Dominique S Wirz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 277121 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dominique S Wirz |
| NOMBRES | Dominique S |
| APELLIDO | Wirz |
| FIRMA | WIRZ D S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2688-8506 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 343 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Binge-watching on TikTok vs Netflix
Watching short-form videos, such as those on TikTok, has become a widespread media habit, raising concerns about their potentially addictive nature. Similar concerns were previously discussed in relation to extensive TV series use on streaming platforms such as Netflix, commonly referred to as binge-watching. In this paper, we extend the definition of binge-watching to short form videos and investigate how experiences and outcomes differ between …
Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication
The entry explores the roles of media and communication in shaping a gendered political landscape. It examines two key subfields: media portrayal of women politicians, and women politicians as campaigners. The first part reviews gender bias in media reporting of politicians, including the amount and content of coverage. The second part delineates differences in campaign strategies of men and women politicians and how these affect voters. The fina…
Exploring Everyday Media Use
Parasocial interactions (PSIs) and relationships (PSRs) are prevalent in media use. They are influenced by media characters, viewers, the viewing situation, and combinations thereof. While characteristics of media characters and viewers have been studied extensively, little is known about the impact of situational factors tied to viewing sessions in viewers’ everyday media use. Situational factors potentially vary in each viewing situation. Espec…
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis
Bedtime media use is often maligned in research and pop culture. However, the evidence for the relationship between bedtime media use and sleep for adults has been mixed – sometimes sleep quality is negatively affected by media use, sometimes it is positively affected. Competing explanations include the sleep displacement hypothesis (i.e. media use leads to later sleep onset, less total sleep, and lower sleep quality) and the media recovery hypot…
A matter of perception? investigating subjective and objective exposure to hate speech with a survey and mobile longitudinal linkage study
An increasing number of media users report frequent encounters with hate speech on the internet. Content moderation is only effective when the applied criteria align with users’ perceptions of hate speech. To explore what media users perceive as hate speech and which factors influence this perception, we used a multi-methods approach. First, we conducted a survey with a representative sample of the Swiss population (N = 2000). Second, participant…
Intellectual television harms relaxation, games help us detach? Different attributes of bedtime media are associated with multiple types of recovery
People use media in a variety of ways, including as a tool for recovery after stress and strain. This study examines how different kinds of media can support recovery outcomes (like relaxation), and how guilt about media use can negatively impact the potential positive effects of use. This helps us better understand how people use media and which kinds of media may be most useful for self-regulation in daily life
Tracing Knowledge Gaps
The knowledge gap hypothesis—the assumption that an increasing flow of news on a topic fosters a gap in knowledge between the more and the less educated—has been demonstrated in numerous studies throughout the past 60 years. Knowledge gaps are attributed to individual differences in media selection and information processing capacities. However, it has been difficult to investigate the relative influence of selection and processing with conventio…
News usage on Instagram
Instagram is an increasingly important platform for news consumption. While initial research has examined the characteristics and types of news content on Instagram, little is known about its usage and evaluation. This study explores how adults in Switzerland who frequently use Instagram consume news on the platform; how often they encounter news and whether this is intentional or incidental, their motives for (not) following news accounts; their…
Infotainment on Social Media
Binge-watching to feel better
An Unholy Alliance? The Influence of Negative Emotions Elicited by Media Reports on the Persuasiveness of Populist Communication
Emotions play a crucial role in the success of populist actors and movements. The present study investigates whether populist actors can profit from emotions elicited by media content. We assume that populist claims are more persuasive than non-populist claims when experiencing negative emotions toward an issue and that citizens with strong populist attitudes are particularly susceptible to this persuasive process. In a 2 × 2 experiment ( N = 475…
Boundaries on a binge
Binge-watching is often studied in research, and discussed in lay writings, under the assumption that it is a maladaptive and problematic behavior. However, as with all media use, there are circumstances in which binge-watching may be functional for an individual. This paper explores the role of intentionality-defined as the extent to which a viewing session was planned and executed as planned-in differentiating problematic from unproblematic bin…
The role of cliffhangers in serial entertainment
Parasocial relationships with morally ambiguous media characters – the role of moral foundations
Parasocial relationships are examined in diverse contexts and with various media characters, from news presenters to fictional movie heroes. A popular character trope in recent productions is the morally ambiguous media character (MAC). MACs disrupt the dichotomy between hero and villain, simultaneously exhibiting moral and immoral behavior. MACs attracted the attention of researchers, but little is known about parasocial relationships with them.…
Appraisal patterns as predictors of emotional expressions and shares on political social networking sites
Emotions are considered important drivers of the diffusion of messages on social networking sites. Therefore, emotion-eliciting political communication yields the potential to reach broad audiences and to influence citizens’ attitudes and behavior. In this study, we investigate message characteristics that potentially trigger emotional reactions on part of the users of political social networking pages and test if this fosters the diffusion of po…
The Effects of Populist Identity Framing on Populist Attitudes Across Europe
We investigate the effects of populist messages that (a) stress the centrality of “ordinary” people, (b) shift blame to the “corrupt” elites, or (c) combine people centrality and antielitist cues on 3 dimensions of populist attitudes: anti-elitism, homogeneous people, and popular sovereignty. We conducted an extensive 15-country experiment in which we manipulated populist communication as social identity frames (N = 7,271). Multilevel analyses de…
Measuring Populism across Nations
The rising voter support for populist parties in Western Democracies in recent years has incited academic interest in populist voters and attitudes connected to the voting propensity of populist actors. In line of this research, numerous scales to measure populist attitudes among voters have been proposed. In most cases, however, the measurement of populist attitudes was tailored to specific countries and its applicability to cross-national resea…
Populist and Popular
Populist politicians are often associated with the successful use of social networking sites (SNS). However, it is still unclear whether the popularity of populist posts is driven by the nature of the messages, by the populist actors as the source, or by the interaction of both factors. By following a 2 × 2 experimental design ( N = 647) and by manipulating populist versus nonpopulist messages in a Facebook post and a typically populist versus ma…
Does consistency matter? Perception and persuasiveness of value appeals in populist communication
Does consistency matter? Perception and persuasiveness of value appeals in populist communication
Although research has shown that political actors benefit from appealing to values that resonate with their audience's preferences, it remains an open question to what extent this can be exploited. How do individuals react to value appeals that are inconsistent with the communicator's value reputation? This paper examines this question in the context of right-wing populist parties, who are strongly associated with conservation values. In two expe…
The Effects of Right-Wing Populist Communication on Emotions and Cognitions toward Immigrants
The persuasiveness of right-wing populist communication has become a widely discussed topic; it is often assumed that such messages might foster anti-immigrant attitudes among citizens. The present study explores the effects of the different components of right-wing populist communication—anti-immigrant messages, populist content, and populist style—on attitudes toward immigrants. By combining a media content analysis ( N = 605 articles) with a p…
News Media as Gatekeepers, Critics, and Initiators of Populist Communication
In the wake of the recent successes of populist political actors and discussions about its causes in Europe, the contribution of the media has become an issue of public debate. We identify three roles—as gatekeepers, interpreters, and initiators—the media can assume in their coverage of populist actors, populist ideology, and populist communication. A comparative content analysis of nine thousand stories from fifty-nine news outlets in ten Europe…
The Polarizing Impact of News Coverage on Populist Attitudes in the Public
This study explores how news messages carrying parts of the populist ideology contribute to a polarization of public opinion about populism. It combines a content analysis of news coverage on two policy areas (N = 7,119 stories) with a two-wave panel survey (N = 2,338) in four European metropolitan regions (Berlin, Paris, London, and Zurich). In three regions, unopposed media messages with a populist stance have a conditional effect on populist a…
Measuring Populist Attitudes on Three Dimensions
Theoretically, populism has been conceptualized as a political ideology with three sub-dimensions: anti-elitism attitudes, a preference for popular sovereignty, and a belief in the homogeneity and virtuousness of the people. However, empirical research to date has treated populist attitudes as a unidimensional construct. To address this issue, we propose to conceptualize populist attitudes as a latent higher-order construct with three distinct fi…
Measuring Populist Attitudes on Three Dimensions
Theoretically, populism has been conceptualized as a political ideology with three sub-dimensions: anti-elitism attitudes, a preference for popular sovereignty, and a belief in the homogeneity and virtuousness of the people. However, empirical research to date has treated populist attitudes as a unidimensional construct. To address this issue, we propose to conceptualize populist attitudes as a latent higher-order construct with three distinct fi…
The Polarizing Impact of News Coverage on Populist Attitudes in the Public
This study explores how news messages carrying parts of the populist ideology contribute to a polarization of public opinion about populism. It combines a content analysis of news coverage on two policy areas (N = 7,119 stories) with a two-wave panel survey (N = 2,338) in four European metropolitan regions (Berlin, Paris, London, and Zurich). In three regions, unopposed media messages with a populist stance have a conditional effect on populist a…
The Effects of Right-Wing Populist Communication on Emotions and Cognitions toward Immigrants
The persuasiveness of right-wing populist communication has become a widely discussed topic; it is often assumed that such messages might foster anti-immigrant attitudes among citizens. The present study explores the effects of the different components of right-wing populist communication—anti-immigrant messages, populist content, and populist style—on attitudes toward immigrants. By combining a media content analysis ( N = 605 articles) with a p…
The Effects of Populist Identity Framing on Populist Attitudes Across Europe
We investigate the effects of populist messages that (a) stress the centrality of “ordinary” people, (b) shift blame to the “corrupt” elites, or (c) combine people centrality and antielitist cues on 3 dimensions of populist attitudes: anti-elitism, homogeneous people, and popular sovereignty. We conducted an extensive 15-country experiment in which we manipulated populist communication as social identity frames (N = 7,271). Multilevel analyses de…
News Media as Gatekeepers, Critics, and Initiators of Populist Communication
In the wake of the recent successes of populist political actors and discussions about its causes in Europe, the contribution of the media has become an issue of public debate. We identify three roles—as gatekeepers, interpreters, and initiators—the media can assume in their coverage of populist actors, populist ideology, and populist communication. A comparative content analysis of nine thousand stories from fifty-nine news outlets in ten Europe…
Measuring Populism across Nations
The rising voter support for populist parties in Western Democracies in recent years has incited academic interest in populist voters and attitudes connected to the voting propensity of populist actors. In line of this research, numerous scales to measure populist attitudes among voters have been proposed. In most cases, however, the measurement of populist attitudes was tailored to specific countries and its applicability to cross-national resea…
Does consistency matter? Perception and persuasiveness of value appeals in populist communication
Although research has shown that political actors benefit from appealing to values that resonate with their audience's preferences, it remains an open question to what extent this can be exploited. How do individuals react to value appeals that are inconsistent with the communicator's value reputation? This paper examines this question in the context of right-wing populist parties, who are strongly associated with conservation values. In two expe…
Infotainment on Social Media
Boundaries on a binge
Binge-watching is often studied in research, and discussed in lay writings, under the assumption that it is a maladaptive and problematic behavior. However, as with all media use, there are circumstances in which binge-watching may be functional for an individual. This paper explores the role of intentionality-defined as the extent to which a viewing session was planned and executed as planned-in differentiating problematic from unproblematic bin…
Populist and Popular
Populist politicians are often associated with the successful use of social networking sites (SNS). However, it is still unclear whether the popularity of populist posts is driven by the nature of the messages, by the populist actors as the source, or by the interaction of both factors. By following a 2 × 2 experimental design ( N = 647) and by manipulating populist versus nonpopulist messages in a Facebook post and a typically populist versus ma…
Parasocial relationships with morally ambiguous media characters – the role of moral foundations
Parasocial relationships are examined in diverse contexts and with various media characters, from news presenters to fictional movie heroes. A popular character trope in recent productions is the morally ambiguous media character (MAC). MACs disrupt the dichotomy between hero and villain, simultaneously exhibiting moral and immoral behavior. MACs attracted the attention of researchers, but little is known about parasocial relationships with them.…
Measuring Populist Attitudes on Three Dimensions
Theoretically, populism has been conceptualized as a political ideology with three sub-dimensions: anti-elitism attitudes, a preference for popular sovereignty, and a belief in the homogeneity and virtuousness of the people. However, empirical research to date has treated populist attitudes as a unidimensional construct. To address this issue, we propose to conceptualize populist attitudes as a latent higher-order construct with three distinct fi…
The Polarizing Impact of News Coverage on Populist Attitudes in the Public
This study explores how news messages carrying parts of the populist ideology contribute to a polarization of public opinion about populism. It combines a content analysis of news coverage on two policy areas (N = 7,119 stories) with a two-wave panel survey (N = 2,338) in four European metropolitan regions (Berlin, Paris, London, and Zurich). In three regions, unopposed media messages with a populist stance have a conditional effect on populist a…
Does consistency matter? Perception and persuasiveness of value appeals in populist communication
Does consistency matter? Perception and persuasiveness of value appeals in populist communication
Although research has shown that political actors benefit from appealing to values that resonate with their audience's preferences, it remains an open question to what extent this can be exploited. How do individuals react to value appeals that are inconsistent with the communicator's value reputation? This paper examines this question in the context of right-wing populist parties, who are strongly associated with conservation values. In two expe…
The Effects of Right-Wing Populist Communication on Emotions and Cognitions toward Immigrants
The persuasiveness of right-wing populist communication has become a widely discussed topic; it is often assumed that such messages might foster anti-immigrant attitudes among citizens. The present study explores the effects of the different components of right-wing populist communication—anti-immigrant messages, populist content, and populist style—on attitudes toward immigrants. By combining a media content analysis ( N = 605 articles) with a p…
News Media as Gatekeepers, Critics, and Initiators of Populist Communication
In the wake of the recent successes of populist political actors and discussions about its causes in Europe, the contribution of the media has become an issue of public debate. We identify three roles—as gatekeepers, interpreters, and initiators—the media can assume in their coverage of populist actors, populist ideology, and populist communication. A comparative content analysis of nine thousand stories from fifty-nine news outlets in ten Europe…
Measuring Populism across Nations
The rising voter support for populist parties in Western Democracies in recent years has incited academic interest in populist voters and attitudes connected to the voting propensity of populist actors. In line of this research, numerous scales to measure populist attitudes among voters have been proposed. In most cases, however, the measurement of populist attitudes was tailored to specific countries and its applicability to cross-national resea…
Populist and Popular
Populist politicians are often associated with the successful use of social networking sites (SNS). However, it is still unclear whether the popularity of populist posts is driven by the nature of the messages, by the populist actors as the source, or by the interaction of both factors. By following a 2 × 2 experimental design ( N = 647) and by manipulating populist versus nonpopulist messages in a Facebook post and a typically populist versus ma…
The Effects of Populist Identity Framing on Populist Attitudes Across Europe
We investigate the effects of populist messages that (a) stress the centrality of “ordinary” people, (b) shift blame to the “corrupt” elites, or (c) combine people centrality and antielitist cues on 3 dimensions of populist attitudes: anti-elitism, homogeneous people, and popular sovereignty. We conducted an extensive 15-country experiment in which we manipulated populist communication as social identity frames (N = 7,271). Multilevel analyses de…
Appraisal patterns as predictors of emotional expressions and shares on political social networking sites
Emotions are considered important drivers of the diffusion of messages on social networking sites. Therefore, emotion-eliciting political communication yields the potential to reach broad audiences and to influence citizens’ attitudes and behavior. In this study, we investigate message characteristics that potentially trigger emotional reactions on part of the users of political social networking pages and test if this fosters the diffusion of po…
The role of cliffhangers in serial entertainment
Parasocial relationships with morally ambiguous media characters – the role of moral foundations
Parasocial relationships are examined in diverse contexts and with various media characters, from news presenters to fictional movie heroes. A popular character trope in recent productions is the morally ambiguous media character (MAC). MACs disrupt the dichotomy between hero and villain, simultaneously exhibiting moral and immoral behavior. MACs attracted the attention of researchers, but little is known about parasocial relationships with them.…
Binge-watching to feel better
An Unholy Alliance? The Influence of Negative Emotions Elicited by Media Reports on the Persuasiveness of Populist Communication
Emotions play a crucial role in the success of populist actors and movements. The present study investigates whether populist actors can profit from emotions elicited by media content. We assume that populist claims are more persuasive than non-populist claims when experiencing negative emotions toward an issue and that citizens with strong populist attitudes are particularly susceptible to this persuasive process. In a 2 × 2 experiment ( N = 475…
Boundaries on a binge
Binge-watching is often studied in research, and discussed in lay writings, under the assumption that it is a maladaptive and problematic behavior. However, as with all media use, there are circumstances in which binge-watching may be functional for an individual. This paper explores the role of intentionality-defined as the extent to which a viewing session was planned and executed as planned-in differentiating problematic from unproblematic bin…
Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication
The entry explores the roles of media and communication in shaping a gendered political landscape. It examines two key subfields: media portrayal of women politicians, and women politicians as campaigners. The first part reviews gender bias in media reporting of politicians, including the amount and content of coverage. The second part delineates differences in campaign strategies of men and women politicians and how these affect voters. The fina…
Exploring Everyday Media Use
Parasocial interactions (PSIs) and relationships (PSRs) are prevalent in media use. They are influenced by media characters, viewers, the viewing situation, and combinations thereof. While characteristics of media characters and viewers have been studied extensively, little is known about the impact of situational factors tied to viewing sessions in viewers’ everyday media use. Situational factors potentially vary in each viewing situation. Espec…
Is Bedtime Media Use Good or Bad? A Competitive Analysis Between the Sleep Displacement Hypothesis and the Media Recovery Hypothesis
Bedtime media use is often maligned in research and pop culture. However, the evidence for the relationship between bedtime media use and sleep for adults has been mixed – sometimes sleep quality is negatively affected by media use, sometimes it is positively affected. Competing explanations include the sleep displacement hypothesis (i.e. media use leads to later sleep onset, less total sleep, and lower sleep quality) and the media recovery hypot…
A matter of perception? investigating subjective and objective exposure to hate speech with a survey and mobile longitudinal linkage study
An increasing number of media users report frequent encounters with hate speech on the internet. Content moderation is only effective when the applied criteria align with users’ perceptions of hate speech. To explore what media users perceive as hate speech and which factors influence this perception, we used a multi-methods approach. First, we conducted a survey with a representative sample of the Swiss population (N = 2000). Second, participant…
Intellectual television harms relaxation, games help us detach? Different attributes of bedtime media are associated with multiple types of recovery
People use media in a variety of ways, including as a tool for recovery after stress and strain. This study examines how different kinds of media can support recovery outcomes (like relaxation), and how guilt about media use can negatively impact the potential positive effects of use. This helps us better understand how people use media and which kinds of media may be most useful for self-regulation in daily life
Tracing Knowledge Gaps
The knowledge gap hypothesis—the assumption that an increasing flow of news on a topic fosters a gap in knowledge between the more and the less educated—has been demonstrated in numerous studies throughout the past 60 years. Knowledge gaps are attributed to individual differences in media selection and information processing capacities. However, it has been difficult to investigate the relative influence of selection and processing with conventio…
News usage on Instagram
Instagram is an increasingly important platform for news consumption. While initial research has examined the characteristics and types of news content on Instagram, little is known about its usage and evaluation. This study explores how adults in Switzerland who frequently use Instagram consume news on the platform; how often they encounter news and whether this is intentional or incidental, their motives for (not) following news accounts; their…
Infotainment on Social Media
Binge-watching on TikTok vs Netflix
Watching short-form videos, such as those on TikTok, has become a widespread media habit, raising concerns about their potentially addictive nature. Similar concerns were previously discussed in relation to extensive TV series use on streaming platforms such as Netflix, commonly referred to as binge-watching. In this paper, we extend the definition of binge-watching to short form videos and investigate how experiences and outcomes differ between …
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