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Johannes Breuer

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An Agenda for Open Science in Communication

2021

Contains fulltext : 226720.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) In the last 10 years, many canonical findings in the social sciences appear unreliable. This so-called "replication crisis" has spurred calls for open science practices, which aim to increase the reproducibility, replicability, and generalizability of findings. Communication research is subject to many of the same challenges that have caused low replicability in other fields. As a result, we propose an agenda for adopting open science practices in Communication, which includes the following seven suggestions: (1) publish materials, data, and code; (2) preregister studies and submit registered reports; (3) conduct replicatio…

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The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective

2021

Recent research by Taneja et al. suggested that digital infrastructures diminish the generational gap in news use by counteracting preference structures. We expand on this seminal work by arguing that an infrastructural perspective requires overcoming limitations of highly aggregated web tracking data used in prior research. We analyze the individual browsing histories of two representative samples of German Internet users collected in 2012 ( N = 2970) and 2018 ( N = 2045) and find robust evidence for a smaller generational gap in online news use than commonly assumed. While short news website visits mostly demonstrated infrastructural factors, longer news use episodes were shaped more by …

FacebookNutzungmedia behaviorSociology and Political Sciencesocial mediaTwitterGenerationutilizationDigitale MedienFederal Republic of GermanyrepresentativityRepräsentativitätinfrastructureddc:070Digital infrastructures; generations; media repertoires; online news; preferences; social media; web trackingMedienverhaltenInteractive electronic MediaSoziale MedienMedienage-specific factorsnewsSocial mediaSociologyPositive economicspreferenceinteraktive elektronische Mediendigital mediaNews media journalism publishingOnline-MedienNachrichtenInternetStichprobeCommunicationInfrastrukturmediaPerspective (graphical)10800Präferenzonline mediasampleBundesrepublik DeutschlandPreferenceWeb trackingWork (electrical)altersspezifische FaktorenPublizistische Medien JournalismusVerlagswesenNew Media & Society
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How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news

2020

Research has prominently assumed that social media and web portals that aggregate news restrict the diversity of content that users are exposed to by tailoring news diets toward the users’ preferences. In our empirical test of this argument, we apply a random-effects within–between model to two large representative datasets of individual web browsing histories. This approach allows us to better encapsulate the effects of social media and other intermediaries on news exposure. We find strong evidence that intermediaries foster more varied online news diets. The results call into question fears about the vanishing potential for incidental news exposure in digital media environments.

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sj-pdf-1-nms-10.1177_1461444821989972 – Supplemental material for The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural …

2021

Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-nms-10.1177_1461444821989972 for The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective by Frank Mangold, Sebastian Stier, Johannes Breuer and Michael Scharkow in New Media & Society

200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classifiedFOS: Media and communications
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