Helena Bilandzic
Biographic Data
| ID | 129695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helena Bilandzic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helena |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilandzic |
| SIGNATURE | BILANDZIC H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Augsburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9694-9653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Once Upon a Genome: A Content Analysis of Narratives and Narrativity in News About Genomic Research
This content analysis investigates the functions and types of narratives in German science news about genomic research as well as their degree of narrativity. The results show that nearly half of all articles contained at least one narrative. They were used predominantly to corroborate scientific findings. Narratives about the research process were most common, followed by narratives about researchers and personal fates of affected individuals. P…
Improving health literacy of patients with pulmonary embolism through evidence-based health information: A feasibility study
Background Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common condition with significant physical and psychological impairments. This study was intended to examine the feasibility of how evidence-based health information on PE in the form of a brochure can be distributed and used to strengthen PE-specific health literacy. Materials and methods Patients with PE were recruited during their hospital stay and were randomized in an intervention group which was provi…
Cumulative Exposure: Scholarly Responses to 50 Years of Cultivation Research
This issue features the latest Scholarly Milestones essay, “Cultivation at 50” by Michael Morgan, Richard Perloff, Andy Ruddock, and James Shanahan, a meditation on the theory’s history, evolution
Effects of Framing and Identity Cues in Science Communication With and About AI
As AI increasingly participates in science communication, it is unclear how people evaluate AI as a source of scientific information. This study examines how message framing and identity cues shape public evaluations of communicative AI and whether these effects differ when AI is encountered through reading or direct interaction. Two preregistered online experiments in Germany contrasted science communication about AI (reading a news-style articl…
More Fun, Less Pressure: A Conceptual Framework of Communication Goals for Healthy and Sustainable Food Choices
One third of greenhouse gas emissions comes from the production, distribution and disposal of food. Animal products generally have a higher environmental footprint than plant-based foods, with grains, fruits and vegetables having the lowest impact and ruminant meat having the highest. Reducing meat consumption benefits the environment – but also improves health outcomes; for example, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer. Consume…
Introduction to Food Security and Sustainability: Knowledge, Communication, Politics
The Task Force on Environment, Sustainability and Climate (TFESC) of Academia Europaea investigates ways of enhancing global science policy communication on the topic of food security and sustainability. This Focus reports the initial outcome of this investigation in the form of three articles. First, given the complexity of the link between food security and sustainability, and in particular the two-way relation between the impact of food produc…
Endorsement of scientific norms among non-scientists: The role of science news consumption, political ideology, and science field
Public discussions of controversial science fields like COVID-19 or climate science increasingly address inner-scientific structures and the norms guiding the scientific system—aspects that are normally discussed within the scientific community. However, not much is known about the endorsement of scientific norms by non-scientists and how those endorsements differ between controversial und uncontroversial science fields. We conducted a cross-sect…
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework
The rapid advancement of communicative artificial intelligence (ComAI) is profoundly impacting science communication, offering new opportunities for easier and more audience-oriented communication. However, it also poses several challenges for its practice. Based on a narrative review of literature on science communication and ComAI quality, this article develops a framework of quality principles for science communication with ComAI. The framewor…
Narratives of Regret: How Anticipated Regret and Counterfactual Thinking Can Promote Covid-19 Vaccination Intentions in Unvaccinated Adults
Information Seeking and Avoidance in the Covid-19 Pandemic as a Function of Political Ideology and National Context: A Survey Comparing the US and Germany
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a globally heightened need for scientific information. At the same time, the abundance of information led to tendencies of media fatigue and information avoidance. Both information seeking and avoidance are embedded in a specific national context, in which conditions of and measures against the pandemic may differ dramatically. In addition, the pandemic quickly became entangled with political ideology. Using the Risk…
Health literacy in patients with pulmonary embolism: Development and validation of the HeLP (Health Literacy in Pulmonary Embolism)-Questionnaire
Background Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common cardiovascular disease and health literacy is necessary to deal with its consequences after the acute event. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a new questionnaire to measure PE-specific health literacy. Methods A mixed-methods design with qualitative and quantitative elements was used in the development process. A literature review about health literacy concepts and instruments and in…
Covid-19 Research in Alternative News Media: Evidencing and Counterevidencing Practices
The Covid-19 pandemic has been accompanied by an excess of accurate and inaccurate information (infodemic) that has prevented people from finding reliable guidance in decision-making. Non-professional but popular science communicators—some with a political agenda—supply the public with scientific knowledge regarding Covid-19. This kind of communication represents a worrisome force in societal discourses on science-related political issues. This a…
On the need for narratives in patient information: Differentiating types and functions of narratives from pulmonary embolism patients' point of view
The inclusion of narratives in evidence-based patient information is a heavily discussed topic in literature. Narratives elicit intense engagement and emotional insights, but may also cause unintended persuasion effects. There is mixed evidence that adding narratives to non-narrative factual patient information is valuable for patients. In addition, providing patients with narratives about the outcome of treatments has been found to bias treatmen…
Eudaimonic entertainment as new Enlightenment: Critical thinking as a mind-set effect of narratives
We propose to extend the theoretical concept of eudaimonia as a media effect with critical thinking as a mind-set effect. Critical thinking as a mind-set effect means that media narratives can stimulate viewers and readers to think critically in any situation, even outside of the exposure situation and applied to other topics. It denotes a generally heightened critical attitude or “mind-set” to approach issues and situations by taking different p…
Metacognitive approach to narrative persuasion: The desirable and undesirable consequences of narrative disfluency
The current article tests the metacognitive proposition that the relative ease or difficulty with which narrative messages are processed can affect subsequent judgment. Challenging the assertion that experienced disfluency is mostly negative and undesirable, it is argued that disfluent (difficult-to-process) narratives are well-positioned to facilitate narrative persuasion when people hold value-laden beliefs. Using the controversial context of p…
The Emotional Effects of Science Narratives: A Theoretical Framework
Stories have long been discussed as a tool to make science accessible to the public. The potential of stories to stimulate emotions in their audiences makes them an emotional communication strategy par excellence . While studies exist that test the effects of stories in science communication on the one hand and the effects of emotions on the other hand, there is no systematic elaboration of the mechanisms through which stories in science communic…
The Role of Fictional Film Exposure and Narrative Engagement for Personal Norms, Guilt and Intentions to Protect The Climate
Using an integration of Norm Activation Theory, Value-Belief-Norm Theory and Narrative Persuasion, this study investigates the ability of an eco-dystopian science fiction film set in a world of excessive solar radiation to support intentions for pro-environmental behavior. Specifically, the influence of narrative engagement and explicit references to human responsibility for climate change are tested. A 2 (high vs. low narrative engagement) x 3 (…
The Cultivation of Idealistic Moral Expectations: The Role of Television Exposure and Narrative Engageability
The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of how fictional television shapes people’s expectations about the moral workings of the real world, relying on cultivation theory and models of narrative and moral effects as theoretical frameworks. Using a cross-sectional sample of the general German adult population, this study investigated the relationship between television viewing time (overall television and three genres—crime drama,…
A Penchant for the Immoral: Implications of Parasocial Interaction, Perceived Complicity, and Identification on Liking of Anti-Heroes
This study adds to existing research on liking of anti-heroes by demonstrating the importance of perceived interaction and identification on character liking. Our first experiment used a televised series (House of Cards) as the narrative context, and the second study employed a written narrative. In both experiments, versions featuring the main character speaking directly to the viewer/reader resulted in heightened feelings of perceived interacti…
Effects of Goal Framing and Emotions on Perceived Threat and Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Change
This study explores discrete emotions (guilt, fear, hope) as mediators for effects of goal framing on perceived threat of climate change and willingness to sacrifice. To reconcile conflicting evidence, the study introduces and tests the distinction between gain-positive frames (positive consequences of engaging in climate protection), gain-negative frames (avoiding negative consequences when engaging in climate protection), and loss frames (negat…
Medienpsychologie: Schlüsselbegriffe und Konzepte
In diesem Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk werden 61 zentrale Konzepte der Medienpsychologie in kurzen Texten vorgestellt, die das aktuelle Wissen zu spezifischen Annahmen und Theorien bündeln. In der Neuauflage werden vor allem aktuelle Konzepte aus dem Bereich der Social Media integriert. Die einzelnen Kapitel sind nach einem einheitlichen Schema gestaltet und enthalten eine kurze Darstellung des jeweiligen Konzepts, eine detaillierte Erläuterung d…
Rezipientenforschung: Mediennutzung – Medienrezeption – Medienwirkung
Die Rezipientenforschung wird hier in drei größere Themenbereiche untergliedert: Zunächst geht es um die Mediennutzungsforschung, in deren Rahmen gängige Erhebungsverfahren, Kennwerte und Ergebnisse der Leser-, Hörer-, Zuschauer- und Internet-User-Forschung dargestellt werden. Es folgt ein Kapitel über die Medienrezeptionsforschung. Darin werden Aspekte der Selektionsforschung, Rezeptionsqualität, der Einbettung von Medienrezeption in Kultur und …
Medienrezeptionsforschung
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen kompakten und theoretisch fundierten Einstieg in die wichtigsten Ansätze der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Rezeptionsforschung. Im Mittelpunkt steht das Individuum, das sich einem Medium zuwendet und es nutzt – die dabei ablaufenden kognitiven, emotionalen und verhaltensbezogenen Aspekte werden systematisiert und anhand von Beispielen dargestellt. Der Rezeptionsprozess wird umfassend beleuchtet – von der Mediensele…
The Structure of Climate Skeptical Arguments. Conspiracy Theory as a Critique of Science Die Struktur klimaskeptischer Argumente. Verschwörungstheorie als Wissenschaftskritik
Questioning and rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change causes, climate skeptics argue that climate science is involved in a global conspiracy, guided by self-interest and aspirations of societal change. On the basis of 97 climate skeptical non-fiction books, this article reconstructs the logical structure of climate skeptical (or denialist) arguments, with a special focus on the construction of the causes for climate change. The ana…
Audience Research Methodologies: Between Innovation and Consolidation
Fictionality and Perceived Realism in Experiencing Stories: A Model of Narrative Comprehension and Engagement
This article offers a theoretical framework to explain circumstances under which perceptions of “unrealness” affect engagement in narratives and subsequent perceived realism judgments. A mental models approach to narrative processing forms the foundation of a model that integrates narrative comprehension and phenomenological experiences such as transportation and identification. Three types of unrealness are discussed: fictionality, external real…
The Perception of Distance in the Cultivation Process: A Theoretical Consideration of the Relationship Between Television Content, Processing Experience, and Perceived Distance
Journal Article The Perception of Distance in the Cultivation Process: A Theoretical Consideration of the Relationship Between Television Content, Processing Experience, and Perceived Distance Get access Helena Bilandzic Helena Bilandzic 1Department for Media and Communication, University of Erfurt, 99989 Erfurt, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1 August 200…
A Penchant for the Immoral: Implications of Parasocial Interaction, Perceived Complicity, and Identification on Liking of Anti-Heroes
This study adds to existing research on liking of anti-heroes by demonstrating the importance of perceived interaction and identification on character liking. Our first experiment used a televised series (House of Cards) as the narrative context, and the second study employed a written narrative. In both experiments, versions featuring the main character speaking directly to the viewer/reader resulted in heightened feelings of perceived interacti…
Effects of Goal Framing and Emotions on Perceived Threat and Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Change
This study explores discrete emotions (guilt, fear, hope) as mediators for effects of goal framing on perceived threat of climate change and willingness to sacrifice. To reconcile conflicting evidence, the study introduces and tests the distinction between gain-positive frames (positive consequences of engaging in climate protection), gain-negative frames (avoiding negative consequences when engaging in climate protection), and loss frames (negat…
Medienrezeptionsforschung
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen kompakten und theoretisch fundierten Einstieg in die wichtigsten Ansätze der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Rezeptionsforschung. Im Mittelpunkt steht das Individuum, das sich einem Medium zuwendet und es nutzt – die dabei ablaufenden kognitiven, emotionalen und verhaltensbezogenen Aspekte werden systematisiert und anhand von Beispielen dargestellt. Der Rezeptionsprozess wird umfassend beleuchtet – von der Mediensele…
The Cultivation of Idealistic Moral Expectations: The Role of Television Exposure and Narrative Engageability
The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of how fictional television shapes people’s expectations about the moral workings of the real world, relying on cultivation theory and models of narrative and moral effects as theoretical frameworks. Using a cross-sectional sample of the general German adult population, this study investigated the relationship between television viewing time (overall television and three genres—crime drama,…
Rezipientenforschung: Mediennutzung – Medienrezeption – Medienwirkung
Die Rezipientenforschung wird hier in drei größere Themenbereiche untergliedert: Zunächst geht es um die Mediennutzungsforschung, in deren Rahmen gängige Erhebungsverfahren, Kennwerte und Ergebnisse der Leser-, Hörer-, Zuschauer- und Internet-User-Forschung dargestellt werden. Es folgt ein Kapitel über die Medienrezeptionsforschung. Darin werden Aspekte der Selektionsforschung, Rezeptionsqualität, der Einbettung von Medienrezeption in Kultur und …
The Perception of Distance in the Cultivation Process: A Theoretical Consideration of the Relationship Between Television Content, Processing Experience, and Perceived Distance
Journal Article The Perception of Distance in the Cultivation Process: A Theoretical Consideration of the Relationship Between Television Content, Processing Experience, and Perceived Distance Get access Helena Bilandzic Helena Bilandzic 1Department for Media and Communication, University of Erfurt, 99989 Erfurt, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1 August 200…
Ruth Ayaß / Jörg Bergmann (Hrsg.): Qualitative Methoden der Medienforschung
Transportation and Transportability in the Cultivation of Genre-Consistent Attitudes and Estimates
The concept of transportation into narrative (Green & Brock, 2002) is used to gain new insights into cultivation processes. A theoretical framework is developed where cultivation is seen as the result of a self-reinforcing interaction between persuasive and motivational effects of transportation: Repeated highly transportive experiences contribute to the overall cultivation effect by adjusting the viewers’ worldviews after each exposure. At the s…
Fictionality and Perceived Realism in Experiencing Stories: A Model of Narrative Comprehension and Engagement
This article offers a theoretical framework to explain circumstances under which perceptions of “unrealness” affect engagement in narratives and subsequent perceived realism judgments. A mental models approach to narrative processing forms the foundation of a model that integrates narrative comprehension and phenomenological experiences such as transportation and identification. Three types of unrealness are discussed: fictionality, external real…
Measuring Narrative Engagement
Research indicates that the extent to which one becomes engaged, transported, or immersed in a narrative influences the narrative's potential to affect subsequent story-related attitudes and beliefs. Explaining narrative effects and understanding the mechanisms responsible depends on our ability to measure narrative engagement in a theoretically meaningful way. This article develops a scale for measuring narrative engagement that is based on a me…
Audience Research Methodologies: Between Innovation and Consolidation
The Structure of Climate Skeptical Arguments. Conspiracy Theory as a Critique of Science Die Struktur klimaskeptischer Argumente. Verschwörungstheorie als Wissenschaftskritik
Questioning and rejecting the scientific consensus on climate change causes, climate skeptics argue that climate science is involved in a global conspiracy, guided by self-interest and aspirations of societal change. On the basis of 97 climate skeptical non-fiction books, this article reconstructs the logical structure of climate skeptical (or denialist) arguments, with a special focus on the construction of the causes for climate change. The ana…
Medienrezeptionsforschung
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen kompakten und theoretisch fundierten Einstieg in die wichtigsten Ansätze der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Rezeptionsforschung. Im Mittelpunkt steht das Individuum, das sich einem Medium zuwendet und es nutzt – die dabei ablaufenden kognitiven, emotionalen und verhaltensbezogenen Aspekte werden systematisiert und anhand von Beispielen dargestellt. Der Rezeptionsprozess wird umfassend beleuchtet – von der Mediensele…
Medienpsychologie: Schlüsselbegriffe und Konzepte
In diesem Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk werden 61 zentrale Konzepte der Medienpsychologie in kurzen Texten vorgestellt, die das aktuelle Wissen zu spezifischen Annahmen und Theorien bündeln. In der Neuauflage werden vor allem aktuelle Konzepte aus dem Bereich der Social Media integriert. Die einzelnen Kapitel sind nach einem einheitlichen Schema gestaltet und enthalten eine kurze Darstellung des jeweiligen Konzepts, eine detaillierte Erläuterung d…
Rezipientenforschung: Mediennutzung – Medienrezeption – Medienwirkung
Die Rezipientenforschung wird hier in drei größere Themenbereiche untergliedert: Zunächst geht es um die Mediennutzungsforschung, in deren Rahmen gängige Erhebungsverfahren, Kennwerte und Ergebnisse der Leser-, Hörer-, Zuschauer- und Internet-User-Forschung dargestellt werden. Es folgt ein Kapitel über die Medienrezeptionsforschung. Darin werden Aspekte der Selektionsforschung, Rezeptionsqualität, der Einbettung von Medienrezeption in Kultur und …
Effects of Goal Framing and Emotions on Perceived Threat and Willingness to Sacrifice for Climate Change
This study explores discrete emotions (guilt, fear, hope) as mediators for effects of goal framing on perceived threat of climate change and willingness to sacrifice. To reconcile conflicting evidence, the study introduces and tests the distinction between gain-positive frames (positive consequences of engaging in climate protection), gain-negative frames (avoiding negative consequences when engaging in climate protection), and loss frames (negat…
The Role of Fictional Film Exposure and Narrative Engagement for Personal Norms, Guilt and Intentions to Protect The Climate
Using an integration of Norm Activation Theory, Value-Belief-Norm Theory and Narrative Persuasion, this study investigates the ability of an eco-dystopian science fiction film set in a world of excessive solar radiation to support intentions for pro-environmental behavior. Specifically, the influence of narrative engagement and explicit references to human responsibility for climate change are tested. A 2 (high vs. low narrative engagement) x 3 (…
The Cultivation of Idealistic Moral Expectations: The Role of Television Exposure and Narrative Engageability
The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of how fictional television shapes people’s expectations about the moral workings of the real world, relying on cultivation theory and models of narrative and moral effects as theoretical frameworks. Using a cross-sectional sample of the general German adult population, this study investigated the relationship between television viewing time (overall television and three genres—crime drama,…
A Penchant for the Immoral: Implications of Parasocial Interaction, Perceived Complicity, and Identification on Liking of Anti-Heroes
This study adds to existing research on liking of anti-heroes by demonstrating the importance of perceived interaction and identification on character liking. Our first experiment used a televised series (House of Cards) as the narrative context, and the second study employed a written narrative. In both experiments, versions featuring the main character speaking directly to the viewer/reader resulted in heightened feelings of perceived interacti…
The Emotional Effects of Science Narratives: A Theoretical Framework
Stories have long been discussed as a tool to make science accessible to the public. The potential of stories to stimulate emotions in their audiences makes them an emotional communication strategy par excellence . While studies exist that test the effects of stories in science communication on the one hand and the effects of emotions on the other hand, there is no systematic elaboration of the mechanisms through which stories in science communic…
Metacognitive approach to narrative persuasion: The desirable and undesirable consequences of narrative disfluency
The current article tests the metacognitive proposition that the relative ease or difficulty with which narrative messages are processed can affect subsequent judgment. Challenging the assertion that experienced disfluency is mostly negative and undesirable, it is argued that disfluent (difficult-to-process) narratives are well-positioned to facilitate narrative persuasion when people hold value-laden beliefs. Using the controversial context of p…
On the need for narratives in patient information: Differentiating types and functions of narratives from pulmonary embolism patients' point of view
The inclusion of narratives in evidence-based patient information is a heavily discussed topic in literature. Narratives elicit intense engagement and emotional insights, but may also cause unintended persuasion effects. There is mixed evidence that adding narratives to non-narrative factual patient information is valuable for patients. In addition, providing patients with narratives about the outcome of treatments has been found to bias treatmen…
Eudaimonic entertainment as new Enlightenment: Critical thinking as a mind-set effect of narratives
We propose to extend the theoretical concept of eudaimonia as a media effect with critical thinking as a mind-set effect. Critical thinking as a mind-set effect means that media narratives can stimulate viewers and readers to think critically in any situation, even outside of the exposure situation and applied to other topics. It denotes a generally heightened critical attitude or “mind-set” to approach issues and situations by taking different p…
Health literacy in patients with pulmonary embolism: Development and validation of the HeLP (Health Literacy in Pulmonary Embolism)-Questionnaire
Background Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common cardiovascular disease and health literacy is necessary to deal with its consequences after the acute event. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a new questionnaire to measure PE-specific health literacy. Methods A mixed-methods design with qualitative and quantitative elements was used in the development process. A literature review about health literacy concepts and instruments and in…
Covid-19 Research in Alternative News Media: Evidencing and Counterevidencing Practices
The Covid-19 pandemic has been accompanied by an excess of accurate and inaccurate information (infodemic) that has prevented people from finding reliable guidance in decision-making. Non-professional but popular science communicators—some with a political agenda—supply the public with scientific knowledge regarding Covid-19. This kind of communication represents a worrisome force in societal discourses on science-related political issues. This a…
Information Seeking and Avoidance in the Covid-19 Pandemic as a Function of Political Ideology and National Context: A Survey Comparing the US and Germany
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a globally heightened need for scientific information. At the same time, the abundance of information led to tendencies of media fatigue and information avoidance. Both information seeking and avoidance are embedded in a specific national context, in which conditions of and measures against the pandemic may differ dramatically. In addition, the pandemic quickly became entangled with political ideology. Using the Risk…
Endorsement of scientific norms among non-scientists: The role of science news consumption, political ideology, and science field
Public discussions of controversial science fields like COVID-19 or climate science increasingly address inner-scientific structures and the norms guiding the scientific system—aspects that are normally discussed within the scientific community. However, not much is known about the endorsement of scientific norms by non-scientists and how those endorsements differ between controversial und uncontroversial science fields. We conducted a cross-sect…
Quality in science communication with communicative artificial intelligence: A principle-based framework
The rapid advancement of communicative artificial intelligence (ComAI) is profoundly impacting science communication, offering new opportunities for easier and more audience-oriented communication. However, it also poses several challenges for its practice. Based on a narrative review of literature on science communication and ComAI quality, this article develops a framework of quality principles for science communication with ComAI. The framewor…
Narratives of Regret: How Anticipated Regret and Counterfactual Thinking Can Promote Covid-19 Vaccination Intentions in Unvaccinated Adults
Once Upon a Genome: A Content Analysis of Narratives and Narrativity in News About Genomic Research
This content analysis investigates the functions and types of narratives in German science news about genomic research as well as their degree of narrativity. The results show that nearly half of all articles contained at least one narrative. They were used predominantly to corroborate scientific findings. Narratives about the research process were most common, followed by narratives about researchers and personal fates of affected individuals. P…
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