Maike Braun, M.Sc.
Research Associate
Maike Braun joined our team in April 2022. She works on the project on diversity in communication sciences and her research generally focuses on issues of diversity and social inequality, both in who gets to communicate and whom communication is about. Maike Braun is currently finishing her PhD with Susanne Bruckmüller of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg on the framing of social inequality, where she is particularly interested in how whom communication focuses on influences explanations for social inequality.
Maike Braun did her Masters in psychology with a special focus on the psychology of communication at the University of Koblenz-Landau and her Bachelors at the FernUniversität in Hagen.
Together with three other early career researchers from Belgium, Italy, and Sweden, Maike Braun also has a small project on the reclamation of derogatory group labels. This project started at the Summer School of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) in 2020 and is funded by the EASP.
Contact
Contributrions to Promoting Gender Diversity
Trepte, S., Scharkow, M., Braun, M., Heintz, L., Jansen, A. & Kruschinski, S. (2023, October 20) Gender Diversity in Communication Research [Input]. Auftaktworkshop des Gertrude J. Robinson Mentoring Programm der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK). Potsdam, Germany
Braun, M. & Scharfenkamp, K. (2023, September 28-29). Sichtbarkeit und Wahrnehmung von Wissenschaftlerinnen auf internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen [Workshop]. IFiF-vernetzt – Vernetzungsveranstaltung der BMBF-Förderrichtlinie „Innovative Frauen im Fokus“. Berlin, Germany
Selected Media Articles
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
Braun, M., Heintz, L., Kruschinski, S., Trepte, S., & Scharkow, M. (2023). Gender diversity at academic conferences—The case of the International Communication Association. Journal of Communication, 73(6), 601–615. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad032
Klysing, A., Braun, M., Buscicchio, G., Jacobs, C., Formanowicz, M., & Fasoli, F. (2024). The Use and Perception of Reclaimed Group Labels for Lesbian Women and Gay Men. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 0261927X241234047. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X241234047
Braun, M., Martiny, S., & Bruckmüller, S. (2023). From serial reproduction to serial communication: Transmission of the focus of comparison in lay communication about gender inequality. Human Communication Research, 49(1), 35–46. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqac024
Bruckmüller, S., & Braun, M. (2020). One group’s advantage or another group’s disadvantage? How comparative framing shapes explanations of, and reactions to, workplace gender inequality. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 39(4), 457–475. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X20932631
Conferences
Braun, M., & Bruckmüller, S. (2023, July 1-4). Comparison focus matters: How we compare high and low earners affects internal attributions for income inequality [Research report]. 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Krakow, Poland
Bruckmüller, S. & Braun, M., (2023, July 1-4). How privilege and disadvantage framing shape explanations of and suggestions for interventions against different kinds of inequality [Research report]. 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Krakow, Poland
Braun, M., Heintz, L., Kruschinski, S., Trepte, S., & Scharkow, M. (2023, May 18-20). Geschlechterdiversität auf wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen - Entwicklung und Einflussfaktoren am Beispiel der ICA-Konferenzen von 2005 bis 2022 [Research report]. Jährliche Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK). Bremen, Germany
Braun, M., Heintz, L., Kruschinski, S., Trepte, S., & Scharkow, M. (2023, May 25-29). Gender diversity at academic conferences - The case of the International Communication Association (ICA) [Poster presentation]. ICA’s 73rd annual conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Braun, M., & Bruckmüller, S. (2022, September 10-15). How whom we talk about affects attributions for income inequality [Research report]. 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society. Hildesheim, Germany.
Braun, M., & Bruckmüller, S. (2022, June 22-25). How whom we talk about affects attributions for income inequality [Research report].17th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology. Hong Kong.
Braun, M., Bruckmüller, S., & Martiny, S. (2021, May 27-28). Explaining male privilege or female disadvantage: The transmission of comparative focus in communication chains about gender inequality [Research report]. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association of Psychological Sciences. Louvain, Belgium.
Braun, M., Bruckmüller, S., & Martiny, S. (2021, February 9-13). Talking about gender inequality at work: The survival of asymmetrical framing in communication chains [Poster Presentation]. 2021 SPSP Annual Convention. Virtual conference.
Braun, M. (2020, August 24 - September 4 ). Framing social inequality – how the focus of comparison influences communication and causal thinking about social inequality [Research report]. Summer School of the European Association for Social Psychology. Surrey, United Kingdom.
Braun, M., Bruckmüller, S., & Martiny, S. (2019, September 16-18). Talking about gender inequality at work: the survival of asymmetrical framing in communication chains [Blitz Talk]. 17th Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society. Cologne, Germany.
Braun, M. & Bruckmüller, S. (2019, June 26-28). Pass it on! The framing of gender inequality in communication chains [Poster Presentation]. EASP Meeting on Intergroup Communication. Bologna, Italy.
Braun, M. & Bruckmüller, S. (2019, June 20-22 ). Pass it on! The framing of gender inequality in communication chains [Poster Presentation]. EASP Meeting on Language Challenges in the 21st Century. Warsaw, Poland.