Andreas M. Kraxberger, BA MA
Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
Department of Media, Society and Communication
Grey Bear, Universitätsstraße 5-7, A-6020 Innsbruck
Office 1S20, 1st floor
Andreas M. Kraxberger, MA, joined the Department of Media, Society and Communication as a university assistant at the end of 2023 and is currently pursuing a doctorate in political science. His research interests lie at the intersection of political communication, election campaigns and humour research, the role of social media and algorithms in these areas, as well as experimental methods in the social sciences. He is also the student representative of the doctoral programme "Politics, Power and Language".
He received his BA and MA in Political Science with honours from the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck. Since then, his research has focused primarily on the relevance, impact and role of German and English-language political humour in modern media systems. His master's thesis, in which he analysed long-term changes in US political comedy and its reaction to recent crisis situations, was nominated for the Marianne Barcal Prize. He also worked as a research assistant on the FWF-funded project "Communicating the Covid-19 Crisis", in the course of which he analysed crisis communication by governments during the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Together with Prof. Dr Martin Senn from the Department of Political Science at the University of Innsbruck, he has published an anthology on the historical development and possible future of various international orders, written in collaboration with students.
Focal points
- Politische Satire / Political Comedy and Satire
- Social Media Algorithms / Social Media Algorithms
- Politische Kommunikation / Political Communication
- Wahlkampagnen / Electoral Campaigns
- Emerging Social Media / Neue Soziale Netzwerke
Research Projects
- Early Scholar Funding for the dissertation project "Measuring the Effects of Political Satire on Emotional Drivers of News Avoidance" in cooperation with the CORE-Facility at the University of Innsbruck.
Publications
- Sarah C. Dingler, Martin Senn, Lore Hayek, Christian Schwaderer, Andreas M. Kraxberger, and Nada Ragheb, "Everyone will know someone who died of Corona: Government Threat Language during the COVID-19 Pandemic", European Journal of Political Research, 2024.
- Andreas M. Kraxberger, What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Laugh: Longitudinal Content Analysis of Late Night Political Comedy Across Crises (Master Thesis). University of Innsbruck, Department of Political Science, 2023.
- Andreas M. Kraxberger, Melina C. Duller, Mara Strozzega, and Robin H. Thiedmann, "Weltstaat: Zwischen Utopie und Untergang", in A World of Orders: World Political Orders of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Martin Senn and Andreas M. Kraxberger, eds, Innsbruck University Press, 2022, pp. 191-226.
- Andreas M. Kraxberger and Lore Hayek, Freiheit im Wandel Sondersendung, Freirad - Freies Radio Innsbruck, updated on 12/21/2023, checked on 12/21/2023, 2022. URL: https://www.freie-radios.online/sendung/freiheit-im-wandel.
- Martin Senn and Andreas M. Kraxberger, Eds, A World of Orders: World Political Orders of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Innsbruck University Press, 2022.
Presentations
SE research project
Guest lecture at the Department of Political Science on "Role and Effects of Political Satire" (please check with Uta if this is ok, I have taken over a unit for her in the VO)
Activities
- Student representative at the DK Politics, Power and Language
- Reviewer for the European Journal of Humour Research