Finja Isabel Augsburg

finja.augsburg@uni-erfurt.de

PhD Candidate in the project "UncertainTEAM", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Department of Media and Communication Studies)

Contact

C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen" / C19.01.19

Visiting address

Campus
Department of Media and Communication Studies
C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen"
Max-Weber-Allee 3
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Department of Media and Communication Studies
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Mitglied (Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour (IPB))

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour (IPB)
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Finja Isabel Augsburg

Curriculum vitae

Short vita

  • since 11/2023 Researcher at the professorship for Communication Studies with a focus on interpersonal communication in the context of digitalisation, Seminar for Media and Communication Studies, University of Erfurt and at the Institute for Planetary Health Behavior
  • 11/2023 M.A. Global Communication: Politics and Society, University of Erfurt (Master's thesis "Talking Transatlantic Relations: Revisiting the U.S.-German Renaissance through the lens of think tank podcasts")
  • 2022 (WS) Research stay as a visiting scholar at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin
  • During her studies, internships at the Goethe-Institut Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Embassy Berlin as well as employment as a research assistant for Professor Patrick Rössler
  • 08/2021 B.A. Communication Science / Teaching, Learning and Training Psychology, University of Erfurt (bachelor's thesis "News choice in the context of the COVID-19 infodemic: A subject-differentiated comparison of students in Germany")
  • 2018 Abitur, Eichendorff School Wolfsburg

Member

  • Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour

Research

Research Focus

  • Science Communication
  • (Political) crisis communication
  • Transatlantic relations

Research projects

Employee of the BMBF project "UncertainTEAM - Target group-oriented communication of scientific uncertainty in multiple crises" under the direction of Assistant Professor Fabian Prochazka. Link

Publications

  • Augsburg, F. I., Ransom, L. A., & Stroud, S. R. (2024). Scientists as Superheroes? Communicating Complexity During COVID-19. Media Ethics Magazine, 36(1).
  • Augsburg, F., Heckert, J., Lehle, R. & Vöth, C. (2023). News Choice in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In H. Sorger, B. Hoß, K. Graner & J. Anders (Eds.), Personalisation, news choice and political reporting in times of crisis. Scientific perspectives on current phenomena of political communication. Contributions to the 17th conference of the Düsseldorfer Forum Politische Kommunikation (pp. 79-106). Shaker Verlag.

Conference Presentations

  • Augsburg, F. (2023, July). Renaissance of German-American relations amidst the Ukrainian War? Sentiment analysis of transatlantic rapprochement comparing elite and public voices on Twitter. Presentation at the 21st Annual Conference of the Transatlantic Studies Association at the University of Plymouth, England.