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

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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Research and Teaching Associate

Germany

Education

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Philosophische Fakultät
Germany

Master of Arts

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Philosophische Fakultät
Germany

Bachelor of Arts

Publications

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

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Media International Australia

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

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Journalism Practice

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Destructive polarization in digital communication contexts

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Information Communication and Society

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

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Handbuch Online-Kommunikation [Handbook Digital Communication]

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

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Social Media + Society

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

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Social Media and Society

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Polarization

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The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict

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Polarization in Online Spaces

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The Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning

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book-chapter

Amplifying the News

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Journalism Practice

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

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Information, Communication & Society

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Book Review: Hyperconnectivity and its Discontents

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Media International Australia

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

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Selected Papers in Internet Research 2024

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conference-paper

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

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

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Javnost: The Public

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

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Javnost - The Public

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

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Standardized Content Analysis in Communication Research: A Handbook

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

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Politische Kommunikation und demokratische Offentlichkeit

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

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Journal of Deliberative Democracy

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BRAT Rapid Annotation Tool

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Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft

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

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#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]

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book-chapter

Incivility (Hate speech/Incivility)

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DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis

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encyclopedia-entry

Hate speech (Hate speech/Incivility)

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DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis

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encyclopedia-entry

Impoliteness (Hate speech/Incivility)

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DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis

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encyclopedia-entry

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

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Policy & Internet

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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

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Communication Research

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Framing the Ukraine crisis

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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]

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Politische Partizipation im Medienwandel [Political participation in media change]

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book-chapter

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

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Analyse und Kritik

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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]

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

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book-chapter

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

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Vernetzung. Stabilität und Wandel gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation

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book-chapter

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

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Policy & Internet

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

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HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik

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

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Policy & Internet

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

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

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book-chapter

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

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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining2016)

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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]

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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)

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