My academic research spans a number of disciplines: crisis communication, writing pedagogy, and media history. These days, I'm primarily interested in crisis communication, particularly how crises form on social media. Most of my work critiques how we think about what crises are and the social construction of crises, both offline and online.

Books

More details on my academic books can be found here.

Book Chapters

2020 Koerber, D. “Mass Media and Their Symbiotic Relationship With Crisis.” In Handbooks of Communication Science Series: Crisis Communication (Vol. 23), W. Johansen & F. Frandsen (Eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. 493–508.

2019 Koerber, D. “The Challenges and Opportunities in Sports Public Relations.” In Public Relations: Competencies and Practice, C. Kim (Ed.). Routledge. 207–218.

Journal Special Issue

2020 Koerber, D. (Ed.). Connecting Crisis Communication Theory and Canadian Communication Research. Canadian Journal of Communication, 45, no. 3.

Journal Articles, Peer Reviewed

2020 Siddiqi, S., and Koerber, D. “The Anatomy of a National Crisis: The Canadian Federal Government’s Response to the 2015 Kurdi Refugee Case.” Canadian Journal of Communication, 45, no. 3: 411–436.

2020 Koerber, D. “Connecting Crisis Communication Theory and Canadian Communication Research.” Canadian Journal of Communication, 45, no. 3: 359–363.

2017 Koerber, D., and Zabara, N. “Preventing Damage: The Psychology of Crisis Communication Buffers in Organized Sports.” Public Relations Review, 43, no. 1: 193-200.

2015 Koerber, D. “Fundamental Mediation: a Classification of Media in Crisis Communication and Damage Control Research.” Canadian Journal of Media Studies, 13, no. 1: 91–123.

2014 Koerber, D. “Crisis Communication Response and Political Communities: The Unusual Case of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.” Canadian Journal of Communication, 39, no. 3: 311–331.

2014 Koerber, D. “Faction and its Alternative: Representing Political Organizing in the Print Public Sphere in Early Canada.” Journalism History, 40, no. 1: 51–58.

2013 Koerber, D. “Truth, Memory, Selectivity: Understanding Historical Work by Writing Personal Histories.” Composition Studies, 41, no. 1: 51–69.

2013 Koerber, D. “Early Political Parties as Mediated Communities: the Case of Upper Canada.” Media History, 19, no. 2: 125–138.

2011 Koerber, D. “The Role of the Agent in Partisan Communication Networks of Upper Canadian Newspapers.” Journal of Canadian Studies, 45, no. 3: 137–165.

2011 Koerber, D. “Style over Substance: Newspaper Coverage of Early Election Campaigns in Canada, 1820-1841.” Canadian Journal of Communication, 36, no. 3: 435–453.

2010 Koerber, D. “Political Operatives and Administrative Workers: the Newspaper Agents of Mackenzie’s Gazette, 1838-1840.” Journalism History, 36, no. 3: 160–168.

2009 Koerber, D. “Constructing the Sports Community: Canadian Sports Columnists, Identity, and the Business of Sport in the 1940s.” Sport History Review, 40, no. 2: 126–142.