• Research Areas

    • Audience and Reception Studies
    • Political Communication
    • Digital Communication
    • Statistical Methods & Computational Social Science

  • Short CV

    Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciene as of 2013 and Master's degree in Communication Science as of 2018 at the University of Münster. In 2018 she completed her Master of Arts with an empirical thesis about the influence of political news satire on political interest and knowledge. Since 2014 various employments as student researcher, among them as tutor in statistical analysis. Between January 2019 and January 2021 research associate in the teaching and research department of Prof. Dr. Volker Gehrau at the University of Münster. Between February 2021 and August 2024 research associate in the DFG-funded research project 'Remixing Poltical News Reception' led by Prof. Stephanie Geise at the Universities of Münster and Bremen. Since September 2024 research associate in the DFG-funded research project 'When is a Like a Like?' led by Jun. Prof. Jakob Jünger in the department of Digital Media & Computational Methods.

  • Memberships & External Functions

    • Member of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
    • Member of the International Communication Association (ICA)
    • Member of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
    • 2022-2024: Representation of the mid-level faculty of the visual communication section of the DGPuK
    • 2020 - 2022: Representation of the mid-level faculty on the board of the Institute of Communication Science Münster (IfK)

  • Publications

    • Gehrau Volker, Maubach Katharina, Fujarski Sam. (2022). Einfache Datenauswertung mit R. Eine Einführung in uni- und bivariate Statistik sowie Datendarstellung mit RStudio und R Markdown. 1. Aufl. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-34285-2_1.
    • Geise, S., Garrell, D., Hollekamp, S., Kreyenborg, M., Martin, C., Maubach, K., Voskoboynikova, M.(2019). Am Thema vorbei? Wahlwerbung zur Bundestagswahl 2017 und ihre Funktionen für den politischen Prozess aus Sicht der Medien. In  Korte, K.-R., Schoofs, J. (Hrsg.), Die Bundestagswahl 2017. Analysen der Wahl-, Parteien-, Kommunikations- und Regierungsforschung (S. 389–410). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-25050-8_17.

  • Scientific Talks

    • Maubach, K., Geise, S., & Garrell, D. (2021): ‘Off topic? How the media reports about election advertising for the German Bundestag elections’. ECREA 2021 Communication & Trust (ECREA), Online, 8.9.2021.
    • Geise, S., Maubach, K. (2021): ‘Issues versus Action? How different frames affect responsibility attributions, emotional responses and participatory intents to protest’. ICA Pre-conference 2021: Visions of Change: Communication for Social and Environmental Justice, Online, 27.5.2021.
    • Temmann, L. J., Engmann, M., Maubach, K., Reer, F., Quandt, T. (2019): ‘Strong and powerful or sexy and skinny? Effects of objectifying video game avatars in Virtual Reality’. 11. Tagung der Fachgruppe Medienpsychologie (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie), Chemnitz, Deutschland., 6.9.2019.
    • Maubach, K., Engmann, M., Sünderbruch, L., Temmann, L. J., Reer, F., Quandt, T. (2018): ‘Effects of objectifying video games in Virtual Reality: How does playing with a sexualized avatar in a VR setting affect women’s self-objectification and body esteem?’ 7th European Communication Conference (ECREA 2018) (ECREA), Lugano, Schweiz, 3.11.2018.