DFG-funded Project: Journalism Challenged: Understanding Performative Publics through Media Practice

Margreth Lünenborg, in cooperation with  Prof. Dr. Christoph Raetzsch (Aarhus University)

Project Duration: Three Years (started in May 2020) Based on a practice- and gender-theoretical framework, the project investigates the emergence of performative publics around the #metoo debate in Germany (Case Study I) as well as gender-politically relevant discourse formations in the context ...

European Training Network: G-Versity – Achieving Gender Diversity

Prof. Dr. Margreth Lünenborg

Feb 01, 2021 — Jan 31, 2024

„G-Versity – Achieving Gender Diversity” is an innovative “European Training Network (ETN)” for early stage researchers funded by the European Union. The network analyzes factors that influence educational and career decisions of women, men as well as sexual and gender minority groups ...

SFB-Project: Contested Order of Emotions: (Anti)Feminist Discourses in Social Media

Prof. Dr. Margreth Lünenborg

Jul 01, 2023 — Jun 30, 2027

Shame, anger, empathy – these emotions are central both in the narratives shared by survivors of sexual violence under the hashtags #NiUnaMenos since 2015 and #MeToo since 2017, as well as in the responses to these posts. In the third phase of the project, the communication research project ...