Maren Urner
Maren Urner (* 1984 in Herford ) is a German neuroscientist and author . She is co-founder of the 2016 online magazine Perspective Daily and professor of media psychology at the University for Media, Communication and Economics (HMKW) in Cologne. She represents the need for constructive journalism , which not only highlights problems, but also discusses possible solutions.
Life
Maren Urner worked for a number of years as a freelance journalist at Neue Westfälische . She studied Cognitive Science from 2004 to 2007 at the University of Osnabrück and McGill University in Canada and from 2007 to 2009 Cognitive Neuroscience at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen in the Netherlands. From 2009 to 2013 she did her PhD in Neuroscience at University College London in the group of Geraint Rees and with Karl Friston . In 2016, together with Han Langeslag, she founded Perspective Daily , the first advertising-free online magazine for constructive journalism, and was managing director and editor-in-chief until March 2019. Since April 2019, she has been a lecturer in media psychology at HMKW and became a professor in October 2019 called.
She quotes her motto "Our life is nothing but what we focus our attention on" from William James .
Research and Teaching
Her main research interests are psychological and neural information processing, constructive journalism and solution journalism and critical thinking. In teaching, she represents the subjects of information and communication, digital gaming and learning, practice of media psychology, online journalism and practice of corporate communication.
mission
Maren Urner represents the knowledge gained through her scientific work as a cognitive and neuroscientist via various media, as a lecturer and panel guest. Various studies confirm that news broadcasts, newspapers and online media mainly report negative events, so that media consumers receive a worldview that is too negative and does not correspond to reality. The excessive negativity can cause health consequences such as chronic stress and feelings of fainting. As a coping strategy, some people turn away from most of the media.
Publications (selection)
- M. Urner, G. van Wingen, M. Rijpkema, G. Fernández, I. Tendolkar: Genetic variation of the alpha2b-adrenoceptor affects neural correlates of successful emotional memory formation. In: Human Brain Mapping. Volume 36, No. 11, 2011, pp. 2266-2275.
- Maren Urner: Investigating the dynamic role of fluctuations in ongoing activity in the human brain. Dissertation, June 3, 2015, ISBN 978-3-656-96369-1
- M. Urner, DS Schwarzkopf, K. Friston, G. Rees: Visual learning induces long-lasting connectivity changes during rest in the human brain. In: Neuroimage. Volume 77, 2013, pp. 148-156.
- M. Urner, M. Sarri, T. Manly, J. Grahn, G. Rees, K. Friston: The role of prestimulus activity in visual extinction. In: Neuropsychologia. Volume 51, No. 8, 2013, pp. 1630-1637.
- M. Urner, H. Langeslag: Why the media can concentrate on the future narrative and how this works. In: Between powerlessness and confidence. Oekom Verlag, Munich 2018, pp. 147–160.
- Peter Gröpel, Maren Urner, Jens C. Pruessner, Markus Quirin: Endurance- and Resistance-Trained Men Exhibit Lower Cardiovascular Responses to Psychosocial Stress Than Untrained Men . In: Frontiers in Psychology . tape 9 , June 1, 2018, ISSN 1664-1078 , doi : 10.3389 / fpsyg.2018.00852 , PMID 29910757 , PMC 5992644 (free full text).
- M. Urner: No more the daily end of the world. How we defend ourselves against the digital littering of our brains. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-426-27776-8
- Graeme Maxton, Maren Urner, Felix Austen: Global Climate Emergency Complete Media, March 23, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8312-0558-5
Awards
- 2015: Awarded as a culture and creative pilot by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Perspective Daily)
- 2016 and 2017: Award from the Council for Sustainable Development (Perspective Daily)
- 2017: ERM Media Prize for Sustainable Development
- 2017: Media award of the RUFZEICHEN GESUNDHEIT foundation!
- 2017: Nomination for the Grimme Online Award (Perspective Daily)
Web links
- Author page at Perspective Daily
- NDR.de ZAPP: "Perspective Daily" wants to offer solutions
- Maren Urner: "What neuroscience and journalism have to do with a better future" , TEDx Münster
- Maren Urner (Perspective Daily) about fake news at Media Convention Berlin 2017 (English with German subtitles)
Individual evidence
- ↑ News: Just the end of the world or what? - TV. In: media club. SFR, October 29, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Social networks - flood of information: This is how media hygiene works - one hour of what with media. In: Deutschlandfunk Nova. ARD Audiothek, September 26, 2019, accessed on November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ a b HMKW University for Media, Communication and Economics: Maren Urner. Retrieved October 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Maren Urner: Negative headlines - Stop the flooding! deutschlandfunkkultur.de, November 12, 2019, accessed on November 16, 2019 (German).
- ↑ What future? About democracy and progress. In: 8th Forum Bellevue. Joint project of the Federal President and the Bertelsmann Foundation, November 25, 2019, accessed on November 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Alfried Schmitz and Sören Brinkmann (moderation): Growing excessive demands - Is the flood of news crushing us? In: Lifetime. Deutschlandfunk, January 3, 2020, accessed on January 3, 2020 (German).
- ↑ scobel - perceived truth. 3sat, March 5, 2020, accessed on March 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Perspective Daily: For a journalism that asks what happens next. In: Grimme Online Award 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Urner, Maren |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German neuroscientist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herford |