Lea Hellmueller
Biographic Data
| ID | 292095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lea Hellmueller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lea |
| FAMILY NAME | Hellmueller |
| SIGNATURE | HELLMUELLER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6609-9395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 440 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces
This cross-lingual project examines how social media posts of Spanish- and English-language media impact incivility in user comments during the 2020 primary political debates in the United States. We analyzed Facebook posts of news organizations that hosted the debates and used a state-of-the-art machine-learning model to analyze the corresponding comments. Our findings reveal distinct journalistic cultures on the post-level: English-language med…
Introduction: The Future of Global Journalism—Relationships, Tools, and Power
The Democratic Value of Strategic Game Reporting and Uncivil Talk: A Computational Analysis of Facebook Conversations During U.S. Primary Debates
This study explores discourse features on Facebook pages of news organizations during the 2020 U.S. primary debates using a state-of-the-art machine-learning model. Informing the scholarly debate about the implications of strategic game reporting in online spaces, we find that it is not necessarily linked to uncivil discourse, yet it might deter from relevant conversations. Second, addressing fears about the undesired outcomes of uncivil talk, ou…
Journalism in a globalized risk arena: Between networks, interdependencies and power relations
Future conceptual challenges of cross-border journalism
In this study we argue that we are entering a period with increasingly complex and dialectical relations between cross-continental and national sentiments and actions. This situation—characterized by multiple centers of political power and conflicts—requires journalism studies to sharpen its skills when examining cross-border journalism using concepts such as foreign, international, global, and transnational journalism, and to be analytically sen…
Terrorist Organizations in the News: A Computational Approach to Measure Media Attention Toward Terrorism
Media play a vital role in shaping public perceptions of political violence, including terrorism. By covering extremists, media grant terrorists organizations access to a global audience. While they delegitimize their actions they also empower extremists’ standing as influential actors in international conflicts. Extending research on terrorist attacks as events of political violence, this study analyzes media attention toward terrorist organizat…
Hostile Emotions in News Comments: A Cross-National Analysis of Facebook Discussions
Recent work demonstrates that hostile emotions can contribute to a strong polarization of political discussion on social media. However, little is known regarding the extent to which media organizations and media systems trigger hostile emotions. We content-analyzed comments on Facebook pages from six news organizations ( N = 1,800) based in the United States and Germany. Our results indicate that German news organizations’ Facebook comments are …
One meta-media event, two forms of censorship: The Charlie Hebdo affair in the United Kingdom and Turkey
This study analyses British and Turkish media conceptualizations of the Charlie Hebdo affair. Editorial decisions to republish or not to republish the Mohammed cartoon cover reflected the politico-cultural pressures on the journalistic fields in both countries. The controversy demonstrated that the editorial autonomy of the British media outlets enabled them to engage in ‘eclectic neutrality’, the right to decide to republish or not to republish …
Shaping (non)-discursive social media spaces: Cross-national typologies of news organizations’ heavy commenters
This study examines the role of heavy commenters on social media. We propose typologies of heavy commenters on Facebook pages of six news organizations in two systems that historically embraced different discourse cultures—the United States and Germany. We find that discourse cultures are impacted by news outlet and country: the US discourse is more participatory in terms of comment frequency, but further characterized by a strong non-discursive …
Perfil de un grupo de audiencia universitaria en México según su participación ciudadana, confianza en las instituciones e interacción cívica en los medios en 2017
Esta investigación de enfoque cuantitativo muestra las singularidades de una audiencia universitaria en México en 2017, medida según su participación cívica, la valoración que da a las instituciones y la actuación interactiva que tiene con los medios respecto a temas sociales y políticos. La población encuestada estuvo formada por 1,195 jóvenes adultos de 23 años de edad promedio y que forma parte de la comunidad universitaria situada en Jalisco,…
Decisión 2016: Comparative Analysis of Journalistic Role Performance on Spanish- and English-language TV Networks
This study is one of the first to compare journalistic role performances of English– and Spanish–language TV networks during the 2016 U.S. primaries. Previous research finds that the corporate structure of Spanish–language media in the United States is looking more like its English–language counterparts and that Latino journalists share the norm of objectivity. Meanwhile, research suggests that individuals of different ethnicities turn to differe…
Shifting toward a humanized perspective? Visual framing analysis of the coverage of refugees on CNN and Spiegel Online before and after the iconic photo publication of Alan Kurdi
Iconic photographs have the potential to stay in public collective memories. One such photograph of a dead 3-year-old Syrian refugee named Alan Kurdi sparked global outrage in September 2015 and became symbolic of the challenges of the Syrian civil war and its consequences. This study examines how global awareness before and after the publication of the iconic photograph affected the visual framing of the arrival of refugees into Europe. The anal…
The Effects of Twitter Users’ Gender and Weight on Viral Behavioral Intentions Toward Obesity-Related News
In this study, male and female participants were exposed to identical news stories covering obesity topics paired with tweets from Twitter users. Our study aimed at understanding how obesity-related news combined with user-generated social media posts (i.e., tweets) affect consumers' evaluations of online content and viral behavioral intentions (the intentions to like, share, and comment). An experiment (N = 316) explored how gender and weight of…
Swiss Journalists’ Role Performance: The relationship between conceptualized, narrated, and practiced roles
Journalism scholars have mostly studied journalistic role conception and their manifestations in news separately. This study merges these two research approaches to suggest a holistic understanding of the relationship between role conception and role performance. The Swiss case offers a unique context for studying the relationship between ideals and practice because of comparatively weak economic and political pressures on journalism, thus leadin…
Journalists’ contributions to political life in Switzerland: Professional role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment
Despite shifts in the news ecology, many journalists in Western democracies still aspire to function as contributors and informants of political life. This study investigates how these journalistic roles unfold in a political system that grants its citizens rather high political power. Based on survey data of 121 Swiss newspaper journalists, we study journalists’ role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment related to the domain of politica…
Visual framing of the European refugee crisis in Der Spiegel and CNN International: Global journalism in news photographs
Building on previous research that has theorized and operationalized the concept of global journalism, this study analyzed 287 photographs published on CNN International and Der Spiegel online news sites to examine the evidence of global journalism practices in visual news content. The results of the quantitative content analysis revealed that the transnational news outlet CNN International more frequently used close-ups and tracking shots to fea…
The Hybridization of Journalistic Cultures: A Comparative Study of Journalistic Role Performance
Influential research on comparative media systems identifies distinctive models according to which certain countries—particularly advanced democracies—share key features in their journalistic cultures. Revisionist literature has not only emphasized the limitations of such models, but also highlighted the hybridization of journalistic cultures elsewhere. This article tests the hybridization thesis, analyzing the presence of six journalistic roles …
To republish or not to republish: The “Je Suis Charlie” Mohammed cartoon and journalistic paradigms in a global context
This article dealt with how media outlets in a selected number of countries handled the problem of the republication of Charlie Hebdo's controversial “Je Suis Charlie” Mohammed cartoon cover after the terrorist attack of 7 January 2015 against the newspaper. A textual analysis of editorials and policy statements found that editorial decisions to republish or not to republish the Mohammed cartoon in different countries constituted journalistic par…
Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, Contexts, and Methods
Journalistic Role Performance: A New Research Agenda in a Digital and Global Media Environment
Global press freedom declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, mainly due to political, criminal, and terrorist forces that sought to co-opt or silence the media in their struggle for power (Freedom House, 2016). As of 2015, only one in seven people around the world lived in a country that had a free media system, a country in which the coverage of news was robust, and the safety of journalists guaranteed. The rest have been living in cou…
Gatekeeping beyond geographical borders: Developing an analytical model of transnational journalism cultures
This study takes a theoretical approach of gatekeeping by assessing how transnational networks of news gathering indicate a shift in the conceptualization of journalism culture. Research on journalism culture, which has traditionally been conceptualized within a national system, is linked with the historical development of globalization to propose an analytical conceptualization of journalism culture in a transnational news-gathering environment.…
The Contextualization of the Watchdog and Civic Journalistic Roles: Reevaluating Journalistic Role Performance in U.S. Newspapers
This study examines the two dominant US journalism models the watchdog and civicoriented professional performance in the aftermath of the economic crises The study based on a content analysis of 1421 news stories published by five national US dailies measures journalists role conception through a content analysis of newspaper articles examining the concept of journalistic role performance The findings indicate different contextualizations of the …
The Networks of Global Journalism: Global news construction through the collaboration of global news startups with freelancers
This study explores how recent global news startups have connected freelancers with traditional news organizations. Through 10 interviews with founders and editors, the results reveal a networked marketplace of global journalism: the startups build on new technologies as well as on-the-ground evidence as their business model and de-localize the distribution of news within a digital marketplace. Supplemented by a content analysis of their edited s…
Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, Contexts, and Methods
"This volume lays out the theoretical and methodological framework to introduce the concept of journalistic role performance, defined as the outcome of concrete newsroom decisions and the style of news reporting when considering different constraints that influence the news product. By connecting role conception to role performance, this book addresses how journalistic ideals manifest in practice. The authors of this book analyze the disconnectio…
Innovators in Digital News
Mind the Gap: Between journalistic role conception and role enactment
The study of journalistic role conceptions rests on the assumption that these conceptions shape the news stories that journalists create. However, limited empirical evidence exists to support this assumed linear relationship between role conception and role enactment. This exploratory study compared role conceptions deduced from survey data of 56 journalists with a content analysis of those same journalists' articles (N=270). The findings suggest…
The Hybridization of Journalistic Cultures: A Comparative Study of Journalistic Role Performance
Influential research on comparative media systems identifies distinctive models according to which certain countries—particularly advanced democracies—share key features in their journalistic cultures. Revisionist literature has not only emphasized the limitations of such models, but also highlighted the hybridization of journalistic cultures elsewhere. This article tests the hybridization thesis, analyzing the presence of six journalistic roles …
Shifting Journalistic Capital: Transparency and objectivity in the twenty-first century
This study examines a normative shift from objectivity toward a transparency-oriented journalistic field. US newspaper journalists (N = 228) whose work is published online were surveyed to ascertain their adherence to truth-telling strategies of objectivity and transparency. The results suggest that forces unleashed by the online network might be creating pre-paradigmatic conflicts. Moreover, secondary principles divisions (e.g., gender and years…
Visual framing of the European refugee crisis in Der Spiegel and CNN International: Global journalism in news photographs
Building on previous research that has theorized and operationalized the concept of global journalism, this study analyzed 287 photographs published on CNN International and Der Spiegel online news sites to examine the evidence of global journalism practices in visual news content. The results of the quantitative content analysis revealed that the transnational news outlet CNN International more frequently used close-ups and tracking shots to fea…
Professional roles and news construction: A Media Sociology Conceptualization of Journalists’ Role Conception and Performance
Journalists’ professional roles entail an important research area, which enhances knowledge on journalism’s attempted impact on political and democratic life. Journalism scholars, however, tend not to study journalistic professional roles from its impact on news content but focus on journalists’ conception of their role concluding that the way journalists conceive of their role will eventually shape the stories they produce. Hence, the link betwe…
Swiss Journalists’ Role Performance: The relationship between conceptualized, narrated, and practiced roles
Journalism scholars have mostly studied journalistic role conception and their manifestations in news separately. This study merges these two research approaches to suggest a holistic understanding of the relationship between role conception and role performance. The Swiss case offers a unique context for studying the relationship between ideals and practice because of comparatively weak economic and political pressures on journalism, thus leadin…
Contest Over Content: A longitudinal study of the CNN iReport effect on the journalistic field
This study examines how participatory journalism reshapes the field of journalism in the case of Cable News Network (CNN) iReport. Participation is conceptualized on a continuum, ranging from participants as providing comments to news stories to participants as constructing news. Using a textual analysis combined with a content analysis of CNN's broadcast transcripts and articles posted online on CNN.com (N = 668) over a period of six years, this…
Shifting toward a humanized perspective? Visual framing analysis of the coverage of refugees on CNN and Spiegel Online before and after the iconic photo publication of Alan Kurdi
Iconic photographs have the potential to stay in public collective memories. One such photograph of a dead 3-year-old Syrian refugee named Alan Kurdi sparked global outrage in September 2015 and became symbolic of the challenges of the Syrian civil war and its consequences. This study examines how global awareness before and after the publication of the iconic photograph affected the visual framing of the arrival of refugees into Europe. The anal…
Gatekeeping beyond geographical borders: Developing an analytical model of transnational journalism cultures
This study takes a theoretical approach of gatekeeping by assessing how transnational networks of news gathering indicate a shift in the conceptualization of journalism culture. Research on journalism culture, which has traditionally been conceptualized within a national system, is linked with the historical development of globalization to propose an analytical conceptualization of journalism culture in a transnational news-gathering environment.…
The Contextualization of the Watchdog and Civic Journalistic Roles: Reevaluating Journalistic Role Performance in U.S. Newspapers
This study examines the two dominant US journalism models the watchdog and civicoriented professional performance in the aftermath of the economic crises The study based on a content analysis of 1421 news stories published by five national US dailies measures journalists role conception through a content analysis of newspaper articles examining the concept of journalistic role performance The findings indicate different contextualizations of the …
Future conceptual challenges of cross-border journalism
In this study we argue that we are entering a period with increasingly complex and dialectical relations between cross-continental and national sentiments and actions. This situation—characterized by multiple centers of political power and conflicts—requires journalism studies to sharpen its skills when examining cross-border journalism using concepts such as foreign, international, global, and transnational journalism, and to be analytically sen…
The Networks of Global Journalism: Global news construction through the collaboration of global news startups with freelancers
This study explores how recent global news startups have connected freelancers with traditional news organizations. Through 10 interviews with founders and editors, the results reveal a networked marketplace of global journalism: the startups build on new technologies as well as on-the-ground evidence as their business model and de-localize the distribution of news within a digital marketplace. Supplemented by a content analysis of their edited s…
To republish or not to republish: The “Je Suis Charlie” Mohammed cartoon and journalistic paradigms in a global context
This article dealt with how media outlets in a selected number of countries handled the problem of the republication of Charlie Hebdo's controversial “Je Suis Charlie” Mohammed cartoon cover after the terrorist attack of 7 January 2015 against the newspaper. A textual analysis of editorials and policy statements found that editorial decisions to republish or not to republish the Mohammed cartoon in different countries constituted journalistic par…
Innovators in Digital News
The Washington, DC Media Corps in the 21st Century: The Source-Correspondent Relationship
The book provides a fresh perspective on the shifting media landscape within Washington DC, re-evaluating journalist-source relationships, the power dynamic within the media corps, and the ways in whi
Terrorist Organizations in the News: A Computational Approach to Measure Media Attention Toward Terrorism
Media play a vital role in shaping public perceptions of political violence, including terrorism. By covering extremists, media grant terrorists organizations access to a global audience. While they delegitimize their actions they also empower extremists’ standing as influential actors in international conflicts. Extending research on terrorist attacks as events of political violence, this study analyzes media attention toward terrorist organizat…
Shaping (non)-discursive social media spaces: Cross-national typologies of news organizations’ heavy commenters
This study examines the role of heavy commenters on social media. We propose typologies of heavy commenters on Facebook pages of six news organizations in two systems that historically embraced different discourse cultures—the United States and Germany. We find that discourse cultures are impacted by news outlet and country: the US discourse is more participatory in terms of comment frequency, but further characterized by a strong non-discursive …
Hostile Emotions in News Comments: A Cross-National Analysis of Facebook Discussions
Recent work demonstrates that hostile emotions can contribute to a strong polarization of political discussion on social media. However, little is known regarding the extent to which media organizations and media systems trigger hostile emotions. We content-analyzed comments on Facebook pages from six news organizations ( N = 1,800) based in the United States and Germany. Our results indicate that German news organizations’ Facebook comments are …
Journalists’ contributions to political life in Switzerland: Professional role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment
Despite shifts in the news ecology, many journalists in Western democracies still aspire to function as contributors and informants of political life. This study investigates how these journalistic roles unfold in a political system that grants its citizens rather high political power. Based on survey data of 121 Swiss newspaper journalists, we study journalists’ role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment related to the domain of politica…
One meta-media event, two forms of censorship: The Charlie Hebdo affair in the United Kingdom and Turkey
This study analyses British and Turkish media conceptualizations of the Charlie Hebdo affair. Editorial decisions to republish or not to republish the Mohammed cartoon cover reflected the politico-cultural pressures on the journalistic fields in both countries. The controversy demonstrated that the editorial autonomy of the British media outlets enabled them to engage in ‘eclectic neutrality’, the right to decide to republish or not to republish …
Professional roles and news construction: A Media Sociology Conceptualization of Journalists’ Role Conception and Performance
Journalists’ professional roles entail an important research area, which enhances knowledge on journalism’s attempted impact on political and democratic life. Journalism scholars, however, tend not to study journalistic professional roles from its impact on news content but focus on journalists’ conception of their role concluding that the way journalists conceive of their role will eventually shape the stories they produce. Hence, the link betwe…
Mind the Gap: Between journalistic role conception and role enactment
The study of journalistic role conceptions rests on the assumption that these conceptions shape the news stories that journalists create. However, limited empirical evidence exists to support this assumed linear relationship between role conception and role enactment. This exploratory study compared role conceptions deduced from survey data of 56 journalists with a content analysis of those same journalists' articles (N=270). The findings suggest…
Shifting Journalistic Capital: Transparency and objectivity in the twenty-first century
This study examines a normative shift from objectivity toward a transparency-oriented journalistic field. US newspaper journalists (N = 228) whose work is published online were surveyed to ascertain their adherence to truth-telling strategies of objectivity and transparency. The results suggest that forces unleashed by the online network might be creating pre-paradigmatic conflicts. Moreover, secondary principles divisions (e.g., gender and years…
The Washington, DC Media Corps in the 21st Century: The Source-Correspondent Relationship
The book provides a fresh perspective on the shifting media landscape within Washington DC, re-evaluating journalist-source relationships, the power dynamic within the media corps, and the ways in whi
Contest Over Content: A longitudinal study of the CNN iReport effect on the journalistic field
This study examines how participatory journalism reshapes the field of journalism in the case of Cable News Network (CNN) iReport. Participation is conceptualized on a continuum, ranging from participants as providing comments to news stories to participants as constructing news. Using a textual analysis combined with a content analysis of CNN's broadcast transcripts and articles posted online on CNN.com (N = 668) over a period of six years, this…
Professional roles and news construction: A media sociology conceptualization of journalists’ role conception and performance
Journalists’ professional roles entail an important research area, which enhances knowledge on journalism’s attempted impact on political and democratic life. Journalism scholars, however, tend not to study journalistic professional roles from its impact on news content but focus on journalists’ conception of their role concluding that the way journalists conceive of their role will eventually shape the stories they produce. Hence, the link betwe…
Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, Contexts, and Methods
Journalistic Role Performance: A New Research Agenda in a Digital and Global Media Environment
Global press freedom declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, mainly due to political, criminal, and terrorist forces that sought to co-opt or silence the media in their struggle for power (Freedom House, 2016). As of 2015, only one in seven people around the world lived in a country that had a free media system, a country in which the coverage of news was robust, and the safety of journalists guaranteed. The rest have been living in cou…
Gatekeeping beyond geographical borders: Developing an analytical model of transnational journalism cultures
This study takes a theoretical approach of gatekeeping by assessing how transnational networks of news gathering indicate a shift in the conceptualization of journalism culture. Research on journalism culture, which has traditionally been conceptualized within a national system, is linked with the historical development of globalization to propose an analytical conceptualization of journalism culture in a transnational news-gathering environment.…
The Contextualization of the Watchdog and Civic Journalistic Roles: Reevaluating Journalistic Role Performance in U.S. Newspapers
This study examines the two dominant US journalism models the watchdog and civicoriented professional performance in the aftermath of the economic crises The study based on a content analysis of 1421 news stories published by five national US dailies measures journalists role conception through a content analysis of newspaper articles examining the concept of journalistic role performance The findings indicate different contextualizations of the …
The Networks of Global Journalism: Global news construction through the collaboration of global news startups with freelancers
This study explores how recent global news startups have connected freelancers with traditional news organizations. Through 10 interviews with founders and editors, the results reveal a networked marketplace of global journalism: the startups build on new technologies as well as on-the-ground evidence as their business model and de-localize the distribution of news within a digital marketplace. Supplemented by a content analysis of their edited s…
Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, Contexts, and Methods
"This volume lays out the theoretical and methodological framework to introduce the concept of journalistic role performance, defined as the outcome of concrete newsroom decisions and the style of news reporting when considering different constraints that influence the news product. By connecting role conception to role performance, this book addresses how journalistic ideals manifest in practice. The authors of this book analyze the disconnectio…
Innovators in Digital News
Visual framing of the European refugee crisis in Der Spiegel and CNN International: Global journalism in news photographs
Building on previous research that has theorized and operationalized the concept of global journalism, this study analyzed 287 photographs published on CNN International and Der Spiegel online news sites to examine the evidence of global journalism practices in visual news content. The results of the quantitative content analysis revealed that the transnational news outlet CNN International more frequently used close-ups and tracking shots to fea…
The Hybridization of Journalistic Cultures: A Comparative Study of Journalistic Role Performance
Influential research on comparative media systems identifies distinctive models according to which certain countries—particularly advanced democracies—share key features in their journalistic cultures. Revisionist literature has not only emphasized the limitations of such models, but also highlighted the hybridization of journalistic cultures elsewhere. This article tests the hybridization thesis, analyzing the presence of six journalistic roles …
To republish or not to republish: The “Je Suis Charlie” Mohammed cartoon and journalistic paradigms in a global context
This article dealt with how media outlets in a selected number of countries handled the problem of the republication of Charlie Hebdo's controversial “Je Suis Charlie” Mohammed cartoon cover after the terrorist attack of 7 January 2015 against the newspaper. A textual analysis of editorials and policy statements found that editorial decisions to republish or not to republish the Mohammed cartoon in different countries constituted journalistic par…
The Effects of Twitter Users’ Gender and Weight on Viral Behavioral Intentions Toward Obesity-Related News
In this study, male and female participants were exposed to identical news stories covering obesity topics paired with tweets from Twitter users. Our study aimed at understanding how obesity-related news combined with user-generated social media posts (i.e., tweets) affect consumers' evaluations of online content and viral behavioral intentions (the intentions to like, share, and comment). An experiment (N = 316) explored how gender and weight of…
Swiss Journalists’ Role Performance: The relationship between conceptualized, narrated, and practiced roles
Journalism scholars have mostly studied journalistic role conception and their manifestations in news separately. This study merges these two research approaches to suggest a holistic understanding of the relationship between role conception and role performance. The Swiss case offers a unique context for studying the relationship between ideals and practice because of comparatively weak economic and political pressures on journalism, thus leadin…
Journalists’ contributions to political life in Switzerland: Professional role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment
Despite shifts in the news ecology, many journalists in Western democracies still aspire to function as contributors and informants of political life. This study investigates how these journalistic roles unfold in a political system that grants its citizens rather high political power. Based on survey data of 121 Swiss newspaper journalists, we study journalists’ role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment related to the domain of politica…
Perfil de un grupo de audiencia universitaria en México según su participación ciudadana, confianza en las instituciones e interacción cívica en los medios en 2017
Esta investigación de enfoque cuantitativo muestra las singularidades de una audiencia universitaria en México en 2017, medida según su participación cívica, la valoración que da a las instituciones y la actuación interactiva que tiene con los medios respecto a temas sociales y políticos. La población encuestada estuvo formada por 1,195 jóvenes adultos de 23 años de edad promedio y que forma parte de la comunidad universitaria situada en Jalisco,…
Decisión 2016: Comparative Analysis of Journalistic Role Performance on Spanish- and English-language TV Networks
This study is one of the first to compare journalistic role performances of English– and Spanish–language TV networks during the 2016 U.S. primaries. Previous research finds that the corporate structure of Spanish–language media in the United States is looking more like its English–language counterparts and that Latino journalists share the norm of objectivity. Meanwhile, research suggests that individuals of different ethnicities turn to differe…
Shifting toward a humanized perspective? Visual framing analysis of the coverage of refugees on CNN and Spiegel Online before and after the iconic photo publication of Alan Kurdi
Iconic photographs have the potential to stay in public collective memories. One such photograph of a dead 3-year-old Syrian refugee named Alan Kurdi sparked global outrage in September 2015 and became symbolic of the challenges of the Syrian civil war and its consequences. This study examines how global awareness before and after the publication of the iconic photograph affected the visual framing of the arrival of refugees into Europe. The anal…
Hostile Emotions in News Comments: A Cross-National Analysis of Facebook Discussions
Recent work demonstrates that hostile emotions can contribute to a strong polarization of political discussion on social media. However, little is known regarding the extent to which media organizations and media systems trigger hostile emotions. We content-analyzed comments on Facebook pages from six news organizations ( N = 1,800) based in the United States and Germany. Our results indicate that German news organizations’ Facebook comments are …
One meta-media event, two forms of censorship: The Charlie Hebdo affair in the United Kingdom and Turkey
This study analyses British and Turkish media conceptualizations of the Charlie Hebdo affair. Editorial decisions to republish or not to republish the Mohammed cartoon cover reflected the politico-cultural pressures on the journalistic fields in both countries. The controversy demonstrated that the editorial autonomy of the British media outlets enabled them to engage in ‘eclectic neutrality’, the right to decide to republish or not to republish …
Shaping (non)-discursive social media spaces: Cross-national typologies of news organizations’ heavy commenters
This study examines the role of heavy commenters on social media. We propose typologies of heavy commenters on Facebook pages of six news organizations in two systems that historically embraced different discourse cultures—the United States and Germany. We find that discourse cultures are impacted by news outlet and country: the US discourse is more participatory in terms of comment frequency, but further characterized by a strong non-discursive …
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