Peter Maurer

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.

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)

I also teach regularly in the DMA-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.

Co-Principal Investigator (Germany) for second wave of the Journalistic Role Performance project. The project comapres the presence of different journalistic roles in online news content globally.

Ongoing co-authorships with researchers from the universities of Trier, LMU München, TU Dresden, Macromedia University of Applied Science (Germany), and Innsbruck (Austria).

KAU: NODE research group (regular guest).

I earned my PhD (Dr. phil.) at Freie Universität Berlin in 2011 with a dissertation about politicians' and journalists' perceptions of media influence in political decision-making. After that, I have held postdoc and lecturer positions at the universities of Vienna, Trondheim, and Trier. I got my MA in political science from Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz and spent a year at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Strasbourg as an Erasmus student.  

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TuzELewAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

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