Irene Neverla

Irene Neverla (born February 11, 1952 in Graz ) is an Austrian communication scientist . Since 1992 she has been a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg with a focus on journalism and communication studies.

Life

Irene Neverla grew up in Vienna, where she lived until 1971. She is not married and has a daughter.

From 1970 to 1976 she studied communication science, sociology and psychology in Vienna , Salzburg and Munich . She completed her journalistic training at the International Press Center Vienna and became a freelancer in journalism and in projects of the working group for communication research. Irene Neverla wrote her master's thesis with Otto B. Roegele. She was a research assistant at the University of Munich and received a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation . The habilitation was in 1990 and from 1990 to 1992 she was deputy chairwoman of the DGPuK .

1970, when the science of journalism was still historically shaped in Vienna, it was already an "empirical-social-scientific turning point" in Salzburg under Günter Kieslich . Thanks to Heinz Pürer and Walter Hömberg , she managed to get involved in various research projects. As a student she already came into contact with applied academic research through the Working Group for Communication Research. These included projects with Hans-Jürgen Weiß. The mentor Wolfgang R. Langenbucher and the scientist Gertrude Joch Robinson were an important part of her life, which helped her to find her way into science. The experiences she made in a male-dominated university landscape made promoting women an important topic for the Austrian. In addition, Neverla is co-founder of the specialist group "Media, Public and Gender" in the DGPuK.

Since 1992 she has been a professor for journalism and communication science at the University of Hamburg. In 2005 she became the initiator and until 2010 the first coordinator of the mentoring program for communication scientists at the DGPuK. She completed research and teaching activities at various universities such as Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, Thessaloniki , Tel Aviv and Sydney . Irene Neverla is also involved in EU research funding. Here she is a reviewer for the German Research Foundation, the Swiss National Fund and the Austrian Research Funding. Neverla is the coordinator at the two work centers “Health Communication and Medical Journalism” and “European Media and Public Sphere”, both of which are located at the University of Hamburg. She is also a member of the Board of Studies in the Erasmus Mundus MA program "Journalism and Media in the Process of Globalization: The European Perspective".

Scientific work

In a biographical interview, Irene Neverla put her life around science in a nutshell: "I like to work in marginal areas where you can discover new things and innovate research." This is the common thread that runs through all the work of Austrian draws.

In 1980 Neverla published a study on the position of women in the men's journalism profession. This is still one of the pioneering work in the field of gender research . In doing so, she initiated a political discussion about women in the media sector.

In 1990, in her habilitation, Neverla brought a new perspective into reception research through a time-theoretical perspective. In addition, she worked with ethnographic methods that had not yet become widespread at the time.

Research priorities

Neverla's research focus since taking up her professorship in Hamburg has been:

• Journalism research
• Transcultural communication and the European public
• Crisis, risk and medical communication
• visual communication
• Gender research
• Internet
• Health communication
• Photojournalism
• Culture of remembrance
• Communication area Europe
• Climate reporting with topics

Gender research

In the communicator study, Irene Neverla and Gerda Kanzleiler demonstrated the role of women in the male profession of journalism. These studies laid the foundation in communication sciences for the independent development of women's studies. According to this, newer publications always asked more about women than the acting subjects in the mass media.

Publications

Edited works

• Volker Lilienthal , Irene Neverla (Hrsg.): "Lügenpresse": Anatomy of a political battle term. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017.
• Irene Neverla, Henrik Bødker (Eds.): Environmental Journalism. Taylor & Francis, London 2013. (previously published as a Special Issue in Journalism Studies)
• Irene Neverla, Mike S. Schaefer (ed.): The media climate. Questions and findings of communication science climate research. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012.
• Irene Neverla, Elke Grittmann, Ilona Ammann (eds.): Global, local, digital. Photojournalism Today. Herbert von Halem, Cologne 2008.
• Michael Beuthner, Joachim Buttler, Sandra Fröhlich, Irene Neverla, Stephan Weichert (eds.): Images of Terror - Terror of Images. Quantity and quality of the media images of September 11th. Herbert von Halem, Cologne 2003.
• Irene Neverla, Elke Grittmann, Monika Pater (eds.): Reader journalism. Annotated text collection . UVK, Constance 2002.
• Irene Neverla (ed.): The network medium. Communication science aspects of a medium in development. West German publishing house, Opladen / Wiesbaden 1998.
• Wolfgang Duchkowitsch, Fritz Hausjell, Walter Hömberg, Arnulf Kutsch, Irene Neverla (eds.): Journalism as culture. Analyzes and Essays. West German publishing house, Opladen / Wiesbaden 1998.
• Irene Neverla, Christian Schwarzenegger: Europe as a communication space - Europe as a communication space. Special issue of the magazine Medien & Zeit. Vol. 23, no. 3, 2008.

Monographs

• Irene Neverla, Mascha Brichta, Hanns-Christian Kamp, Dieter K. Lüdecke: Anyone who is sick goes online. An empirical study of media and internet use in the course of the disease. Reinhard Fischer, Munich 2007.
• Irene Neverla: TV time. Spectators between time calculation and pastime. Ölschläger, Munich 1992.
• Irene Neverla, Gerda Chancellor: Journalists. Women in a man's job. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• Irene Neverla: Job Satisfaction of Journalists. Minerva, Munich 1979.

Awards

• Journal award of the DGPuK (together with Monika Taddicken) for the article "Climate change from the point of view of media users. Multi-factorial impact model of media experience on the complex knowledge domain of climate change", published in Medien & Kommunikation , issue 5 (2011), pp. 505-525.

literature

• Elke Grittmann, Judith Lohner, Corinna Lüthje, Monika Pater, Wiebke Schoon, Monika Taddicken, Stefanie Trümper (eds.): Media and Time. In honor of Irene Neverla. Special issue of Medien & Zeit magazine . Vol. 27, No. 2, 2012.

Web links

• Irene Neverla at the University of Hamburg
• Irene Neverla's personal website
• Brief portrait of the Schader Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla: Team: University of Hamburg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on January 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla: Team: University of Hamburg. (No longer available online.) In: www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on December 6, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Irene Neverla - Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science . In: Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science . March 3, 2014 ( halemverlag.de [accessed December 4, 2016]).
4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla: Team: University of Hamburg. (No longer available online.) In: www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on December 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Irene Neverla - Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science . In: Biographical Lexicon of Communication Science . March 3, 2014 ( halemverlag.de [accessed January 17, 2017]).
6. ↑ Claudia Riesmeyer, Nathalie Huber: Career Professor - Paths and Strategies in Communication Studies . Ed .: Michael Meyen . Herbert von Halem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86962-030-5 , p. 171 .
7. ^ Elisabeth Klaus: Media and Gender | media & time. Accessed January 23, 2017 (German). 
8. ^ DGPuK »Journal Prize. (No longer available online.) In: www.dgpuk.de. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016 ; Retrieved December 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.