Johannes Breuer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 336728 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Johannes Breuer |
| NOMBRES | Johannes |
| APELLIDO | Breuer |
| FIRMA | BREUER J |
| AFILIACIONES | GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5906-7873 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 143 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act
Political debates, campaigns, and advertising increasingly take place on online platforms. However, research on election communication has been significantly hampered as formerly accessible data sources have been withdrawn or commercialised. With the implementation of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) a number of platforms have (re-)established data access modalities for ‘public’ data via APIs or specific portals. How access to public data is imp…
Let’s talk about language—and its role for replicability
Science strives towards a credible and comprehensive understanding of the world around us. Across disciplines within the social and behavioural sciences (and beyond), limitations in the implementation of the scientific approach have been identified in recent studies, showing low replicability of many results. This is an issue for knowledge accumulation, theory-building, and evidence-based decision and policy making. Researchers have proposed seve…
Contextual Changes, Credible Conclusions? A Direct and Conceptual Replication of Shen et al.'s (2019) Study on Online Image Credibility
Alarmingly low replication rates have been highlighted across disciplines. In communication science, rates are unknown but replications have some tradition. However, due to the field’s need to adapt to rapidly changing research contexts, replications have largely been conceptual rather than direct. We conduct two in-depth replications to systematically evaluate both forms. For that, we consider online information credibility as rapidly changing r…
An Interprofessional Training Ward in Pediatric Cardiology
The safety concept enabled the successful treatment of patients across all CHD severities, providing a transferable model for safe, interprofessional care in ITWs
Radical right populism and the media
Hostile stances towards journalists and perceptions of media bias have become cornerstones of populist radical right identity formation. Despite a lively scholarly and public debate about the relation between populism and the media, a comprehensive account of the supply side of political information-radical right populist parties' (RRPPs) communication-and the demand side-citizens' information selection-is still missing. Focusing on the RRPP Alte…
Between urgency and data quality
Balancing speed and quality during crises pose challenges for ensuring the value and utility of data in social science research. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular underscores the need for high-quality data and rapid dissemination. Given the importance of behavioural measures and compliance with measures to contain the pandemic, social science research has played a key role in policymaking during this global crisis. This study addresses two key …
Sexuelle Gesundheit Fördern Durch Eine Dialogorientierte Kommunikation Auf Social Media – Liebesleben Als Ein Beispiel Guter Praxis
Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung im Bereich der sexuellen Gesundheit profitieren von einer Kommunikation auf Social Media. Der vorliegende Praxisbeitrag beschreibt daher, wie die Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) ihre komplexe Intervention LIEBESLEBEN (www.liebesleben.de) in Sozialen Medien umsetzt. Dabei wird konkret die Arbeit mit Instagram anhand der Prävention von Chlamydien sowie dem Schutz vor Konversionsbehandlungen e…
Are We Replicating Yet? Reproduction and Replication in Communication Research
The replication crisis has highlighted the importance of reproducibility and replicability in the social and behavioral sciences, including in communication research. While there have been some discussions of and studies on replications in communication research, the extent of this work is significantly lower than in psychology. The key reasons for this limitation are the differences between the disciplines in the topics commonly studied and in t…
Design-based methods for exploring ethical questions in the field of neurotechnologies
Numerous complex and multi-faceted ethical questions arise from the innovation of neurotechnologies. Addressing these issues effectively requires the involvement of a diverse range of stakeholders, including patients, treatment providers, home users, scientists and engineers from different disciplines, and industry representatives. Different groups, however, possess varying levels of knowledge and experience regarding the ethical use and innovati…
Asking for Traces
Digital trace data are increasingly used in the social sciences. Given the risks associated with data access via application programming interfaces (APIs) as well as ethical discussions around the use of such data, data donations have been proposed as a methodologically reliable and ethically sound way of collecting digital trace data. While data donations have many advantages, study participants may be reluctant to share their data, for example,…
That bygone feeling
Routines and the Predictability of Day-to-Day Web Use
Given the high importance of Web use in day-to-day life, understanding and predicting Web browsing behavior are important endeavors for academic as well as commercial research. We propose that routines – behaviors that are performed regularly (activation) and in similar ways (execution) – can be used to describe underlying structures in Web use and, thereby, improve the predictability of subsequent Web use behavior. Based on two large-scale Web-t…
User-centric approaches for collecting Facebook data in the ‘post-API age’
Although other social media platforms have seen a steeper increase in users recently, Facebook is still the social networking site with the largest number of users worldwide. A large number of studies from the social and behavioral sciences have investigated the antecedents, types, and consequences of its use. In addition or as an alternative to self-reports from users, many studies have used data from the platform itself, usually collected via i…
A Re-evaluation of Online Pornography Use in Germany
Several researchers have questioned the reliability of pornography research's findings. Following a recent call to use more reliable data sources, we conducted two analyses to investigate patterns and predictors of online pornography use (OPU). Our analyses were based on data from a large-scale German online web tracking panel ( N = 3018) gathered from June 2018 to June 2019. The study we present here has two parts: In the first part, we looked a…
Escaping the pandemic present
Data and supplementary materials files for the manuscript “Escaping the pandemic present: The relationship between nostalgic media use, escapism, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic" accepted for publication in Psychology of Popular Media
The role of the information environment during the first Covid-19 wave in Germany
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by intense debates about the role of the information environment. On the one hand, citizens learn from public information campaigns and news coverage and supposedly adjust their behaviours accordingly; on the other, there are fears of widespread misinformation and its detrimental effects. Analyzing the posts of the most important German information providers published via Facebook, this paper first ident…
Atlas der Datenkörper 1
Digitale Technologien und soziale Medien verändern die Selbst- und Körperwahrnehmung und verzerren, verstärken oder produzieren dabei spezifische Körperbilder. Die Beiträger*innen kartographieren diese Phänomene, fragen nach ihrer medialen Existenzweise sowie nach den Möglichkeiten ihrer Kritik. Dabei begegnen sie ihrer Neuartigkeit mit einer transdisziplinären Herangehensweise. Aus sowohl der Perspektive künstlerischer und gestalterischer Forsch…
Post Post-Broadcast Democracy? News Exposure in the Age of Online Intermediaries
Online intermediaries such as social network sites or search engines are playing an increasingly central role in democracy by acting as mediators between information producers and citizens. Academic and public commentators have raised persistent concerns that algorithmic recommender systems would negatively affect the provision of political information by tailoring content to the predispositions and entertainment preferences of users. At the same…
From cognitive overload to digital detox
The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective
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 =…
Do News Actually 'Find Me'? Using Digital Behavioral Data to Study the News-Finds-Me Phenomenon
Research on news exposure has shown that while political knowledge and interest largely determine the degree of active engagement with online news, some people are generally less willing to invest into actively staying informed. Instead, these people report to pursue a passive mode of relying on specific sources, such as social media, based on the belief that 'news finds me' (NFM). Notably, the three dimensions of NFM-feeling informed, relying on…
How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news
Data, code and supplementary material for "How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news"
Once upon a game
New Formats, New Methods
The rise of new technologies and platforms, such as mobile devices and streaming services, has substantially changed the media entertainment landscape and continues to do so. Since its subject of study is changing constantly and rapidly, research on media entertainment has to be quick to adapt. This need to quickly react and adapt not only relates to the questions researchers need to ask but also to the methods they need to employ to answer those…
The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data
The ubiquity of digital devices and the increasing intensity of users’ interactions with them create vast amounts of digital trace data. Companies use these data to optimize their services or products, but these data are also of interest to researchers studying human behavior. As most of these data are owned by private companies and their collection requires adherence to their terms of service, research with digital trace data often entails some …
Integrating Survey Data and Digital Trace Data
While survey research has been at the heart of social science for decades and social scientific research with digital trace data has been growing rapidly in the last few years, until now, there are relatively few studies that combine these two data types. This may be surprising given the potential of linking surveys and digital trace data, but at the same time, it is important to note that the collection and analysis of such linked data are chall…
Post Post-Broadcast Democracy? News Exposure in the Age of Online Intermediaries
Online intermediaries such as social network sites or search engines are playing an increasingly central role in democracy by acting as mediators between information producers and citizens. Academic and public commentators have raised persistent concerns that algorithmic recommender systems would negatively affect the provision of political information by tailoring content to the predispositions and entertainment preferences of users. At the same…
The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data
The ubiquity of digital devices and the increasing intensity of users’ interactions with them create vast amounts of digital trace data. Companies use these data to optimize their services or products, but these data are also of interest to researchers studying human behavior. As most of these data are owned by private companies and their collection requires adherence to their terms of service, research with digital trace data often entails some …
The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective
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 =…
Violent video games and physical aggression
Longitudinal studies investigating the relationship of aggression and violent video games are still scarce. Most of the previous studies focused on children or younger adolescents and relied on convenience samples. This paper presents data from a 1-year longitudinal study of N = 276 video game players aged 14 to 21 drawn from a representative sample of German gamers. We tested both whether the use of violent games predicts physical aggression (i.…
Sore losers? A reexamination of the frustration–aggression hypothesis for colocated video game play
The impact of video game play on player aggression continues to be debated within the \nacademic literature. Most of the studies in this area have focused on game content as the \nindependent variable, whereas the social context of gaming is largely neglected. This article \npresents an experimental study (N 76) on the effects of game outcome and trash-talking \nin a competitive colocated multiplayer sports video game on aggressive behavior. The …
Asking for Traces
Digital trace data are increasingly used in the social sciences. Given the risks associated with data access via application programming interfaces (APIs) as well as ethical discussions around the use of such data, data donations have been proposed as a methodologically reliable and ethically sound way of collecting digital trace data. While data donations have many advantages, study participants may be reluctant to share their data, for example,…
A Re-evaluation of Online Pornography Use in Germany
Several researchers have questioned the reliability of pornography research's findings. Following a recent call to use more reliable data sources, we conducted two analyses to investigate patterns and predictors of online pornography use (OPU). Our analyses were based on data from a large-scale German online web tracking panel ( N = 3018) gathered from June 2018 to June 2019. The study we present here has two parts: In the first part, we looked a…
Do News Actually 'Find Me'? Using Digital Behavioral Data to Study the News-Finds-Me Phenomenon
Research on news exposure has shown that while political knowledge and interest largely determine the degree of active engagement with online news, some people are generally less willing to invest into actively staying informed. Instead, these people report to pursue a passive mode of relying on specific sources, such as social media, based on the belief that 'news finds me' (NFM). Notably, the three dimensions of NFM-feeling informed, relying on…
Comparing apples and oranges? Evidence for pace of action as a confound in research on digital games and aggression
Most studies investigating the effects of violence in digital games on aggression and physiological arousal feature two groups of participants either playing a violent or a nonviolent game. However, violent content is usually not the only dimension on which the games used in these studies differ. This raises the issue of possibly confounding variables. We conducted a study in which the displayed violence and the pace of action of a first-person s…
Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter, Games of empire
Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter, Games of empire
Comparing apples and oranges? Evidence for pace of action as a confound in research on digital games and aggression
Most studies investigating the effects of violence in digital games on aggression and physiological arousal feature two groups of participants either playing a violent or a nonviolent game. However, violent content is usually not the only dimension on which the games used in these studies differ. This raises the issue of possibly confounding variables. We conducted a study in which the displayed violence and the pace of action of a first-person s…
Sore losers? A reexamination of the frustration–aggression hypothesis for colocated video game play
The impact of video game play on player aggression continues to be debated within the \nacademic literature. Most of the studies in this area have focused on game content as the \nindependent variable, whereas the social context of gaming is largely neglected. This article \npresents an experimental study (N 76) on the effects of game outcome and trash-talking \nin a competitive colocated multiplayer sports video game on aggressive behavior. The …
More Than Stories With Buttons
Recent research has attempted to describe meaningful experiences with entertainment media that go beyond hedonic enjoyment. Most of this research focuses on noninteractive media, such as film and television. When applied to digital games, however, such research needs to account for not only the content of the medium, but also the unique dimensions of digital games that distinguish them from noninteractive media. Experiences with digital games are…
Violent video games and physical aggression
Longitudinal studies investigating the relationship of aggression and violent video games are still scarce. Most of the previous studies focused on children or younger adolescents and relied on convenience samples. This paper presents data from a 1-year longitudinal study of N = 276 video game players aged 14 to 21 drawn from a representative sample of German gamers. We tested both whether the use of violent games predicts physical aggression (i.…
Informational benefits from social media use for professional purposes
Using data from four waves of a longitudinal study among Dutch internet users, we examined whether and how the use of social network sites (SNS) for professional purposes is related to informational benefits. Building on a social capital framework and taking into account the affordances of social media, we specifically looked at users’ activities and the structure of their online networks. Users of LinkedIn or other professional SNS consistently …
The Relationship Between Use of Social Network Sites, Online Social Support, and Well-Being
Existing work on the effects of social network sites (SNS) on well-being has often stressed that SNS can help people gain social support from their online networks, which positively affects their well-being. However, the majority of studies in this area have been cross-sectional in nature and/or relied on student samples. Using data from six waves of a longitudinal study with a representative sample of Dutch Internet users, we first examined whet…
Running Head
This article conceptually integrates research on the experience of nostalgia—defined as a predominantly positive, social, and past-oriented emotion—into the fold of video game research. We emphasize the role of nostalgia as an explanation for contemporary retro gaming trends, and suggest that nostalgia towards gaming events is a necessary area of research. To those ends, we broadly review existing literature on nostalgia before specifically focus…
Integrating Survey Data and Digital Trace Data
While survey research has been at the heart of social science for decades and social scientific research with digital trace data has been growing rapidly in the last few years, until now, there are relatively few studies that combine these two data types. This may be surprising given the potential of linking surveys and digital trace data, but at the same time, it is important to note that the collection and analysis of such linked data are chall…
How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news
Data, code and supplementary material for "How social network sites and other online intermediaries increase exposure to news"
Once upon a game
New Formats, New Methods
The rise of new technologies and platforms, such as mobile devices and streaming services, has substantially changed the media entertainment landscape and continues to do so. Since its subject of study is changing constantly and rapidly, research on media entertainment has to be quick to adapt. This need to quickly react and adapt not only relates to the questions researchers need to ask but also to the methods they need to employ to answer those…
The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data
The ubiquity of digital devices and the increasing intensity of users’ interactions with them create vast amounts of digital trace data. Companies use these data to optimize their services or products, but these data are also of interest to researchers studying human behavior. As most of these data are owned by private companies and their collection requires adherence to their terms of service, research with digital trace data often entails some …
From cognitive overload to digital detox
The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective
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 =…
Do News Actually 'Find Me'? Using Digital Behavioral Data to Study the News-Finds-Me Phenomenon
Research on news exposure has shown that while political knowledge and interest largely determine the degree of active engagement with online news, some people are generally less willing to invest into actively staying informed. Instead, these people report to pursue a passive mode of relying on specific sources, such as social media, based on the belief that 'news finds me' (NFM). Notably, the three dimensions of NFM-feeling informed, relying on…
Escaping the pandemic present
Data and supplementary materials files for the manuscript “Escaping the pandemic present: The relationship between nostalgic media use, escapism, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic" accepted for publication in Psychology of Popular Media
The role of the information environment during the first Covid-19 wave in Germany
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by intense debates about the role of the information environment. On the one hand, citizens learn from public information campaigns and news coverage and supposedly adjust their behaviours accordingly; on the other, there are fears of widespread misinformation and its detrimental effects. Analyzing the posts of the most important German information providers published via Facebook, this paper first ident…
Atlas der Datenkörper 1
Digitale Technologien und soziale Medien verändern die Selbst- und Körperwahrnehmung und verzerren, verstärken oder produzieren dabei spezifische Körperbilder. Die Beiträger*innen kartographieren diese Phänomene, fragen nach ihrer medialen Existenzweise sowie nach den Möglichkeiten ihrer Kritik. Dabei begegnen sie ihrer Neuartigkeit mit einer transdisziplinären Herangehensweise. Aus sowohl der Perspektive künstlerischer und gestalterischer Forsch…
Post Post-Broadcast Democracy? News Exposure in the Age of Online Intermediaries
Online intermediaries such as social network sites or search engines are playing an increasingly central role in democracy by acting as mediators between information producers and citizens. Academic and public commentators have raised persistent concerns that algorithmic recommender systems would negatively affect the provision of political information by tailoring content to the predispositions and entertainment preferences of users. At the same…
That bygone feeling
Routines and the Predictability of Day-to-Day Web Use
Given the high importance of Web use in day-to-day life, understanding and predicting Web browsing behavior are important endeavors for academic as well as commercial research. We propose that routines – behaviors that are performed regularly (activation) and in similar ways (execution) – can be used to describe underlying structures in Web use and, thereby, improve the predictability of subsequent Web use behavior. Based on two large-scale Web-t…
User-centric approaches for collecting Facebook data in the ‘post-API age’
Although other social media platforms have seen a steeper increase in users recently, Facebook is still the social networking site with the largest number of users worldwide. A large number of studies from the social and behavioral sciences have investigated the antecedents, types, and consequences of its use. In addition or as an alternative to self-reports from users, many studies have used data from the platform itself, usually collected via i…
A Re-evaluation of Online Pornography Use in Germany
Several researchers have questioned the reliability of pornography research's findings. Following a recent call to use more reliable data sources, we conducted two analyses to investigate patterns and predictors of online pornography use (OPU). Our analyses were based on data from a large-scale German online web tracking panel ( N = 3018) gathered from June 2018 to June 2019. The study we present here has two parts: In the first part, we looked a…
Between urgency and data quality
Balancing speed and quality during crises pose challenges for ensuring the value and utility of data in social science research. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular underscores the need for high-quality data and rapid dissemination. Given the importance of behavioural measures and compliance with measures to contain the pandemic, social science research has played a key role in policymaking during this global crisis. This study addresses two key …
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