Florian Arendt

Florian Arendt

Florian Arendt

Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Florian Arendt

Associate Professor of Health Communication
Währinger Straße 29, 1090 Vienna


Email
+43-1-4277-49323

Florian Arendt (Ph.D., University of Vienna) is a communication scientist working in the field of health communication. In general, his research addresses the role of the media in the health domain. His research operates at the intersection of communication/social science and medicine/public health. Behind the background that health communication scholarship is characterized by research in many different disciplines (e.g., communication, medicine, public health, and psychology), Florian mainly uses theory and methodology from communication science to contribute to these interdisciplinary research efforts. He has published 90+ articles, most of them in journals in communication science (e.g., Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Health Communication, Journal of Health Communication) and medicine/public health journals (e.g., British Medical Journal, Crisis, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Social Science & Medicine).   

Florian's research focuses on a broad range of health issues such as suicide prevention, smoking cessation, cancer prevention, vaccination, depression, and sexually transmitted diseases. His research efforts can be broadly categorized into six domains: (1) Optimization of public health campaign messages, (2) global health disparities and digital health divide, (3) quality of health-related news, (4) stereotyping and health myths, (5) health-related consequences of new digital media technologies, and (6) historical perspective on health communication. In addition, Florian’s research aims to advance general communication theory (e.g., media-related selection, media stereotyping) and methodology (e.g., dose-response methodology, implicit measures in communication).

Florian Arendt (*1984) received his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Vienna in 2013. Afterwards, he held the position as an "Akademischer Rat" (postdoctoral researcher) at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Munich (LMU). Since autumn 2018, Florian holds the tenure-track-professorship of health communication at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna.

Publications

2023

Arendt, F., Till, B., Voracek, M., Kirchner, S., Sonneck, G., Naderer, B., Pürcher, P., & Niederkrotenthaler, T. (2023). ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, and suicide prevention: A call for a targeted and concerted research effort. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 44(5), 367-370. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000915

Unterreiter, L., Scherr, S., & Arendt, F. (2023). Investigating the effects of disclosure of lived experience of depression by mental health professionals: A web-based randomized controlled trial. Health & New Media Research, 7(1), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.22720/hnmr.2023.00024

Mestas, M., & Arendt, F. (2023). A longitudinal dynamic perspective on quality in journalism: Investigating the long-term macro-level media effect of suicide reporting on suicide rates across a century. Communication Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650222115031

Arendt, F., Forrai, M., & Mestas, M. (2023). News framing and preference-based reinforcement: Evidence from a real framing environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Communication Research (CR), 50(2), 179-204. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502221102104

Arendt, F., & Mestas, M. (2023). Suicide among soldiers and social contagion effects: An interrupted time-series analysis. Social Science & Medicine, 320, Article 115747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115747

Mestas, M., & Arendt, F. (2023). Suicide of a tenor amidst the stage setting of the Werther opera's death scene: A historical case report. Crisis. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000842

Arendt, F., Markiewitz, A., & Scherr, S. (2023). News for life: Improving the quality of journalistic news reporting to prevent suicides. Journal of Communication, 73(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqac039

Scherr, S., Arendt, F., & Haim, M. (2023). Algorithms without frontiers? How language-based algorithmic information disparities for suicide crisis information sustain digital divides over time in 17 countries. Information, Communication and Society, 26(14), 2690-2706. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2097017

Mestas, M., & Arendt, F. (2023). Celebrity suicide and forced responsible reporting in the nineteenth century: Crown Prince Rudolf and the absence of a Werther Effect. Health Communication, 38(3), 568-574. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1961972

Mestas, M., & Arendt, F. (2023). Suicide reporting in the nineteenth century: Large-scale descriptive content analysis of Austrian newspapers. Media History, 29(3), 305-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2022.2153656

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