Peter Maurer

 
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication

Research

Grants:

2025-2029: Ander foundation (~7.500.000kr): Beyond Fact-Checking: Detecting Frames and Disinformation in News and Social Media Content with Computational Methods (Link)

2024: Ansökningsstöd from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (100.000kr) for proposal: Modeling themes and frames in political news: A three-country comparison around the 2024 European Parliament elections.

Teaching

Courses I currently convene in the Digital Media and Analysis (DMA) program:

  • Media Audiences in the Digital Age (MKGA91)
  • Digital Methods (MKGB91)
  • Data, Power, Ethics (MKGB92)
  • Project in Media Analysis (MKGB94)

Other courses Strategic Communication, Data Visualization (with R), Social Media and Social Theory, Technological Foundations of Digital Media, and in the Computer Science program at KAU.

 

Collaboration

  • Co-Principal Investigator (Germany) for second wave of the Journalistic Role Performance project (2021-2024). 
  • KAU: NODE research group
  • COST: OPINION network

Bio

Since September 2022, I'm a senior lecturer in Media and Communication at the Department of Geography, Media and Communication (GMK). Before, I was a postdoc researcher and lecturer at Trier University, NTNU Trondheim and University of Vienna. I hold a doctorate in Communication from Freie Universität Berlin (2011) and a master’s degree in political science from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (JGU) Mainz. My research areas are the analysis of populist communication, politicians' perceptions of the media, automated frame analysis, and the credibility of YouTube influencers.

I'm the Swedish representative in the COST Action OPINION (Measuring Opinionated Communication) and member of the network's "Tools" working group.

Selected publications

Maurer, P. & Nuernbergk, C. (accepted). No Watchdogs on Twitter: Topics and Stances in Political Journalists' Tweets About COVID-19. Journalism. 

Hallin, D. C., Mellado, C., Cohen, A., Hubé, N., Nolan, D., Szabó, G., … Maurer, P., ... Ybáñez, N. (2023). Journalistic Role Performance in Times of COVID. Journalism Studies, 24(16), 1977–1998. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2274584

Amiel, P., Baisnée, O., Berthaut, J., Gousset, C., Hubé, N., Maurer, P. Mothes, C., & Nollet, J. (2023). Permanences and Mutations in the French and German Media Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Canadian Journal of Communication 48(3), 529-551. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjc-2022-0057

Maurer, P. (2023). Perceptions of media influence and performance among politicians in European democracies. International Communication Gazette, 85(5), 347-364. https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485221146088

Schumacher, N. F., Maurer, P., & Nuernbergk, C. (2023). Towards New Standards? Interaction Patterns of German Political Journalists in the Twittersphere. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 28(1), 257–277. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612211025502

Maurer, P., & Nuernbergk, C. (2022). Editorial: Journalism, Activism, and Social Media: Exploring the Shifts in Journalistic Roles, Performance, and Interconnectedness. Media and Communication, 10(3), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i3.5984

Maurer, P. (2022). Populism and social media. In Ceron, A. (ed)., Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics (pp. 37-41). Elgar Publishing. 

Maurer, P. & Sharma, R. (2022). L’usage de narratifs populistes dans les tweets des candidats « contestataires » aux élections présidentielles en France (2017) et aux États-Unis (2016). Revue internationale de politique comparée, 29, 83-106. https://doi.org/10.3917/ripc.292.0083

Maurer, P., Béllanger, S. (2021). France: Parties’ Communication Strategies After the 2017 Earthquake. In: Haßler, J., Magin, M., Russmann, U., Fenoll, V. (eds) Campaigning on Facebook in the 2019 European Parliament Election. Political Campaigning and Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73851-8_6

Maurer, P., & Diehl, T. (2020). What kind of populism? Tone and targets in the Twitter discourse of French and American presidential candidates. European Journal of Communication, 35(5), 453–468. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323120909288

Jörg Matthes, Peter Maurer & Florian Arendt (2019) Consequences of Politicians’ Perceptions of the News Media, Journalism Studies, 20:3, 345-363, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2017.1377102

 

Publications