Research Focus
Foreign Policy Perspective: Media and International Relations
In view of the progress of information technology but also as a result of the increasing confusion that has characterized international relations since the end of the ?Cold War?, the media have taken on increased significance even in foreign policy matters. Accordingly, the research initiatives that involve the most recent emphasis of the CMC?s activity are dealing with the perception of the ?Other? in the process of European integration and in the transatlantic relationship.
Current Projects
The News Media and U.S. Presidential Elections: Transatlantic Perspectives
Western Balkan Countries and the EU: Reciprocal Perceptions, Expectations and Skepticism
Media Coverage of the EU Presidency: A Comparative Study
Organisation of "Vienna Forum of Social Sciences"
Publications (since 2006)
Seethaler, Josef; Melischek, Gabriele (2011) Integrating salience and interpretation: A constructivist approach to media framing in the post-Cold War era. In: Oppermann, Kai; Viehrig, Henrike (Hrsg.), Issue salience in international politics; New York, London: Routledge, S. 99-117.
Conference Papers (since 2006)
Melischek, Gabriele; Seethaler, Josef (28.05.2011) Framing International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era: The Case of Transatlantic Relations. Vortrag bei: 2011 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (International Communication Association (ICA)), Boston/UNITED STATES.
Wöhlert, Romy (26.01.2012) What can be learned from comparative research projects in other fields? Comment on the workshop results from the perspective of Media and Communication Studies. Vortrag bei: ESF - EuroHESC Workshop: Challenges in Comparative Higher Education Research - Comparing Higher Education Systems, Organisations and Individual Academic Behaviour, Helsinki/FINLAND <http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/running-programmes/eurohesc.html>.
Wöhlert, Romy (02.12.2011) Future EU Members or Europe's Internal Other? Reciprocal perceptions between Western Balkan countries and the EU and conceptions of a European collective identity. Vortrag bei: 1. Sozialwissenschaftliches Forum Wien: Identität - Diversität - Integration (Methodenforum der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Wien; Kommission für Vergleichende Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung der ÖAW; Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kommunikationswissenschaft), Wien/AUSTRIA.
Wöhlert, Romy (21.10.2011) In or out? Reciprocal perceptions between Western Balkan countries and the EU against the background of a future EU accession. Vortrag bei: Conference of the ECREA Political Communication Section "Comparing Political Communication Across Time and Space" (20.10.2011 - 21.10.2011), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid/SPAIN.
Wöhlert, Romy (27.09.2011) (Future) EU Members or Europe's internal Others. Current reciprocal perceptions between Western Balkan countries and the EU. Vortrag bei: Identity and Intercultural Communication, Bucharest/ROMANIA.
Wöhlert, Romy (20.05.2011) Western Balkan Countries and the EU: Reciprocal Perceptions, Expectations and Scepticism. Vortrag bei: Changing Identities in South Eastern Europe: Between Europeanisation, Globalisation, Regionalisation and Nationalism (Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI)), Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, Vienna/AUSTRIA <http://www.aso.zsi.at/sl/veranstaltung/3811.html>.
Wöhlert, Romy (11.09.2010) Civilization versus Barbarism: A Typology of Arab/Muslim Otherness and National Self Concepts in German and US-American Print Media around 9/11. Vortrag bei: The Issue of the (Post)Other: Postmodernism and the Other (Universität Zadar), Zadar/CROATIA (local name: Hrvatska).
Wöhlert, Romy (13.05.2010) Civilization versus Barbarism: A Typology of Arab/Muslim Otherness and National Self Concepts in German and U.S. Print Media around 9/11. Vortrag bei: Lectures Series (Zentrum für Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung, Fakultät für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Zagreb), Zagreb/CROATIA (local name: Hrvatska).
