Birte Leonhardt

Read my new paper in @jmcquarterly.bsky.social 🙌 it’s #openaccess

A must-read by @jscvienna.bsky.social’s @birteleonhardt.bsky.social!

How willing are scientists to act as experts in the news media? In the context of the #COVID-19pandemic, @birteleonhardt.bsky.social, Daniel Nölleke & Folker Hanusch interviewed 24 Austrian #ScientificExperts about their perception of news media logics. www.doi.org/10.5771/2192...

🧾 New Publication on Scientists and News Media Logic during COVID-19

Why do some scientists actively engage with the media, while others remain reluctant?
In this study, we examine this question through the lens of mediatization theory.

📄 Read the paper here: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/2...

Understanding the role of community membership in journalistic authority claims: a framework informed by boundary work and fan studies Abstract. Digitalization and declines in news use underscore the tension between journalistic ideals of detachment and audience communities’ demands for jo

🚨 New pub alert! 🚨

While many colleagues are still deep in ICA mode this week, I’m thrilled to take a moment to share our latest publication in Communication Theory: academic.oup.com/ct/advance-a...

Happening now at #ICA25: Diego Garusi is presenting some preliminary findings from our research project on constructive journalists‘ trustbuilding strategies in different European countries ✨

If you are attending #ICA25 consider joining our presentation tomorrow ✨We will present some preliminary findings from our survey on constructive journalism in Europe 🌍

The impact of local culture on journalistic roles and practices: Evidence from the Pacific Islands - Birte Leonhardt, Folker Hanusch, Shailendra Singh, 2025 Scholarship into the role that culture plays in journalistic role orientations and practices remains scarce, despite a small increase in recent years. Drawing o...

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨
Together with Folker Hanusch and Shailendra Singh, we explore the role of culture in shaping journalistic practices in the Pacific Islands! 🌏📰
🔓 Read it for free: doi.org/10.1177/1464...

Great onboarding meeting with new & ongoing #YECREA reps! Excited to keep supporting early career researchers in media & communication studies through networking, mentorship & collaboration. Let’s make an impact together!

Attention #ECRs! @yecrea.bsky.social is searching for 16 new YECREA section representatives. It’s a great opportunity for pre- and postdoctoral researchers to engage in academia and broaden their network. I enjoyed my time in YECREA very much - happy to answer any questions!
tinyurl.com/cfpyecrea

We are looking for some new #yecrea representatives! 👇

It also means saying goodbye to Sandra Banjac , Phoebe Maares and Antonio Cuartero as #YECREA management who have done an incredible job organizing (pre)conferences, reviewing grant applications, supporting all #yecrea reps and much more! Thank you so much for your fantastic work 🫶👏

Yesterday at #ECREA24 we had our #yecrea business meeting where among other things we elected the new YECREA management team!
Emilija Garcin, Ekwutosi Sanita Nwakpu and Alba Diez-Gracia take on this important and exciting role and will represent #ECRs and #PhDs in the upcoming years! ✨🙌

In the meantime, you can stay up to date by simply signing up for our newsletter (Log in to the ecrea.eu intranet >> Go to your profile by clicking on your name in the top right corner >> Click on “Edit profile” >> Become a member of YECREA)

We would like to thank all #ECRs and everyone else who came to our #yecrea event at #ECREA2024 yesterday! We're so happy that the event was such a success and hope you enjoyed the view on the rooftop terrace as much as we did! We're already looking forward to future meetups! 🤗

Absolutely agree! 🙌

Best view at an @yecrea.bsky.social party ever? I’d say so! 👏 @sandrabanjac.bsky.social @birteleonhardt.bsky.social

We look forward to continuing the great discussions and sharing the important results with everyone in the future ✨ #staytuned

We had a great time at our #YECREA pre-conference at #ECREA24 in Ljubljana!🙏Besides highly interesting presentations from our participants, we had fruitful and solution-oriented discussions on how to find meaning as an #ECR or #PhD in the precarious academic environment🙌

❗️Attention all #ECREA2024 attendees❗️
📅Save the date: Our #yecrea business meeting will take place on Thursday, September 26 from 4-4:40 pm in room FDV 19 🙌
It's a great opportunity to meet other #ECRs and get to know the new #yecrea management team. Please attend if you can✨

Diego Garusi and @birteleonhardt.bsky.social start day 2 with a study on trust-building strategies of constructive journalists, at 10am in lecture theatre 4 (panel 13). #ecreajss24

Have you been accepted to #ECREA? 🎉 Here's a great opportunity for #ECRs to network! #YECREA is organising a FREE pre-conference for #ECC2024 🙌

4 more days left to apply for a position as a #YECREA representative! This is a great opportunity for #ECRs to get involved and build a network in the communication research community More Info:

This is a great opportunity to become part of the communication research community and meet people across sections to work together on rethinking a better academia 💭
We look forward to receiving your abstract submissions ✨
👉More Info: yecrea.eu/2024/01/24/y...

🚨Deadline Extension: We extend the deadline for our FREE pre-conference at #ECC2024 to 12 April 🚨
There, we will not only talk about (dis)order in academia and the associated problems most #ECRs face in their careers, but we want to look for tangible solutions together 🙏

New OA publication from team members Folker Hanusch and Birte Leonhardt, together with Shailendra Singh and Geraldine Panapasa!

Great news for a Monday! Folker Hanusch, Shailendra Singh, Geraldine Panapasa and my paper is out in Journalism Practice 🙌 we explore Fijian women journalists' experiences of sexual harassment and show how widespread the phenomenon is. The paper is open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are organizing a pre-conference/workshop for this year's ECREA ECC conference, in which we want to expand on our work re-imagining academic culture. More info ⬇️

Come and join us at our ECREA pre-conference in Ljubljana 🙌

Want to join our department @univie.ac.at? We are hiring!👇

Ping me or my colleagues if you have questions regarding the position.