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.
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
journal-article
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)