• 03/2023 research stay at the University of Vienna, Department of Communication
• Since 10/2021 research assistant (postdoc), RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
• 02-06/2019 Research stay at the University of Gothenburg, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication
• 2016 to 2021 research assistant (doctoral candidate), University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2014 to 2016 Master of Arts Social and Communication Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau
• 2011 to 2015 Bachelor of Arts Social Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau

Gorski, L.C. (2022). Uninterested, Disenchanted, or Overwhelmed? An Analysis of Motives behind Intentional and Unintentional News Avoidance. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2021-0084

Gorski, L.C. (2021). The Avoidance of News in a Changing Media Environment. An investigation into the concept of news avoidance from a longitudinal and short-term perspective [Doctoral dissertation, Faculty of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau].

Gorski, L.C., & Thomas, F. (2021). Staying Tuned or Tuning Out? A Longitudinal Analysis of News-Avoiders on the Micro and Macro-Level. Communication Research, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502211025907 (Open Access)

Gorski, L.C. & Maier, M. (2021). Nicht repräsentiert und trotzdem dabei? Rezeption und Verarbeitung des TV-Duells durch Anhängerinnen und Anhänger nicht vertretener Parteien am Beispiel der AfD und der Linken [Reception and Processing of the TV Duel by Supporters of Non-Represented Parties Using the Example of the AfD and the Left Party]. In Weßels, B. & Schoen, H. (Hrsg.), Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2017.Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-33582-3_18

Gorski, L.C., Maier, M., & Valli, C. (2022). Taking a negative turn? Dynamics and predictors of exposure to positive and negative political communication during an election campaign. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Athens, Greece. 

Gorski, L.C. (2020 [2021]). Uninterested, disenchanted, or overwhelmed? An analysis of motives behind news-avoidance. Paper presented at ECREA’s 8th European Communication Conference, Braga, Portugal (virtual conference).

Gorski, L.C. & Thomas, F. (2019). Dynamics of Citizens' News Consumption during Pre-Campaign and Campaign Phases in three German Federal Elections. Paper presented at the ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference, Poznań, Poland.

Gorski, L.C. (2019). Tuning out political news: A quantitative assessment of underlying motives of intentional and unintentional news-avoidance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA), Washington, D.C., USA.

Gorski, L.C. & Thomas, F. (2019). Dynamics of Citizens’ News Consumption during Pre-Campaign and Campaign Phases in the German Federal Election 2017. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Toronto, Canada.

Gorski, L.C. & Thomas, F. (2018). Analyzing changes in news use and political interest on news use in two phases: A macro-analysis in 12 EU countries throughout 1989 and 2014. Paper presented at ECREA’s 7th European Communication Conference, Lugano, Switzerland.

Gorski, L.C. & Maier, M. (2018). Populist Partisans’ Biased Information Processing and its Effects on Attitude Strength. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Marrakesh, Morocco.

• Potentials of constructive journalism (own project in cooperation with Svenja Schäfer, University of Vienna)
• Populist radical-right attitudes and political information behavior (Contribution to project; PIs Prof. Dr. Silke Adam, Prof. Dr. Michaela Maier)
• Tracking the effects of negative political communication during election campaigns in online and offline communication environments (Contribution to project; PIs Prof. Dr. Michaela Maier, Dr. Sebastian Stier; Dr. Lukas Otto)

• Contents, consumption, and effects of political communication (e.g., news avoidance)
• Contents, consumption, and effects of environmental communication (e.g., environmental issues in the [world] press)
• Green advertising and campaigns (e.g., greenwashing in sustainability campaigns)

Further topics upon agreement

Current teaching

• Strategic Communication/Persuasion (Lecture)
• Current Topics in Communication Science: Basics of Green Advertising (Seminar)
• Practical Fields of Communication Studies: Political Berlin (Excursion seminar)
   

Finished courses

Environmental communication seminars

• Case Study Environmental Communication
• Contents of environmental communication
• Current Topics in Environmental Communication Research
• Practical fields of environmental communication

Political communication seminars

• The German Media system
• Political Communication in the EU - Media and Campaigns

General communication seminars

• Current Topics in Communication Studies
• Reception and effects processes
• Strategic communication effects