Florian Arendt
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Florian Arendt
Associate Professor of Health Communication
Währinger Straße 29, 1090 Vienna
+43-1-4277-49323
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For Students
- Teaching
- Consultation only upon prior agreement via email
- Enquiries for master exams via email
- Master thesis supervision (German only)
- Master exam (German only)
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Projects
- Reporting on Suicide in the 19th Century (Funding organization: Austrian Science Fund)
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Assignments
- Erasmus Representative of the Department of Communication
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
2022
Arendt, F., Mestas, M., & Forrai, M. (2022). Uncovering blind spots in the intention to provide adequate help to suicidal individuals: An exploratory web-based experiment. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 43(6), 493-499. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000819
Arendt, F., & Mestas, M. (2022). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and stock price crashes: A cross-national correlational approach. Health Communication, 37(6), 760-767. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1871168
Scherr, S., Reifegerste, D., Arendt, F., van Weert, J., & Alden, D. (2022). Family involvement in medical decision making in Europe and the United States: A replication and extension in five countries. Social Science & Medicine, 301, Article 114932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114932
Arendt, F., & Mestas, M. (2022). Celebrity suicide of a pre-world war I spy: Colonel Redl and the Werther effect. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 43(2), 112-118. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000762
Niederkrotenthaler, T., Till, B., Kirchner, S., Sinyor, M., Braun, M., Pirkis, J., Tran, U., Voracek, M., Arendt, F., Ftanou, M., Kovacs, R., King, K., Schlichthorst, M., Stack, S., & Spittal, M. J. (2022). Effects of media stories of hope and recovery on suicidal ideation and help-seeking attitudes and intentions: Systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. The Lancet. Public Health, 7(2), E156-E168. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(21)00274-7
Scherr, S., & Arendt, F. (2022). COVID-19, the media, and communication scholarship: Adequate concepts for the crisis or a crisis of concepts. Annals of the International Communication Association, 46(4), 255-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2022.2143393
Arendt, F., & Karsay, K. (2022). Digital divide (global). In E. Ho, C. Bylund, J. van Weert, I. Basnyat, N. Bol, & D. Marleah (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of health communication (1 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.
Mestas, M., & Arendt, F. (2022). Suicide: Media. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, J. van Weert, I. Basnyat, N. Bol, & D. Marleah (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication (1 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell.
2021
Till, B., Arendt, F., & Niederkrotenthaler, T. (2021). The relationship between crime-related television viewing and perceptions of the death penalty: Results of a large cross-sectional survey study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 715657. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.715657
Arendt, F., Markiewitz, A., & Scherr, S. (2021). Investigating suicide-related subliminal messages on Instagram: A frame-by-frame analysis of video posts. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 42(4), 263-269. https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000717