Dr. Julia Lück-Benz

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Department of Political and Social Sciences

Institute for Media and Communication Studies

Division Media Analysis/ Research Methods

Research Associate with a Special Focus on Teaching

Address

Garystr. 55
Room 173
14195 Berlin

Office

Debora Kuczera
Link to the Office of the Division

Telephone

+49 30 838 – 65322

j.lueck-benz@fu-berlin.de

Office hours

Tuesdays, 02:00 - 04:00 p. m., upon request via e-mail

Zur Person

Since May 2021	Research Associate with a special focus on teaching at the Division Media Analysis/ Research Methods of the Institute for Media and Communcation Studies of Freie Universität Berlin
2018	Doctoral Degree, Media and Communication Studies, Universität Mannheim Topic of the Dissertation: "Journalistic Narrations for Deliberative Ends: A Country Comparison of Narrative News and their Contribution to the Deliberative Quality of Mediated Debates on Climate Change"
Since September 2016	Research Assistant and Associate at the Journalistic Seminar of Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
March 2012 – August 2016	Research Assistant at Universität Mannheim, Seminar for Media and Communication Studies and the Mannheimer Center for European Social Research (MZES), DFG Project "Nachhaltige Medienevents? Produktion und diskursive Wirkung globaler inszenierter politischer Medienevents am Beispiel des Klimawandels"
2009 - 2012	Master Degree, Media and Communication Studies, Universität Mannheim Elective Module: Political Science Topic of the Master Thesis: "Medienevent Klimagipfel: Zum journalistischen Beitrag bei der Herstellung einer transnationalen Öffentlichkeit"
2006 – 2009	Bachelor Degree, Media and Communication Studies, Universität Mannheim, 2009 Minor in Macroeconomics
2006	A-Levels

Memberships:

International Communication Association (ICA) - Expert Group: Journalism, Political Communication, Environmental Communication
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikations-wissenschaft (DGPuK) - Expert Groups: Kommunikation und Politik, Journalistik/ Journalismusforschung, Internationale undinterkulturelleKommunikation

Courses during Winter Term 2024/ 25 (Preview):

Courses during Summer Term 2024:

28531(a) Seminar Datenanalyse
28532(a) Seminar Inhaltsanalyse
28533(a) Seminar Leitfadeninterviews
28534(a) Seminar Survey Design

Courses during Winter Term 2023/ 24:

S 28514 Grundlagen der Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung (seminar for bachelor students)
MÜ 28831(a) Datenanalyse mit R (course for master students)
MÜ 28832(a) Experiment (course for master students)
MÜ 28833(a) Leitfadeninterviews (course for master students)
MÜ 28834(a) Survey Design (Quantitative Survey) (course for master students)

Courses during Summer Term 2023:

S 28532(a) Quantitative Befragung (seminar for bachelor students)
S 28533(a) Qualitative Befragung (seminar for bachelor students)
S 28534(a) Inhaltsanalyse (seminar for bachelor students)
S 28536(a) Datenanalyse mit R (seminar for bachelor students)
S 28537(a) Survey Design (seminar for bachelor students)

Courses during Winter Term 2022/ 23:

Courses during Summer Term 2022:

S/ Projektkurs 28532(a) Befragung (seminar for bachelor students)
S/ Projektkurs 28533(a) Befragung (seminar for bachelor students)
S/ Projektkurs 28534(a) Inhaltsanalyse (seminar for bachelor students)
S/ Projektkurs 28535(a) Datenanalyse mit R (seminar for bachelor students)
S/ Projektkurs 28537(a) Inhaltsanalyse

Courses during Winter Term 2021/ 22:

Courses during Summer Term 2021:

Research Focus:

International Comparative Political Communication
Transnational Communication
Public Sphere and Deliberation
Diversity in Journalism
Data Journalism

Scientific Publications and Presentations

Journal Articles:
2024	Primig, F., & Lück-Benz, J. (2024). Online monitoring activism: Civic surveillance practices as a reaction to the rise of the far-right in the COVID-19 pandemic. Information, Communication & Society, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2406817
2024	Rihl, A., Link, E., Jakob, A., Lück-Benz, J., Stehr, P., & Thiele, F. (2024). Arbeitszufriedenheit und Arbeitsbedingungen des DGPuK-Mittelbaus: Eine Bestandsaufnahme vor dem Hintergrund aktueller wissenschaftspolitischer Entwicklungen. Publizistik. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-024-00866-3
2021	Wozniak, A., Wessler, H., Chan, H., & Lück, J. (2021). The Event-Centered Nature of Global Public Spheres: The UN Climate Change Conferences, Fridays for Future, and the (Limited) Transnationalization of Media Debates. International Journal of Communication 15, 1–27. doi: 1932–8036/20210005
2020	Lück, J., Schultz, T., Simon, F., Borchardt, A., & Kieslich, S. (2020). Diversity in British, Swedish, and German Newsrooms: Problem Awareness, Measures, and Achievements. Journalism Practice, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2020.1815073
2019	Lück, J. & Schultz, T. (2019). Investigative Data Journalism in a Globalized World. A Survey Study on ICIJ Journalists. Journalistik, 2(2), 93-114. doi: 10.1453/2569-152X-22019-9858-en.
2019	Lück, J., & Nardi, C. (2019). Incivility in User Comments on Online News Articles: Investigating the Role of Opinion Dissonance for the Effects of Incivility on Attitudes, Emotions and the Willingness to Participate. SCM Studies in Communication and Media, 8(3), 311–337. https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2019-3-311.
2018	Lück, J., Wessler, H., Maia, R. C. M., & Wozniak, A. (2018). Journalist-source relations and the deliberative system: A network performance approach to investigating journalism’s contribution to facilitating public deliberation in a globalized world. International Communication Gazette. doi:10.1177/1748048518754378
2016	Lück, J., Wessler, H., Wozniak, A., & Lycariao, D. (2016). Counterbalancing global media frames with nationally colored narratives: A comparative study of news narratives and news framing in the climate change coverage of five countries. Journalism. doi: 10.1177/1464884916680372
	Wessler, H., Wozniak, A., Hofer, L., Lück, J. (2016). Global multimodal news frames on climate change. A comparison of five democracies around the world. International Journal of Press/Politics 21(4), 423–445. doi:10.1177/1940161216661848
	Wozniak, A., Wessler, H., & Lück, J. (2016). Who prevails in the visual framing contest about the United Nations Climate Change Conferences? Journalism Studies, 1-20. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2015.1131129
2015	Lück, J., Wozniak, A., & Wessler, H. (2015). Networks of coproduction: How journalists and environmental NGOs create common interpretations of the UN Climate Change Conferences. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 21(1), 25–47. doi:10.1177/1940161215612204
2014	Wozniak, A., Lück, J. & Wessler, H. (2014). Frames, stories, and images: The advantages of a multimodal approach in comparative media content research on climate change. Environmental Communication, 1-22. doi: 10.1080/17524032.2014.981559
2012	Adolphsen, M. & Lück, J. (2012). Non-routine interactions behind the scenes of a global media event: How journalists and political PR professionals coproduced the 2010 UN climate conference in Cancún. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, Sonderband “Grenzüberschreitende Kommunikation”, herausgegeben von H. Wessler und S. Averbeck-Lietz.

Book Chapters:
2023	Rothenberger, L., Lück-Benz, J., & Schultz, T. (2023). Topics in Cross-Border Journalism. In L. Rothenberger, M. Löffelholz, & D. H. Weaver (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Border Journalism (pp. 199–217). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23023-3_13
2020	Lück, J., & Boczek, K. (2020). Statistik in der akademischen Journalist*innen-Ausbildung. In J. Schützeneder, K. Meier, N. Springer, & Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Publizistik- Und Kommunikations-wissenschaft E.V. (Eds.), Neujustierung der Journalistik/ Journalismusforschung in der digitalen Gesellschaft: Proceedings zur Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Journalistik/ Journalismusforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 2019, Eichstätt (pp. 105–116). Eichstätt: SSOAR - GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.21241/SSOAR.70827
2017	Wessler, H., Lück, J., Wozniak, A. (2017). Communication, negotiation, and influence at international climate change meetings and summits. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science.
	Lück, J., Wessler, H., Wozniak, A. (2017). Journalistische Narrative in der Klimaberichterstattung: Eine vergleichende Inhaltsanalyse zur Identifikation und Erklärung journalistischer Erzählungen in Zeitungsnachrichten. In M. Beiler & B. Bigl (eds.), 100 Jahre Kommunikationswissenschaft. Von einem Spezialfach zur Integrationsdisziplin (pp. 333-347). Konstanz: UVK.
	Lück, J. (2017). Nachhaltig kommunizieren: Gestaltungsimpulse für die Naturbewusstseinsforschung aus kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Sicht. In J. Rückert-John (Ed.), Gesellschaftliche Naturkonzeptionen. Ansätze verschiedener Wissenschaftsdisziplinen (pp. 195–213). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; Imprint: Springer VS.
2013	Lück, J., Davidkova, M., & Willhauck, B. (2013). Punk goes Elektro, goes Web 2.0: Deutschsprachiger Elektropunk seit den 2000er Jahren. In P. Meinert & M. Seeliger (Hg.), Cultural Studies: Vol. 44. Punk in Deutschland. Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven (S. 225-245). Bielefeld: transcript.
2011	Lück, J. (2011). Friedensmission oder Kriegseinsatz? Indexing und Framing der Afghanistanberichterstattung von 2001 bis 2008 in der Tagesschau der ARD. In J. Haschke & A. Moser (Hg,), Politik - Deutsch, Deutsch - Politik, Aktuelle Trends und Forschungsergebnisse: Beiträge zur 6. Fachtagung des DFPK, Düsseldorfer Forum Politische Kommunikation (S.223-244). Berlin: Frank&Timme.
2010	Rinke, E. M. & Lück, J. (2010). Cognitive style, selectivity, and reinforcement: Toward clarifying the role of political ideology in the reception of political communication. In K. Mok & M. Stahl (Hg.), Politische Kommunikation heute: Beiträge des 5. Düsseldorfer Forums Politische Kommunikation (S. 219-234). Berlin: Frank & Timme.

Monographies:
2022	Lück-Benz, J. (2022). Statistik für Journalist:innen: Grundlagen und Praxis. UVK Verlag.
2018	Lück, J. (2018). Journalistic Narrations for Deliberative Ends: A Country Comparison of Narrative News and Its Contribution to the Deliberative Quality of Mediated Debates on Climate Change (Dissertation). Universität Mannheim, Mannheim: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-451452

Research Reports:
2024	Greyer-Stock, J., & Lück-Benz, J. (2024). Moderne Wirtschaftsberichterstattung? Wie Podcasts auf Spotify und in der ARD Audiothek über Wirtschaft sprechen (OBS-Arbeitsheft 113). Otto-Brenner-Stiftung. https://www.otto-brenner-stiftung.de/fileadmin/user_data/stiftung/02_Wissenschaftsportal/03_Publikationen/AH113_Wirtschafts_Podcasts.pdf
2019	Borchardt, A., Lück, J., Kieslich, S., Schultz, T., & Simon, F. (2019). Are Journalists Today’s Coal Miners?: The Struggle for Talent and Diversity in Modern Newsrooms – A Study on Journalists in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Project report. https://www.telekom-stiftung.de/sites/default/files/files/media/publications/Talent-and-Diversity-in-the-Media-Report.pdf

Presentations:
2019	Lück, J., Borchardt, A., Kieslich, S., Schultz, T., & Simon, F. (2019). Influences on Newsroom Diversity in Times of Media Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of UK, Germany, and Sweden. Speech at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Washington D.C., USA, May 24 - 28
2019	Wozniak, A., Wessler, H., & Lück, J. (2019). The episodic nature of global public spheres: The UN Climate Change Conferences and the transnationalization of media debates. Speech at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Washington D.C., USA, May 24 - 28
2018	Lück, J., & Schultz, T. (2018). Enhanced Transnationalization Through Investigative Journalistic Networks? A Survey Study on ICIJ Journalists. Speech at the Common Annual Conference „Journalism Across Borders“ of the Expert Groups “Journalismusforschung“ and „Internationale und Interkulturelle Kommunikation“ of the DGPuK. Ilmenau, 26. - 28. September.
	Lück. J. (2018). Deliberative quality of narrative news: Evaluations cased on a standardized content analysis of Brazilian, German and US newspaper coverage on climate change. Poster Presentation at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Prague, Czech Republic, June 24 - 28
	Lück, J. (2018). Deliberative Qualität narrativer Nachrichten: Ein Vergleich der Klimaberichterstattung zwischen Brasilien, Deutschland und den USA. Speech at the Common Annual Conference of the Expert Group "Kommunikation und Politik" of the DGPuK, the Arbeitskreis "Politik und Kommunikation" of the DVPW and the Expert Group "Politische Kommunikation" of the SGKM on the topic ´"Politische Kommunikation in und über Krisen", Fribourg, Switzerland, February 8 - 10
2016	Lück, J., & Nardi, C.(2016). Incivility in user comments on online news articles: Investigating the role of opinion dissonance for the effects of incivility on attitudes, emotions and the willingness to participate. Speech at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, Japan, June 10 - 13
	Lück, J., Wessler, H., & Wozniak, A. (2016). National narratives within a global media framing? A comparative sudy of news narratives and issue framing in the climate change coverage of five countries. Speech at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, Japan, June 10 - 13
	Lück, J., Wessler, H., Wozniak, A. (2016). Länderspezifische Erzählungen im globalen Medienframing? Eine vergleichende Inhaltsanalyse zur Klimaberichterstattung im transnationalen Kontext. Speech at the Annual Conference of the German Association for Media and Communication Studies (DGPuK), Leipzig, March 30 - April 1
2015	Lück, J. (2015, Juni). Journalistic narratives for deliberative ends: The role of narratives in mediated deliberation on climate change. Speech at the 7th Colloquium of the Nachwuchsnetzwerk politische Kommunikation (NapoKo), Münster.
2015	Wessler, H., Wozniak, A., Hofer, L. & Lück, J. (May, 2015). Global multimodal news frames on climate change. Speech at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, PR, May 21 - 25
2014	Wozniak, A., Lück, J. Wessler, H. (2014, November). Sustainable media events? Media coverage of the UN climate conferences in democratic countries. Speecj at the 5th European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Lisbon, November 12 - 15
2014	Wozniak, A., Lück, J. & Wessler, H. (2014, Mai). Visual strategies and representations: How journalists and PR professionals coproduce the images of climate change. Speech at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Seattle, May 22 - 26
2013	Lück, J. & Wessler, H. (2013, June). Working with limited diversity in QCA. A methodological case study. Speech at the Post-Conference on “Qualitative Comparative Analysis” within the scope of the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), London, June 17 - 21
	Wessler, H., Lück, J. & Wozniak, A. (2013, June). Networks of coproduction: How mainstream NGOs and journalists create common interpretations of the UN climate summits. Speech at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), London, June 17 - 21
	Lück, J. (2013, June). Journalistic narrations for deliberative ends: The role of narrations in mediated deliberation on climate change. Speech at the Political Communication Preconference within the scope of the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), London, June 17 - 21
2010	Lück, J. (2010, April). Friedensmission oder Kriegseinsatz?Indexing und Framing der Afghanistan-berichterstattung von 2001 bis 2008 in der Tagesschau der ARD. Speech at the 5th Düsseldorf Forum Political Communikation, Düsseldorf, April 8 - 10
2010	Rinke, E. M. & Lück, J. (2010, June). Exploring the role of political ideology and media use for the strength of US stereotypes. Speech at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Singapore, June 22 - 26
2009	Rinke, E. M. & Lück, J. (2009, April). Moderiert die politische Orientierung den Medieneinfluss auf die Intensität von USA-Stereotypen?. Speech at the 5th Düsseldorf Forum on Political Communikation, Düsseldorf, April 3 - 5