Publikationen

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Aktuelle Publikationen des iRisCS-Com Teams:

Schwarz, A., Seeger, M. W., & Kim, S. (Eds.). (2025). The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (2 ed.). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394180844

Schwarz, A., Sellnow, D. D., Diers-Lawson, A., & Sellnow, T. L. (2025). The crisis response to the Türkiye-Syria earthquakes in 2023: Instructional emergency risk communication by the government, the national disaster management agency, and NGOs via press releases and microblogs. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 129, 105770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105770

Schwarz, A., & Faj, T. (2025). Public versus individual autonomous mobility and the reference to science in the news media: Frames of risks, benefits, and governance in Germany from 2018 to early 2023. SCM Studies in Communication and Media, 14(3), 421-455. https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2025-3-421

Meissner, F., Wilke, A. J., & Puikytė, M. (2025). How is cybersecurity discussed across media channels? Exploratory analyses of Twitter content and news reporting. Journal of Risk Research, 28(8), 855–875. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2025.2553079

Schaller, S. (2025). Mental health risks of pandemic-related media communication: The mediating roles of distinct types of perceived threat. Risk Analysis, 45(10), 320–3217. http://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70079

Schaller, S., Schumann, C., & Arlt, D. (2025). Dynamic relations between negative news media experiences and mental distress? Examining transactional effects during times of health crises. Health Communication, 40(11), 2404–2416. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2025.2457557

Schaller, S., Schumann, C., & Wolling, J. (2025). Public engagement by strategic science communication: An evaluation study on the impact of an interactive science exhibition on the German energy transition. Frontiers in Communication. Sec. Science and Environmental Communication. 10.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1657572

Schumann, C. & Arlt, D. (2025). How News Media Relates to Political Dissatisfaction Over Time Results from a 4-wave-panel study analyzing reinforcing processes between different forms of political dissatisfaction and their relation to news media exposure and media trust. Mass
Communication and Society, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2025.2511616

Diers-Lawson, A., Schwarz, A., Meissner, F., & Ravazzani, S. (Eds.). (2024). Risk and Crisis Communication in Europe: Towards Integrating Theory and Practice in Unstable and Turbulent Times. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003375296

Löffelholz, M., Schleicher, K., & Trippe, C.F. (2024) (Eds.): Krieg der Narrative. Russland, die Ukraine und der Westen. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111331508

Xu, Y. & Löffelholz, M. (2024). Multimodal Crisis Messaging in Times of Pandemic: Comparing Instagram Posts Published by Governments and Public Health Institutions in Germany, Türkiye, the UK, and the USA. International Journal of Communication 18, 4003-4030. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/22032/4771

Schwarz, A. (2024). The mediated amplification of societal risk and risk governance of artificial intelligence: technological risk frames on YouTube and their impact before and after ChatGPT. Journal of Risk Research, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2024.2437629

Schwarz, A., Sellnow, D. D., Sellnow, T. D., & Taylor, L. E. (2024). Instructional Risk and Crisis Communication at Higher Education Institutions during COVID-19: Insights from Practitioners in the Global South and North. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, 7(1), 1-47. https://doi.org/10.56801/jicrcr.V7.i1.1

Schwarz, A., Sellnow, T., Geppert, J., & Sellnow, D. D. (2024). Protective action as an enduring keystone of risk communication: Effective form, function and process of risk messaging as advocated by global higher education practitioners during a pandemic. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 32(1), 6, Article e12545. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12545

Schwarz, A., & Unselt, J. J. (2024). Rage against the machine? Framing societal threat and efficacy in YouTube videos about artificial intelligence. Risk Analysis, 44(10), 2377–2395. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14299

Seeger, M. W., & Schwarz, A. (2024). Best practices in crisis and disaster communication. In B. F. Liu & A. Mehta (Eds.), Handbook of risk, crisis, and disaster communication (pp. 65-82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003363330-7 

Schwarz, A., & Diers-Lawson, A. (2024). Mediated crises and strategic crisis communication of third sector organizations: a content analysis of crisis reporting in six countries [Article]. Corporate Communications, 29(4), 567-591. https://doi.org/10.1108/ccij-08-2023-0117

Liu, B. F., Jin, Y., Zhao, W. Q., Schwarz, A., Truban, O., & Seeger, M. (2024). Building the new architecture of crisis management: Global experts' insights on best and worst practices for securing external funding. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 32(1), 12, Article e12539. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12539

Arlt, D., Schumann, C., & Wolling, J. (2023). What does the public know about technological solutions for achieving carbon neutrality? Citizens' knowledge of energy transition and the role of media. Frontiers in Communication. 1005603. doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1005603

Schwarz, A., & Seidl, E. (2023). Stories of Astrobiology, SETI, and UAPs: Science and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life in German News Media From 2009 to 2022. Science Communication, 45(6), 788-823. https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470231206797

Schwarz, A., Seeger, M. W., & Kim, S. (2025). The Expanding and Dynamic Field of Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication. In A. Schwarz, M. W. Seeger, & S. Kim (Eds.), The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (pp. 675-689). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394180844.ch50

Schwarz, A. (2025). Crisis and Risk Communication Research in Germany. In The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (pp. 417-434). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394180844.ch32

Schwarz, A. (2025). Global Threats and the Significance of International Risk and Crisis Communication Research. In A. Schwarz, M. W. Seeger, & S. Kim (Eds.), The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (pp. 1-14). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394180844.ch1

Claeys, A.-S., & Schwarz, A. (2025). Domestic and International Audiences of Organizational Risk and Crisis Communication. In The Handbook of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (pp. 244-258). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394180844.ch20

Schwarz, A., Alpers, F., Wagner-Olfermann, E., & Diers-Lawson, A. (2023). The Global Study of COVID News: Scope, Findings, and Implications of Quantitative Content Analyses of the COVID-19 News Coverage in the First Two Years of the Pandemic. Health Communication, 39(8), 1568-1581. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2226932

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, 46(4), 290-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2022.2120520

Schwarz, A. (2008). Covariation-based causal attributions during organizational crises: Suggestions for extending Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT). International Journal of Strategic Communication, 2(1), 31-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15531180701816601

Schwarz, A. (2008). Wer hat die Krise zu verantworten? Ein rezeptionsorientierter Ansatz der Krisen-Public Relations. Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 56(1), 60-81. 

Schwarz, A. (2010). Krisen-PR aus Sicht der Stakeholder: Der Einfluss von Ursachen- und Verantwortungszuschreibungen auf die Reputation von Organisationen. VS Verl. für Sozialwissenschaften. 

Schwarz, A. (2012). How publics use social media to respond to blame games in crisis communication: The Love Parade tragedy in Duisburg 2010. Public Relations Review, 38(3), 430-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.01.009

Schwarz, A. (2012). The Love Parade in Duisburg: lessons from a tragic blame game. In A. George & C. Pratt (Eds.), Case studies in crisis communication: international perspectives on hits and misses (pp. 340-360). Routledge. 

Schwarz, A. (2012). Stakeholder attributions in crises: The effects of covariation information and attributional inferences on organizational reputation. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 6(2), 174-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/1553118X.2011.596869

Schwarz, A. (2014). Die Nuklearkatastrophe als Gegenstand  internationaler Krisenkommunikation: Eine länder- und kulturvergleichende Untersuchung der Fukushima-Berichterstattung auf Basis des Framing-Ansatzes. In J. Wolling & D. Arlt (Eds.), Fukushima und die Folgen - Medienberichterstattung, Öffentliche Meinung, Politische Konsequenzen (pp. 153-182). Univ.-Verl. Ilmenau. https://doi.org/https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-49412-1

Schwarz, A. (2014). Die Relevanz von Ursachen- und Verantwortungszuschreibungen im Kontext von Nachrichtenproduktion und -rezeption: Theoretische und methodische Potenziale von Attributionstheorien. In W. Loosen & M. Dohle (Eds.), Journalismus und (sein) Publikum: Schnittstellen zwischen Journalismusforschung und Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung (pp. 275-299). Springer VS. 

Schwarz, A. (2015). Strategische Krisenkommunikation von Organisationen. In R. Fröhlich, P. Szyszka, & G. Bentele (Eds.), Handbuch der Public Relations: Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen und berufliches Handeln. Mit Lexikon (3 ed., pp. 1001-1016). Springer VS. 

Schwarz, A. (2016). Crisis communication research in Germany. In A. Schwarz, M. Seeger, & C. Auer (Eds.), The handbook of international crisis communication research (pp. 357-372). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118516812.ch33

Schwarz, A. (2018). Krisen in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe: Befunde und Anregungen zur Krisenkommunikation von Jugendämtern. Unsere Jugend, 70(1), 29-38. https://doi.org/10.2378/uj2018.art05d

Schwarz, A. (2018). Krisenkommunikation im Kinderschutz. Communicatio Socialis, 51(3), 269-285. https://doi.org/10.5771/0010-3497-2018-3-269

Schwarz, A. (2024). Journalismus und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. In M. Löffelholz & L. Rothenberger (Eds.), Handbuch Journalismustheorien (pp. 697-716). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32151-2_48

Schwarz, A. (2024). Konflikt- und Krisenkommunikation. In P. Szyszka, R. Fröhlich, & U. Röttger (Eds.), Handbuch der Public Relations: Wissenschaftliche Grundlagen des beruflichen Handelns (pp. 785-805). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28034-5_43

Schwarz, A., Binetti, J.-C., Broll, W., & Mitschele-Thiel, A. (2016). New technologies and applications in international crisis communication and disaster management. In A. Schwarz, M. Seeger, & C. Auer (Eds.), The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research (pp. 465-477). Wiley Blackwell. 

Schwarz, A., & Büker, J. (2018). Die Krisenkommunikation von Hochschulen. In B. Fähnrich, J. Metag, S. Post, & M. S. Schäfer (Eds.), Forschungsfeld Hochschulkommunikation (pp. 271-295). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22409-7_13

Schwarz, A., & Fritsch, A. (2014). Communicating on Behalf of Global Civil Society: Management and Coordination of Public Relations in International Nongovernmental Organizations. Journal of Public Relations Research, 26(2), 161-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062726x.2013.864242

Schwarz, A., & Löffelholz, M. (2020). Krisenkommunikation: Vorbereitung, Umsetzung, Erfolgsfaktoren. In A. Zerfaß, M. Piwinger, & U. Röttger (Eds.), Handbuch Unternehmenskommunikation (pp. 1-17). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-03894-6_46-1 

Schwarz, A., & Pforr, F. (2011). The crisis communication preparedness of nonprofit organizations: The case of German interest groups. Public Relations Review, 37(1), 68–70. doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2010.10.002 

Schwarz, A., Rothenberger, L., Schleicher, K., & Srugies, A. (2016). Krisenmanagement aus interner Perspektive: Analyse der Krisenkommunikation in deutschen Jugendämtern. In S. Huck-Sandhu (Ed.), Interne Kommunikation im Wandel. Theoretische Konzepte und empirische Befunde (pp. 225-246). Springer VS. 

Schwarz, A., Schleicher, K., Srugies, A., & Rothenberger, L. (2016). Krise im Jugendamt. Leitfaden zur strategischen Krisenkommunikation für Kommunen. Nationales Zentrum Frühe Hilfen (NZFH) in der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA). http://www.fruehehilfen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/fruehehilfen.de/pdf/Publikation_NZFH_Krise_im_Jugendamt.pdf

Schwarz, A., Schleicher, K., Srugies, A., & Rothenberger, L. (2017). Die Krisenkommunikation von Jugendämtern in Deutschland: Befunde zur Medienberichterstattung und strategischen Kommunikation insbesondere im Kontext schwerer Fälle von Kindeswohlgefährdung. Universitätsverlag Ilmenau. 

Schwarz, A., Seeger, M., & Auer, C. (Eds.). (2016). Handbook of international crisis communication research. Wiley-Blackwell.

Schwarz, A., Seeger, M. W., & Auer, C. (2016). Significance and structure of international risk and crisis communication research: Toward an integrative approach. In A. Schwarz, M. W. Seeger, & C. Auer (Eds.), The handbook of international crisis communication research (pp. 1-10). Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118516812.ch1

Löffelholz, M. (2004) (Eds.): Krieg als Medienereignis II. Krisenkommunikation im 21. Jahrhundert. Springer VS.