Stefan Geiß
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 316637 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stefan Geiß |
| NOMBRES | Stefan |
| APELLIDO | Geiß |
| FIRMA | GEIß S |
| AFILIACIONES | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8978-0095 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms
Journalists are regularly accused of being strongly left leaning, which critics claim leads to biased reporting. Previous research suggests this assumption may be over-simplistic, but direct empirical tests are rare, suffer from substantial shortcomings, and still need to acknowledge this process’s complexity. Therefore, we theorize the conditional nature of how journalists’ political orientations translate into their news reporting. We assert th…
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020
Has there been an inflation in crisis coverage in newspapers over the last centuries, and if so, what structural factors drive this change? We utilize computational text analyses along with our own signal detection algorithm to measure the presence of crisis keywords and the emergence of crisis news waves. An analysis of crisis coverage in The Times (U.K., 1785–2020, 183,239 news stories) shows that the share of coverage that uses crisis keywords…
Are all News Created Equal? How Event Types Change News Emphasis and Interact with News Factors
This study explores how event types change the way news factors shape journalistic news emphasis. News value theory has been criticized for its detachedness from the reality of news work as experienced by practitioners. This inside view emphasizes how journalists start with categorizing news, which determines the pathways and routines for further examination and development of the story’s potential. Our study integrates both views: (1) news facto…
The Complexity of Contemporary Citizenship
Democratic citizenship is continuously evolving, shaped by changing political, social, and media contexts. Digital natives-those who have come of age in environments where digital technologies are embedded in everyday life-have experienced citizenship in markedly different ways than previous generations. While the internet has broadened the repertoire of participatory behaviors, existing research has struggled to capture the complexity of contemp…
Two Journalisms? Linear and Curvilinear Relationships Between Journalists’ Role Ideals and Degree of Democracy
If there are authoritarian, transitional, and democratic political and media systems, are there associated authoritarian, transitional, and democratic role profiles for journalists? The relation between countries’ degree of democracy and the importance of journalistic role conceptions among journalists in a country is analyzed based on the World Journalism Study (Wave 2). I find that journalists in democratic political systems generally subscribe…
A Matter of Perspective? The Impact of Analysis Configurations on Testing the Agenda-Setting Hypothesis
The media’s capacity to stimulate public concern and create a common ground for issues can counteract the fragmentation of society. Assessing the intactness of the media’s agenda-setting function can be an important diagnostic tool for scholars. However, the manifold design choices in agenda-setting research raise the question of how design choice impacts analysis results and potentially leads to methodological artefacts. I compare how the choice…
The Agenda-Setting-Effects of News Factor Exposure
This study explores how strongly and through which mechanisms issue exposure (amount and emphasis of coverage) and news factor exposure (content of coverage that provides newsworthiness reasons) stimulate individual-level agenda-setting effects. Based on a three-wave panel survey that was linked with fitting content analysis data, this is the first field study that comprehensively shows that exposure to news factors in news coverage exert agenda-…
Loopholes in the Echo Chambers
Social media (SM) are often regarded drivers of personalized echo chambers in which only ideas resonante that individuals already hold, leading to more extreme opinions and intensified opinion expression. However, recent theorizing and evidence has cast doubts on the universal applicability of the echo chamber metaphor, pointing out that communication effects on opinion expression are much more complex than the metaphor suggests. Using the refuge…
Common Core in Danger? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda
The diversification of information sources has reignited the controversy on media-induced fragmentation endangering social integration. The media's capability to set the public agenda and create issues as a common core is a pivotal part of the public sphere and contributes fundamentally to society's cohesion. Algorithm-driven sources like social media that personalize content to the preferences of individuals and their social networks are conside…
From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
Racial hoaxes are becoming a popular discursive strategy to disguise racism, as well as a powerful means for triggering waves of fake news and outraged comments both on mainstream and social media. Built on grounds of plausibility and consistency with existing narratives, racial hoaxes may remain latent for a long time, and periodically emerge when negative stereotypes can be framed as actual news stories. Racial hoaxes have relevant political an…
Self-Inflicted Deprivation? Quality-as-Sent and Quality-as-Received in German News Media
Both the news media and citizens have been blamed for citizens’ lack of political sophistication. Citizens’ information source choices can certainly contribute to suboptimal results of opinion formation when citizens’ media menus feature few, redundant, or poor-quality outlets. How strongly news consumers’ choices affect the quality of information they receive has rarely been investigated, however. The study uses a novel method investigating how …
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being
The present research examines the longitudinal average impact of frequency of use of Internet and social networking sites (SNS) on subjective well-being of adolescents in Germany. Based on five-wave panel data that cover a period of nine years, we disentangle between-person and within-person effects of media use on depressive symptomatology and life satisfaction as indicators of subjective well-being. Additionally, we control for confounders such…
Wie zuverlässig ist das Peer-Review-Verfahren? Eine Untersuchung der Interrater-Reliabilität von Gutachter*innen auf DGPuK-Tagungen
Bevor wissenschaftliche Beiträge in Fachzeitschriften publiziert oder auf Tagungen präsentiert werden, überprüfen Herausgeber*innen bzw. Organisator*innen die Qualität der Einreichungen. Dies geschieht zumeist im Peer-Review-Verfahren, bei dem unabhängige Kolleg*innen aus dem gleichen Forschungsgebiet die Einreichung begutachten. Die vorliegende Studie hinterfragt, wie zuverlässig das Review-Verfahren ist. Dazu untersuchen wir die Bewertungen der…
Beyond Time and Space
Theorizing on mediatization of politics stresses the importance of structural conditions on different levels of media systems for explaining the increasing importance of media logic in media coverage. Levels of autonomy of media from politics and the extent of commercialization pressure are considered particularly important. However, most studies investigate differences between countries and the passing of time as proxies and qualitatively infer …
The dynamics of media attention to issues
Any Publicity or Good Publicity? A Competitive Test of Visibility- and Tonality-Based Media Effects on Voting Behavior
When examining media effects on voting intentions, scholars of political communication have either focused on visibility- or tonality-based effects. Our study compares these effect models, asking whether the explanations are complementary or competitive; it goes beyond previous studies by considering interactions between media cues and voters’ attitudes. We draw on panel survey data from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) that is combi…
Frame Competition After Key Events
Key events catalyze frame-building processes and competition between frames. A longitudinal study (54 weeks) analyzes framing of economic policy after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers (2008–2009) in German media to investigate the dynamics of frame struggles. As hypothesized, status and resources of frame sponsors and cultural resonance of frames proved critical for a frame’s success. The frames ranking high on these criteria were more competiti…
Die Aufmerksamkeitsspanne der Öffentlichkeit
Die Medien und ihr Publikum verlagern ihre Aufmerksamkeit in schnellen Rhythmen. Komplexe gesellschaftliche Themen erfordern jedoch eine hohe Aufmerksamkeitsspanne. Wie gehen Rezipienten mit Art und Umfang der medialen Thematisierung um, welche Themen beachten sie genauer und langfristiger?
The interplay between media-for-monitoring and media-for-searching
This study investigates how traditional news media and Internet services have become entangled in recipients’ habits of gathering information on current topics. Push media enable citizens to scan the issue environment while pull media enable them to seek out in-depth information if information needs have been elicited. Furthermore, content quality in many pull media may increase when more users generate content, removing flaws and adding informat…
Lehman Brothers und die Folgen
Trendscouts und Trendsetter im digitalen Zeitalter
Computer technologies continue to develop at breakneck speed, with a rapid flow of new innovations to the market. The survey of journalists undertaken in this work addresses four key questions: How do IT journalists view their professional role? How do they assess their impact on consumers and manufacturers? What sort of ties do they have to industry and the public? How will information technology change our society in the future?
Realismus als Beruf
Lehman Brothers und Die Folgen
Framing Scandals
When covering violations of social norms by public figures, the mass media depict the resulting damages and attribute responsibility to actors. These depictions of responsibility constitute frames that elicit reactions from recipients. A theory regarding the effects of these media frames on cognitions, emotions, and opinions is presented. Content analyses of the media coverage of four cases and corresponding surveys were conducted. The findings i…
The impact of communicating digital technologies
Information technology is ever-changing. Information and communication technology (ICT) journalists play a significant part in diffusing, explaining and interpreting these new technologies and in forging the societal understanding of future trends, influencing both their audience and the developers they cover. They are important gatekeepers and their coverage is – most likely – decisive for the success or failure of new products. To explore this …
Any Publicity or Good Publicity? A Competitive Test of Visibility- and Tonality-Based Media Effects on Voting Behavior
When examining media effects on voting intentions, scholars of political communication have either focused on visibility- or tonality-based effects. Our study compares these effect models, asking whether the explanations are complementary or competitive; it goes beyond previous studies by considering interactions between media cues and voters’ attitudes. We draw on panel survey data from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) that is combi…
Patterns of Relationships between Issues
News waves attracting a lot of media attention may distract the mass media—and the public—from other, more important and pressing problems. This study assumes that killer issues and leader issues may distract or attract attention towards victim or follower issues, respectively. Furthermore, it is assumed that key events and corresponding news waves induce and drive issue relationship processes. To investigate the impact of news waves on the issue…
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being
The present research examines the longitudinal average impact of frequency of use of Internet and social networking sites (SNS) on subjective well-being of adolescents in Germany. Based on five-wave panel data that cover a period of nine years, we disentangle between-person and within-person effects of media use on depressive symptomatology and life satisfaction as indicators of subjective well-being. Additionally, we control for confounders such…
Frame Competition After Key Events
Key events catalyze frame-building processes and competition between frames. A longitudinal study (54 weeks) analyzes framing of economic policy after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers (2008–2009) in German media to investigate the dynamics of frame struggles. As hypothesized, status and resources of frame sponsors and cultural resonance of frames proved critical for a frame’s success. The frames ranking high on these criteria were more competiti…
The interplay between media-for-monitoring and media-for-searching
This study investigates how traditional news media and Internet services have become entangled in recipients’ habits of gathering information on current topics. Push media enable citizens to scan the issue environment while pull media enable them to seek out in-depth information if information needs have been elicited. Furthermore, content quality in many pull media may increase when more users generate content, removing flaws and adding informat…
From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
Racial hoaxes are becoming a popular discursive strategy to disguise racism, as well as a powerful means for triggering waves of fake news and outraged comments both on mainstream and social media. Built on grounds of plausibility and consistency with existing narratives, racial hoaxes may remain latent for a long time, and periodically emerge when negative stereotypes can be framed as actual news stories. Racial hoaxes have relevant political an…
Beyond Time and Space
Theorizing on mediatization of politics stresses the importance of structural conditions on different levels of media systems for explaining the increasing importance of media logic in media coverage. Levels of autonomy of media from politics and the extent of commercialization pressure are considered particularly important. However, most studies investigate differences between countries and the passing of time as proxies and qualitatively infer …
Two Journalisms? Linear and Curvilinear Relationships Between Journalists’ Role Ideals and Degree of Democracy
If there are authoritarian, transitional, and democratic political and media systems, are there associated authoritarian, transitional, and democratic role profiles for journalists? The relation between countries’ degree of democracy and the importance of journalistic role conceptions among journalists in a country is analyzed based on the World Journalism Study (Wave 2). I find that journalists in democratic political systems generally subscribe…
Common Core in Danger? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda
The diversification of information sources has reignited the controversy on media-induced fragmentation endangering social integration. The media's capability to set the public agenda and create issues as a common core is a pivotal part of the public sphere and contributes fundamentally to society's cohesion. Algorithm-driven sources like social media that personalize content to the preferences of individuals and their social networks are conside…
Wie zuverlässig ist das Peer-Review-Verfahren? Eine Untersuchung der Interrater-Reliabilität von Gutachter*innen auf DGPuK-Tagungen
Bevor wissenschaftliche Beiträge in Fachzeitschriften publiziert oder auf Tagungen präsentiert werden, überprüfen Herausgeber*innen bzw. Organisator*innen die Qualität der Einreichungen. Dies geschieht zumeist im Peer-Review-Verfahren, bei dem unabhängige Kolleg*innen aus dem gleichen Forschungsgebiet die Einreichung begutachten. Die vorliegende Studie hinterfragt, wie zuverlässig das Review-Verfahren ist. Dazu untersuchen wir die Bewertungen der…
The impact of communicating digital technologies
Information technology is ever-changing. Information and communication technology (ICT) journalists play a significant part in diffusing, explaining and interpreting these new technologies and in forging the societal understanding of future trends, influencing both their audience and the developers they cover. They are important gatekeepers and their coverage is – most likely – decisive for the success or failure of new products. To explore this …
Patterns of Relationships between Issues
News waves attracting a lot of media attention may distract the mass media—and the public—from other, more important and pressing problems. This study assumes that killer issues and leader issues may distract or attract attention towards victim or follower issues, respectively. Furthermore, it is assumed that key events and corresponding news waves induce and drive issue relationship processes. To investigate the impact of news waves on the issue…
Lehman Brothers und Die Folgen
Framing Scandals
When covering violations of social norms by public figures, the mass media depict the resulting damages and attribute responsibility to actors. These depictions of responsibility constitute frames that elicit reactions from recipients. A theory regarding the effects of these media frames on cognitions, emotions, and opinions is presented. Content analyses of the media coverage of four cases and corresponding surveys were conducted. The findings i…
The impact of communicating digital technologies
Information technology is ever-changing. Information and communication technology (ICT) journalists play a significant part in diffusing, explaining and interpreting these new technologies and in forging the societal understanding of future trends, influencing both their audience and the developers they cover. They are important gatekeepers and their coverage is – most likely – decisive for the success or failure of new products. To explore this …
Lehman Brothers und die Folgen
Trendscouts und Trendsetter im digitalen Zeitalter
Computer technologies continue to develop at breakneck speed, with a rapid flow of new innovations to the market. The survey of journalists undertaken in this work addresses four key questions: How do IT journalists view their professional role? How do they assess their impact on consumers and manufacturers? What sort of ties do they have to industry and the public? How will information technology change our society in the future?
Realismus als Beruf
Die Aufmerksamkeitsspanne der Öffentlichkeit
Die Medien und ihr Publikum verlagern ihre Aufmerksamkeit in schnellen Rhythmen. Komplexe gesellschaftliche Themen erfordern jedoch eine hohe Aufmerksamkeitsspanne. Wie gehen Rezipienten mit Art und Umfang der medialen Thematisierung um, welche Themen beachten sie genauer und langfristiger?
The interplay between media-for-monitoring and media-for-searching
This study investigates how traditional news media and Internet services have become entangled in recipients’ habits of gathering information on current topics. Push media enable citizens to scan the issue environment while pull media enable them to seek out in-depth information if information needs have been elicited. Furthermore, content quality in many pull media may increase when more users generate content, removing flaws and adding informat…
Frame Competition After Key Events
Key events catalyze frame-building processes and competition between frames. A longitudinal study (54 weeks) analyzes framing of economic policy after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers (2008–2009) in German media to investigate the dynamics of frame struggles. As hypothesized, status and resources of frame sponsors and cultural resonance of frames proved critical for a frame’s success. The frames ranking high on these criteria were more competiti…
Any Publicity or Good Publicity? A Competitive Test of Visibility- and Tonality-Based Media Effects on Voting Behavior
When examining media effects on voting intentions, scholars of political communication have either focused on visibility- or tonality-based effects. Our study compares these effect models, asking whether the explanations are complementary or competitive; it goes beyond previous studies by considering interactions between media cues and voters’ attitudes. We draw on panel survey data from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) that is combi…
The dynamics of media attention to issues
Wie zuverlässig ist das Peer-Review-Verfahren? Eine Untersuchung der Interrater-Reliabilität von Gutachter*innen auf DGPuK-Tagungen
Bevor wissenschaftliche Beiträge in Fachzeitschriften publiziert oder auf Tagungen präsentiert werden, überprüfen Herausgeber*innen bzw. Organisator*innen die Qualität der Einreichungen. Dies geschieht zumeist im Peer-Review-Verfahren, bei dem unabhängige Kolleg*innen aus dem gleichen Forschungsgebiet die Einreichung begutachten. Die vorliegende Studie hinterfragt, wie zuverlässig das Review-Verfahren ist. Dazu untersuchen wir die Bewertungen der…
Beyond Time and Space
Theorizing on mediatization of politics stresses the importance of structural conditions on different levels of media systems for explaining the increasing importance of media logic in media coverage. Levels of autonomy of media from politics and the extent of commercialization pressure are considered particularly important. However, most studies investigate differences between countries and the passing of time as proxies and qualitatively infer …
Self-Inflicted Deprivation? Quality-as-Sent and Quality-as-Received in German News Media
Both the news media and citizens have been blamed for citizens’ lack of political sophistication. Citizens’ information source choices can certainly contribute to suboptimal results of opinion formation when citizens’ media menus feature few, redundant, or poor-quality outlets. How strongly news consumers’ choices affect the quality of information they receive has rarely been investigated, however. The study uses a novel method investigating how …
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being
The present research examines the longitudinal average impact of frequency of use of Internet and social networking sites (SNS) on subjective well-being of adolescents in Germany. Based on five-wave panel data that cover a period of nine years, we disentangle between-person and within-person effects of media use on depressive symptomatology and life satisfaction as indicators of subjective well-being. Additionally, we control for confounders such…
Loopholes in the Echo Chambers
Social media (SM) are often regarded drivers of personalized echo chambers in which only ideas resonante that individuals already hold, leading to more extreme opinions and intensified opinion expression. However, recent theorizing and evidence has cast doubts on the universal applicability of the echo chamber metaphor, pointing out that communication effects on opinion expression are much more complex than the metaphor suggests. Using the refuge…
Common Core in Danger? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda
The diversification of information sources has reignited the controversy on media-induced fragmentation endangering social integration. The media's capability to set the public agenda and create issues as a common core is a pivotal part of the public sphere and contributes fundamentally to society's cohesion. Algorithm-driven sources like social media that personalize content to the preferences of individuals and their social networks are conside…
From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
Racial hoaxes are becoming a popular discursive strategy to disguise racism, as well as a powerful means for triggering waves of fake news and outraged comments both on mainstream and social media. Built on grounds of plausibility and consistency with existing narratives, racial hoaxes may remain latent for a long time, and periodically emerge when negative stereotypes can be framed as actual news stories. Racial hoaxes have relevant political an…
A Matter of Perspective? The Impact of Analysis Configurations on Testing the Agenda-Setting Hypothesis
The media’s capacity to stimulate public concern and create a common ground for issues can counteract the fragmentation of society. Assessing the intactness of the media’s agenda-setting function can be an important diagnostic tool for scholars. However, the manifold design choices in agenda-setting research raise the question of how design choice impacts analysis results and potentially leads to methodological artefacts. I compare how the choice…
The Agenda-Setting-Effects of News Factor Exposure
This study explores how strongly and through which mechanisms issue exposure (amount and emphasis of coverage) and news factor exposure (content of coverage that provides newsworthiness reasons) stimulate individual-level agenda-setting effects. Based on a three-wave panel survey that was linked with fitting content analysis data, this is the first field study that comprehensively shows that exposure to news factors in news coverage exert agenda-…
Two Journalisms? Linear and Curvilinear Relationships Between Journalists’ Role Ideals and Degree of Democracy
If there are authoritarian, transitional, and democratic political and media systems, are there associated authoritarian, transitional, and democratic role profiles for journalists? The relation between countries’ degree of democracy and the importance of journalistic role conceptions among journalists in a country is analyzed based on the World Journalism Study (Wave 2). I find that journalists in democratic political systems generally subscribe…
Inflation of crisis coverage? Tracking and explaining the changes in crisis labeling and crisis news wave salience 1785–2020
Has there been an inflation in crisis coverage in newspapers over the last centuries, and if so, what structural factors drive this change? We utilize computational text analyses along with our own signal detection algorithm to measure the presence of crisis keywords and the emergence of crisis news waves. An analysis of crisis coverage in The Times (U.K., 1785–2020, 183,239 news stories) shows that the share of coverage that uses crisis keywords…
Are all News Created Equal? How Event Types Change News Emphasis and Interact with News Factors
This study explores how event types change the way news factors shape journalistic news emphasis. News value theory has been criticized for its detachedness from the reality of news work as experienced by practitioners. This inside view emphasizes how journalists start with categorizing news, which determines the pathways and routines for further examination and development of the story’s potential. Our study integrates both views: (1) news facto…
The Complexity of Contemporary Citizenship
Democratic citizenship is continuously evolving, shaped by changing political, social, and media contexts. Digital natives-those who have come of age in environments where digital technologies are embedded in everyday life-have experienced citizenship in markedly different ways than previous generations. While the internet has broadened the repertoire of participatory behaviors, existing research has struggled to capture the complexity of contemp…
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