Supervision

Ongoing PhD Projects

Avital Zalik: Representative intentionality: Claim-making, speech acts, and the acceptance of meaning

  • PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Communication

Cristina Monzer: Cultural Resonance as medium and outcome of power in framing contests

  • PhD Project at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Sociology and Political Science
  • Primary Supervisor: Stefan Geiss (NTNU)
  • Co-Supervisor: Toril Aalberg (NTNU)

Olga Pasitselska: Reception of ideological narratives in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: The role of identity

  • PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Communication

Konrad Bleyer-Simon: When foreign support becomes a liability: Funding independent journalism in the authoritarian media landscapes of Russia and Hungary

  • PhD Project within the International Graduate School on Human Rights under Pressure at Free University Berlin & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Primary Supervisor: Christian Volk (Free University Berlin)

Ieva Zakareviciute: Imag(in)ing conflict and its resolution: The role of the media imagery for shaping the image of violent conflict and peacebuilding

  • PhD Project at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Department of Communication Studies
  • supported by Gerda Henkel Foundation
  • Co-Supervisor: Romy Fröhlich

 

Completed PhD Dissertations

Dr. Sandra Simonsen: Media Securitization: How national media cover migration and its empirical conditions

  • PhD Project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Communication

  • Co-Supervisor: Carsten Bagge Lautsen (Aarhus University)

Dr. Katsiaryna Stalpouskaya: Automatic extraction of agendas for action from news coverage of violent conflict PDF

  • PhD Project successfully defended on 17 July 2019 at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Department of Communication Studies
  • supported by the European Union FP7 Collaboration Grant Project INFOCORE
  • Co-Supervisor: Romy Fröhlich

 

PhD Thesis Committees

Maximilian Overbeck: Die Rückkehr der Religion in die politische Öffentlichkeit Eine korpusanalytische Untersuchung religiöser Frames in westlichen Mediendebatten über bewaffnete Konflikte nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges (1990 – 2012) [The return of religion into the political public sphere: A corpus analytic investigation of religious frames in Western media debates about armed conflicts after the end of the Cold War (1910 – 2012]

  • PhD Project at Stuttgart University, Department of Political Science

  • Supervised by Cathleen Kantner

 

PhD Advisory Committees

 

Tali Aharoni: The ecology of news (dis)trust

Dror Markus: Understanding long-term dynamics of media attention

  • PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Political Science / Department of Communication
  • Supervised by Tamir Sheafer and Shaul Shenhav

Zachary Rosenzweig: Dimensions of cultural resonance: Understanding culture in contemporary political discourse

  • PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Political Science / Department of Communication
  • Supervised by Tamir Sheafer and Meital Balmas Cohen

Edith Bouton

  • PhD Project at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Education
  • Supervised by Christa Asterhan

Tracy Adams: Importing memory: Using other nations' collective memory in political speeches

 

Mentorship

Christian Baden is a mentor in the ICA Journalism Studies Division Mentorship Program and the ECREA Political Communication Section Mentorship Program for young scholars.