Dr Katharina Esau
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Katharina Esau is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, where she heads the News Polarisation research stream in Professor Axel Bruns's Australian Laureate Fellowship project "Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate".
Katharina holds a PhD in media and communication studies from the University of Dusseldorf, which she published as a book titled “Communication Forms and Dynamic of Deliberation.” In recognition of her work, she received the Best Dissertation Award in 2022 from the Democracy Foundation of the University of Cologne and has recently been a Research Fellowship at The New Institute in Hamburg (09-12/2023).
Her research focuses on political communication, networked digital public spheres, and democratic innovations. Her teaching portfolio includes introductory courses in media and communication studies, courses on media systems and industries, advanced seminars on theorising and analysing communication and opinion-formation processes online, as well as practical courses on improving the design of online participation platforms.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Personal details
Positions
- Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf)
Professional memberships and associations
- International Communication Association (ICA)
- Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)
- Australian Political Studies Association (APSA)
- European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
- German Communication Association (DGPuK)
Publications
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