Nina Fabiola Schumacher is a doctoral researcher in the research unit of Prof. Christian Nuernbergk since April 2020. She studied sociology and history (2013­ to 2017) and media and cultural sociology (2017 to 2020) at the University of Trier.

From 2018 to 2020, she worked as a research assistant in various institutions at the University of Trier. For example, she supported the department of Prof. Dr. Martin Endreß for General Sociology, the administrative office of the Forschungszentrum Europa and the DFG research group 2539 “Resilience” in project 3 “Theory of Resilience” and in project Z “Coordination”. In addition, she was a research assistant at Prof. Dr. Christian Nuernbergk’sdepartment on public media communication from 2019 to 2020.

Nina is working on her PhD thesis entitled: “Evaluative interactions between politics, political parties and political journalism. A comparison between Twitter and journalistic coverage”.

Research interests

Political journalism, journalism studies, political communication, interaction and interaction patterns of journalists and political actors (especially with focus on conflict/cooperation, change of journalistic role perception in course of digitalization/media change), public communication with focus on digitalized publics, media and cultural sociology, empirical research methods/media research

Schumacher, N. F., Maurer, P., & Nuernbergk, C. (2021). Towards New Standards? Interaction Patterns of German Political Journalists in the Twittersphere. The International Journal of Press/Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612211025502

Schumacher, N. F. (2018). Strategien, Dispositionen und Ressourcen sozialer Resilienz. Unijournal 44(1), 22–23.

Master Thesis:

Schumacher, N. F. (2020). Patterns of political-media interactions on Twitter. A qualitative analysis of the patterns of digital interactions illustrated by the communicative figuration of political journalism. Thesis for the degree of Master of Arts under supervision of Dr. Gerrit Fröhlich and Prof. Dr. Christian Nuernbergk.

Presentations

• Schumacher, N. F. (2021). Vorstellung Dissertationsprojekt „Evaluative Interaktionen zwischen Politik, Parteien und Politikjournalismus. Ein Vergleich zwischen Twitter und journalistischer Berichterstattung“. Vortrag auf dem Dissertationsworkshop „Journalistik/Journalismusforschung“ der DGPuK-Fachgruppe Journalistik/Journalismusforschung und des Mittelbaunetzwerk Journalismusforschung (mijofo) an der Universität der Bundeswehr München am 15. September 2021.
• Schumacher, N. F. (2021). „Anne Will, dass die Grünen gewinnen… Anmerkungen zur ‚Haltung‘ bei den Öffentlich-Rechtlichen“. Referentin im Rahmen einer Podiumsdiskussion vom Politischen Bildungsforum Bremen der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung im Dorint City Hotel Bremen am 10. August 2021.
• Schumacher, N. F., Maurer, P., & Nuernbergk, C. (2021). Towards New Standards? Interaction Patterns of German Political Journalists in the Twittersphere. Vortrag auf der 71st Annual ICA Conference: Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice in Denver, Colorado, USA vom 27.–31. Mai 2021.
• Maurer, P., Nuernbergk, C., & Schumacher, N. F. (2021). Informationssuchende oder „Pundits in disguise“? Twitter-Interaktionen von Journalist*innen mit Politiker*innen. Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung #PolKomm21: Meinungsbildung und Meinungsmacht in dissonanten Öffentlichkeiten am Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft in Berlin am 11. Februar 2021.

Research project

• Since 2019: Patterns of political-media interactions on Twitter. Together with Prof. Dr. Christian Nuernbergk and Dr. Peter Maurer as part of the project ”Patterns. Linguistic creativity and variation in synchrony and diachrony“, Trier Center for Language and Communication (TCLC)