Frank Marcinkowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 292076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Marcinkowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Marcinkowski |
| SIGNATURE | MARCINKOWSKI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6497-9324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Trust undone: How Covid-19 coverage shaped scientists’ trust in journalism and their willingness to engage with the media
This study explores how scientists' experiences during the pandemic influenced their trust in journalism and their willingness to engage with the media. The study employed a survey approach, collecting data from 4089 scientists affiliated with German universities and research institutions. Trust in journalism was measured across five dimensions: appropriate topic selection, accurate representation, proper fact selection, fair assessment, and desi…
Rethinking Rationality. Scientists’ Perspectives on Health Communication After the Covid-19 Pandemic
4,207 researchers at German universities and research institutions, our findings indicate that negative perceptions of how politicians and journalists treated scientists diminished their assessment of public communication as a rational endeavor, leading to decreased willingness to communicate, particularly regarding self-interested motives
Flight or fight? - How the coronavirus pandemic has affected scientists’ willingness to engage with the public
During the coronavirus pandemic, scientists who worked to overcome the outbreak received recognition, but also opposition and even hostility. This article examines how the experience of the pandemic has affected the willingness of scientists to engage with the public. Derived from a comprehensive survey of 4207 scientists at German universities and research institutions, animosity towards scientists during the pandemic has created a sense of inse…
Use Matters: How Different Ways of Using ChatGPT Drive AI Acceptance and Solutionism
Artificial intelligence is central to solutionism—the vision of a world where all major problems are solved through technology. This study theorizes about how human–AI communication shapes attitudes toward AI and influences the formation of public opinion, sparking solutionist imaginaries. We empirically examine the attitude formation resulting from the non-simulated use of an unmanipulated conversational model in a controlled laboratory experime…
Populism and the scales of statehood. Localism and populist attitudes in Western Europe
The rise of populism in Western Europe is often portrayed as a reaction to globalisation and supra-national integration processes. However, the domestic-international divide is only one aspect of the scalar organisation of government. In this article, we explore the relationship between populist attitudes and orientations towards state scales more generally. Drawing on a representative survey of 4033 citizens in Britain, France, Germany and Switz…
The Matrix of AI Agency: On the Demarcation Problem in Social Theory
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) make the question of machine agency a pressing matter. Contrary to the idea that agency is the inherent quality of a system, we argue that agency should be seen as a social status, or more precisely, a socially granted license to issue actions that is acquired and monitored in social practices. From this perspective, we develop criteria for the theoretical demarcation of agents and nonagents to …
The Communication Function of Universities: Is There a Place for Science Communication
This article offers a view on the emerging practice of managing external relations of the modern university, and the role of science communication in this. With a representative sample of research universities in four countries, we seek to broaden our understanding of the science communication (SC) function and its niche within the modern university. We distinguish science communication from corporate communication functions and examine how they …
Fairness perceptions of algorithmic decision-making: A systematic review of the empirical literature
Algorithmic decision-making increasingly shapes people's daily lives. Given that such autonomous systems can cause severe harm to individuals and social groups, fairness concerns have arisen. A human-centric approach demanded by scholars and policymakers requires considering people's fairness perceptions when designing and implementing algorithmic decision-making. We provide a comprehensive, systematic literature review synthesizing the existing …
The Threats of Artificial Intelligence Scale (TAI): Development, Measurement and Test Over Three Application Domains
In recent years Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained much popularity, with the scientific community as well as with the public. Often, AI is ascribed many positive impacts for different social domains such as medicine and the economy. On the other side, there is also growing concern about its precarious impact on society and individuals, respectively. Several opinion polls frequently query the public fear of autonomous robots and artificial in…
It’s now or never! Future discounting in the application of the online privacy calculus
Many people engage in extensive use of networked digital systems despite concerns over their privacy, a phenomenon called the “online privacy paradox.” Although privacy calculus research has argued that the benefits of usage usually outweigh the expected privacy losses, it is unclear why people come to this conclusion. We argue that users treat decisions about digital media use as intertemporal choices; that is, they mentally shift into the futur…
Serving the populist agenda. How German public media broadcasters inadvertently facilitate populist movements by evoking fear and anger
The term Media Populism is used to indicate a ‘involuntary complicity’ between news media and populist movements based on the convergence of commercial media logic and populist communication style. It grants populists and their messages a high degree of media visibility. According to the literature, this applies more to tabloid media and infotainment content in commercial television than to upmarket media outlets and news programs. In this paper,…
From incidental exposure to intentional avoidance: Psychological reactance to political communication during the 2017 German national election campaign
This article deals with potential effects of incidental online exposure to political information (IOEP) on the German electorate during the 2017 national election campaign. We argue that the difference in currently unexpected and generally unwanted exposure to political online communication is crucial to the study of IOEP effects. While the former might result in “passive learning,” we hypothesize that–based on psychological reactance theory–the …
Social Networking Sites, Personalization, and Trust in Government: Empirical Evidence for a Mediation Model
Political communication via social media might well counter the eroding political trust. In particular, social networking sites (SNS) enable direct flows of communication between citizens and the political elite, thereby reducing social and political gaps. Based on the concept of personalization of politics, we argue that interactions with politicians on SNS affect trust in government through a two-step process: First, interactions on SNS make ci…
Wann ist Künstliche Intelligenz (un-)fair?: Ein sozialwissenschaftliches Konzept von KI-Fairness
Double Crisis: Sport Mega Events and the Future of Public Service Broadcasting
Covering sport mega events is a pivotal strategy for public service broadcasting (PSB) to claim audience support and public legitimacy. However, these mega events are subject to considerable controversy due to their association with doping or corruption. This raises the question for the PSB of how to satisfy the audience of the Olympic Games: by looking closely or by looking away? Conducting two empirical studies, this article investigates how Ge…
The importance of input and output legitimacy in democratic governance: Evidence from a population‐based survey experiment in four West European countries
The study of subjective democratic legitimacy from a citizens’ perspective has become an important strand of research in political science. Echoing the well‐known distinction between ‘input‐oriented’ and ‘output‐oriented’ legitimacy, the scientific debate on this topic has coined two opposed views. Some scholars find that citizens have a strong and intrinsic preference for meaningful participation in collective decision making. But others argue, …
Spontaneous trait inferences from candidates’ faces: The impact of the face effect on election outcomes in Germany
Trust in government: What’s news media got to do with it
In modern democracies, trust in government is a key indicator of political legitimacy and stability. Drawing from theories of media effects, we investigated whether using traditional media has a negative (media malaise hypothesis) or a positive (virtuous circle hypothesis) impact on trust in the national government. We used a serial mediation model involving evaluations of politicians and evaluations of the political process as mediators of how p…
Coping with dilemma: How German sport media users respond to sport mega events in autocratic countries
In recent years, sport mega events have been frequently awarded to autocratic countries whose regimes violate democratic values and human rights. Based on the theory of cognitive dissonance, we assume that this is a potential source of internal conflict for viewers, especially for sports enthusiasts and politically aware recipients. Special attention rests on the consequences of the recipients' strategies of addressing this predicament for import…
The mediatisation of university governance: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of Some Side-Effects
This paper is concerned with analysing potential negative effects of mediatisation of university governance in Germany. Among others, mediatisation reflects a change in expectations on how higher education institutions (HEI) should relate to the public. We start with an exploration of two sets of developments that spawned this change of expectations. On the one hand, the policy idea of a trend to a knowledge society affected what public contribut…
Mediatization and Political Autonomy
Mediatization and Political Autonomy: A Systems Approach
This chapter aims to analyze “mediatization” as a societal phenomenon. In particular it deals with the question of what triggers the process of mediatization, what drives the process, and what consequences result from the process. Socio-theoretical contributions to the discourse on mediatization are few and far between. For example, American sociologist John B. Thompson (1995) sees the transformation of premodern agrarian societies into the funct…
Framing als politischer Prozess: Beiträge zum Deutungskampf in der politischen Kommunikation
Why Do Candidates Use Online Media in Constituency Campaigning? An Application of the Theory of Planned behavior
Campaigners are increasingly citing the Web as an important election tool for candidates and parties to communicate with voters; however, to what extent is this rhetoric matched to reality? Evidence suggests there is something of a gap in the importance attributed to the medium and the extent to which it is actually adopted. Most studies of the drivers of Web campaigning to date have focused on the environmental factors and personal resources tha…
Organizational Influence on Scientists’ Efforts to Go Public: An Empirical Investigation
This article contributes to the debate on the influence of organizational settings on scientists’ media contact. Drawing on a quantitative survey of researchers ( n = 942) from 265 German universities, the results indicate that a large proportion of scientists from all disciplines participate regularly in the dissemination of research findings. The authors provide evidence that scientists’ media efforts are influenced by how they adopt their univ…
The importance of input and output legitimacy in democratic governance: Evidence from a population‐based survey experiment in four West European countries
The study of subjective democratic legitimacy from a citizens’ perspective has become an important strand of research in political science. Echoing the well‐known distinction between ‘input‐oriented’ and ‘output‐oriented’ legitimacy, the scientific debate on this topic has coined two opposed views. Some scholars find that citizens have a strong and intrinsic preference for meaningful participation in collective decision making. But others argue, …
Mediatisation of Politics: Reflections on the State of The Concept
This paper reviews the current state of the literature on the mediatisation of politics. Five common assumptions are being identified, which in my view form the core of a basic understanding of the concept. I discuss for each of these assumptions a number of further deliberations. My analysis is based on a theory of functionally differentiated societies. More precisely, I draw on the vision of modern societies that German sociologist Niklas Luhma…
From incidental exposure to intentional avoidance: Psychological reactance to political communication during the 2017 German national election campaign
This article deals with potential effects of incidental online exposure to political information (IOEP) on the German electorate during the 2017 national election campaign. We argue that the difference in currently unexpected and generally unwanted exposure to political online communication is crucial to the study of IOEP effects. While the former might result in “passive learning,” we hypothesize that–based on psychological reactance theory–the …
Why Do Candidates Use Online Media in Constituency Campaigning? An Application of the Theory of Planned behavior
Campaigners are increasingly citing the Web as an important election tool for candidates and parties to communicate with voters; however, to what extent is this rhetoric matched to reality? Evidence suggests there is something of a gap in the importance attributed to the medium and the extent to which it is actually adopted. Most studies of the drivers of Web campaigning to date have focused on the environmental factors and personal resources tha…
Framing Emerging Technologies: Risk Perceptions of Nanotechnology in the German Press
Nanotechnology cannot be directly experienced and observed—all that people know about it and their interpretations and opinions are mainly based on information from the mass media. Therefore, this first systematic study of the German media coverage about nanotechnology aims to analyse the media frames of this emerging technology. It comprises a standardized content analysis of nine print media from 2000 to 2008, which shows that the German media …
Social Networking Sites, Personalization, and Trust in Government: Empirical Evidence for a Mediation Model
Political communication via social media might well counter the eroding political trust. In particular, social networking sites (SNS) enable direct flows of communication between citizens and the political elite, thereby reducing social and political gaps. Based on the concept of personalization of politics, we argue that interactions with politicians on SNS affect trust in government through a two-step process: First, interactions on SNS make ci…
Trust in government: What’s news media got to do with it
In modern democracies, trust in government is a key indicator of political legitimacy and stability. Drawing from theories of media effects, we investigated whether using traditional media has a negative (media malaise hypothesis) or a positive (virtuous circle hypothesis) impact on trust in the national government. We used a serial mediation model involving evaluations of politicians and evaluations of the political process as mediators of how p…
Politische Information im Fernsehen: Eine Längsschnittstudie zur Veränderung der Politikvermittlung in Nachrichten und politischen Informationssendungen
The Communication Function of Universities: Is There a Place for Science Communication
This article offers a view on the emerging practice of managing external relations of the modern university, and the role of science communication in this. With a representative sample of research universities in four countries, we seek to broaden our understanding of the science communication (SC) function and its niche within the modern university. We distinguish science communication from corporate communication functions and examine how they …
Organizational Influence on Scientists’ Efforts to Go Public: An Empirical Investigation
This article contributes to the debate on the influence of organizational settings on scientists’ media contact. Drawing on a quantitative survey of researchers ( n = 942) from 265 German universities, the results indicate that a large proportion of scientists from all disciplines participate regularly in the dissemination of research findings. The authors provide evidence that scientists’ media efforts are influenced by how they adopt their univ…
Populism and the scales of statehood. Localism and populist attitudes in Western Europe
The rise of populism in Western Europe is often portrayed as a reaction to globalisation and supra-national integration processes. However, the domestic-international divide is only one aspect of the scalar organisation of government. In this article, we explore the relationship between populist attitudes and orientations towards state scales more generally. Drawing on a representative survey of 4033 citizens in Britain, France, Germany and Switz…
Das Bild der Nanotechnologie in deutschen Printmedien. Eine frameanalytische Langzeitstudie
Serving the populist agenda. How German public media broadcasters inadvertently facilitate populist movements by evoking fear and anger
The term Media Populism is used to indicate a ‘involuntary complicity’ between news media and populist movements based on the convergence of commercial media logic and populist communication style. It grants populists and their messages a high degree of media visibility. According to the literature, this applies more to tabloid media and infotainment content in commercial television than to upmarket media outlets and news programs. In this paper,…
Spontaneous trait inferences from candidates’ faces: The impact of the face effect on election outcomes in Germany
The mediatisation of university governance: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of Some Side-Effects
This paper is concerned with analysing potential negative effects of mediatisation of university governance in Germany. Among others, mediatisation reflects a change in expectations on how higher education institutions (HEI) should relate to the public. We start with an exploration of two sets of developments that spawned this change of expectations. On the one hand, the policy idea of a trend to a knowledge society affected what public contribut…
Publizistik als autopoietisches System
Aile Lebewesen, der Mensch eingeschlossen, sind autopoietische Systeme. Aile Operationen solcher Systeme sind selbstreproduktiv, sie erzeugen die Elemente des Systems aus Elementen des Systems. Diese fundamentale Einsicht des chileni schen Physiologie-Professors Humberto R. Maturana hat bekanntlich weite Wis senschaftsbereiche revolutioniert, unter ihnen die neuere soziologische System theorie. Die hiermit vorgelegte Arbeit macht sich die revolut…
Publizistik als autopoietisches System: Politik und Massenmedien : eine systemtheoretische Analyse
Irritation durch Programm Wie kommunizieren Politik und Rundfunk
Die neuere Systemtheorie befindet sich auf dem Marsch durch die Disziplinen, zumal durch die sozialwissenschaftlichen.1 Im Bereich der Politikwissenschaft sollen ihr, zumindest nach dem Willen einiger Protagonisten, eine ganze Reihe zentraler Kategorien der Zunft zum Opfer fallen, unter anderen Macht, Staat, Legitimation, Planung, Verwaltung. Die weithin perfektionierte Theoriebautechnik funktioniert dabei immer gleich: der Begriff wird genannt, …
Politische Magazine im dualen Fernsehen. Problem einer Unterscheidung
Die Analyse von Strukturen und Inhalten der fensehvermittelten politischen Kommunikation gehört zum Kernbestand der sozial- und kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Fernsehforschung. Sie bildet ein Teilgebiet der umfassender angelegten Programmstruktur- und Inhaltsforschung. Ihr bevorzugtes Verfahren ist seit langem die quantitative Inhaltsanalyse. Die dabei anfallenden Daten liefern zunächst ein komprimiertes, “berechenbares” Bild der politischen Wi…
Politische Information im Fernsehen: Eine Längsschnittstudie zur Veränderung der Politikvermittlung in Nachrichten und politischen Informationssendungen
Autopoietische Systemvorstellungen in der Theorie der Massenmedien. Vorschläge und Einwände
Im Gefolge einiger Pionierarbeiten der frühen 90er Jahre (Spangenberg 1993, Marcinkowski 1993, Blöbaum 1994), in denen versucht worden war, Begriffe und Konzepte der neueren soziologischen Systemtheorie für die Theorie der Massenmedien fruchtbar zu machen, hat sich bis zum Ende des Jahrhunderts ein beachtlicher Fundus einschlägiger Diskussionsbeiträge angesammelt, unter denen die Reaktionen von Niklas Luhmann (1996; 1997, 1096-1109) besondere Auf…
Massenmedien und die Integration der Gesellschaft aus Sicht der autopoietischen Systemtheorie
Der vorliegende Beitrag behandelt den Zusammenhang von Medienfunktion und Integrationsproblematik im Kontext der autopoietischen Systemtheorie. Das klingt überraschend, hat doch gerade die differenzierungstheoretische Gesellschaftsanalyse eines Niklas Luhmann den Blick für den Sinn allgegenwärtiger sozialer Differenzierungsprozesse geschärft und Integration vornehmlich unter dem Gesichtspunkt der wechselseitigen Beschränkung selbstbezüglich operi…
Autopoiesis und strukturelle Kopplung
Als universell anwendbares Denkzeug der Sozialwissenschaften hat die neuere soziologische Systemtheorie nicht nur wichtige Beiträge zur Identifizierung und Analyse von Journalismus ‚an und für sich‘ anzubieten, sie eröffnet zugleich die Möglichkeit der Einordnung medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Forschung in eine umfassend angelegte Theorie der Gesellschaft. Ihr eigentlicher Reiz liegt folglich darin, das System der Massenmedien inner…
Politik in der Mediendemokratie (Politische Vierteljahresschrift Sonderhefte) (German Edition)
Politik in der Mediendemokratie
Das Bild der Nanotechnologie in deutschen Printmedien. Eine frameanalytische Langzeitstudie
Framing Emerging Technologies: Risk Perceptions of Nanotechnology in the German Press
Nanotechnology cannot be directly experienced and observed—all that people know about it and their interpretations and opinions are mainly based on information from the mass media. Therefore, this first systematic study of the German media coverage about nanotechnology aims to analyse the media frames of this emerging technology. It comprises a standardized content analysis of nine print media from 2000 to 2008, which shows that the German media …
Publizistik Als Autopoietisches System: Politik und Massenmedien. eine Systemtheoretische Analyse
Neue Governance und die Öffentlichkeit der Hochschulen
Mediatization and Political Autonomy
Mediatization and Political Autonomy: A Systems Approach
This chapter aims to analyze “mediatization” as a societal phenomenon. In particular it deals with the question of what triggers the process of mediatization, what drives the process, and what consequences result from the process. Socio-theoretical contributions to the discourse on mediatization are few and far between. For example, American sociologist John B. Thompson (1995) sees the transformation of premodern agrarian societies into the funct…
Framing als politischer Prozess: Beiträge zum Deutungskampf in der politischen Kommunikation
Why Do Candidates Use Online Media in Constituency Campaigning? An Application of the Theory of Planned behavior
Campaigners are increasingly citing the Web as an important election tool for candidates and parties to communicate with voters; however, to what extent is this rhetoric matched to reality? Evidence suggests there is something of a gap in the importance attributed to the medium and the extent to which it is actually adopted. Most studies of the drivers of Web campaigning to date have focused on the environmental factors and personal resources tha…
Organizational Influence on Scientists’ Efforts to Go Public: An Empirical Investigation
This article contributes to the debate on the influence of organizational settings on scientists’ media contact. Drawing on a quantitative survey of researchers ( n = 942) from 265 German universities, the results indicate that a large proportion of scientists from all disciplines participate regularly in the dissemination of research findings. The authors provide evidence that scientists’ media efforts are influenced by how they adopt their univ…
Mediatisation of Politics: Reflections on the State of The Concept
This paper reviews the current state of the literature on the mediatisation of politics. Five common assumptions are being identified, which in my view form the core of a basic understanding of the concept. I discuss for each of these assumptions a number of further deliberations. My analysis is based on a theory of functionally differentiated societies. More precisely, I draw on the vision of modern societies that German sociologist Niklas Luhma…
The mediatisation of university governance: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of Some Side-Effects
This paper is concerned with analysing potential negative effects of mediatisation of university governance in Germany. Among others, mediatisation reflects a change in expectations on how higher education institutions (HEI) should relate to the public. We start with an exploration of two sets of developments that spawned this change of expectations. On the one hand, the policy idea of a trend to a knowledge society affected what public contribut…
Coping with dilemma: How German sport media users respond to sport mega events in autocratic countries
In recent years, sport mega events have been frequently awarded to autocratic countries whose regimes violate democratic values and human rights. Based on the theory of cognitive dissonance, we assume that this is a potential source of internal conflict for viewers, especially for sports enthusiasts and politically aware recipients. Special attention rests on the consequences of the recipients' strategies of addressing this predicament for import…
Spontaneous trait inferences from candidates’ faces: The impact of the face effect on election outcomes in Germany
Trust in government: What’s news media got to do with it
In modern democracies, trust in government is a key indicator of political legitimacy and stability. Drawing from theories of media effects, we investigated whether using traditional media has a negative (media malaise hypothesis) or a positive (virtuous circle hypothesis) impact on trust in the national government. We used a serial mediation model involving evaluations of politicians and evaluations of the political process as mediators of how p…
Wann ist Künstliche Intelligenz (un-)fair?: Ein sozialwissenschaftliches Konzept von KI-Fairness
Political science (27 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Media Studies and Communication (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works)