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Dr. Laura Wolff
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Dr. Laura Wolff

Research assistant

Dr. Laura Wolff worked from Ocotber 2014 to the end of June 2021 as a research assistant at the Institute for Communication Science of the Technische Universität Braunschweig.

The publications and presentations listed here refer to this period of time.

Laura Wolff
Core research areas (CRA)
  • Media appropriation
  • Science communication
  • Online communication
  • Media and communication theory
  • Qualitative methods
Curriculum vitae

Since October 2014|Research assistant at the Institute for Communication Science, directed by Prof. Dr. Monika Taddicken, TU Braunschweig
2010-2013|MA Media Culture, University of Bremen
|Master's thesis: "Protest communication via Twitter. A study of the protest events in Spain 2011."
2012|Semester abroad, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2007-2010|BA German Studies Art & Media, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
|Bachelor's thesis: "Strategies of memory in postmodern film. Operation Cinema: Quentin Tarantino against Nazis?"

Publications (from October 2014 until June 2021)
  • Taddicken, M., & Wolff, L. (2020). ‘Fake News’ in Science Communication: Emotions and Strategies of Coping with Dissonance Online. Media and Communication, 8(1), 206-217. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i1.2495
  • Taddicken, M., Wolff, L., Wicke, N., & Götjen, D. (2019). Beteiligung und Themenkonstruktion zum Klimawandel auf Twitter. In I. Neverla, M. Taddicken, I. Lörcher & I. Hoppe (Hrsg.), Klimawandel im Kopf. Studien zur Wirkung, Aneignung und Online-Kommunikation (p. 229-262). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22145-4_9
  • Wolff, L. (2017). Komplexitätsbewältigung und Hypertextualität. Systematisierung des Forschungsfelds und Entwurf eines aneingungstheoretischen Untersuchungsansatzes. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, 65 (3), 517-533. https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2017-3-517
Presentations (from October 2014 until June 2021)
  • Taddicken, M., & Wolff, L. (2019, May 9-11). Desintegration durch Desinformation? Eine Untersuchung von Online-Dissonanzbewältigung bei der Konfrontation mit 'alternative facts' zum Klimawandel [Presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.
  • Taddicken, M., & Wolff, L. (2019, February 6-8). 'Fake News' in der Wissenschaftskommunikation - Zum Dissonanzempfinden von Online-Nutzer*innen zu klimawandelskeptischen Inhalten [Presentation]. DGPuK Unit for Science Communication, TU Braunschweig, Germany.
  • Wolff, L., Kohout, S., & Taddicken, M. (2018, May 9). Neue Theorien(aus)bildung in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Student debates as a research-oriented teaching-learning concept [Presentation]. Pre-Conference as part of the Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK), University of Mannheim, Germany.
  • Taddicken, M., Wicke, N., Wolff, L., Hoffmann, E., Weißkopf, M., Witt, T., & Stollorz, V. (2017, April). Fakten, Forschung, Positionen-interaktiv? Evaluationen eines neuartigen Kommunikationsformates im Bereich Wissenschaftskommunikation [presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Unit "Science Communication", University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
  • Taddicken, M., Wolff, L., & Wicke, N. (2016, November). Online Engagement and the Communicative Cunstruction of Climate Change on Twitter [poster presentation]. 6th European Communication Conference, Prague, Czech.
  • Taddicken, M., Wicke, N., & Wolff, L. (2016, November). Climate Change in the media: Perceptions and expectations of the audience [presentation]. 6th European Communication Conference, Prague, Czech.
  • Wolff, L. (2016, November 3-5). Tagging, Sharing, Liking in komplexen Online-Umgebungen - Vorschlag einer kommunikationsiwssenschaftlichen Hypertext(nutzungs-)konzeption [presentation]. Annual Meeting of the DGPuK Unit "Digital Communication", Brunswick, Germany.
  • Taddicken, M., Wolff, L., Wicke, N., & Götjen, D. (2016, November 3-5). Beteiligung und Themenkonstruktion in sozialen Medien am Beispiel klimawandelbezogener Twitterkommunikation [presentation]. Annual Meeting of the DGPuK Unit "Digital Communication", Brunswick, Germany.
  • Taddicken, M., Wicke, N., Wolff, L. & Neverla, I. (2015, November 21). #Klimawandel- Neue kommunikative Praktiken auf Twitter in der Wissenschaftskommunikation? [presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung e.V., Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
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