Doreen Spörer-Wagner

Professional career

• Senior Researcher, NCCR Democracy Research Project “Institutional and media strategies for post-conflict democratization”, International Conflict Research Group, ETH Zurich (2009 to date)
• Scientific Coordinator NCCR Democracy Doctoral Program, University of Zurich (2007 to date)
• Senior Researcher, NCCR Democracy Research Project “The dynamics of political institutions in mediated democracies”, Institute of Mass Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich (2005-2009)
• Teaching and Research Associate, Chair for International Relations, University of Constance (2002-2005)

Academic career

• Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Constance, Supervirors: Gerald Schneider & Christoph Knill (2002-2005)
• M.A. in Political Science and Slavonic Philology, University of Constance (1995-2002)
• Abitur / A-Levels (1995)

Publications

• Spörer-Wagner, Doreen (2013): News Framing under Conditions of Unsettled Conflict: An Analysis of Georgian Online and Print News around the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, in: Fedor, Julie/Rutten, Ellen/Zvereva, Vera (eds.): Memory, Conflict and New Media. Web Wars in Post-Socialist States, London: Routledge, forthcoming.
• Spörer-Wagner, Doreen/Marcinkowski, Frank (2011): Politiker in der Öffentlichkeitsfalle? Zur Medialisierung politischer Ver­hand­lungen in nationalen Kontexten, in: Edinger, Michael/Patzelt, Werner J. (Hrsg.): Politik als Beruf, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Band 44, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 416-438.
• Spörer-Wagner, Doreen/Marcinkowski, Frank (2010): Is Talk Always Silver and Silence Golden? The Mediatisation of Political Bargaining. Javnost - The Public 17(2), pp. 5-26.
• Bussmann, Margit/Spörer, Doreen (2008): Globalisierung und Frauen. Eine Bestandsaufnahme in Industrie- und Transformationsländern, in: Brabandt, Heike et al. (Hrsg.): Mehrheit am Rand? Geschlechterverhältnisse, globale Ungleichheit und transnationale Handlungsansätze, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 25-49.
• Spörer, Doreen (2006): Regierungssysteme und Reformen: Politökonomische Analysen der exekutiv-legislativen Beziehungen im postkommunistischen Raum, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
• Spörer, Doreen (2004): Ausmaß, Strukturen und Implikationen präsidialer Macht im postkommunistischen Raum, Swiss Political Science Review 10 (2), pp. 157-179.
• Spörer, Doreen (2002): Kompetenzen in der Handelspolitik der präsidentiellen Transformationsstaaten: Eine institutionalistische Analyse der außenwirtschaftlichen Öffnung, Magisterarbeit, Universität Konstanz.

Conference papers

• Spörer-Wagner, Doreen (2011): Online Media as a Catalyst for Unsettled Ethnic Identity Conflicts: The Case of Georgia, paper presented at the Web Wars Conference "Old Conflicts, New Media: Commemorating the Socialist Experience Online" in Bergen (September).
• Spörer-Wagner, Doreen (2010): Media as a Catalyst for Peaceful Transitions? Media's Impact on the Democratization of Post-Conflict Societies in the Former Com­mu­nist World, paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Convention of the NCA (North American Russian Communication Association) in San Francisco (November).
• Spörer-Wagner, Doreen/Hribal, Lucie (2010): Media as Push or Pull Factor in Post-Conflict Democratization?, paper presented at the VIII ICCEES World Conference in Stockholm (July).
• Spörer, Doreen/Marcinkowski, Frank (2008): Konsensfindung in Zeiten medialer Allgegenwart: Eine politische Gratwanderung zwischen Geheimhaltung und Öffentlichkeit, paper presented at the PVS (Politische Vierteljahresschrift) Convention in Dresden (February).
• Spörer, Doreen (2007): Regime Stability and the Political Public Sphere in the Post-Communist World, paper presented at the ICCEES European Congress in Berlin (August).
• Bussmann, Margit/Spörer, Doreen (2006): How does Globalization affect Women in Industrial and Transition Countries?, paper presented at DVPW Congress in Munster (September).
• Spörer, Doreen (2005): Boon or Bane? Presidents and their Influence on Reforms in the Post-Communist World, paper presented at the VII ICCEES World Congress in Berlin (July).
• Lehrer, David/Spörer, Doreen (2003): Paths, Models, Mechanisms? Banking Reform in Central Asia, paper presented at the CEES Annual Conference in Cambridge MA (October).

Further conference activities

• VIII ICCEES World Congress (2010): Chair and organisation of the panel “Media and Conflict in Post-Communist Countries”, Stockholm (July).
• Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism (2008): Paper presentation on “Regime Stability and the Political Public Sphere in the Post-Communist World”, Dresden (June).
• ICCEES European Congress (2007): Chair and organisation of the panel “Institutions, parties and reforms in Eastern Europe”, Berlin (August).
• VII World Congress of ICCEES (2005): Chair of the panel “The Shaping of Political Systems in Post-Communist Countries II”, Berlin (August).

Teaching

• University of Lucerne (since 2006)
  Medien in Konflikten: Mediatoren von Versöhnung oder Katalysatoren von Gewalt? MA Seminar
  Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, BA Seminar
  Politische Öffentlichkeit in Transformationsräumen, MA Seminar
  Politik und Medien in der Demokratie, MA Seminar
• University of Zurich / ETH Zurich (2006-2009)
  Postcommunist Political and Economic Transition, MACIS Lecture
  Comparing Postcommunist Political Institutions, MACIS Lecture
  Methoden der Politikwissenschaft, Assessment level
  Formen und Methoden des Wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens, Assessment level
• University of Constance (2003-2007)
  Transition Processes in the Postcommunist World, MA Seminar
  Transformationen aus vergleichender Perspektive, BA Seminar
  Transition Processes, Lecture
  Transformationsstrategien und –prozesse im postkommunistischen Raum, BA Seminar
  Institutionen und Politik der osteuropäischen Länder, MA Seminar