Biografi
Originally from Austria, I have recently been appointed Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Geography, Media and Communication at Karlstad University. Previously, I worked at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, was (temp.) Professor of Media and Communication Studies at ZeMKI at the U of Bremen and at the TU Dresden. Prior to that I was an assistant at the University of Vienna and have spent time as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Utvalda publikationer
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Brantner, C., & Saurwein, F. (2021). Covering technology risks and responsibilities: Automation, artificial intelligence, robotics, and algorithms in the media. International Journal of Communication, 15, 5074–5098. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/17054
Brantner, C., Rodriguez-Amat, J. R., & Belinskaya, Y. (2021). Structures of the public sphere: Contested spaces as assembled interfaces. Media and Communication, 9(2), 16–27. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i3.3932
Brantner, C., & Stehle, H. (2021). Visibility in the digital age. Introduction [Special issue]. Studies in Communication Sciences, 21(2), 93–98. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2021.01.006
Brantner, C., Lobinger, K., & Stehling, M. (2020). Memes against sexism? A multi-method analysis of the feminist protest hashtag #distractinglysexy and its resonance in mainstream news media. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 26(3), 674–696. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856519827804
Belinskaya, Y., Brantner, C., & Rodriguez-Amat, J.R. (2019). Revisitando la esfera pública (urbana): un modelo de análisis [Revisiting the (urban) public sphere: a model for analysis]. LIS. Letra. Imagen. Sonido, 9(20), 106–133. https://publicaciones.sociales.uba.ar/index.php/lis/article/view/5390/4407
Pentzold, C., Brantner, C., & Fölsche, L. (2019). Imagining big data. Illustrations of “big data” in U.S. news articles, 2010–2016. New Media & Society, 21(1), 139–167. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818791326
Brantner, C. (2018). New visualities of space and place: Mapping theories, concepts and methodology of visual communication research on locative media and geomedia. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 13(2), 14–30. https://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.290
Brantner, C., & Rodríguez-Amat, J. R. (2016). New ‘danger zone’ in Europe. Representations of place in social media-supported protests. International Journal of Communication, 10, 299–320. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3788
Förster, K., & Brantner, C. (2016). Masking the offense? An ethical view on humor in advertising. Journal of Media Ethics, 31(3), 146–161. https://doi.org/10.1080/23736992.2016.1188013
Lobinger, K., & Brantner, C. (2016). Different ways of seeing political depictions: A qualitative-quantitative analysis using Q methodology. Communications. The European Journal of Communication Research, 41(1), 47–69. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2015-0025
Rodríguez-Amat, J. R., & Brantner, C. (2016a). Space and place matters: A tool for the analysis of geolocated and mapped protests. New Media & Society, 18(6), 1027–1046. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814552098
Rodríguez-Amat, J. R., & Brantner, C (2016b). Ocupar las plazas con tuits. Una propuesta para el análisis de la gobernanza de los espacios comunicativos [Occupy the squares with tweets. A proposal for the analysis of the governance of communicative spaces]. Obra Digital: Revista de Comunicación, 11, 1–19. http://revistesdigitals.uvic.cat/index.php/obradigital/article/view/106
Edited books and edited journal issues
Brantner, C., & Stehle, H. (Eds.). (2021). Visibility in the digital age: Theoretical and empirical perspectives [Special issue]. Studies in Communication Sciences, 21(2), 93-98. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2021.01.006
Brantner, C., Götzenbrucker, G., Lobinger, K., & Schreiber, M. (Eds.). (2020). Vernetzte Bilder. Visuelle Kommunikation in Sozialen Medien [Networked images. Visual communication in social media]. Herbert von Halem.
Schwender, C., Brantner, C., von Gottberg, J., & Graubner, C. (Eds.). (2019). Zeigen | andeuten | verstecken – Bilder zwischen Verantwortung und Provokation [Showing | suggesting | hiding – images between responsibility and provocation]. Herbert von Halem.
Brantner, C., Hagen, L. M, Mothes, C., & Schielicke, A.-M. (Eds.). (2017). Digitale Revolution in der Demokratie. Wie die Digitalisierung die Politik verändert: Trends, Mechanismen und Strategien [Digital revolution in democracies. How digitization is changing politics: Trends, mechanisms and strategies; Special issue]. Medien Journal, 41(2).
Book chapters and other journal articles
Brantner, C. (2022, in print). Die vernachlässigte Produzent*innenethik [The neglected producer ethics]: Drumwrigth & Murphy „How advertising practitioners view ethics: Moral muteness, moral myopia, and moral imagination.“ In T. G. K. Meitz, N. S. Borchers, & B. Naderer (Eds.), Schlüsselwerke der Werbeforschung. Springer Nature.
Lobinger, K., & Brantner, C. (2022, in print). „Niemand muss diese Videos zeigen“. Der medienethische Diskurs über die visuelle Berichterstattung zum Terroranschlag 2020 in Wien. [“Nobody has to show these videos.” The media-ethical discourse on the visual coverage of the 2020 terrorist attack in Vienna]. In U. Autenrieth & C. Brantner (Eds.), It’s all about Video. Visuelle Kommunikation im Bann bewegter Bilder. Herbert von Halem.
Schwarzenegger, C., Wagner, A. J. M., Brantner, C., & Lobinger, K. (2022, in print). Hitler, Stalin, LOL – Geschichte als Ressource “grenzwertiger Komik” in Memes linker und rechter Aktivist*innen in Social Media [History as a resource of “borderline humor” in left- and right-wing activists’ memes in social media]. In C. Schwarzenegger, E. Koenen, C. Pentzold, T. Birkner, & C. Katzenbach (Eds.), Digitale Kommunikation und Kommunikationsgeschichte. Perspektiven, Potentiale, Problemfelder. Digital Communication Research.
Brantner, C., & Stehle, H. (2021). Visibility in the digital age. Introduction [Special issue]. Studies in Communication Sciences, 21(2), 93–98. https://doi.org/10.24434/j.scoms.2021.01.006
Brantner, C., Lobinger, K., Götzenbrucker, G., & Schreiber, M. (2020). Vernetzte Bilder in Sozialen Medien als Forschungsthema der Visuellen Kommunikationsforschung [Networked images in social media as a research topic in visual communication research]. In C. Brantner, G. Götzenbrucker, K. Lobinger, & M. Schreiber. (Eds.), Vernetzte Bilder in Sozialen Medien als Forschungsthema der Visuellen Kommunikationsforschung (S. 9–24). Herbert von Halem.
Lobinger, K., & Brantner, C. (2020). Picture-sorting techniques. Card sorting and Q-sort as alternative and complementary approaches in visual social research. In L. Pauwels & D. Mannay (Eds.), Sage handbook of visual research methods. 2nd revised and expanded edition (pp. 309–321). Sage.
Brantner, C. (2019). Von Geovisualisierung bis zur verorteten Bildlichkeit: Lokative Medien und Geomedien in der Visuellen Kommunikationsforschung [From geovisualisation to emplaced visuality. Locative media and geomedia in visual communication research]. In K. Lobinger (Ed.), Handbuch Visuelle Kommunikationsforschung (pp. 465–488). Springer.
Brantner, C., & Pfeffer, J. (2019). Content analysis of Twitter: Big data, big studies. In S. A. Eldridge II & B. Franklin (Eds.), The Routledge handbook to developments in digital journalism studies (pp. 79–92). Routledge.
Brantner, C., Pfurtscheller D., & Lobinger, K. (2019). Politik im Spot(t)-Format: Humor im österreichischen Wahlkampf 2017 [The use of humor in 2017 Austrian election campaign videos]. In C. Schicha (Ed.), Wahlwerbespots zur Bundestagswahl 2017 (pp. 509–528). Springer.
Brantner, C., Pfurtscheller, D., & Lobinger, K. (2019, May). “People only share videos they find entertaining or funny.” Right-wing populism, humor and the fictionalization of politics. A case study on the Austrian Freedom Party’s 2017 online election campaign videos. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3372701
Lobinger, K., Reißmann, W., Pfurtscheller, D., Brantner, C., Venema R., & Marchiori, E. (2019). Theoretische, thematische, forschungsethische und methodologische Herausforderungen der Visuellen Kommunikationsforschung. Ein programmatischer Ausblick [Theoretical, thematic, research-ethical and methodological challenges of visual communication research. A programmatic outlook]. In K. Lobinger (Ed.), Handbuch Visuelle Kommunikationsforschung (pp. 723–749). Springer.
Von Sikorski, C. & Brantner, C. (2019). Das Bild in der politischen Kommunikation [Visuals in political communication]. In K. Lobinger (Ed.), Handbuch Visuelle Kommunikationsforschung (pp. 181–204). Springer.
Schwender, C., Brantner, C., von Gottberg, J., & Graubner, C. (2019). Zur Einleitung: Bilder zeigen, andeuten oder verstecken? Fragen der visuellen Kommunikation im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ethik und Provokation [Introduction: Showing or hiding? Questions of visual communication in the area of tension between ethics and provocation]. In C. Schwender, C. Brantner, J. von Gottberg, & C. Graubner (Eds.), Zeigen | andeuten | verstecken – Bilder zwischen Verantwortung und Provokation (pp. 9–19). Herbert von Halem.
Stehling, M., Brantner, C., & Lobinger, K. (2018). Meme als Diskursintervention: Körperbilder gegen Sexismus am Beispiel von #distractinglysexy [Memes as discourse intervention: Body images against sexism. A case study of #distractinglysexy]. In E. Grittmann, K. Lobinger, I. Neverla, & M. Pater (Eds.), Körperbilder - Körperpraktiken. Visualisierung und Vergeschlechtlichung von Körpern in Medienkulturen (pp. 225–244). Herbert von Halem.
Brantner, C., Hagen, L. M, Mothes, C., & Schielicke, A.-M. (2017). Editorial [Editorial for the special issue “Digital revolution in democracies”]. Medien Journal, 41(2), 2–4.