Profile
Abstract
Charlotte Knorr (PhD) is a research associate in the Department for Media and Communication Studies (Leipzig University). Her research focus is on Big Data studies, data scandals/whistleblowers, and journalistic processes of thematization. Since April 2021, she has been working with Christian Pentzold in the Framing Big Data research project. There, she studies the discursive framing of datafied processes both in professional communicative forms and user-generated content. Additionally, Charlotte is a trained mediator with a focus on Transformative Mediation for group disputes and conflicts. In her dissertation, Charlotte Knorr she has been researching the thematization and commentary of conflicts, crises, and scandals in press- and user-generated content. Hereby, she examined the socio-technical affordances of journalistic thematization. To this end, she developed a social science and humanities artifact analysis for thematization processes in online media.
Professional career
- since 04/2021
Research Assistant (Prof. Dr. Pentzold), Dptm. For Media- and Communication Studies, Institute for Communication and Media Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany - 10/2020 - 03/2021
Program Coordinator for the B.A. and M.A. KMW at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies - 03/2019 - 03/2021
Coordinator for the department Mediation at the Center for Development Communication - Communication for Social Change (EC4SC) - 10/2016 - 09/2020
Research Assistant (Prof. Dr. Donges), Dptm. For Communication Studies, Institute for Communication and Media Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany - 10/2014 - 03/2017
Research Assistant (Prof. Dr. Stiehler), Dptm. For Empirical Research on Communication and Media, University of Leipzig - 10/2013 - 03/2014
Reaching Assistant for First-Semester-Students in Bachelor of Communication Studies, University of Leipzig - 03/2009 - 10/2011
Student Assistant for Prof. Stiehler amongst other Activities in the Project: Television in Eastern Germany Fernsehen in Ostdeutschland) (published in the TLM Series) - 03/2012 - 09/2012
Communication analysis (controlling) in the Department Communication of the MDR, Leipzig - 01/2010 - 03/2010
Evaluation and summary of Media-Analysis (ma 2009 II), MDR, Leipzig
Education
- 11/2017 - 09/2018
Apprenticeship as Mediator with Vera Rehberger (mediationsbüro mitte) and Lena-Marie Offermanns (Zwischenraeume Leipzig e.V.)Certificate according to the Standards of the Bundesverband MEDIATION e.V. - 10/2011 - 09/2014
Empirical Communication and Media Research (Master of Arts) at the University of Leipzig, with intermediate stay at the ELTE Budapest, Hungary - 10/2008 - 09/2011
Communication and Media Studies (Bachelor of Arts) at the University of Leipzig, with stays in Trondheim and Oslo, Norway - 10/2007 - 09/2008
Bachelor of Arts: Communication Studies, Passau UniversityFocus: Sociolinguistics, Critical Media Theory
Charlotte Knorr (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies in the field of crisis communication and science journalism.
Her work focuses on the topics of crisis and peace research and on the journalistic communication of scientific findings to clarify conflict issues and decisions. In research projects, she investigates how scientific information and findings on conflict and crisis issues are discussed, depicted and framed in digital media environments.
Another focus is on strengthening previously marginalised voices in the conflict in order to contribute to sustainable conflict transformation. Text aggregates such as press releases, interviews, essays, reports, readings and political poetry are methodically examined for manual and automated content as well as artefact analyses.
Since April 2021, she has been working together with Christian Pentzold in the research project Framing Big Data, investigating the discursive framing of data-based processes in both professional forms of communication and user-generated content with the help of manual and semi-automated research methods (Digital Humanities).
- Framing Big Data: The Media Framing of Aggregate Data and New Data-Based Processes in Comparison of Communicative Forms, Time Periods, and CountriesPentzold, ChristianDuration: 04/2021 – 12/2024Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- "Diversity in the media - female experts in MDR information programs"Knorr, CharlotteDuration: 10/2021 – 12/2021Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Knorr, C.Transitivität in interpersoneller Kommunikation bei sog. small groups nach Leinhardt / Holland (1971).Wiesbaden: Springer. 2018. p. 267.
- Krüger, U.; Knorr, C.; Finke, F.Cross-Border Non-Profit Investigative Journalism Networks: A Structural Analysis of the FieldIn: Meers, J.; Houston, B. (Eds.)Academic Track Reader. A Collection of Research Papers Submitted for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference September 2019, Hamburg, Germany. 2019. pp. 404–428.
- Krüger, U.; Knorr, C.; Finke, F.Die Globalisierung der Recherche: Eine Strukturanalyse grenzüberschreitender Netzwerke für investigativen Journalismus von 1998 bis 2018In: Möhrle, R. (Ed.)Umbrüche und Kontinuitäten in der deutschen Presse. Fallstudie zu Medienakteuren von 1945 bis heute. Gutenberg: Computus. 2020. pp. 133–151.ISBN: 9783940598523
- Knorr, C.Soziale Affordanzen der Thematisierung auf MedienplattformenDoctoral thesis. 2022.
- WorkshopOnline-Workshop: Journalistische MediationMedien- und KommunikationswissenschaftEvent Organiser: Knorr, Charlotte10/12/2021
- WorkshopOnline-Workshop: Online-Konflikte und deren Möglichkeiten zur MediationMedien- und KommunikationswissenschaftEvent Organiser: Knorr, Charlotte03/12/2021
- Gesprächsrunde"Denkwerkstatt Medien und Zusammenhalt vor Ort"Medien- und KommunikationswissenschaftEvent Organiser: Knorr, Charlotte22/10/2021
- WorkshopOnline-Workshop: Einführung MediationMedien- und KommunikationswissenschaftEvent Organiser: Knorr, Charlotte02/12/2021
- Gesprächsrunde„Zum Verhältnis Kritischer (Kommunikations-)Wissenschaft und Polizei“Medien- und KommunikationswissenschaftEvent Organiser: Knorr, Charlotte30/06/2021
Since 2013 I have been given methodological seminars on content analysis, especially in the field of online communication. First, I taught as a tutor during my master's degree, then I gave seminars for the online content analysis M.A., introductory content analysis seminars for B.A. and M.A..
Since 2018, my teaching focus has been on theory and research seminars on online conflict. Here, the focus is on examining power dynamics as well as the marginalization of individual voices in conflict through media technologies.
Additionally, in my network analytic seminars, I share insights from political mobilization research in social movements and political conflicts (Theories M.A. seminars and Network Research B.A. research seminars since 2018).
Especially in the field of conflict moderation and mediation, I give workshops on understanding online conflicts and empowering marginalized actors:inside. I have been a lecturer for the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig, the School for Applied Economic and Technology (HTWK) as well as for the Center for Development Communication EC4SC at the University of Leipzig.
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Diversity in the media - female experts in MDR programs
offered for B.A. KMW in summer semester 2020 together with Prof. Patrick Donges and in cooperation with the MDR.
In the seminar a program analysis of information programs was conducted. After an introduction to the methodology, the students developed a codebook and examined the material. The results were presented and discussed with both the students and the MDR.
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Theories of Interpersonal Communication (B.A. KMW 1003-1)
offered as part of the Basis Theory Modul B.A. KMW in the summer semester 2018 and 2017
first an Introduction to the basic literature, then the focus on interpersonal conflicts, especially in digital communication
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Project Seminar on Network Research (B.A. KMW 1004)
offered as part of the Method Module B.A. KMW in the winter semester since 2018, latest in 2020/2021.
The seminar is part of the methods module 1004. After a short introduction to basic theorems and concepts of network research, the focus lies on empirical implementations in the context of SNA. The seminar allows small group work in projects that can be determined according to individual interest.
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Project seminar on the investigation of political online mobilization (B.A. KMW)
offered as part of the project module in B.A. KMW in the summer semester 2016
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Methodological seminar on content analysis (B.A. KMW)
offered as part of the Method Module B.A. KMW in the winter semesters 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17
first a introduction to the methodology, then joint work on own projects including their execution in the pretest
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Methodological seminar on online-content analysis (M.A. KMW)
offered as part of the Method Module B.A. KMW in the winter semesters 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17
first a introduction to the methodology, then joint work on own projects including their execution in the pretest
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Special Theories of Communication and Media Research (M.A. KMW)
ffered as a seminar for the Master of Empirical Media Research, with a focus on network theories (Summer Semester 2015)