Frank Mangold
Biographic Data
| ID | 2446238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Mangold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Mangold |
| SIGNATURE | MANGOLD F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hohenheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9776-3113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Enhancing Participation in Web Tracking Studies Through Monetary Incentives
Web tracking studies provide unique insights into digital behavior but face challenges related to participant recruitment and attrition. This study examines how different monetary incentive structures—unconditional and conditional—and incentive amounts affect key recruitment stages: consent to participate in web tracking, installation of tracking software, and attrition after installation. To assess the effectiveness of monetary incentives across…
Two Forms of Media Distrust
The relationship between trust in the news media and news use has been studied extensively, yet findings remain inconsistent. We argue that a key source of this inconsistency is the conflation of two distinct forms of media distrust: skepticism and cynicism. Additionally, prior research largely relies on self-reported news use, which is prone to bias. To address both issues, we link survey data with web-tracking data from 739 participants during …
Enriching research of parasocial experiences through better measurement of parasocial processing (PSP)
Amid growing scholarly calls highlighting the theoretical importance of parasocial processing (PSP) for enabling closer accounts of users’ cognitive, affective, and conative reactions to media characters, communication research lacks a comprehensive short survey instrument for capturing PSP. The article overcomes this gap by introducing the PSP Short Inventory – a parsimonious short-scale measuring PSP as a multifaceted concept with nine items. B…
Beyond time delays
How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age
The article enriches the understanding of trust in news at a time when mass and interpersonal communication have merged in the digital sphere. We propose disentangling individual-level patterns of trust allocation (i.e., trust figurations) across journalistic media, social media, and peers to reflect the multiplicity among modern news audiences. A latent class analysis of a representative survey among German young adults revealed four figurations…
Search Engine Use for Health-Related Purposes
Internet searches for health-related purposes are common, with search engines like Google being the most popular starting point. However, results on the popularity of health information-seeking behaviors are based on self-report data, often criticized for suffering from incomplete recall, overreporting, and low reliability. Therefore, the current study builds on user-centric tracking of Internet use to reveal how individuals actually behave onlin…
Facebook as an Avenue to News
Given that Facebook is still the most widely used social networking site in the world, its influence on democratic processes is under constant scrutiny. Academics have put a special focus on Facebook's role in inhibiting or enhancing citizens' news exposure. Recent studies using digital behavioral data have analyzed the prevalence and effects of "Facebook news referrals." Using a web tracking tool that captures general browsing behavior as well a…
Improving media trust research through better measurement
While trust in news media has come to the forefront of scholarly and public debate in recent years, academic researchers have raised persistent concern that measurement issues have prevented a better understanding of the concept. This research introduces an item response theory (IRT) perspective to advance the state-of-the-art in media trust measurement beyond recent conceptual and analytical progress. I argue that standard survey instruments tha…
Metrics of News Audience Polarization
Although media and communication scholars have suggested various analytical methods for measuring and comparing news audience polarization across countries, we lack a systematic assessment of the metrics produced by these techniques. Using survey data from the 2016 Reuters Institute Digital News Report on news use in 26 countries, we address this gap through a resampling simulation experiment. Our simulation revealed a strong impact of analytical…
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 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 =…
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"
How Do Filtering Choices Impact the Structures of Audience Networks? A Simulation Study Using Data from 26 Countries
Although communication scholars have increasingly studied audience fragmentation by analyzing audience networks, recent cross-national research has spurred a methodological debate about how to construct these audience networks from media use data. One point of contention lies in the choice of filtering procedures that only keep meaningful ties, where the traditional deviation-from-random-duplication filter has been replaced by alternatives such a…
Day-to-day routines of media platform use in the digital age
Using Giddens's structuration theory, this study examines how the routinized use of traditional and new media platforms differently align with the structures of everyday life. We analyzed data from a quantitative diary study in Germany to find that new media platforms specifically affect societal structuration by blurring the lines between obligations and leisure time. The part played by routines in the use of new media platforms was less strongl…
New News Media, New Opinion Leaders? How Political Opinion Leaders Navigate the Modern High-choice Media Environment
We updated the understanding of political opinion leaders’ news media use based on the increasing variety of news sources in the modern high-choice media environment. Building on seven decades of opinion leader research and integrating a contemporary news repertoire approach, we conceptualized and empirically investigated how opinion leaders navigate the modern news environment. We analyzed data from a representative general population survey (N …
Die Bedeutung der Beziehungsstärke für die Meinungsführung
Nachrichtennutzung in Deutschland. Eine nutzerzentrierte Repertoireanalyse
Trotz erster vielversprechender Befunde war bisher nicht hinreichend zu klären, nach welchen Strukturprinzipien Rezipienten verschiedene Nachrichtenangebote zu individuellen Repertoires integrieren. Der Beitrag nimmt die inhaltliche Komposition der Nachrichtenrepertoires in Deutschland in den Blick. Er diskutiert methodische Anknüpfungspunkte, um Nachrichtenrepertoires einer detaillierteren medienübergreifenden Analyse unterziehen zu können. Dies…
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 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 =…
Nachrichtennutzung in Deutschland. Eine nutzerzentrierte Repertoireanalyse
Trotz erster vielversprechender Befunde war bisher nicht hinreichend zu klären, nach welchen Strukturprinzipien Rezipienten verschiedene Nachrichtenangebote zu individuellen Repertoires integrieren. Der Beitrag nimmt die inhaltliche Komposition der Nachrichtenrepertoires in Deutschland in den Blick. Er diskutiert methodische Anknüpfungspunkte, um Nachrichtenrepertoires einer detaillierteren medienübergreifenden Analyse unterziehen zu können. Dies…
Day-to-day routines of media platform use in the digital age
Using Giddens's structuration theory, this study examines how the routinized use of traditional and new media platforms differently align with the structures of everyday life. We analyzed data from a quantitative diary study in Germany to find that new media platforms specifically affect societal structuration by blurring the lines between obligations and leisure time. The part played by routines in the use of new media platforms was less strongl…
Improving media trust research through better measurement
While trust in news media has come to the forefront of scholarly and public debate in recent years, academic researchers have raised persistent concern that measurement issues have prevented a better understanding of the concept. This research introduces an item response theory (IRT) perspective to advance the state-of-the-art in media trust measurement beyond recent conceptual and analytical progress. I argue that standard survey instruments tha…
Beyond time delays
Facebook as an Avenue to News
Given that Facebook is still the most widely used social networking site in the world, its influence on democratic processes is under constant scrutiny. Academics have put a special focus on Facebook's role in inhibiting or enhancing citizens' news exposure. Recent studies using digital behavioral data have analyzed the prevalence and effects of "Facebook news referrals." Using a web tracking tool that captures general browsing behavior as well a…
Nachrichtennutzung in Deutschland. Eine nutzerzentrierte Repertoireanalyse
Trotz erster vielversprechender Befunde war bisher nicht hinreichend zu klären, nach welchen Strukturprinzipien Rezipienten verschiedene Nachrichtenangebote zu individuellen Repertoires integrieren. Der Beitrag nimmt die inhaltliche Komposition der Nachrichtenrepertoires in Deutschland in den Blick. Er diskutiert methodische Anknüpfungspunkte, um Nachrichtenrepertoires einer detaillierteren medienübergreifenden Analyse unterziehen zu können. Dies…
New News Media, New Opinion Leaders? How Political Opinion Leaders Navigate the Modern High-choice Media Environment
We updated the understanding of political opinion leaders’ news media use based on the increasing variety of news sources in the modern high-choice media environment. Building on seven decades of opinion leader research and integrating a contemporary news repertoire approach, we conceptualized and empirically investigated how opinion leaders navigate the modern news environment. We analyzed data from a representative general population survey (N …
Die Bedeutung der Beziehungsstärke für die Meinungsführung
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"
How Do Filtering Choices Impact the Structures of Audience Networks? A Simulation Study Using Data from 26 Countries
Although communication scholars have increasingly studied audience fragmentation by analyzing audience networks, recent cross-national research has spurred a methodological debate about how to construct these audience networks from media use data. One point of contention lies in the choice of filtering procedures that only keep meaningful ties, where the traditional deviation-from-random-duplication filter has been replaced by alternatives such a…
Day-to-day routines of media platform use in the digital age
Using Giddens's structuration theory, this study examines how the routinized use of traditional and new media platforms differently align with the structures of everyday life. We analyzed data from a quantitative diary study in Germany to find that new media platforms specifically affect societal structuration by blurring the lines between obligations and leisure time. The part played by routines in the use of new media platforms was less strongl…
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 =…
Metrics of News Audience Polarization
Although media and communication scholars have suggested various analytical methods for measuring and comparing news audience polarization across countries, we lack a systematic assessment of the metrics produced by these techniques. Using survey data from the 2016 Reuters Institute Digital News Report on news use in 26 countries, we address this gap through a resampling simulation experiment. Our simulation revealed a strong impact of analytical…
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…
Improving media trust research through better measurement
While trust in news media has come to the forefront of scholarly and public debate in recent years, academic researchers have raised persistent concern that measurement issues have prevented a better understanding of the concept. This research introduces an item response theory (IRT) perspective to advance the state-of-the-art in media trust measurement beyond recent conceptual and analytical progress. I argue that standard survey instruments tha…
How News Audiences Allocate Trust in the Digital Age
The article enriches the understanding of trust in news at a time when mass and interpersonal communication have merged in the digital sphere. We propose disentangling individual-level patterns of trust allocation (i.e., trust figurations) across journalistic media, social media, and peers to reflect the multiplicity among modern news audiences. A latent class analysis of a representative survey among German young adults revealed four figurations…
Search Engine Use for Health-Related Purposes
Internet searches for health-related purposes are common, with search engines like Google being the most popular starting point. However, results on the popularity of health information-seeking behaviors are based on self-report data, often criticized for suffering from incomplete recall, overreporting, and low reliability. Therefore, the current study builds on user-centric tracking of Internet use to reveal how individuals actually behave onlin…
Facebook as an Avenue to News
Given that Facebook is still the most widely used social networking site in the world, its influence on democratic processes is under constant scrutiny. Academics have put a special focus on Facebook's role in inhibiting or enhancing citizens' news exposure. Recent studies using digital behavioral data have analyzed the prevalence and effects of "Facebook news referrals." Using a web tracking tool that captures general browsing behavior as well a…
Enriching research of parasocial experiences through better measurement of parasocial processing (PSP)
Amid growing scholarly calls highlighting the theoretical importance of parasocial processing (PSP) for enabling closer accounts of users’ cognitive, affective, and conative reactions to media characters, communication research lacks a comprehensive short survey instrument for capturing PSP. The article overcomes this gap by introducing the PSP Short Inventory – a parsimonious short-scale measuring PSP as a multifaceted concept with nine items. B…
Beyond time delays
Enhancing Participation in Web Tracking Studies Through Monetary Incentives
Web tracking studies provide unique insights into digital behavior but face challenges related to participant recruitment and attrition. This study examines how different monetary incentive structures—unconditional and conditional—and incentive amounts affect key recruitment stages: consent to participate in web tracking, installation of tracking software, and attrition after installation. To assess the effectiveness of monetary incentives across…
Two Forms of Media Distrust
The relationship between trust in the news media and news use has been studied extensively, yet findings remain inconsistent. We argue that a key source of this inconsistency is the conflation of two distinct forms of media distrust: skepticism and cynicism. Additionally, prior research largely relies on self-reported news use, which is prone to bias. To address both issues, we link survey data with web-tracking data from 739 participants during …
Social Media and Politics (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Internet privacy (5 works) · Media Influence and Politics (5 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 works) · News media (5 works) · Social media (5 works)