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Folker Hanusch

Folker Hanusch

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
5937
World Ranking
4830
National Ranking
16

Overview

Folker Hanusch is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences with a dedicated emphasis on communication, sociology and political science, gender studies, demography, and literature and literary theory as subfields. The main topics covered in their work include media studies and communication, social media and politics, gender, feminism and media, public relations and crisis communication, island studies and pacific affairs, social and cultural dynamics, and misinformation and its impacts.

Hanusch has a considerable publication record, contributing frequently to several academic journals. These include:

  • Journalism
  • Digital Journalism
  • Communication Theory
  • New Media & Society
  • Journalism Practice

Recent papers by Hanusch examine aspects of journalism and media in digital and social contexts. Notable publications include:

  • "Dimensions of Peripherality in Journalism: A Typology for Studying New Actors in the Journalistic Field" (2022), published in Digital Journalism
  • "Interpretations of the journalistic field: A systematic analysis of how journalism scholarship appropriates Bourdieusian thought" (2020), published in Journalism
  • "The labour of visual authenticity on social media: Exploring producers' and audiences' perceptions on Instagram" (2020), published in Poetics
  • "A question of perspective: Exploring audiences' views of journalistic boundaries" (2020), published in New Media & Society
  • "Field insurgency in lifestyle journalism: How lifestyle journalists marginalize Instagram influencers and protect their autonomy" (2022), published in New Media & Society

Throughout their career, Hanusch has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Phoebe Maares, Daniel Nölleke, Sandra Banjac, Kim Löhmann, and Clara Juarez Miro. These collaborations have contributed to multiple publications that explore various intersections of journalism, media studies, and social dynamics.

Best Publications

  • MAPPING JOURNALISM CULTURES ACROSS NATIONS: A comparative study of 18 countries

    Thomas Hanitzsch;Folker Hanusch;Claudia Mellado;Maria Anikina

  • Modeling Perceived Influences on Journalism: Evidence from a Cross-National Survey of Journalists

    Thomas Hanitzsch;Maria Anikina;Rosa Berganza;Incilay Cangoz

  • Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe

    Thomas Hanitzsch;Folker Hanusch;Jyotika Ramaprasad;and Arnold S. de Beer

  • Broadening the focus: The case for lifestyle journalism as a field of scholarly inquiry

    Folker Hanusch

  • Representing Death in the News: Journalism, Media and Mortality

    Folker Hanusch

  • Web analytics and the functional differentiation of journalism cultures: individual, organizational and platform-specific influences on newswork

    Folker Hanusch

  • Does gender determine journalists’ professional views? A reassessment based on cross-national evidence

    Thomas Hanitzsch;Folker Hanusch

  • Comments, analytics, and social media: The impact of audience feedback on journalists’ market orientation:

    Folker Hanusch;Edson C Tandoc

  • THE DIMENSIONS OF TRAVEL JOURNALISM: Exploring new fields for journalism research beyond the news

    Folker Hanusch

  • Journalism Across Cultures: An Introduction

    Levi Mbakwe Obijiofor;Folker Hanusch

  • Journalistic Branding on Twitter

    Folker Hanusch;Axel Bruns

  • The pre-socialization of future journalists : an examination of journalism students' professional views in seven countries

    Claudia Mellado;Folker Hanusch;María Luisa Humanes;Sergio Roses

  • Exploring the boundaries of journalism: Instagram micro-bloggers in the twilight zone of lifestyle journalism:

    Phoebe Maares;Folker Hanusch

  • Mediating orientation and self-expression in the world of consumption: Australian and German lifestyle journalists’ professional views:

    Folker Hanusch;Thomas Hanitzsch

  • Representing Death in the News

    Folker Hanusch

  • Worlds of Journalism : Journalistic Cultures, Professional Autonomy, and Perceived Influences across 18 Nations

    Thomas Hanitzsch;Josef Seethaler;Elizabeth A. Skewes;Maria Anikina

  • Journalists in times of change: evidence from a new survey of Australia's journalistic workforce

    Folker Hanusch

  • Setting the Agenda, Influencing Public Opinion, and Advocating for Social Change: Determinants of journalistic interventionism in 21 countries

    Thomas Hanitzsch;Folker Hanusch;Corinna Lauerer

  • Interpretations of the journalistic field: A systematic analysis of how journalism scholarship appropriates Bourdieusian thought:

    Phoebe Maares;Folker Hanusch

  • VALUING THOSE CLOSE TO US: A comparison of German and Australian quality newspapers’ reporting of death in foreign news

    Folker Hanusch

  • Journalistic Roles and Everyday Life

    Folker Hanusch

  • Comparing Journalistic Cultures Across Nations

    Folker Hanusch;Thomas Hanitzsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Hanitzsch
Thomas Hanitzsch Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Edson C. Tandoc
Edson C. Tandoc Nanyang Technological University
Axel Bruns
Axel Bruns Queensland University of Technology

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