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On October 28 Franzisca Weder, together with the ÖAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences), organized and moderated a symposium titled “A Systemic View on the Transformation and De-fossilization of the…

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Ursula Lutzky presented at the 90th Annual International Conference der Association for Business Communication, Long Beach, California: Like This to See What Else is in the Bag: Webcare Goals Across…

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Franzisca Weder and Julia Stranzl presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the DGPuK Division for Public Relations and Organizational Communication, Greifswald, Germany: Conversational spaces…

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Florentina Höhs presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the DGPuK Division for Public Relations and Organizational Communication, Greifswald, Germany: Jenseits der Energiewende:…

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Weder, F. (2025). Strategic Sustainability Communication: Principles, Perspectives, and Potential. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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Matthes, J., Neureiter, A., & Seiffert-Brockmann, J. (2025). Coping with greenwashed ads. Greenwashing perceptions, eco-label confusion, and the willingness to pay more. Journal of International…

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Höhs, F. (2025). Creating Lines to Land: The Country-of-Origin Effect from a Sustainability Communication Perspective. in F. Weder (Hrsg.), Strategic Sustainability Communication: Principles,…

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Dühring, L., Krebber, F., Melzer, A., Seiffert-Brockmann, J.. & Oliveira, E. (2025). Kommunikation als Strategie. Beiträge zur Kommunikationsforschung in Organisationen. Springer Gabler Wiesbaden.

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Keynote speech

On October 24, Dr. Mehmet Ali Icbay  was a plenary speaker at the international conference “Advancing Anxiety-Free Mathematics Learning through Educational Robotics in Primary Education”. In his talk…

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Jens Seiffert-Brockmann co-led together with Nora Denner (JGU Mainz) and Winni Johansen (Aarhus University) the EUPRERA PhD Seminar from September 22–24 in Höllviken, Sweden. The seminar provides an…

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Our team presented at the 26th Annual European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) Congress in Lund, Sweden: Hackl, L. & Enzminger, A. (2025). “Money Maker or Fortune…

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Weder, F. & Stranzl, J. (2025). Conversational spaces enabling conversational contestation: Making sustainability communication in organizations political (again), Public Relations Review, 51(4),…

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Hagelstein, J., Wahl, I., Stranzl, J., Einwiller, S., & Ruppel, C. (2025). Communicating appreciation in the workplace: importance and perception of appreciation from managers and co-workers and its…

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Hackl, L. (2025). Interdisciplinary patchwork: a bibliometric analysis of investor relations and financial communication. Journal of Communication Management, 1-19.

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Ursula Lutzky visited the University of Palermo as a discussant on the PhD committee for Walter Spezzano’s thesis, “Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies for Digital Brand Analysis: Applications in…

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Ursula Lutzky presented her paper “Webcare across industries” at the Corpus Linguistics 2025 Conference in Birmingham, UK. The study advocates for a broad definition of webcare, highlights…

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Laura Hackl and Jens Seiffert-Brockmann successfully hosted the Interdisciplinary Conference on Financial Communication Research (Fincom 2025) from July 14th to 16th, 2025 at WU. The event featured…

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Franzisca Weder contributed to the free sustainability guide published by the Volksbanken network, titled “Nachhaltigkeit nachhaltig kommunizieren”:…

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Franzisca Weder, together with Penelope M. Kierans, has published a new paper on transformative agency in professional communication education: Weder, F., & Kierans, P. M. (2025). Unorthodox?…

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Franzisca Weder, together with Celia Kay Weaver, has published a new paper on narrative agency: Weder, F., & Weaver, C. K. (2025). Claiming narrative agency: Public relations ideals and realities in…

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Julia Stranzl, together with colleagues from the University of Vienna, has published a new chapter on workplace appreciation: Stranzl, J., Einwiller, S., & Ruppel, C. (2025). Employee Appreciation—a…

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Ursula Lutzky held a habilitation workshop for all interested and prospective habilitation candidates offering guidance and support on the habilitation process. The workshop covered topics such as…

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Erich Sommerfeldt (University of Minnesota) visited our department and held a guest lecture with the title „The good organization communicating well: A role for public relations in building a civil…

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ÖBB hosted the launch event for the book “Praxishandbuch Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation”, co-edited by Franzisca Weder. During the evening, Florentina Höhs and Julia Stranzl took part in panel…

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On May 7, 2025, Jens Seiffert-Brockmann participated as a speaker in the panel discussion “Disinformation, Fake News, and the Responsibility of PR” at KOMKON25, the Austrian Communications Congress.…

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As part of the Media & Communication course led by Franzisca Weder and Florentina Höhs in the BizCom Master’s Program, Catharina Fendt, Head of Communications at IKEA Austria, held a guest lecture and…

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In her role as Student and Early Career Representative (SERC) of the International Communication Association (ICA), Julia Stranzl hosted an online panel titled “Publishing as an Early Career Scholar.”…

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Jens Seiffert-Brockmann visited our partner university, the University of National and World Economy (UNWE), in Sofia, Bulgaria. He participated in an Erasmus+ Teaching Exchange at the Department of…

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Publication alert

Franzisca Weder, together with Karin Huber-Heim, published a new book, with chapters contributed by Florentina Höhs and Julia Stranzl: Huber-Heim, K., & Weder, F. (Eds.). (2025). Praxishandbuch…

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Change Agents for Sustainability

Prof. Franzisca Weder and her team just published the final report of their analysis of the jobmarket for sustainability and DEI managers, their (self-defined) role in organizational and corporate…

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Awards for Milena Nagengast

We are thrilled to announce that our colleague Milena Nagengast has received two awards for her outstanding dissertation entitled "Evaluation in Earnings Announcements: An Analysis of Their Accounting…

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"Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection"

Mathew Gillings‘ new book, Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection has just been published by Routledge and is available in both hardback and eBook here:…

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Letter of Award

We are happy to announce that our colleague Tetiana Shevchenko was awarded with an Ernst Mach Grant. Tetiana received the grant for her project on "Corporate Blacklisting: Strategic business…

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New Publication

Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss “Remedies against the Pandemic” offers a fresh perspective on political…