• Vitae
• Major teaching and research interests
• Activities
• Papers

• Political communication, especially political information behavior, public & public opinion, electoral research
• Science communication
• Environmental communication
• Reception and effects research

• Member of the alumni organization KommunikationsKultur e.V. (KKeV)

2024

Leuppert, R., Spreen, N., Scheper, J. & Link, E. (2024, February). Die Komplexität multimedialer Nachrichtennutzung - eine Mehrmethodenstudie zur Identifizierung digitaler Nachrichtennutzungsrepertoires und ihrer personen- und situationsbezogenen Determinanten [The complexity of multimedia news usage - a multi-method study to identify digital news usage repertoires and their personal and situational determinants]. Paper presented at the joint Annual Conference of the DGPuK's "Communication and Politics" section and the SGKM's "Political Communication" section, February 7-9, 2024, Bern, Switzerland.

2023

Spreen, N., Scheper, J. & Leuppert, R. (2023, June). Zwischen Zerstörung, Hoffnung und Diplomatie – Eine Analyse der Themen in der Spiegel-Berichterstattung zum Ukraine-Krieg im Zeitverlauf [Between destruction, hope and diplomacy - An analysis of the topics in Spiegel's Coverage of the Ukraine war over time]. Paper presented at the joint Annual Conference of the DGPuK's “Communication and Politics” section, the DVPW's “Politics and Communication” working group, and the SGKM's “Political Communication” section, June 28-30, 2023, Düsseldorf.

Spreen, N. & Klimmt, C. (2023, May). Myth-busting as a strategy in science communication: Correcting citizens’ misperceptions of biotechnologically produced food. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), May 25-29, 2023, Toronto, Canada.

Spreen, N., Link, E. & Dittrich, A. (2023, May). An emotion-centered perspective on intentional news avoidance about the Covid-19 vaccination: A quantitative, explorative analysis of a stratified German sample. Paper presented at the Pre-Conference “News avoidance, resistance, and related audience practices: definitions, predictors, and consequences” of the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), May 25, 2023, Toronto, Canada.

Spreen, N. & Klimmt, C. (2023, April). Busting myths of biotech: An experiment on countering consumers misperceptions of genetically modified Food. Paper presented at the Conference “Public Communication of Science & Technology” (PCST 2023), April 11-14, 2023, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2022

Spreen, N., Link, E. & Scherer, H. (2022, October). Turning to information about populism – Applying the Theory of Motivated Information Management to political information seeking. Paper presented at the 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA), October 19-22, 2022, Aarhus, Denmark.

Freytag, A., Possler, D., Spreen, N., Raney, A. A. & Klimmt, C. (2022, May). Explaining the rich entertainment appeal of nature documentaries and its (partially) pro-environmental consequences. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), May 26-30, 2022, Paris, France.

2020

Freytag, A., Klimmt, C., Possler, D., Spreen, N. & Goslar, J. (2020, January). Naturetainment: Hedonisches und eudaimonisches Unterhaltungserleben von Naturdokumentationen als medial-simulierte Naturerfahrung [Naturetainment: Hedonic and eudaimonic entertainment experience of nature documentaries as media-simulated nature experience]. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the German Society of Mass Communication's Expert Group Reception and Effects Research, January 24, Würzburg.