news sites, in weblogs and on Facebook]

Politik auf dem Siegertreppchen? Wenn Olympia, WM und Co. zum Spielball strategischer Kommunikation werden (Politics on the podium? When the Olympics, World Cup and Co. become the plaything of strategic communication 2015)

book-chapter