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Prof. Dr. Christian Nuernbergk is a University Professor of Media and Communication Studies with a focus on Public Media Communication (Journalism, PR) at the University of Trier's Faculty II, Department of Media Studies. Appointed to this position in May 2019, he has been teaching at the University of Trier since October 2017, initially as a visiting professor. His academic leadership extends to serving as spokesperson for the Journalism/Journalism Research Section of the German Society of Public Relations (DGPuK) from 2020-2024.
His educational background includes studies in communication science, economic policy, and political science at the University of Münster (2000-2005), followed by doctoral research culminating in a 2012 dissertation on 'Connection Communication in the Network Public Sphere.' Prior to his current position, he held research associate roles at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2011-2019) and conducted research at Queensland University of Technology in 2013-2014.
Prof. Nuernbergk's research focuses on journalism in digital environments, particularly examining political communication, strategic communication, and public communication within digitalized public spheres. His methodological expertise includes network analysis and computational social science approaches to studying media communication patterns. His work frequently analyzes journalist-audience interactions on social media platforms, particularly Twitter, and investigates how digital technologies reshape traditional journalistic practices and political communication.
His recent publications (2020-2024) reveal a consistent focus on digital journalism, with particular attention to political journalists' Twitter practices, pandemic communication dynamics, and theoretical developments in public sphere theory. The research demonstrates increasing methodological sophistication with network analysis techniques applied to large-scale social media datasets.
- Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (2023)
- DGPuK Prize for Best Conference Paper (2013)
- Doctoral scholarship from the University of Münster (2011)
- Hamburg Media School Media Prize for Final Theses (2005)
Prof. Nuernbergk actively supervises doctoral researchers and research assistants, including Nina Fabiola Schumacher (working on political-media interactions on Twitter) and Julian Gschneidner (involved in the 'Digital Sovereignty of Europe' research initiative). His current projects include examining interactions between politics, journalism and citizens in digitalized publics, political journalism on social media, and analyzing narrative battles between Russian and Chinese official Twitter actors. He has secured funding for multiple research projects, including the Australian Research Council-funded 'Journalism beyond the Crisis' comparative study (2016-2020).
He serves on the advisory boards of the Trier Center for Language and Communication and the China Institute of the University of Trier, and has been a board member of the Hans Bausch Media Prize Foundation since 2023.
