Christian Schwarzenegger
Biographic Data
| ID | 245191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Schwarzenegger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwarzenegger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARZENEGGER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Augsburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1118-9948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Students Assess and Sanction Hypothetical Plagiarism Cases: A Vignette Study Approach
The digitalization of higher education has heightened the urgency for universities to address and penalize instances of plagiarism effectively. Previous studies have often relied on surveys to assess students’ attitudes towards plagiarism. However, questionnaires may suffer from social desirability bias and need to oversimplify the complex, context-dependent nature of plagiarism. This study employs a vignette study approach to examine how 2,043 s…
Beyond Play: Researching the Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in Deeply Mediatized Societies
Digital gaming has evolved from a peripheral activity to a central aspect of mediatized lifeworlds, significantly impacting media culture and society. Despite its pervasive influence, digital gaming research often occupies a marginalized status within broader academic disciplines. This article advocates for recognizing digital gaming as an integral part of the media landscape and understanding its role within a deeply mediatized society. By adopt…
Historical figures on Instagram: A typology of themes and modes of representation
Following the notion that a greater variety of actors can engage in practices of memory work, the aim of our study is to understand how the polyphony of memory evolves in social media networks. We thus conducted an explorative study of accounts for historical figures on Instagram. The accounts were analysed regarding their thematic accentuations, the kind of material employed and presented, the level of professionalism and the social media authen…
Fachtagung Bedrohungsmanagement - Umsetzung Istanbul-Konvention - Tagungsband 2022
Für die Umsetzung des Übereinkommens des Europarates zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung von Gewalt gegen Frauen und häuslicher Gewalt (Istanbul-Konvention) hat der Regierungsrat des Kantons Zürich in einem separaten Beschluss die prioritär umzusetzenden Massnahmen für den Kanton Zürich festgelegt. Der Interventionsstelle gegen Häusliche Gewalt, welche innerhalb der Präventionsabteilung bei der Kantonspolizei Zürich angesiedelt ist, obliegt die übergeor…
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices
Alternative media are more recently discussed as anti-democratic threats rather than hopeful alternatives to established mainstream positions. Despite the growing attention to anti-system alternative media in communication research, knowledge about the users of these media is still limited. In this article, a qualitative approach is used to explore alternative media users’ motives and practices as well as the role these media play in their overal…
Historizing international organizations and their communication – institutions, practices, changes
The Thematic Section focuses on a topic that has thus far received little attention from communication and media researchers: the history of international organizations and their communication. Since the second half of the 19th century, for numerous and diverse areas of social life, globally active international organizations of varying degrees of institutionalization and scope, both non-governmental and intergovernmental, have been founded and h…
Media persistence: Theories, approaches, categorization
Despite the fact that new media are continually seen as “natural born killers” of old media, old media rarely die and very often persist. In what is alternately called the “age of the Internet,” the “digital revolution,” the “metaverse,” the era of “artificial intelligence,” old media such as books, cinema, radio, television, analogue photography, and several others are still in use. Moreover, there is a kind of re-emergence of “the analogue” in …
Media and the Dissemination of Fear: Pandemics, Wars and Political Intimidation
Recordings of digital media life: Advancing (qualitative) media diaries as a method
In times of digitalization, analyzing the highly complex media practices and mediated life worlds of individuals has become highly challenging, both in theoretical and methodological terms. From an empirical point of view, diary methods, and particularly qualitative (media) diaries, bear a great potential to gain access to these media practices and analyze them within the contexts of people’s everyday lives. In this article, we propose that it is…
Creating opportunities for temporary disconnection: How tourism professionals provide alternatives to being permanently online
The ongoing normalization of digital connection has also increased the interest in digital disconnection research. The desire to disconnect is typically considered a critical reaction to the peculiar affordances and prerequisites of fully participating in digital society. While social and political potentials of disconnections as well as reasons to turn away from media are explored in various trajectories, we still know relatively little about th…
Communities of Darkness? Users and Uses of Anti-System Alternative Media between Audience and Community
The hopes regarding the positive impact of the Internet and digital participation in civic society have faded in recent years. The digital realm is now increasingly discussed regarding its role in putting democracy in jeopardy and polarizing public debate by propagating extremist views and falsehoods. Likewise, the perception of so-called alternative media as beneficial carriers of counter-public spheres and as important complements to mainstream…
Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age
As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concep…
Media and the Dissemination of Fear: Pandemics, Wars and Political Intimidation
When the ‘Messiah’ went to ‘Mecca’: Envisioning and reporting the digital future at the CeBIT tech fair (1986–2018)
At consumer and tech fairs, the future of digital technologies has always been imagined. In this study, we investigate how the annual CeBIT tech fair (held in Hanover, Germany, from 1986 to 2018) and a keynote speech given there by Bill Gates in 1995 have been constructed, framed, and substantiated through media coverage and in mediated memory. Thanks to a qualitative content analysis, based on more than 500 articles published in general interest…
Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten in der Kommunikationswissenschaft – AG Forschungsdaten im Auftrag des Vorstands der DGPuK
Forschungsdaten sind das primäre Produkt empirischer Studien und die zentrale Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis. Ihre langfristige Sicherung und Bereitstellung zur intersubjektiven Nachvollziehbarkeit und damit zur Qualitätssicherung sollte daher in allen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen unterstützt werden. Entsprechend hat die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2016 die sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaften in Deutschland aufgefordert, si…
Personal epistemologies of the media: Selective criticality, pragmatic trust, and competence–confidence in navigating media repertoires in the digital age
While the perils of social media, fake news, and an alleged distrust in legacy media have attained considerable public attention, the implications of these public narratives for their audiences have remained understudied. The aim of this article is to identify consequences of an emerged “fake news and post truth-era-narrative” for media users’ personal epistemologies, media beliefs, and news navigation practices from a media repertoire perspectiv…
Academic traditions in communication: Expanding the field and redrawing the boundaries. Ecrea 2018 special panel report
The main conference topic for the ECREA conference in Lugano addressed the many ways in which centers, cores and peripheries, and also mainstreams and alternatives are dealt with in academic media and communication research. The premise of this panel was to apply this general outline of the conference for academic introspection and to recount the many shifting centers and peripheries of communication research over time and discuss the redrawing o…
On the relativity of old and new media: A lifeworld perspective
It is an old, yet, accurate observation that the ‘newness’ of media is and most probably will continue to be a catalyst for research in media and communication studies. At the same time, there are numerous academic voices who stress that studying media change demands an awareness of the complexities at play interweaving the new with the old and the changes with the continuities. Over the last decades, compelling theoretical approaches and concept…
Can it be hate if it is fun? Discursive ensembles of hatred and laughter in extreme right satire on Facebook
Schwarzenegger C, Wagner A. Can it be hate if it is fun? Discursive ensembles of hatred and laughter in extreme right satire on Facebook. Studies in Communication | Media . 2018;7(4):473-498
A Century of Journalism History as Challenge: Digital archives, sources, and methods
Approaching journalism history through digital archives, digital sources, and digital methods is a demanding task for media historians, but also offers prospects. We explore some of the challenges and potential benefits in the light of a concrete research project that investigates journalism history in Germany from 1914 to 2014. The project focuses on the development of journalistic news storytelling following the inverted pyramid model. This pap…
Technological determinism and social change: Communication in a tech-mad world
"No media, less life?" Online disconnection in mediatized worlds
In times when media are mundane fellows that are disappearing from our consciousness; when media usage is partly habitualized and therefore invisible, looking at disconnections rather than exclusively connection enables us to develop a deeper understanding of what it means to live in mediatized worlds. Media disconnection beyond digital divide and knowledge gap is, however, rarely addressed in current studies of mediatization. This paper is an at…
A Movement of Connected Individuals: Social media in the Austrian student protests 2009
The participants of the ‘unibrennt’ (‘university is burning’) protest movement, which saw the occupation of Vienna's largest lecture hall by students in October 2009, used social media such as Twitter and Facebook to a large extent. Communication, thus, was anchored in the participants' interconnected individual and personal (online) networks, so both in- and out-group communication took place within a media space that is referred to as networked…
Personal epistemologies of the media: Selective criticality, pragmatic trust, and competence–confidence in navigating media repertoires in the digital age
While the perils of social media, fake news, and an alleged distrust in legacy media have attained considerable public attention, the implications of these public narratives for their audiences have remained understudied. The aim of this article is to identify consequences of an emerged “fake news and post truth-era-narrative” for media users’ personal epistemologies, media beliefs, and news navigation practices from a media repertoire perspectiv…
On the relativity of old and new media: A lifeworld perspective
It is an old, yet, accurate observation that the ‘newness’ of media is and most probably will continue to be a catalyst for research in media and communication studies. At the same time, there are numerous academic voices who stress that studying media change demands an awareness of the complexities at play interweaving the new with the old and the changes with the continuities. Over the last decades, compelling theoretical approaches and concept…
Can it be hate if it is fun? Discursive ensembles of hatred and laughter in extreme right satire on Facebook
Schwarzenegger C, Wagner A. Can it be hate if it is fun? Discursive ensembles of hatred and laughter in extreme right satire on Facebook. Studies in Communication | Media . 2018;7(4):473-498
A Century of Journalism History as Challenge: Digital archives, sources, and methods
Approaching journalism history through digital archives, digital sources, and digital methods is a demanding task for media historians, but also offers prospects. We explore some of the challenges and potential benefits in the light of a concrete research project that investigates journalism history in Germany from 1914 to 2014. The project focuses on the development of journalistic news storytelling following the inverted pyramid model. This pap…
Recordings of digital media life: Advancing (qualitative) media diaries as a method
In times of digitalization, analyzing the highly complex media practices and mediated life worlds of individuals has become highly challenging, both in theoretical and methodological terms. From an empirical point of view, diary methods, and particularly qualitative (media) diaries, bear a great potential to gain access to these media practices and analyze them within the contexts of people’s everyday lives. In this article, we propose that it is…
How Students Assess and Sanction Hypothetical Plagiarism Cases: A Vignette Study Approach
The digitalization of higher education has heightened the urgency for universities to address and penalize instances of plagiarism effectively. Previous studies have often relied on surveys to assess students’ attitudes towards plagiarism. However, questionnaires may suffer from social desirability bias and need to oversimplify the complex, context-dependent nature of plagiarism. This study employs a vignette study approach to examine how 2,043 s…
Media persistence: Theories, approaches, categorization
Despite the fact that new media are continually seen as “natural born killers” of old media, old media rarely die and very often persist. In what is alternately called the “age of the Internet,” the “digital revolution,” the “metaverse,” the era of “artificial intelligence,” old media such as books, cinema, radio, television, analogue photography, and several others are still in use. Moreover, there is a kind of re-emergence of “the analogue” in …
Historical figures on Instagram: A typology of themes and modes of representation
Following the notion that a greater variety of actors can engage in practices of memory work, the aim of our study is to understand how the polyphony of memory evolves in social media networks. We thus conducted an explorative study of accounts for historical figures on Instagram. The accounts were analysed regarding their thematic accentuations, the kind of material employed and presented, the level of professionalism and the social media authen…
Academic traditions in communication: Expanding the field and redrawing the boundaries. Ecrea 2018 special panel report
The main conference topic for the ECREA conference in Lugano addressed the many ways in which centers, cores and peripheries, and also mainstreams and alternatives are dealt with in academic media and communication research. The premise of this panel was to apply this general outline of the conference for academic introspection and to recount the many shifting centers and peripheries of communication research over time and discuss the redrawing o…
Technological determinism and social change: Communication in a tech-mad world
A Movement of Connected Individuals: Social media in the Austrian student protests 2009
The participants of the ‘unibrennt’ (‘university is burning’) protest movement, which saw the occupation of Vienna's largest lecture hall by students in October 2009, used social media such as Twitter and Facebook to a large extent. Communication, thus, was anchored in the participants' interconnected individual and personal (online) networks, so both in- and out-group communication took place within a media space that is referred to as networked…
"No media, less life?" Online disconnection in mediatized worlds
In times when media are mundane fellows that are disappearing from our consciousness; when media usage is partly habitualized and therefore invisible, looking at disconnections rather than exclusively connection enables us to develop a deeper understanding of what it means to live in mediatized worlds. Media disconnection beyond digital divide and knowledge gap is, however, rarely addressed in current studies of mediatization. This paper is an at…
Technological determinism and social change: Communication in a tech-mad world
Can it be hate if it is fun? Discursive ensembles of hatred and laughter in extreme right satire on Facebook
Schwarzenegger C, Wagner A. Can it be hate if it is fun? Discursive ensembles of hatred and laughter in extreme right satire on Facebook. Studies in Communication | Media . 2018;7(4):473-498
A Century of Journalism History as Challenge: Digital archives, sources, and methods
Approaching journalism history through digital archives, digital sources, and digital methods is a demanding task for media historians, but also offers prospects. We explore some of the challenges and potential benefits in the light of a concrete research project that investigates journalism history in Germany from 1914 to 2014. The project focuses on the development of journalistic news storytelling following the inverted pyramid model. This pap…
On the relativity of old and new media: A lifeworld perspective
It is an old, yet, accurate observation that the ‘newness’ of media is and most probably will continue to be a catalyst for research in media and communication studies. At the same time, there are numerous academic voices who stress that studying media change demands an awareness of the complexities at play interweaving the new with the old and the changes with the continuities. Over the last decades, compelling theoretical approaches and concept…
When the ‘Messiah’ went to ‘Mecca’: Envisioning and reporting the digital future at the CeBIT tech fair (1986–2018)
At consumer and tech fairs, the future of digital technologies has always been imagined. In this study, we investigate how the annual CeBIT tech fair (held in Hanover, Germany, from 1986 to 2018) and a keynote speech given there by Bill Gates in 1995 have been constructed, framed, and substantiated through media coverage and in mediated memory. Thanks to a qualitative content analysis, based on more than 500 articles published in general interest…
Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit Forschungsdaten in der Kommunikationswissenschaft – AG Forschungsdaten im Auftrag des Vorstands der DGPuK
Forschungsdaten sind das primäre Produkt empirischer Studien und die zentrale Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis. Ihre langfristige Sicherung und Bereitstellung zur intersubjektiven Nachvollziehbarkeit und damit zur Qualitätssicherung sollte daher in allen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen unterstützt werden. Entsprechend hat die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2016 die sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachgesellschaften in Deutschland aufgefordert, si…
Personal epistemologies of the media: Selective criticality, pragmatic trust, and competence–confidence in navigating media repertoires in the digital age
While the perils of social media, fake news, and an alleged distrust in legacy media have attained considerable public attention, the implications of these public narratives for their audiences have remained understudied. The aim of this article is to identify consequences of an emerged “fake news and post truth-era-narrative” for media users’ personal epistemologies, media beliefs, and news navigation practices from a media repertoire perspectiv…
Academic traditions in communication: Expanding the field and redrawing the boundaries. Ecrea 2018 special panel report
The main conference topic for the ECREA conference in Lugano addressed the many ways in which centers, cores and peripheries, and also mainstreams and alternatives are dealt with in academic media and communication research. The premise of this panel was to apply this general outline of the conference for academic introspection and to recount the many shifting centers and peripheries of communication research over time and discuss the redrawing o…
Creating opportunities for temporary disconnection: How tourism professionals provide alternatives to being permanently online
The ongoing normalization of digital connection has also increased the interest in digital disconnection research. The desire to disconnect is typically considered a critical reaction to the peculiar affordances and prerequisites of fully participating in digital society. While social and political potentials of disconnections as well as reasons to turn away from media are explored in various trajectories, we still know relatively little about th…
Communities of Darkness? Users and Uses of Anti-System Alternative Media between Audience and Community
The hopes regarding the positive impact of the Internet and digital participation in civic society have faded in recent years. The digital realm is now increasingly discussed regarding its role in putting democracy in jeopardy and polarizing public debate by propagating extremist views and falsehoods. Likewise, the perception of so-called alternative media as beneficial carriers of counter-public spheres and as important complements to mainstream…
Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age
As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed and still are constantly changing in the digital era. Written by leading authors in media and communication studies, the chapters historicize 16 concep…
Media and the Dissemination of Fear: Pandemics, Wars and Political Intimidation
Media and the Dissemination of Fear: Pandemics, Wars and Political Intimidation
Recordings of digital media life: Advancing (qualitative) media diaries as a method
In times of digitalization, analyzing the highly complex media practices and mediated life worlds of individuals has become highly challenging, both in theoretical and methodological terms. From an empirical point of view, diary methods, and particularly qualitative (media) diaries, bear a great potential to gain access to these media practices and analyze them within the contexts of people’s everyday lives. In this article, we propose that it is…
Fachtagung Bedrohungsmanagement - Umsetzung Istanbul-Konvention - Tagungsband 2022
Für die Umsetzung des Übereinkommens des Europarates zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung von Gewalt gegen Frauen und häuslicher Gewalt (Istanbul-Konvention) hat der Regierungsrat des Kantons Zürich in einem separaten Beschluss die prioritär umzusetzenden Massnahmen für den Kanton Zürich festgelegt. Der Interventionsstelle gegen Häusliche Gewalt, welche innerhalb der Präventionsabteilung bei der Kantonspolizei Zürich angesiedelt ist, obliegt die übergeor…
Understanding the Users of Alternative News Media—Media Epistemologies, News Consumption, and Media Practices
Alternative media are more recently discussed as anti-democratic threats rather than hopeful alternatives to established mainstream positions. Despite the growing attention to anti-system alternative media in communication research, knowledge about the users of these media is still limited. In this article, a qualitative approach is used to explore alternative media users’ motives and practices as well as the role these media play in their overal…
Historizing international organizations and their communication – institutions, practices, changes
The Thematic Section focuses on a topic that has thus far received little attention from communication and media researchers: the history of international organizations and their communication. Since the second half of the 19th century, for numerous and diverse areas of social life, globally active international organizations of varying degrees of institutionalization and scope, both non-governmental and intergovernmental, have been founded and h…
Media persistence: Theories, approaches, categorization
Despite the fact that new media are continually seen as “natural born killers” of old media, old media rarely die and very often persist. In what is alternately called the “age of the Internet,” the “digital revolution,” the “metaverse,” the era of “artificial intelligence,” old media such as books, cinema, radio, television, analogue photography, and several others are still in use. Moreover, there is a kind of re-emergence of “the analogue” in …
Beyond Play: Researching the Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in Deeply Mediatized Societies
Digital gaming has evolved from a peripheral activity to a central aspect of mediatized lifeworlds, significantly impacting media culture and society. Despite its pervasive influence, digital gaming research often occupies a marginalized status within broader academic disciplines. This article advocates for recognizing digital gaming as an integral part of the media landscape and understanding its role within a deeply mediatized society. By adopt…
Historical figures on Instagram: A typology of themes and modes of representation
Following the notion that a greater variety of actors can engage in practices of memory work, the aim of our study is to understand how the polyphony of memory evolves in social media networks. We thus conducted an explorative study of accounts for historical figures on Instagram. The accounts were analysed regarding their thematic accentuations, the kind of material employed and presented, the level of professionalism and the social media authen…
How Students Assess and Sanction Hypothetical Plagiarism Cases: A Vignette Study Approach
The digitalization of higher education has heightened the urgency for universities to address and penalize instances of plagiarism effectively. Previous studies have often relied on surveys to assess students’ attitudes towards plagiarism. However, questionnaires may suffer from social desirability bias and need to oversimplify the complex, context-dependent nature of plagiarism. This study employs a vignette study approach to examine how 2,043 s…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Digital media (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works)