A5032487985- Social Media and Politics
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Media Studies and Communication
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Media Influence and Politics
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- German legal, social, and political studies
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
- Law and Political Science
- Corporate Governance and Management
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
- Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Corporate Management and Leadership
- Policy Transfer and Learning
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2023
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2014-2022
LMU Klinikum
2019-2021
Populism continues to gain traction in politics but there has been relatively little research on how it plays out the Internet. The special issue at hand aims narrowing this gap of by focusing close relation between populism and online communication. This introduction presents an integrative definition populism, as well a theoretical analysis interplay populist communication logic opportunity structures. individual contributions discuss actors may benefit from They analyze political leaders...
A common feature among populist parties and movements is their negative perspective on the media’s role in society. This paper analyzes whether citizens with a worldview also hold attitudes toward media. From theoretical point of view, shows that both anti-elite, anti-outgroup people centrism dimension populism contradicts normative expectations For instance, assumption homogeneous exclusion societal outgroup incompatible pluralistic media coverage. The results representative survey Germany...
This study examines the bystander effect in cyberbullying. On basis of two experiments, we test whether individuals who witness cyberbullying are less willing to intervene when number others have already observed incident is increased. In addition, inquire how differently severe incidents affect bystanders’ intention intervene. Our results show that a very boosts individuals’ intervene, mediated by assessment situation as emergency and, turn, an increased feeling responsibility. However, if...
Abstract This article investigates the impact of populist messages on issue agreement and readiness for action in 15 countries ( N = 7,286). Specifically, communicators rely persuasive strategies by which social group cues become more salient affect people's judgment political engagement with issues. strategy is called ‘populist identity framing’ because ordinary people as in‐group portrayed being threatened various out‐groups. By blaming elites societal or economic problems harming people,...
In modern media environments, social have fundamentally altered the way how individual opinions find their into public sphere. We link spiral of silence theory to exemplification research and investigate effects online on peoples’ perceptions opinion willingness speak out. an experiment, we can show that a relatively low number exemplars considerably influence perceived support for eviction violent immigrants. Moreover, supporters were less willing out issue offline when confronted with...
Although populist communication has become pervasive throughout Europe, many important questions on its political consequences remain unanswered. First, previous research neglected the differential effects of Left and Right. Second, internationally comparative studies are missing. Finally, mostly studied attitudinal outcomes, neglecting behavioral effects. To address these key issues, this paper draws a unique, extensive, experiment in sixteen European countries ( N = 15,412) to test...
Public criticism of professional media is omnipresent in many democratic societies. This debate has often been examined concerning what the audience demands from (expectations) or how they evaluate performance (evaluations). Based on a representative, quota-based online survey German population 2019, this study examines citizens’ expectations, evaluations, and discrepancies between both, as well their relationship with trust, socio-political predispositions—particularly populist...
Although the relationship between politics and media is a key topic in political communication research, media's role during times of routine policy-making has rarely been addressed. Furthermore, studies have generally focused on one policy stage, usually agenda-setting, whereas few analysed impact whole process. Still, general view that news matter early stages cycle but are non-influential formulation, implementation, evaluation stages. This study queries these assumptions by taking closer...
Adolescents are considered especially vulnerable to extremists' online activities because they 'always online' and still in the process of identity formation. However, so far, we know little about (a) how often adolescents encounter extremist content different media (b) well able recognize messages. In addition, do not (c) individual-level factors derived from radicalization research (d) civic literacy affect encounters recognition abilities. We address these questions based on a...
To explain the global spread and electoral success of populist rhetoric, a growing body research has investigated content effects communication. Extant shown that right-wing communication can activate negative stereotypical portrayals toward out-group. Yet, we know too little about how exposure to ideas widen perceived cognitive affective divide between people others in different European regions, although this Manichean view in- out-groups is at core ideology. Against backdrop, rely on...
This study investigates the predictors of adolescents' political cynicism in social media environment. Given that are one main sources information for many young people today, it is crucial to investigate how and which ways use associated with cynicism. To aim, we data from computer-assisted personal interviews N = 1,061 adolescents between 14 19 years Germany. Our findings reveal relative information-oriented related lower cynicism, while exposure extremist content on predicts higher levels...
Search engines are increasingly used by citizens to seek out political information. Both the high frequency of use and credibility attributed them their users emphasize need for research on search engines' role in democratic process. The present paper reports a case study online information seeking (OIS) via during 2016 US presidential election. Presidential candidate Donald Trump was largely unknown as politician, opposed vast majority elite circles, broke standard niceties politics,...
The relationship of political actors and journalists is a central topic in communication research. However, it remains challenging to explain the different patterns interaction observed contexts. To address that challenge, this study draws theoretically on concept “political cultures” transfers logic internationally comparative research local level analyze causes politics–media interactions large number diverse end, micro-level empirical data from representative survey more than 600...
Journalistic autonomy is a prerequisite for the public function of journalism. Although most journalists in Western democracies indicate particularly low political or economic influences on their work, there evidence that recipients assume journalism driven primarily by and interests. These perceptual discrepancies can be problematic as perceived journalistic work are known to reduce recipients’ media trust. Hence, this study addresses extent which perceive how perceptions differ from...
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Zusammenfassung Die Massenmedien sehen sich derzeit einer umfassenden öffentlichen Kritik ausgesetzt, die u. a. politischen und sozialen Funktionen der Medien ins Visier nimmt: Von „Lügenpresse“-Vorwürfen über das Infragestellen journalistischen Autonomie bis zu an Breite des Meinungsspektrums in Berichterstattung. Es stellt daher Frage, inwiefern aus Perspektive Publikums Lage sind, von ihnen erwarteten Leistungen tatsächlich erfüllen. Vor diesem Hintergrund liefert Studie auf Basis...
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