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Jörg Matthes

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Cognitive Responses to Populist Communication

2019

This chapter investigates the cognitive effects of different populist messages on blame attributions and stereotyping in the 15 countries participating in the study. It first gives an overview about whether respondents blamed politicians, the wealthy, immigrants, or ordinary people for the future economic decline described in the experimental stimulus. In addition, general stereotypical perceptions of those groups among respondents are presented. With respect to populist message effects, the analyses show that these were generally rather weak. But the analyses were also able to show that left-wing anti-out-group cues blaming ‘the rich’ and economic elites were most influential in this exper…

BlameBlame attributionContent analysismedia_common.quotation_subjectPerceptionImmigrationEconomic declineCognitionAttributionPsychologySocial psychologymedia_common
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Navigating high-choice European political information environments : a comparative analysis of news user profiles and political knowledge

2021

The transition from low- to high-choice media environments has had far-reaching implications for citizens’ media use and its relationship with political knowledge. However, there is still a lack of comparative research on how citizens combine the usage of different media and how that is related to political knowledge. To fill this void, we use a unique cross-national survey about the online and offline media use habits of more than 28,000 individuals in 17 European countries. Our aim is to (i) profile different types of news consumers and (ii) understand how each user profile is linked to political knowledge acquisition. Our results show that five user profiles – news minimalists, social m…

Online and offlinecrossSociology and Political Sciencenews repertoires050801 communication & media studiescross-nationalnews media usePoliticsSeekers0508 media and communications10240 Department of Communication and Media Research3312 Sociology and Political ScienceComparative researchMedia usePolitical science050602 political science & public administrationcomparative researchSocial media070 News media journalism & publishingpolitical knowledgeUser profileCommunication05 social sciencesPoliticsnationalAdvertisingKnowledge acquisition[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science0506 political scienceddc:Mass communications3315 CommunicationThe international journal of press/politics
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Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries

2021

Abstract: Exogenous shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic unleashes multiple fundamental questions about society beyond public health. Based on the classical concept of 'need for orientation' and the literature on the role of the media in times of crisis, we investigate to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic affected news consumption in comparative perspective. Based on a two-wave panel survey in 17 mostly European countries, our study targets the role of both legacy news brands (TV, radio, newspapers) and so-called contemporary news media (Internet-based and social media) during this global health crisis. Our results show an overall rise of news use across countries, but only for some types of n…

Media usehealth crisis2019-20 coronavirus outbreakmedicine.medical_specialtyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)CommunicationSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Public healthmedia trustAdvertising10240 Department of Communication and Media ResearchOrientation (mental)Media usePolitical sciencePandemicmedicineMass communicationscomparative surveyNews media070 News media journalism & publishing3315 Communication
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sj-docx-1-hij-10.1177_19401612211012572 - Supplemental material for Navigating High-Choice European Political Information Environments: a Comparative…

2022

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-hij-10.1177_19401612211012572 for Navigating High-Choice European Political Information Environments: a Comparative Analysis of News User Profiles and Political Knowledge by Laia Castro, Jesper Strömbäck, Frank Esser, Peter Van Aelst, Claes de Vreese, Toril Aalberg, Ana S. Cardenal, Nicoleta Corbu, David Nicolas Hopmann, Karolina Koc-Michalska, Jörg Matthes, Christian Schemer, Tamir Sheafer, Sergio Splendore, James Stanyer, Agnieszka Stępińska, Václav Štětka and Yannis Theocharis in The International Journal of Press/Politics

200199 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classifiedFOS: Media and communicationsFOS: Political science160607 International Relations
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