Elisabeth U. Wagner-Olfermann has been a research assistant and doctoral candidate in the Department of Public Relations and Technology Communication at the Institute of Media and Communication Studies (IfMK) at Ilmenau University of Technology since 2017.
From 2009 to 2013, she completed her Bachelor's degree in Communication Science and Social Science (B.A.) at the University of Erfurt. There, Elisabeth U. Wagner-Olfermann was a tutor at the Seminar for Media and Communication Studies and a student assistant at the Chair for Social Communication during her studies.
From 2012 to 2013, she worked as an intern at the political and communications consultancy Gentinetta*Scholten in Zurich and then became a freelancer there until 2017.
In 2016, she completed her master's degree in Media and Political Communication (M.A.) at Freie Universität Berlin.
In 2021, she was the first awardee of the PolKom Kickstarter Fund of the DGPuK specialist group "Political Communication" and the Young Talent Network Political Communication (NapoKo). The funds raised were used together with another raised research grant by the Equal Opportunities Council of the TU Ilmenau for data collection in the context of her dissertation.
Between 2018 and 2019, she was the deputy spokesperson for the Mittelbau at IfMK. Since fall 2022, she has been the deputy equal opportunity representative of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Media.
winter term 2022/23
Berufsfeldorientierung PR
summer term 2022
Berufsfeldorientierung PR, together with Tatjana Faj
International Crisis Communication Research, together with Dr. Andreas Schwarz
winter term 2021/22
Berufsfeldorientierung PR, together with Tatjana Faj
summer term 2021
Berufsfeldorientierung PR, together with Tatjana Faj
summer term 2019
Berufsfeldorientierung PR, together with Tatjana Faj
Global PR, together with Dr. Andreas Schwarz
winter term 2018/19
Berufsfeldorientierung PR, together with Tatjana Faj
summer term 2018
Berufsfeldorientierung PR, together with Tatjana Faj
winter term 2017/18
Berufsfeldorientierung PR, together with Tatjana Faj
Elisabeth Wagner-Olfermann is interested in the research areas of European public sphere, political communication, crisis communication in the European context, and strategic communication and public relations. In her Dissertation she explores the question of how European media construct cross-border political leadership in crises through the media.
Wagner-Olfermann, E. (2022). Political leadership in transboundary crises, responsibility attributions, and the role of the media: a synthesis of previous research and theoretical extension. Annals of the International Communication Association, 1-15. doi:10.1080/23808985.2022.2120520
Olfermann, E. U. (2017). Am Ende eines Sonderwegs? Die Darstellung der schweizerischen Europapolitik in der Presseberichterstattung der Deutschschweiz zwischen März 2009 und Januar 2014. In J. Echterbruch, J. Geuecke, N. Jungmann & T. Schnödewind (Hrsg.), Populismus, Terror und Wahlentscheidungen in Alten und Neuen Medien. Düsseldorfer Forum Politische Kommunikation Band 7, (S. 55-74). Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Kamps, K., Fischer, F., Michaelis, I., & Olfermann, E. U. (2014). Information, Emotion, Expertise: Ein Experiment zur Wirkung journalistischer Darstellungsweisen in der Gesundheitskommunikation. In V. Lilienthal, D. Reineck & T. Schneller (Hrsg.), Qualität im Gesundheitsjournalismus: Perspektiven aus Wissenschaft und Praxis (S. 139-156). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Schwarz, A.; Alpers, F. & Wagner-Olfermann, E. U. (2022). The global study of COVID-19 news coverage: A meta-analysis of scope, methodological quality, theoretical lenses, and cross-national findings. 9th European Communication Conference, Aarhus, 20.10.2022.
Wagner-Olfermann, E. U. (2022). Media’s Construction of Political Leadership in Transboundary Crises. A comparative analysis of the responsibility discourse in European media during the migration crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. 72nd Annual Conference of the ICA, Paris, 31.05.2022.
Wagner-Olfermann, E.U. (2021). Media’s Construction of Political Leadership in Transboundary Crises. After the “Summer Of Migration”: Right-Wing Populism, Media and Affects, Ljubljana, 16 - 17.09.2021
Wagner-Olfermann, E. U. (2018). Die mediale Konstruktion politischer Führung in grenzüberschreitenden Krisen. Eine komparative Untersuchung des medialen Verantwortungsdiskurses in der europäischen Medienberichterstattung während der Flüchtlingskrise. 9. NapoKo-Kolloquium des Nachwuchsnetzwerks für politische Kommunikation, Mainz, 16.11.2018.
Wagner-Olfermann, E. U. (2018). Media's construction of political leadership in transboundary crises. 7th European Communication Conference, Lugano, 01.11.2018.
Olfermann, E. U. (2016). Am Ende eines Sonderwegs? Die Darstellung der schweizerischen Europapolitik in der Presseberichterstattung der Deutschschweiz zwischen März 2009 und Januar 2014. Düsseldorfer Forum für Politische Kommunikation, Düsseldorf, 15.04.2016.
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK)
Nachwuchsnetzwerk politische Kommunikation (NapoKo)
Internationale Forschungsgruppe Krisenkommunikation (IRGoCC)