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View article: When Sexism Becomes the Norm: The Effect of Sexism on Women’s Participation in Political Online Discussions
When Sexism Becomes the Norm: The Effect of Sexism on Women’s Participation in Political Online Discussions Open
Publicly visible women in political news are often met with sexist backlash in social media’s comment sections. We take a social norms perspective to argue that the presence of politically active women in the news sets a descriptive norm t…
View article: “ChatGPT, is the influenza vaccination useful?” Comparing Perceived Argument Strength and Correctness of Pro-Vaccination-arguments from AI and Medical Experts
“ChatGPT, is the influenza vaccination useful?” Comparing Perceived Argument Strength and Correctness of Pro-Vaccination-arguments from AI and Medical Experts Open
Realizing the ascribed potential of generative AI for health information seeking depends on recipients’ perceptions of quality. In an online survey (N = 294), we aimed to investigate how German individuals evaluate AI-generated information…
View article: Do Women Write More About Women? The Impact of Journalist Gender on the Media Visibility of Female and Male Politicians
Do Women Write More About Women? The Impact of Journalist Gender on the Media Visibility of Female and Male Politicians Open
The representation of women in politics and political journalism remains disproportionately low. This paper argues that these disparities are interconnected, as individual journalists exhibit a same-gender preference when deciding who to c…
View article: Computational text analysis
Computational text analysis Open
Computational text analysis (CTA) comprises techniques for measuring the content of texts with the help of computer algorithms. The methods are discussed under various labels, such as text-as-data, automated content analysis, natural langu…
View article: Self-reported media exposure
Self-reported media exposure Open
This entry is about the use of self-reports to measure media exposure in political communication research. Self-reported media exposure means that participants provide information about their own media consumption. Such measures have impor…
View article: Search Engine Use for Health-Related Purposes: Behavioral Data on Online Health Information-Seeking in Germany
Search Engine Use for Health-Related Purposes: Behavioral Data on Online Health Information-Seeking in Germany Open
Internet searches for health-related purposes are common, with search engines like Google being the most popular starting point. However, results on the popularity of health information-seeking behaviors are based on self-report data, ofte…
View article: Integrating Communication Science and Computational Methods to Study Content-Based Social Media Effects
Integrating Communication Science and Computational Methods to Study Content-Based Social Media Effects Open
A pressing societal and scientific question is how social media use affects our cognitions, emotions, and behaviors. To answer this question, fine-grained insight into the content of individuals’ social media use is needed. It is difficult…
View article: Search Engine Use for Health-Related Purposes: Behavioral Data on Online Health Information-Seeking in Germany
Search Engine Use for Health-Related Purposes: Behavioral Data on Online Health Information-Seeking in Germany Open
Internet searches for health-related purposes are common, with search engines like Google being the most popular starting point. However, results on the popularity of health information-seeking behaviors are based on self-report data, ofte…
View article: Moving from Offline to Online: How COVID-19 Affected Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Moving from Offline to Online: How COVID-19 Affected Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Open
During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have faced a lot of challenges related to their daily work. This article introduces a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist , which particularly focuses on methodological challenges ca…
View article: Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study
Social Media Literacy Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Results From a Cross-Country Validation Study Open
When being online, young users are often confronted with insulting, hateful, or misleading messages. To handle these dark forms of participation, it is essential to equip them with resources that support their social literacy in today’s co…
View article: Do Sexist Comments Hinder Participation in Online Political Discussions?
Do Sexist Comments Hinder Participation in Online Political Discussions? Open
Women who visibly engage in politics online experience a lot of backlash. The presented study investigates sexist incivility against women in online political spaces as a possible explanation for the gender gap in online political discussi…
View article: Goodbye, Gender Stereotypes? Trait Attributions to Politicians in 11 Years of News Coverage
Goodbye, Gender Stereotypes? Trait Attributions to Politicians in 11 Years of News Coverage Open
In this study, we examine gender differences in political news coverage to determine whether the media employ stereotypical traits in portrayals of 1,095 U.S. politicians. Using a sample of over 5 million U.S. news stories published from 2…
View article: Do sexist comments hinder participation in online political discussions? A preregistered experiment
Do sexist comments hinder participation in online political discussions? A preregistered experiment Open
This preregistered study investigates how sexism in the form of denying women competence in online discussions affects the political participation in online environments of men and women. It also explores various possible side factors as w…
View article: Individual users' participation on political Facebook pages
Individual users' participation on political Facebook pages Open
Social media platforms such as Facebook enable citizens to participate in politics by engaging with content from parties and politicians. Most research has described these activites by means of survey self-reports, smaller sample studies w…
View article: How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective
How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age: A Figuration Perspective Open
The article enriches the understanding of trust in news at a time when mass and interpersonal communication have merged in the digital sphere. We propose disentangling individual-level patterns of trust allocation (i.e., trust figurations)…
View article: Prevalence of online harassment in German men and women
Prevalence of online harassment in German men and women Open
In this preprint we report findings of a quota sample of the adult German online population and their experiences with various forms of online harassment.
View article: Vaccine-related discussions in online communities for parents. A quantitative overview, 2012–2019
Vaccine-related discussions in online communities for parents. A quantitative overview, 2012–2019 Open
Vaccinations are a medical success story. However, many individuals still experience doubts, which challenge vaccine compliance. Online communities for parents are important sources for the discussion about vaccination with similar others.…
View article: Vaccine-related Discussions in Online Communities for Parents. A Quantitative Overview
Vaccine-related Discussions in Online Communities for Parents. A Quantitative Overview Open
Vaccinations are a medical success story. However, many individuals still experience doubts, which challenge vaccine compliance. Online communities for parents are important sources for the discussion about vaccination with similar others.…
View article: The Quality of Public Opinion Poll Coverage during German Federal Election Campaigns
The Quality of Public Opinion Poll Coverage during German Federal Election Campaigns Open
We analyzed the quality of opinion poll coverage during the German Federal Election Campaigns 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 with a quantitative content analysis of the German quality newspapers Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeut…
View article: Searching for Watchdogs: Investigating Journalistic Role Performance Using Latent-Class Analysis
Searching for Watchdogs: Investigating Journalistic Role Performance Using Latent-Class Analysis Open
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Empirical studies have repeatedly shown that journalists’ role orientations (i.e., their attitudes, values) are reflected in the news (i.e., their role performance). Met…
View article: Stable Attitudes and Behaviors as Boundary Conditions of Reinforcing Spirals Models
Stable Attitudes and Behaviors as Boundary Conditions of Reinforcing Spirals Models Open
The reinforcing spirals model (RSM) has quickly become a popular way of thinking about the reciprocal dynamics of media use and effects, not only in political communication. One key assumption of the model is that both exposure to media co…
View article: An Evaluation of Retrospective Facebook Content Collection
An Evaluation of Retrospective Facebook Content Collection Open
The content on Facebook pages is obviously subject to changes. However, there is often a considerable time lag between the sampling period and the collection date in studies on public Facebook communication. The present evaluation study ai…
View article: The Quality of Public Opinion Poll Coverage during German Federal Election Campaigns
The Quality of Public Opinion Poll Coverage during German Federal Election Campaigns Open
We analyzed the quality of opinion poll coverage during the German Federal Election Campaigns 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 with a quantitative content analysis of the German quality newspapers Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeut…
View article: An Evaluation of Retrospective Facebook Content Collection
An Evaluation of Retrospective Facebook Content Collection Open
The content on Facebook pages is obviously subject to changes. However, there is often a considerable time lag between the sampling period and the collection date in studies on public Facebook communication. The present evaluation study ai…
View article: (Alternative) media sources in AfD-centered Facebook discussions
(Alternative) media sources in AfD-centered Facebook discussions Open
In this research report, I investigated which (media) sources were shared on 122 AfD-related Facebook pages during the year 2016. Results show that mainstream media outlets were not absent from these discussions. The established media sour…
View article: (Alternative) Media Sources in AfD-centered Facebook Discussions
(Alternative) Media Sources in AfD-centered Facebook Discussions Open
In this research report, I investigated which (media) sources were shared on 122 AfD-related Facebook pages during the year 2016. Results show that mainstream media outlets were not absent from these discussions. The established media sour…
View article: Some suggestions on dealing with measurement error in linkage analyses
Some suggestions on dealing with measurement error in linkage analyses Open
Linkage analysis is a sophisticated media effect research design that reconstructs the likely exposure to relevant media messages of individual survey respondents by complementing the survey data with a content analysis. It is an important…
View article: Correcting measurement error in content analysis
Correcting measurement error in content analysis Open
Conducting and reporting reliability tests has become a standard practice in content analytical research. However, the consequences of measurement error in coding data are rarely discussed or taken into consideration in subsequent analyses…