- Social Media and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- Public Administration and Political Analysis
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Media Influence and Politics
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Sociology and Education Studies
- German legal, social, and political studies
- Digital Innovation in Industries
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- German Literature and Culture Studies
- Media Influence and Health
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
- Topic Modeling
- Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Safety Warnings and Signage
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Narrative Theory and Analysis
- Linguistic Education and Pedagogy
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2016-2025
Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology
2025
Fraunhofer Society
2021
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2012-2014
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
2013
University of Zurich
2010
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2008
On the basis of a televised debate in 2005 German national election, this study compares influence verbal, visual, and vocal communication on viewers' immediate impressions political candidates by using an innovative research design. A second-by-second content analysis 17 message elements is combined with continuous response measurement (CRM). Findings show that are mainly influenced verbal communication, especially issues discussed argumentative structure used. In contrast to that, effect...
SCM Studies in Communication and Media , Seite 208 - 230
Journal Article Unifying or Polarizing? Short-Term Effects and Postdebate Consequences of Different Rhetorical Strategies in Televised Debates Get access Carsten Reinemann, Reinemann 1Carsten (PhD, University Mainz) Marcus Maurer are both assistant professors at the Mainz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication, Volume 55, Issue 4, December 2005, Pages 775–794, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2005.tb03022.x Published: 06 February 2006
The Internet has become one of the main sources information for university students' learning. Since anyone can disseminate content online, however, is full irrelevant, biased, or even false information. Thus, ability to use online in a critical-reflective manner crucial importance. In our study, we used framework assessment critical reasoning (COR) measure critically from and reason on contentious issues based addition analyzing COR by evaluating their open-ended short answers, also...
The rise of right-wing populist parties in Western democracies is often attributed to populists’ ability instrumentalize news media by making deliberate provocations (e.g., verbal attacks on migrants or politicians from other parties) that generate coverage and public awareness. To explain the success provocations, we drew research populism scandal theory develop a theoretical framework tested two studies examining German party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) between January 2015 December...
Recently, several studies suggested that the amount of online search queries can be used as an indicator public agenda. Based on former research by authors, this article discusses role uncertainty another factor influencing queries. Therefore, influence media coverage Wikipedia searches concerning two issues is compared: one issue with (the Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli [EHEC] epidemic), and without (unemployment). Analyses show much stronger correlations in case EHEC, which suggests...
One aspect of the mediatization politics is idea that political actors adapt to communication logic news media gain, for example, attention. Currently, this process may be influenced by diffusion internet as a channel, especially because online provides new opportunity communicate directly with citizens. Thus far, adaptation parties has mainly been examined in context election campaigns. In order transfer these findings regular communication, study compares use mass and direct channels...
Tilman Beck, Ji-Ung Lee, Christina Viehmann, Marcus Maurer, Oliver Quiring, Iryna Gurevych. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting Association for Computational Linguistics and 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2021.
Many studies have shown that voters do learn about political issues from televised debates. Because debaters may not be interested in educating but gaining votes, this does necessarily mean debate viewers improve their knowledge (i.e., learning something is correct). Instead, they become misinformed by watching a debate. Taking the second 2002 German general election as an example, we first compare people’s economic facts before and after with actual situation represented official...
The COVID-19 pandemic was a major challenge for journalism. In the case of Germany, critics very early on voiced concerns over quality mainstream media coverage. Mainstream were attacked intensity their coverage, reporting too much and unnecessarily frightening audiences, not presenting diversity viewpoints measures taken to mitigate it, being one-sided close government. Against this background, paper examines viewpoint coverage 13 two alternative in Germany 2020 2021. Based comprehensive...
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Zusammenfassung Die Medienberichterstattung über Geflüchtete wird von einem großen Teil der deutschen Bevölkerung als einseitig wahrgenommen. Inhaltsanalysen zeigen allerdings sehr unterschiedliche Befunde: Während einige Studien eine positive Berichterstattung konstatieren, kommen andere zu dem Ergebnis, die sei negativ. Dabei handelt es sich jedoch meist um Querschnittstudien im Zusammenhang mit besonders spektakulären Ereignissen unterschiedlicher Valenz. Zudem werden oft nur wenige...