• Since 2023 Research Associate at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 2021-2023 Project Manager at Instinctif Partners, Cologne and Frankfurt
• 2020-2021 Junior Communications Manager at X2E Group, Rohrbach (Pfalz)
• 2017-2020 Master of Arts in Social and Communication Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2017 Internships in organizational communication, in Germany and abroad, e.g. at the German Peruvian Chamber of Comerce, Lima, and Kienbaum Consultants International, Cologne
• 2013 - 2016 Bachelor of Arts in European Studies, University of Osnabrück

• Organizational Communication (Seminar; B.Sc. Psychology)

• Organizational Communication
• Strategic Communication
• Persuasive media effects

Ennenbach, S., & Barkela, B. (2024). Effects of CSR-Related Media Coverage on Corporate Reputation. Corporate Reputation Review. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41299-024-00193-3

seit 10/2018

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Universität Koblenz-Landau, Institut für Kommunikationspsychologie und Medienpädagogik (IKM)

06/2017 bis 09/2018

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Institut für Kommunikationspsychologie und Medienpädagogik (IKM), Universität Koblenz-Landau

10/2016 bis 09/2018

Studium der Sozial- und Kommunikationswissenschaften (M.A.) an der Universität Koblenz-Landau

10/2017 bis 02/2018

Auslandssemester an der Worclaw Universität, Polen

02/2016 bis 07/2016

Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Institut für Politische Wissenschaft der Universität Heidelberg

02/2015 bis 06/2015

Auslandssemester an der Aarhus Universität, Dänemark

09/2012 bis 09/2016

Studium der Politischen Wissenschaft (Beifach: Psychologie) an der Ruprecht-Karls Universität, Heidelberg

Christner, C. (in press). Does Credibility Become Trivial When the Message is Right? Populist Radical-Right Attitudes, Perceived Message Credibility, and the Spread of Disinformation.

Gil-López, T., Christner, C., de León, E., Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Maier, M., & Adam, S. (2023). Do (Not!) Track Me: Relationship Between Willingness to Participate and Sample Composition in Online Information Behavior Tracking Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393231156634

Maier, M., Welzenbach-Vogel, I. C., Christner, C., Tillman, E. R., Zinkernagel, A., & Schmitt, M. (2022). Implicit and explicit populist and anti-immigrant attitudes and their explanatory power for populist radical-right party support. Acta Politica. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00255-6

Christner, C. (2022). Populist Attitudes and Conspiracy Beliefs: Exploring the Relation Between the Latent Structures of Populist Attitudes and Conspiracy Beliefs. Journal of Social and Political Psychology,10(1), 72-85. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.7969

Christner, C., Urman, A., Adam, S., & Maier, M. (2021). Automated Tracking Approaches for Studying Online Media Use: A Critical Review and Recommendations. Communication Methods and Measures, 16(2), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2021.1907841

2023
Christner, C., Merz, P., Barkela, B., Jungkunst, H. F., von Sikorski, C. (May, 2023). Combatting climate disinformation: Comparing the effectiveness of correction placement and type. Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2022
Makhortykh, M., de León, E., Christner, C., Sydorova, M., Urman, A., Adam, S., Maier, M., Gil-Lopez, T. (2022, August). Is a single model enough? Lessons learned from systematically comparing automated classifications of populist radical right content in German. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, Austria.

Christner, C., Makhortykh, M., & Gil-Lopez, T. (2022, August). Who encounters disinformation online? Combining survey and web tracking data to investigate predictors of disinformation exposure. Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, Austria.

Christner, C. (2022, May). Does credibility become trivial when the message is right? Populist radical-right attitudes, perceived message credibility, and the spread of disinformation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

Gil-Lopez, T., Christner, C., de León, E., & Makhortykh, M. (2022, May). Do (not!) track me: Relationship between willingness to participate and sample composition in online information behavior tracking research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

Maier, M., Adam, S., Gil-Lopez, T., Makhortykh, M., Bromme, L., Christner, C., de Leon, E., & Urman, A. (2022, May). Populist radical-right attitudes and selective information exposure: studying who tunes out and who prefers attitude-consonant information. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

Makhortykh, M., de León, E., Urman, A., Gil-Lopez, T., Christner, C., Adam, S., & Maier, M. (2022, May). Panning for gold: Lessons learned from automated classification of political and populist radical right content for German textual content. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

Adam, S., Maier, M., Aigenseer, V., Makhortykh, M., Ulla, R., Urman, A., Christner, C., & Gil-Lopez, T. (2022, May). One Does Not Simply Analyze Tracking Data: Challenges of Utilizing Large-Scale Tracking Collections for Communication Research. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Paris, France.

2021
Christner, C. & Makhortykh M. (2021, May). Work in Progress: Who encounters disinformation online and why? Investigating predictors of exposure to disinformation (Work in Progress). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), (virtual conference).

Adam, S., Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Christner, C., Gil-Lopez, T., & Maier, M. (2021, April). Media consumption and conspiracy beliefs in COVID-19 times – combing tracking and survey research. Paper presented at the Dreiländertagung für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Zürich, Switzerland (virtual conference).

Makhortykh M., Adam, S., Maier, M., Urman A., Gil-Lopez, T., Christner, C., & De Léon, E. (2021, April). News at the time of crisis: Comparing desktop- and mobile-based browsing behaviour during COVID-19 pandemic. Paper presented at the Dreiländertagung für Kommunikationswissenschaft, Zürich, Switzerland (virtual conference).

2020
Maier, M., Gil-Lopez, T., Welzenbach-Vogel, I.C., Christner, C., Zinkernagel, A., Adam, S., Schmitt, M., & Tilmann, E. (2020, July). Assessing the populist radical-right potential. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Berlin, Germany (virtual conference).

2019
Makhortykh, M., Urman, A., Christner, C. & Gil Lopez, T. (2019, November). Veritas es machina: A critical review of automated approaches for detecting political disinformation online. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the German Communication Association’s Division “Digital Communication”, Berlin, Germany.

Urman, A., Christner, C., Adam, S., & Maier, M. (2019, July). Online tracking tools for research purposes: A critical review of existing approaches. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC²S²), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Adam, S., Maier, M., Aigenseer, V., Urman, A., & Christner, C. (2019, July). WebTrack – tracking users’ online information behavior while screen-scraping content. Poster presented at the 5th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC²S²), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Christner, C. (2019, July). Relation Between Populist Attitudes and Conspiracy Mentality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP), Lisbon, Portugal.

Aigenseer, V., Urman, A., Maier, M., Adam, S. & Christner, C. (2019, May). Webtrack. Chrome Extension for Tracking Users' Browsing Behavior using Screen-Scraping, 3^rd Digital Tracking Workshop, Washington D.C.

2018
Maier, M., Urman, A. & Christner, C. (2018, October). Tracking Political Information Behavior. 1. Digital Tracking Workshop, Amsterdam.

Maier, M., Vogel., I., Christner, C., Tilmman, E. & Schmitt, M. (2018, July). Development of Implicit Measures for Populist Attitudes. Annual meeting of the World Association for Public OpinionResearch (WAPOR), Marrakesh.

2017
Vogel,I., Christner,C., Maier,M., Tillman, E. & Schmitt, M. (2017, September). Development of Implicit Measures for Populist Attitudes. Fachgruppentagung Medienpsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Landau.