Oliver Quiring
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 388025 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Oliver Quiring |
| NOMBRES | Oliver |
| APELLIDO | Quiring |
| FIRMA | QUIRING O |
| AFILIACIONES | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6671-583X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Faulty News Coverage Causes Bad Moods
Negotiations are a key mechanism for resolving societal conflicts. Since they usually take place behind closed doors, it has long been assumed that the media have no impact on the workflow and results. In this article, we demonstrate that media attention and framing affect the negotiation process and outcomes through the moods of the negotiators. Relying on a mixed-method design, combining a survey ( N = 326) with semi-structured interviews ( N =…
Challenging Environmental Inequality? Role Perceptions and Practices of Environmental Journalists in Independent News Organizations
News media often reproduce patterns in coverage that can exacerbate environmental inequality. This study investigates how journalists working for independent environmental news organizations in Brazil perceive and engage with such patterns in legacy media coverage. We conducted 2 complementary studies: first, 10 semi-structured interviews with journalists from independent environmental news organizations, and second, a qualitative content analysi…
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast-track to knowledge. To fulfill this functional role, those who claim epistemic authority need to be both subjectively recognized (have a perceived advantage in knowledge) and objectively justified (have…
The Limits of Social Media Mobilization
The emergence of social networking sites offers protest movements new ways to mobilize for action and draw attention to their issues. However, relying on social media also creates challenges, as social media follow their own principles. If protest movements want to be visible in news feeds, they have to adapt to so-called social media logic, as originally postulated in mediatization research. The principles of social media have been conceptualize…
Political Information Use and Its Relationship to Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories Among the German Public
This study investigates how exposure to different news sources, propensity to vote (PTV) for a party and demographics are related to belief in conspiracy theories drawing on three repeated cross-sectional surveys in Germany 2017–2019. Results show that frequent exposure to alternative news sites and video-sharing platforms increased conspiratorial beliefs. Frequency of exposure to the quality press, public service TV news, and news aggregators di…
Internet-Related Disorders and Their Effects on Personality Development in Adolescents from Germany—Results from a Prospective Study
Internet-related disorders (IRD) are increasingly becoming a major health issue. IRD are defined as the predominant use of online content, related to a loss of control and continued use despite negative consequences. Despite findings from cross-sectional studies, the causality of pathways accelerating the development of IRD are unclear. While etiological models emphasize the role of personality as risk factor, mutual influences between IRD and pe…
Investigating Opinions on Public Policies in Digital Media
Supervised machine learning (SML) provides us with tools to efficiently scrutinize large corpora of communication texts. Yet, setting up such a tool involves plenty of decisions starting with the data needed for training, the selection of an algorithm, and the details of model training. We aim at establishing a firm link between communication research tasks and the corresponding state-of-the-art in natural language processing research by systemat…
Communication, Cohesion, and Corona
Solidarity among society is considered crucial to tackle the corona pandemic. With the crisis evoking a high need for orientation, the information people obtain from different sources may shape whether they feel a strong sense of cohesion in the pandemic. To test this assumption, an online two-wave panel survey among a quota sample representing the German population aged 18+ was conducted in March and April 2020. Applying a path model, we show th…
Medienskepsis und Medienzynismus. Funktionale und dysfunktionale Formen von Medienkritik
Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc ) , Seite 19 - 35
The dynamics of online news discussions
This study investigates when and why news website visitors write civil or uncivil comments in response to news articles or related user comments. In an experiment, we manipulated the news value of news articles and the presence of ‘deliberative’ or ‘detrimental’ elements of comments to compare their impact on participants’ involvement, willingness to comment, and the comments they posted. News factors and comment characteristics increased partici…
Sleeper effect from below
User comments on news websites are a controversial element of online communication. Various studies have reported the negative effects of comments criticizing the related news articles on readers’ attitudes toward the issues described in these articles. However, these findings are mostly based on measurements directly after the reception of comments. No research has investigated the long-term effects of comments on readers’ article-related attitu…
Gender Differences in Escapist Uses of Sexually Explicit Internet Material
I Want a Savior, Not a Victim. The Impact of Media Representations of the EU and Economic Shocks on Citizens’ Supportive Attitudes on the European Integration
The Euro crisis substantially diminished citizens’ support for the European integration. Therefore, we intend to analyze the independent effects of both the depiction of the Euro crisis in national news media and macroeconomic contexts on citizens’ support for a deeper integration. Based on a combination of Eurobarometer data, results from a content analysis, and data on the economic performance of citizens’ home regions, we show that presenting …
A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Privacy Calculus
The 'privacy calculus' approach to studying online privacy implies that willingness to engage in disclosures on social network sites (SNSs) depends on evaluation of the resulting risks and benefits. In this article, we propose that cultural factors influence the perception of privacy risks and social gratifications. Based on survey data collected from participants from five countries (Germany [ n = 740], the Netherlands [ n = 89], the United King…
Interactivity
Interactivity is one of the core concepts for the analysis of the so‐called “new” media. Basically, it refers to an apparently new quality of digital media: the “ability to speak back.” This entry tries to demystify the concept by showing its origins, giving an account of the academic struggle for a clear‐cut concept, explaining its most important dimensions and characteristics, and presenting relevant research history and methodology.
Digital Stress over the Life Span
The present study investigated the psychological health effects and motivational origins of digital stress based on a representative survey of 1,557 German Internet users between 14 and 85 years of age. Communication load resulting from private e-mails and social media messages as well as Internet multitasking were positively related to perceived stress and had significant indirect effects on burnout, depression, and anxiety. Perceived social pre…
Permanently online and permanently procrastinating? The mediating role of Internet use for the effects of trait procrastination on psychological health and well-being
A growing number of studies suggest that Internet users frequently utilize online media as “tools for procrastination.” This study thus investigated the relationship between trait procrastination, Internet use, and psychological well-being in a representative sample of N = 1,577 German Internet users. The results revealed that trait procrastination was associated with an increased use of leisure-related online content and impaired control over In…
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…
Gesundheitskommunikation im gesellschaftlichen Wandel
The interplay of intrinsic need satisfaction and Facebook specific motives in explaining addictive behavior on Facebook
What Creates Interactivity in Online News Discussions? An Exploratory Analysis of Discussion Factors in User Comments on News Items
While the social, political, and journalistic relevance of user comments on online news items has been discussed intensively, no study has tried to examine why some online news discussions are more interactive than others. Based on the rationale of news value theory, this study argues that so-called discussion factors in user comments indicate general relevance to later users to respond to them. Qualitative interviews with users who comment on ne…
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?
Conceptualizing Online Discussion Value
This chapter provides a micro-framework for analyzing the quantity and quality of online user comments on mass-media websites. On one dimension, news factors of news items and discussion factors of existing user comments are assumed to indicate the relevance of participating in online discussions. On a second dimension, specific motivational, social, and design factors are influential when reconstructing users’ decisions to participate in online …
Lehman Brothers und Die Folgen
News Frames, Inter-Media Frame Transfer and The Financial Crisis
Autorzy artykułu, wykorzystując teorię oprawy, analizują publikacje poświęcone ekonomii w niemieckich gazetach na początku kryzysu finansowego. Celem badania było: po pierwsze, wskazanie ram, w jakich prezentowane są wiadomości ekonomiczne. Po drugie: dokumentacja tych sposobów medialnej oprawy, ich występowania oraz rozpowszechniania w różnych mediach. Po trzecie: badanie wzajemnego oddziaływania mediów. Autorzy artykułu wprowadzają pojęcie Tran…
A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Privacy Calculus
The 'privacy calculus' approach to studying online privacy implies that willingness to engage in disclosures on social network sites (SNSs) depends on evaluation of the resulting risks and benefits. In this article, we propose that cultural factors influence the perception of privacy risks and social gratifications. Based on survey data collected from participants from five countries (Germany [ n = 740], the Netherlands [ n = 89], the United King…
Between idiosyncratic self-interests and professional standards
Not much is known about participatory journalists in Germany or further afield. We conducted a standardized quantitative online survey of participatory journalists at the German-language website myheimat, a German-based hyperlocal participatory journalism portal with about 37,000 contributors (as at September 2010). The purpose of the survey was to examine the individual characteristics of participatory journalists (sociodemographics, expertise, …
Peers, Parents and Pornography
What Interactivity Means to the User Essential Insights into and a Scale for Perceived Interactivity
The selection and use of media depend largely on how users perceive such media. A central aspect of the ''new media'' is their interactivity, but how users perceive this phenomenon has rarely been researched. This study provides an in-depth investigation into the perception component of interactivity and develops a compact scale for its measurement. According to psychological approaches, practical uses (affordances) -not physical or technical cha…
Sleeper effect from below
User comments on news websites are a controversial element of online communication. Various studies have reported the negative effects of comments criticizing the related news articles on readers’ attitudes toward the issues described in these articles. However, these findings are mostly based on measurements directly after the reception of comments. No research has investigated the long-term effects of comments on readers’ article-related attitu…
Between Usefulness and Legitimacy
We argue that during the financial crisis, economic news served as a dominant source of information for the public and as an influential factor in legitimating economic policy. We analyze (1) how German news broadcasts treated governmental intervention during the crisis and (2) selected effects on public opinion. Drawing on results from a content analysis of television news broadcasts ( n = 980), we show that governmental intervention was covered…
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…
Perceptual Phenomena in the Agenda Setting Process
Journal Article Perceptual Phenomena in the Agenda Setting Process Get access Inga Huck, Inga Huck Inga Huck is a research assistant and PhD student at the Institut fuer Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oliver Quiring, Oliver Quiring Oliver Quiring (PhD, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2003) is a professor at the Inst…
Voters in a Changing Media Environment
The mediatization of politics in general, and of election campaigns in particular, seems to be an obvious consequence of media changes during recent decades and of an increasing interdependence between political processes and mass communication. As in many other European countries, three trends mark such development in Germany: (1) an enormous expansion of supply of new types of media and content genres, (2) the growing importance of television i…
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast-track to knowledge. To fulfill this functional role, those who claim epistemic authority need to be both subjectively recognized (have a perceived advantage in knowledge) and objectively justified (have…
Permanently online and permanently procrastinating? The mediating role of Internet use for the effects of trait procrastination on psychological health and well-being
A growing number of studies suggest that Internet users frequently utilize online media as “tools for procrastination.” This study thus investigated the relationship between trait procrastination, Internet use, and psychological well-being in a representative sample of N = 1,577 German Internet users. The results revealed that trait procrastination was associated with an increased use of leisure-related online content and impaired control over In…
News Frames, Inter-Media Frame Transfer and The Financial Crisis
Autorzy artykułu, wykorzystując teorię oprawy, analizują publikacje poświęcone ekonomii w niemieckich gazetach na początku kryzysu finansowego. Celem badania było: po pierwsze, wskazanie ram, w jakich prezentowane są wiadomości ekonomiczne. Po drugie: dokumentacja tych sposobów medialnej oprawy, ich występowania oraz rozpowszechniania w różnych mediach. Po trzecie: badanie wzajemnego oddziaływania mediów. Autorzy artykułu wprowadzają pojęcie Tran…
What do users associate with ‘interactivity’
‘Interactivity’ was one of the major buzzwords of the 1990s. Although the academic discourse has produced a large number of different concepts of ‘interactivity’, in everyday life it still remains a label put on all kinds of aspects of online communication and digital media. Drawing on schema theory this article explores the concepts of ‘ordinary’ users (i.e. people who are not professional experts). The results indicate that users associate the …
Investigating Opinions on Public Policies in Digital Media
Supervised machine learning (SML) provides us with tools to efficiently scrutinize large corpora of communication texts. Yet, setting up such a tool involves plenty of decisions starting with the data needed for training, the selection of an algorithm, and the details of model training. We aim at establishing a firm link between communication research tasks and the corresponding state-of-the-art in natural language processing research by systemat…
Communication, Cohesion, and Corona
Solidarity among society is considered crucial to tackle the corona pandemic. With the crisis evoking a high need for orientation, the information people obtain from different sources may shape whether they feel a strong sense of cohesion in the pandemic. To test this assumption, an online two-wave panel survey among a quota sample representing the German population aged 18+ was conducted in March and April 2020. Applying a path model, we show th…
Medienskepsis und Medienzynismus. Funktionale und dysfunktionale Formen von Medienkritik
Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc ) , Seite 19 - 35
Das Framing der Finanzkrise
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Wirtschaftsberichterstattung deutscher Tageszeitungen zur Finanzkrise 2008 vor dem Hintergrund der Framing-Theorie. Er verfolgt dabei drei Hauptziele: Erstens: Die Identifizierung von Frames (Deutungsmustern) in der Berichterstattung. Zweitens: Die Beschreibung des Auftretens dieser Frames im Zeitverlauf und ihrer Verteilung über verschiedene Medien. Drittens: Die Untersuchung des inter-medialen Einflusses, …
Gender Differences in Escapist Uses of Sexually Explicit Internet Material
Gesundheitskommunikation im gesellschaftlichen Wandel
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 …
Voters in a Changing Media Environment
The mediatization of politics in general, and of election campaigns in particular, seems to be an obvious consequence of media changes during recent decades and of an increasing interdependence between political processes and mass communication. As in many other European countries, three trends mark such development in Germany: (1) an enormous expansion of supply of new types of media and content genres, (2) the growing importance of television i…
What Interactivity Means to the User Essential Insights into and a Scale for Perceived Interactivity
The selection and use of media depend largely on how users perceive such media. A central aspect of the ''new media'' is their interactivity, but how users perceive this phenomenon has rarely been researched. This study provides an in-depth investigation into the perception component of interactivity and develops a compact scale for its measurement. According to psychological approaches, practical uses (affordances) -not physical or technical cha…
What do users associate with ‘interactivity’
‘Interactivity’ was one of the major buzzwords of the 1990s. Although the academic discourse has produced a large number of different concepts of ‘interactivity’, in everyday life it still remains a label put on all kinds of aspects of online communication and digital media. Drawing on schema theory this article explores the concepts of ‘ordinary’ users (i.e. people who are not professional experts). The results indicate that users associate the …
Perceptual Phenomena in the Agenda Setting Process
Journal Article Perceptual Phenomena in the Agenda Setting Process Get access Inga Huck, Inga Huck Inga Huck is a research assistant and PhD student at the Institut fuer Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oliver Quiring, Oliver Quiring Oliver Quiring (PhD, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2003) is a professor at the Inst…
Lehman Brothers und Die Folgen
Between Usefulness and Legitimacy
We argue that during the financial crisis, economic news served as a dominant source of information for the public and as an influential factor in legitimating economic policy. We analyze (1) how German news broadcasts treated governmental intervention during the crisis and (2) selected effects on public opinion. Drawing on results from a content analysis of television news broadcasts ( n = 980), we show that governmental intervention was covered…
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 …
Peers, Parents and Pornography
Das Framing der Finanzkrise
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Wirtschaftsberichterstattung deutscher Tageszeitungen zur Finanzkrise 2008 vor dem Hintergrund der Framing-Theorie. Er verfolgt dabei drei Hauptziele: Erstens: Die Identifizierung von Frames (Deutungsmustern) in der Berichterstattung. Zweitens: Die Beschreibung des Auftretens dieser Frames im Zeitverlauf und ihrer Verteilung über verschiedene Medien. Drittens: Die Untersuchung des inter-medialen Einflusses, …
Between idiosyncratic self-interests and professional standards
Not much is known about participatory journalists in Germany or further afield. We conducted a standardized quantitative online survey of participatory journalists at the German-language website myheimat, a German-based hyperlocal participatory journalism portal with about 37,000 contributors (as at September 2010). The purpose of the survey was to examine the individual characteristics of participatory journalists (sociodemographics, expertise, …
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?
Conceptualizing Online Discussion Value
This chapter provides a micro-framework for analyzing the quantity and quality of online user comments on mass-media websites. On one dimension, news factors of news items and discussion factors of existing user comments are assumed to indicate the relevance of participating in online discussions. On a second dimension, specific motivational, social, and design factors are influential when reconstructing users’ decisions to participate in online …
The interplay of intrinsic need satisfaction and Facebook specific motives in explaining addictive behavior on Facebook
What Creates Interactivity in Online News Discussions? An Exploratory Analysis of Discussion Factors in User Comments on News Items
While the social, political, and journalistic relevance of user comments on online news items has been discussed intensively, no study has tried to examine why some online news discussions are more interactive than others. Based on the rationale of news value theory, this study argues that so-called discussion factors in user comments indicate general relevance to later users to respond to them. Qualitative interviews with users who comment on ne…
Gesundheitskommunikation im gesellschaftlichen Wandel
Interactivity
Interactivity is one of the core concepts for the analysis of the so‐called “new” media. Basically, it refers to an apparently new quality of digital media: the “ability to speak back.” This entry tries to demystify the concept by showing its origins, giving an account of the academic struggle for a clear‐cut concept, explaining its most important dimensions and characteristics, and presenting relevant research history and methodology.
Digital Stress over the Life Span
The present study investigated the psychological health effects and motivational origins of digital stress based on a representative survey of 1,557 German Internet users between 14 and 85 years of age. Communication load resulting from private e-mails and social media messages as well as Internet multitasking were positively related to perceived stress and had significant indirect effects on burnout, depression, and anxiety. Perceived social pre…
Permanently online and permanently procrastinating? The mediating role of Internet use for the effects of trait procrastination on psychological health and well-being
A growing number of studies suggest that Internet users frequently utilize online media as “tools for procrastination.” This study thus investigated the relationship between trait procrastination, Internet use, and psychological well-being in a representative sample of N = 1,577 German Internet users. The results revealed that trait procrastination was associated with an increased use of leisure-related online content and impaired control over In…
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…
I Want a Savior, Not a Victim. The Impact of Media Representations of the EU and Economic Shocks on Citizens’ Supportive Attitudes on the European Integration
The Euro crisis substantially diminished citizens’ support for the European integration. Therefore, we intend to analyze the independent effects of both the depiction of the Euro crisis in national news media and macroeconomic contexts on citizens’ support for a deeper integration. Based on a combination of Eurobarometer data, results from a content analysis, and data on the economic performance of citizens’ home regions, we show that presenting …
A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Privacy Calculus
The 'privacy calculus' approach to studying online privacy implies that willingness to engage in disclosures on social network sites (SNSs) depends on evaluation of the resulting risks and benefits. In this article, we propose that cultural factors influence the perception of privacy risks and social gratifications. Based on survey data collected from participants from five countries (Germany [ n = 740], the Netherlands [ n = 89], the United King…
The dynamics of online news discussions
This study investigates when and why news website visitors write civil or uncivil comments in response to news articles or related user comments. In an experiment, we manipulated the news value of news articles and the presence of ‘deliberative’ or ‘detrimental’ elements of comments to compare their impact on participants’ involvement, willingness to comment, and the comments they posted. News factors and comment characteristics increased partici…
Sleeper effect from below
User comments on news websites are a controversial element of online communication. Various studies have reported the negative effects of comments criticizing the related news articles on readers’ attitudes toward the issues described in these articles. However, these findings are mostly based on measurements directly after the reception of comments. No research has investigated the long-term effects of comments on readers’ article-related attitu…
Gender Differences in Escapist Uses of Sexually Explicit Internet Material
Medienskepsis und Medienzynismus. Funktionale und dysfunktionale Formen von Medienkritik
Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc ) , Seite 19 - 35
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