Michael Brüggemann
Biographic Data
| ID | 316663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Brüggemann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Brüggemann |
| SIGNATURE | BRÜGGEMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7994-3914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 372 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Unveiling the Backlash in Public Opinion on Climate Change: A Longitudinal Study of Climate Change-Related Population Segments and Communicative Engagement in Germany
This study explores potential shifts in climate change-related perceptions and behavior over time and how this corresponds to changing communicative engagement with climate change. This is done through surveys conducted in Germany during UN climate summits in 2015 (n = 1477), 2018 (n = 1044), 2019 (n = 1000), 2021 (n= 1000) and 2023 (n = 1015). A latent profile analysis identifies five population segments regarding perceptions and behavioral enga…
Assessing Threat and Efficacy: Ideological Influences in Climate Change Reporting in US and German Newspapers (2006–2023)
This study investigates how liberal and conservative newspapers in the United States and Germany report on climate change impacts and the efficacy of mitigation actions. Building on a seminal analysis on US newspapers from 2006-2011, we extend the scope cross-culturally to German media and temporally to 2023. Using a dataset of over 29,000 articles coded with Large Language Models, we analyze trends in impact mentions, actor framing, and efficacy…
What Kind of Depolarization Should We Aim For? Making Communication Transformative
Polarization may become a threat to democracy, if it starts to block the capacities for collective problem-solving. This is particularly problematic in the current state of multiple social and ecological crises. Calls for depolarization often lack clarity about what kind of depolarization is normatively desirable. Academic texts often lack transparency about the values that underpin recommendations for better communication. Focusing on discursive…
Transformative Tools, Emerging Challenges: Empirical and Practical Experiences With Large Language Models for Text Classification and Annotation in Communication Studies
Advancements in Large Language Models have been showing important research opportunities within the field of communication studies. It offers the capacity to conduct large-scale content classification and annotation with low computational expertise and reduced manual coding efforts, potentially allowing more possibilities for researchers in social sciences to explore understudied topics (Bail, 2023; Chang et al., 2024). Because of its functioning…
From disruptive protests to disrupted news frames: Comparing German news on climate protests
This paper examines how news frames on disruptive climate protests differ from coverage of conventional protests in news outlets with different political leanings. Analyzing 6632 articles from 21 ideologically diverse German news sources between January 2022 and May 2023, we apply Word2Vec for semantic mapping, emotion classifiers, and qualitative evaluations to assess the frames present in the coverage of climate movements, and the anger attache…
Polarised media framing of climate movements: A comparative mixed-methods analysis of Australia and Germany
This study investigates the media framing of climate movements in Australia and Germany. Media frames are powerful tools for shaping public perceptions of social issues. While previous research has focused on activists' framing strategies, this study analyses how climate movements themselves are portrayed by news media outlets. Using a mixed-methods approach - combining qualitative and computational content analysis - it pioneers a dual-language …
From Disruptive Protests to Disrupted Networks? Analyzing Levels of Polarization in the German Twitter/X Debates on 'Fridays for Future' and 'Letzte Generation
Examining how different forms of climate protest affect social media debates is critical to understanding their role within societal climate policy discourse. This study compares debates surrounding disruptive and non-disruptive movements on Twitter/X, asking to what extent they lead to ideologically and affectively polarized networks. We analyzed debates around two prominent German climate movements-Fridays for Future and Last Generation-using a…
Framing as a Bridging Concept for Climate Change Communication: A Systematic Review Based on 25 Years of Literature
In line with the urgency of problems related to climate change, studies on the framing of this issue have flourished in recent years. However, as in framing research overall, a lack of definitions complicates the synthesis of theoretical/empirical insights. This systematic review contrasts trends of framing in climate change communication to those observed in reviews of communication research overall and harnesses framing’s power to bridge perspe…
Social Constructions of Climate Futures: Reframing Science’s Harmful Impact Frame Across News Media, Social Movements, and Local Communities
Climate research has established a cultural authority in modelling our future with climate change, and often uses a harmful impacts frame to communicate about climate change and climate futures. This paper investigates the social constructions of climate futures by analyzing how the harmful impacts frame resonates and is reframed in three social arenas – news media, climate movements, and local communities. Data for this study stems from a larger…
Collecting Data in an Immersive Video Environment to Set up an Agent-Based Model of Pedestrians’ Compliance with Covid-Related Interventions
Setting up any agent-based model (ABM) requires not only theory to define the agents' behavior, but also suitable methods for calibration, validation, and scenario analysis, which are highly dependent on the available data. When modelling aspects related to the COVID-19 pandemic during the pandemic itself, finding existing data and behavioral rules was rarely possible as conditions were fundamentally different from before and collecting data put …
Der globale Klimawandel wird „nicht in Duisburg entschieden“: Eine exemplarische Untersuchung von Frames von Lokaljournalist*innen und möglichen Kontextfaktoren
In der Klimakommunikation sind Frames im Lokaljournalismus ein relevanter und doch selten untersuchter Forschungsgegenstand. Solche Frames haben einen Einfluss auf den Umgang mit dem Klimawandel, auf Problembewusstsein und Verhaltensweisen von Bürger*innen und auf lokale Klimapolitik. Hinter Frames in der lokalen Berichterstattung stehen die Framing-Praktiken von Lokaljournalist*innen, die anhand ihrer kognitiven Frames sowie individuellen und r…
Global climate change will “not be decided in Duisburg”: An exemplary investigation into local journalists’ frames and potential contextual factors
SCM Studies in Communication and Media , page 208 - 213
What Journalists Worry and Write About: Comparing Journalists’ Frames of Climate Futures with Respective News Frames
Between Calls for Action and Narratives of Denial: Climate Change Attention Structures on Twitter
The threats posed to society by climate change often fail to become priorities for voters and policymakers. Nevertheless, it has been shown that merely paying online attention to climate change can increase the perceived severity of the associated risks and thus encourage climate action. Therefore, we focus on public discourse on Twitter to explore the interplay of “triggers” and discursive features that stimulate attention to climate change. We …
A Distant Threat? The Framing of Climate Futures Across Four Countries
Future scenarios of a changing climate are not only an integral part of climate research, but they are also part of media coverage on climate change. Such reporting affects how people imagine the future to be, as well as their current and intended behaviors. Hence, this article made use of a quantitative, manual content analysis with qualitative and automated approaches for sample construction, to analyze the framing of climate futures in journal…
When debates break apart: Discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication
“Polarization” is a common diagnosis of the state of contemporary societies. Yet, few studies theorize or systematically analyze how polarization evolves in media content. To guide future empirical studies, we introduce a public sphere perspective on polarization. Discursive Polarization, defined as divergence emerging in public communication, may disrupt the public sphere if left untamed. Its analysis should combine the study of ideological pola…
Polarisation or just differences in opinion: How and why Facebook users disagree about Greta Thunberg
To what extent was Greta Thunberg a ‘polarizing figure’ on Facebook, in the period when she received the most extensive media attention? The paper analyses seven months of discussion concerning Thunberg and her message of intergenerational climate justice, using all relevant posts on public Facebook pages in Germany, Sweden, and the UK. We find that there are many similarities in the attitudes expressed and topics discussed on Facebook in the thr…
Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries
Media systems have changed significantly as a result of the development of information technologies. However, typologies of media systems that incorporate aspects of digitalization are rare. This study fills this gap by identifying, operationalizing, and measuring indicators of media systems in the digital age. We build on previous work, extend it with new indicators that reflect changing conditions (such as online news use), and include media fr…
Learning about climate politics during COP 21: Explaining a diminishing knowledge gap
A basic understanding of climate politics is necessary for citizens to assess their government’s policies. Media use is supposed to enable learning, while widening knowledge gaps. We analyze whether such a gap opened up in times of intense media coverage during the 2015 climate conference in Paris and explain learning through hierarchical regression analyses, drawing on a 3-month panel survey ( n = 1121) in Germany. We find a diminishing knowledg…
Framing Food in the News: Still Keeping the Politics out of the Broccoli
How food is produced and consumed matters for both our health and our societies’ ecological footprint. Yet, food practices are a topic at the margins of news coverage and journalism studies. We narrow this research gap by exploring the framing of food in the news. Combining automated and manual content analysis, we study 10,022 articles published in elite newspapers from Germany, the United States (U.S.) and India (2016–2018). Food-related terms …
How Investigative Journalists Around the World Adopt Innovative Digital Practices
This article explores how investigative journalists around the world adopt innovative digital practices in their daily work, what challenges they perceive to the adoption of digital practices, and how they cope with those challenges. We interviewed 133 journalists from 60 countries. Utilising the lens of the Diffusion of Innovations Theory, we found that journalists generally perceive the impact of digital practices as positive, but structural an…
You suck it up and you deal with it: Blind spots in investigative reporting and how to overcome them
Investigative journalism is about uncovering what shall not be covered, yet, blind spots remain. This paper explores what topics investigative journalists consider to be neglected in different regions of the world, why these topics are not covered, and how journalists strive to report them in spite of difficulties. We theorize the blind spots by drawing on the Hierarchy of Influences Model, meaning that blind spots in investigative reporting are …
From Global Doom to Sustainable Solutions: International News Magazines’ Multimodal Framing of our Future with Climate Change
Modeling future pathways is essential for climate research, and such climate futures are also an integral part of media coverage on climate change. However, research on media’s framing of climate change has only sparsely investigated future visions, although media effect studies assume that characteristics of climate futures, including their visual representation, can motivate people to act. Hence, in this study, we analyzed the multimodal media …
Opportunity makes opinion leaders: Analyzing the role of first-hand information in opinion leadership in social media networks
Theorizing information flows is at the heart of traditional communication theories such as the two-step flow of communication and the concept of opinion leadership. Social media have fundamentally altered how information reaches people. This study examines opinion leadership in social media networks and argues that opinion leaders may no longer need to rely on information provided by the media if they have access to first-hand information. To tes…
Sense-Making of COP 21 among Rural and City Residents: The Role of Space in Media Reception
This chapter explores the role of space in making sense of climate change coverage. The role of space is analyzed in the form of (a) (attributed) spatial distance and/or proximity to climate change, (b) personal nature and weather experiences attributed to climate change and (c) social spaces. The study compares how the United Nations’ summit COP 21, which resulted in the Paris Agreement in 2015, has been perceived and interpreted in an urban (Ha…
Between Frame Setting and Frame Sending: How Journalists Contribute to News Frames
Framing has grown into a thriving approach to analyze media content and effects. Research on frame building is less well developed. In particular, journalists’ contributions to shaping the frames in the news deserve further analysis. This article conceptualizes these contributions to creating news frames: Journalistic framing practices are situated on a continuum between frame setting and frame sending. Journalists frame their articles more or le…
Transnationalization of Public Spheres
This book takes a fresh look at a widely debated question in international relations and political communication research: How can public discourses contribute to democratic governance beyond the nati
Beyond false balance: How interpretive journalism shapes media coverage of climate change
Framing the Newspaper Crisis: How debates on the state of the press are shaped in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and United States
This article argues that discourses of a newspaper “crisis” should not be regarded simply as descriptions of the actual state of the press but also as a means by which strategic actors frame the situation. The emerging frames can have substantial consequences for media policy making. The study identifies four key frames used to portray the newspaper “crisis” and discusses their relevance for public debates in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the …
Segmented Europeanization: Exploring the Legitimacy of the European Union from a Public Discourse Perspective
The article presents the results of a longitudinal newspaper analysis on the Europeanization of public discourses in five EU countries. It shows that European governance is increasingly subject to public scrutiny, but neither has a common discourse in Europe developed nor has the communication lag of the EU disappeared. Therefore the EU remains largely dependent on domestic processes of legitimation
Transnational trigger constellations: Reconstructing the story behind the story
Understanding how the topics of news stories are socially constructed through journalistic practices is an important question for the study of journalism. We contribute to this strand of research by reconstructing the process of news making from the perspective of the journalists. The method used for this purpose is the comparative reconstruction of the ‘biographies’ of news stories by interviewing the authors of news stories. This was done durin…
Let's Talk about Europe: Why Europeanization Shows a Different Face in Different Newspapers
■ This article contributes to the ongoing quest for a European public sphere understood as a structural transformation of national public debates. This process of Europeanization of national public spheres has a vertical and a horizontal dimension: an increased focus on the EU as well as more attention to other European countries. A content analysis of quality newspapers in five EU member states covering a period of 20 years reveals common trends…
Building Empirical Typologies with QCA: Toward a Classification of Media Systems
Typologies are omnipresent both in everyday life as well as in the sciences. Epistemologically, there are several systematic ways to build typologies, such as qualitative, theory-based descriptions on one end and quantitative, exploratory statistical means on the other end of the spectrum. Both have their specific advantages and disadvantages, which can be bridged by applying set-theoretic methods, such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). …
Transnational Communication as Deliberation, Ritual, and Strategy
Globalized communication flows transcend and transformnational borders. Transnational media outlets targeting audiences around the globe, issues of global concern are subjected to border-crossing public debates, media events receive transnational attention, and public diplomacy efforts succeed—and fail—in characteristic patterns around the world. In response to these phenomena the article shows how the study of transnational communication can ben…
When debates break apart: Discursive polarization as a multi-dimensional divergence emerging in and through communication
“Polarization” is a common diagnosis of the state of contemporary societies. Yet, few studies theorize or systematically analyze how polarization evolves in media content. To guide future empirical studies, we introduce a public sphere perspective on polarization. Discursive Polarization, defined as divergence emerging in public communication, may disrupt the public sphere if left untamed. Its analysis should combine the study of ideological pola…
From Global Doom to Sustainable Solutions: International News Magazines’ Multimodal Framing of our Future with Climate Change
Modeling future pathways is essential for climate research, and such climate futures are also an integral part of media coverage on climate change. However, research on media’s framing of climate change has only sparsely investigated future visions, although media effect studies assume that characteristics of climate futures, including their visual representation, can motivate people to act. Hence, in this study, we analyzed the multimodal media …
National and transnational public spheres: The case of the EU
While many important social processes cut across national borders and have transnational institutions to regulate them, democratic participation still occurs almost exclusively within individual nation states. Public information and debate are essential ingredients of democracy, and their confinement to the individual national public sphere threatens the democratic aspirations and legitimacy of transnational institutions. Therefore, it is often a…
The Strategic Repertoire of Publishers in the Media Crisis: The “Five C” scheme in Germany
Germany could be considered a deviant case in the comparative study of the current transformations in media markets as publishers continue to be profitable despite painting a gloomy picture of the possibility of there being a “media crisis.” What is specific about the German case is the strong economic position and political lobbying of the publisher associations. Combining different sources of primary and secondary data, this article investigate…
You suck it up and you deal with it: Blind spots in investigative reporting and how to overcome them
Investigative journalism is about uncovering what shall not be covered, yet, blind spots remain. This paper explores what topics investigative journalists consider to be neglected in different regions of the world, why these topics are not covered, and how journalists strive to report them in spite of difficulties. We theorize the blind spots by drawing on the Hierarchy of Influences Model, meaning that blind spots in investigative reporting are …
Becoming Pan-European: Transnational Media and the European Public Sphere
Research about the European public sphere has so far mainly focused on the analysis of national media, neglecting a dimension of transnational communication, namely transnational media. These media could serve as horizontal links between the still nationally segmented public spheres and they could be platforms of a transnational European discourse. Four ideal-types of transnational media can be distinguished: (1) national media with a transnation…
Between Consensus and Denial: Climate Journalists as Interpretive Community
This study focuses on climate journalists as key mediators between science and the public sphere. It surveys journalists from five countries and five types of leading news outlets. Despite their different contexts, journalists form an interpretive community sharing the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change and agreeing on how to handle climate change skeptics. This consensus is particularly strong among a core of prolific writers w…
How Investigative Journalists Around the World Adopt Innovative Digital Practices
This article explores how investigative journalists around the world adopt innovative digital practices in their daily work, what challenges they perceive to the adoption of digital practices, and how they cope with those challenges. We interviewed 133 journalists from 60 countries. Utilising the lens of the Diffusion of Innovations Theory, we found that journalists generally perceive the impact of digital practices as positive, but structural an…
From disruptive protests to disrupted news frames: Comparing German news on climate protests
This paper examines how news frames on disruptive climate protests differ from coverage of conventional protests in news outlets with different political leanings. Analyzing 6632 articles from 21 ideologically diverse German news sources between January 2022 and May 2023, we apply Word2Vec for semantic mapping, emotion classifiers, and qualitative evaluations to assess the frames present in the coverage of climate movements, and the anger attache…
Polarisation or just differences in opinion: How and why Facebook users disagree about Greta Thunberg
To what extent was Greta Thunberg a ‘polarizing figure’ on Facebook, in the period when she received the most extensive media attention? The paper analyses seven months of discussion concerning Thunberg and her message of intergenerational climate justice, using all relevant posts on public Facebook pages in Germany, Sweden, and the UK. We find that there are many similarities in the attitudes expressed and topics discussed on Facebook in the thr…
Polarised media framing of climate movements: A comparative mixed-methods analysis of Australia and Germany
This study investigates the media framing of climate movements in Australia and Germany. Media frames are powerful tools for shaping public perceptions of social issues. While previous research has focused on activists' framing strategies, this study analyses how climate movements themselves are portrayed by news media outlets. Using a mixed-methods approach - combining qualitative and computational content analysis - it pioneers a dual-language …
From Disruptive Protests to Disrupted Networks? Analyzing Levels of Polarization in the German Twitter/X Debates on 'Fridays for Future' and 'Letzte Generation
Examining how different forms of climate protest affect social media debates is critical to understanding their role within societal climate policy discourse. This study compares debates surrounding disruptive and non-disruptive movements on Twitter/X, asking to what extent they lead to ideologically and affectively polarized networks. We analyzed debates around two prominent German climate movements-Fridays for Future and Last Generation-using a…
Global climate change will “not be decided in Duisburg”: An exemplary investigation into local journalists’ frames and potential contextual factors
SCM Studies in Communication and Media , page 208 - 213
Explaining cosmopolitan coverage
Research on international news flows has mostly aimed to explain why certain countries and regions are more reported on than others. There are few studies, however, on the reasons why some media outlets cover foreign affairs more intensively than others. This article thus extends our current knowledge by mapping different degrees of cosmopolitan coverage and identifying key conditions that help to explain these differences. Analysing foreign repo…
National and transnational public spheres: The case of the EU
While many important social processes cut across national borders and have transnational institutions to regulate them, democratic participation still occurs almost exclusively within individual nation states. Public information and debate are essential ingredients of democracy, and their confinement to the individual national public sphere threatens the democratic aspirations and legitimacy of transnational institutions. Therefore, it is often a…
Segmented Europeanization: Exploring the Legitimacy of the European Union from a Public Discourse Perspective
The article presents the results of a longitudinal newspaper analysis on the Europeanization of public discourses in five EU countries. It shows that European governance is increasingly subject to public scrutiny, but neither has a common discourse in Europe developed nor has the communication lag of the EU disappeared. Therefore the EU remains largely dependent on domestic processes of legitimation
Segmented Europeanization
This chapter explores the structural transformation of national public spheres in Europe since the beginning of the 1980s by drawing on our long-term, cross-issue content analysis. We seek to answer three questions: (1) Is there a trend towards transnationalization of national public spheres in Europe? Here we will look at three of our four dimensions of transnationalization over time: monitoring governance, discursive integration and collective …
Towards a Pan-European Public Sphere? A Typology of Transnational Media in Europe
The quest for a European public sphere focuses on the Europeanization of national public spheres as opposed to truly transnational spaces of communication. There are two good reasons for this approach, as pointed out in Chapter 1: transnational media are rare, and transnational media do not reach broad audiences in the same way that national media do. Nevertheless, transnational media do deserve closer scrutiny. This chapter will show that a mult…
Differential Europeanization: Explaining Vertical and Horizontal Europeanization in the Quality Press
In the preceding chapter we concluded from the results of our quantitative long-term cross-sectional content analysis that the Europeanization of public spheres has hitherto remained limited to a single dimension: the monitoring of EU governance. A truly integrated European public sphere in which public debate actually transcends national borders has not yet developed. However, while the overall result is similar for all newspapers, a detailed an…
Together We Fight? Europe’s Debate over the Legitimacy of Military Interventions
This chapter explores the Europeanization of public spheres in a highly contested area of European integration: the use of military force. It probes into the emergence of a common European security discourse as a‘hard case’ of Europeanization and analyses the ways in which speakers in the media have legitimized the use of force, changed domestic norms regarding the deployment of troops, and shifted national security identities in the wake of a ne…
The Transnationalization of Public Spheres: Theoretical Considerations
The transnationalization of public spheres can best be understood within the context of more encompassing transformations of the state. Since the late 1960s and early 1970s the nation-states of the OECD world — among them, of course, the growing number of member states of the European Union — have been in a process of continuous transformation (Zürn and Leibfried 2005; Hurrelmann et al. 2007). It is unclear as of now whether this incremental chan…
Analysing Europeanization: The Research Framework
In the previous chapter we developed a complex and multifarious model of the transnationalization of public spheres from both an empirical and a normative viewpoint. But how can such an ambitious model be translated into empirical research? The following chapter answers this question by describing and explaining the research design we employed to measure the transnationalization of public spheres. The first part of the chapter shows how the overa…
Conclusion
The empirical insights gained from our study move the research frontier forward in a number of ways. In this chapter we condense and highlight the most important findings before evaluating them in the light of our normative considerations. We begin by reviewing the trend results that mostly come out of the cross-issue content analysis; these cover the analytical dimensions monitoring governance, discursive integration and collective identificatio…
Europäische Öffentlichkeit durch Öffentlichkeitsarbeit?: Die Informationspolitik der Europäischen Kommission
Europäische Öffentlichkeit Durch Öffentlichkeitsarbeit?: Die Informationspolitik der Europäischen Kommission
Barbara Thomaß (Hrsg.) (2007): Mediensysteme im internationalen Vergleich. Konstanz: UVK
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Transnationalization of Public Spheres
This book takes a fresh look at a widely debated question in international relations and political communication research: How can public discourses contribute to democratic governance beyond the nati
Becoming Pan-European: Transnational Media and the European Public Sphere
Research about the European public sphere has so far mainly focused on the analysis of national media, neglecting a dimension of transnational communication, namely transnational media. These media could serve as horizontal links between the still nationally segmented public spheres and they could be platforms of a transnational European discourse. Four ideal-types of transnational media can be distinguished: (1) national media with a transnation…
Let's Talk about Europe: Why Europeanization Shows a Different Face in Different Newspapers
■ This article contributes to the ongoing quest for a European public sphere understood as a structural transformation of national public debates. This process of Europeanization of national public spheres has a vertical and a horizontal dimension: an increased focus on the EU as well as more attention to other European countries. A content analysis of quality newspapers in five EU member states covering a period of 20 years reveals common trends…
Journalistik als Kulturanalyse. Redaktionskulturen als Schlüssel zur Erforschung journalistischer Praxis
Die kulturtheoretische Perspektive gewinnt seit einigen Jahren in den Sozialwissenschaften an Bedeutung (Reckwitz 2008). Auch die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft hat sich davon anstecken lassen wie die Thematisierung von Journalismuskulturen (Hanitzsch 2007a), Nachrichtenkulturen (Esser 2008) und Medienkulturen (Hepp 2002) zeigt. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert, was es konzeptionell und methodisch bedeutet, wenn man Journalismus als Kultur analy…
The Strategic Repertoire of Publishers in the Media Crisis: The “Five C” scheme in Germany
Germany could be considered a deviant case in the comparative study of the current transformations in media markets as publishers continue to be profitable despite painting a gloomy picture of the possibility of there being a “media crisis.” What is specific about the German case is the strong economic position and political lobbying of the publisher associations. Combining different sources of primary and secondary data, this article investigate…
Transnational trigger constellations: Reconstructing the story behind the story
Understanding how the topics of news stories are socially constructed through journalistic practices is an important question for the study of journalism. We contribute to this strand of research by reconstructing the process of news making from the perspective of the journalists. The method used for this purpose is the comparative reconstruction of the ‘biographies’ of news stories by interviewing the authors of news stories. This was done durin…
Explaining cosmopolitan coverage
Research on international news flows has mostly aimed to explain why certain countries and regions are more reported on than others. There are few studies, however, on the reasons why some media outlets cover foreign affairs more intensively than others. This article thus extends our current knowledge by mapping different degrees of cosmopolitan coverage and identifying key conditions that help to explain these differences. Analysing foreign repo…
Hallin and Mancini Revisited: Four Empirical Types of Western Media Systems
The analysis of media systems has become a cornerstone in the field of comparative communication research. Ten years after its publication, we revisit the landmark study in the field, Hallin and Mancini's “Comparing Media Systems”, and operationalize its framework for standardized measurement. The study at hand is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to comprehensively validate the original dimensions and models using aggregated data from the…
Between Frame Setting and Frame Sending: How Journalists Contribute to News Frames
Framing has grown into a thriving approach to analyze media content and effects. Research on frame building is less well developed. In particular, journalists’ contributions to shaping the frames in the news deserve further analysis. This article conceptualizes these contributions to creating news frames: Journalistic framing practices are situated on a continuum between frame setting and frame sending. Journalists frame their articles more or le…
Transnational Communication as Deliberation, Ritual, and Strategy
Globalized communication flows transcend and transformnational borders. Transnational media outlets targeting audiences around the globe, issues of global concern are subjected to border-crossing public debates, media events receive transnational attention, and public diplomacy efforts succeed—and fail—in characteristic patterns around the world. In response to these phenomena the article shows how the study of transnational communication can ben…
Between Consensus and Denial: Climate Journalists as Interpretive Community
This study focuses on climate journalists as key mediators between science and the public sphere. It surveys journalists from five countries and five types of leading news outlets. Despite their different contexts, journalists form an interpretive community sharing the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change and agreeing on how to handle climate change skeptics. This consensus is particularly strong among a core of prolific writers w…
Von analog nach digital – Journalismus und Technik
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Framing the Newspaper Crisis: How debates on the state of the press are shaped in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and United States
This article argues that discourses of a newspaper “crisis” should not be regarded simply as descriptions of the actual state of the press but also as a means by which strategic actors frame the situation. The emerging frames can have substantial consequences for media policy making. The study identifies four key frames used to portray the newspaper “crisis” and discusses their relevance for public debates in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the …
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