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AUTHOR
Miriam Steiner
Is Facebook driving tabloidization?
In highly commercialized media markets, newspapers must be present on social media whose logic favours user engagement, shareworthiness, and virality. This might foster increasingly tabloid-like reporting, but empirical studies on the actual effects on newspaper content are widely lacking. We investigate how far newspaper type (quality paper vs. tabloid) and distribution channel (print version, website, Facebook page) influences the degree of tabloidization of two newspapers’ political news. In a content analysis of political news articles of FAZ and BILD in their print versions, on their websites, and on their Facebook pages (n=2,441), we measure tabloidization on three dimensions (topic, …
Uneasy Bedfellows. Comparing the Diversity of German Public Service News on Television and on Facebook
News consumption has shifted increasingly to new platforms and gateways such as social network sites (SNS) with Facebook leading the way. Accordingly, journalists must cope with this “uneasy bedfellow” and provide news on Facebook to attract otherwise hard-to-reach audiences. This is even more relevant for public service broadcasters (PSBs), whose mission is to serve the interests and needs of every citizen. Bound to their public service mission, PSBs have to generally fulfill specific normative requirements such as diversity within their coverage, particularly to a higher degree than their commercial counterparts. Consequently, these requirements should be transferred to public service onl…
Public Network Value for the Next Generation am Beispiel von funk
Die Debatte um die Legitimation des offentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks hat im digitalen Zeitalter eine neue Dimension erreicht: Insbesondere das junge Publikum wendet sich nicht nur verstarkt den privat-kommerziellen Sendern zu, sondern konsumiert immer haufiger Bewegtbildinhalte im Netz, wo internationale Player wie YouTube oder Netflix an Bedeutung gewinnen. Die Sorge, das junge Publikum komplett zu verlieren, ist deshalb gros. Mit funk – dem „jungen Angebot“ von ARD und ZDF – sollen die 14- bis 29-Jahrigen mithilfe von zielgruppenspezifischen Inhalten nun wieder an die offentlich-rechtliche Marke gebunden werden. Der vorliegende Beitrag nimmt die Markteinfuhrung zum Anlass, die Ausgestaltu…
Seek and you shall find? A content analysis on the diversity of five search engines’ results on political queries
Search engines are important political news sources and should thus provide users with diverse political information ��� an important precondition of a well-informed citizenry. The search engines��� algorithmic content selection strongly influences the diversity of the content received by the users ��� particularly since most users highly trust search engines and often click on only the first result. A widespread concern is that users are not informed diversely by search engines, but how far this concern applies has hardly been investigated. Our study is the first to investigate content diversity provided by five search engines on ten current political issues in Germany. The findings show t…