Philipp Müller
Biographic Data
| ID | 325701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philipp Müller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philipp |
| FAMILY NAME | Müller |
| SIGNATURE | MÜLLER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mannheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5351-0608 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 394 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Planning for the Neoliberal Transition: The Transnational Legacy of Private–Public Cooperation in the Cahora Bassa Dam
Analyses of recent forms of statehood characterise economic planning as a key victim of neoliberal reforms. This is particularly true for countries in the Global South, where a transnational form of governance is said to have ended the previous dominance of national modernisation policies that were based on economic plans. By tracing the history of the Cahora Bassa dam in Mozambique since the Portuguese colonial era, the article shows that planni…
Strategic Continuity and Evolving Toolkit: Electoral Competition Revisited
The infrastructures and actor constellations through which election campaign communication unfolds have changed, with platforms, influencers, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools reshaping how campaigns operate. This raises the question of whether contemporary campaign communication differs fundamentally from that of earlier election cycles. Current debates oscillate between two extremes: either contemporary campaigns are fundamentally transfor…
Priming Effects of Emotion-Based Group Stigmatization in the News: Evidence From a Multistimulus Experiment
This study examines priming effects of emotion-based group stigmatization in journalistic reporting. Using computational text analysis, we test whether subtle associations of ethnicized groups with the emotions fear and admiration shape readers’ emotions, cognitions, and behavioral intentions. We conducted a multistimulus online experiment in which 2,139 German participants were randomly exposed to one of 638 real news articles referring to one o…
Putting ‘filter bubble’ effects to the test: Evidence on the polarizing impact of ideology-based news recommendation from two experiments in Germany and the U.S
Algorithmic news recommender systems (NRS) are present in many digital platforms. A decade after Eli Pariser introduced the infamous ‘filter bubble’ hypothesis, empirical evidence challenges the assumption that recommendation algorithms predominantly create homogeneous opinion environments. Studies indicate that algorithmic platform use may amplify users’ political polarization. Whether the link between platform use and polarization can be causal…
Explaining public communication change: A structure–actor model
Public communication change (PCC) is often studied in communication research with a somewhat narrow conceptual focus, for instance, either on the contingency or on the determination of communication development. I argue that instead of considering the various extant theoretical approaches as competing and irreconcilable, the field should strive for a holistic understanding that helps integrate them. I consider PCC as a process that unfolds over t…
Melissa Teixeira, A Third Path. Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2024, 366 p
After the Second World War, the return to parliamentary democracy was not embraced with enthusiasm in Western Europe. In France, West Germany and elsewhere many members of the political, administrative and economic elites did not see the republican form of government of the past as a promising model for the future. Rather, their assessment was that democracy was not good in itself, but “the least bad of the alternatives”, as Albert Camus put it. …
Developing a synthetic news corpus to validate generic frame detection methods
Frames are a central concept in communication research. Based on our literature review, we propose that frame identification is an act of identifying selected reality and communicative intention. We then highlight the conceptual and methodological issues of frame identification using computational methods. To avoid the correlation between topics and frames, we provide a synthetic dataset for evaluating frames found in multi-topical news content, …
Introduction: Historical Perspectives on Criticisms of European Integration
Kopf und Herz: Die Forschungspraxis von Johann Gustav Droysen
Droysens Weg zu seinen Quellen: Ein Blick auf die Praxis quellenfundierten historischen Arbeitens. Johann Gustav Droysen (1808-1884) gilt gemeinhin als Vater der historischen Quellenkritik. Doch wie gelangte er an seine Quellen? Der Zugang zu historischem Material war in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ein exklusives soziales Privileg und kein allgemeines und gleiches gesellschaftliches Recht. Philipp Müller richtet am Beispiel der Studie »Das Leb…
Universalitätsansprüche – Verbandsvertreter in der deutsch-französischen Wirtschaftsdiplomatie der 20er und frühen 30er Jahre
In the 20s and 30s German and French representatives of entrepreneurial interests often changed from the civil service to the management of business associations. In their new function, they were responsible for bringing their members’ interests to a common ground. In this context, they claimed to speak on behalf of the overall national economic cause. This strategy was due to the attempt to legitimize their coordination efforts through symbolic …
Täter und Täterinnen von Cyberkriminalität: Ergebnisse einer quantitativen Dunkelfeldbefragung in Niedersachsen
Dieser Beitrag stellt Ergebnisse selbstberichteter Delinquenz im Bereich Cyberkriminalität im engeren und weiteren Sinne vor, die im Rahmen einer repräsentativen Befragung der niedersächsischen Bevölkerung ab 16 Jahren im Jahr 2020 zum Thema Cyberkriminalität gewonnen werden konnten (N=4.102). Ein Ergebnis ist, dass der Anteil der Personen, die von eigenen Tathandlungen im Bereich Cyberkriminalität im engeren Sinne innerhalb der letzten zwölf Mon…
Divided by the Algorithm? The (Limited) Effects of Content- and Sentiment-Based News Recommendation on Affective, Ideological, and Perceived Polarization
Recent rises in political polarization across the globe are often ascribed to algorithmic content filtering on social media, news platforms, or search engines. The widespread usage of news recommendation systems (NRS) is theorized to drive users in homogenous information environments and, thereby, drive affective, ideological, and perceived polarization. To test this assumption, we conducted an online experiment ( n = 750) with running algorithms…
The Rise and Fall of the ‘World Economy’ in Weimar Germany
Recent studies have emphasized the role of international institutions in the emergence of a transnational culture of economic experts in the interwar period. According to this view, collaboration over the difficulties of international trade in goods and finance was driven by a common language of problem diagnosis and solution finding. This interpretation has pushed the relevance of the domestic context for ‘agents of the international’ into the b…
State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 3
Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original essays on the neoliberal era in Latin America and Spain, exploring subjects such as neoliberal public p…
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse
Philipp Müllerab* , Chung-Hong Chanbc, Katharina Ludwigab, Rainer Freudenthalerab & Hartmut Wessleraba Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germanyb Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germanyc Department of Computational Social Science, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, GermanyPhilipp Müller (PhD, LMU Munich, 2015) is Senior Lecturer…
Right-Wing, Populist, Controlled by Foreign Powers? Topic Diversification and Partisanship in the Content Structures of German-Language Alternative Media
This study investigates the overall topic compositions and traces of right-wing populist partisanship in the content structures of German-language digital alternative news outlets. We argue that a topically heterogeneous landscape of right-wing populist alternative news outlets could maximize the reach of right-wing populist messages. Using LDA topic modeling, we explore the topical structures of nine different outlets (n = 66,965 articles) and e…
The double-edged sword of online deliberation: How evidence-based user comments both decrease and increase discussion participation intentions on social media
Deliberation theory posits that users’ willingness to participate in online comment sections should increase if the discussions are more evidence-based. However, extant empirical research does not clearly support this assumption. The current study argues that social comparison processes and the metacognitive perception of knowledge mediate the relationship between evidence in comments and participation intention in different ways. Findings from t…
Sovereignty Trade-Offs between Politics and the Economy: The Deconcentration of IG Farben after 1945
The postwar deconcentration of IG Farben AG shows that the Allied military governments and their German counterparts were anything but united on the extent and form of sovereignty the Federal Republic of Germany should receive. The American plan to divide the corporate enterprise into a large number of individual companies aimed to establish a democratic state independent from the influence of domestic business. By contrast, West German governmen…
Past Intensities: An Obituary for Alf Lüdtke (1943–2019)
This obituary commemorates the life and work of the nationally and internationally renowned German historian Alf Lüdtke, who is best known for his concept of the everyday history and who, in the 1970s and 1980s, together with other colleagues, began to develop historically questions inspired by concepts of anthropology. With his studies he made very important contributions to the history of policing, violence, fascism in Germany and governance in…
Populist alternative news use and its role for elections: Web-tracking and survey evidence from two campaign periods
This study explores voters’ populist alternative news use during (different types of) democratic elections and investigates starting points for preventing potentially harmful effects. We draw from two combined data sets of web-tracking and survey data which were collected during the 2017 German Bundestag campaign (1523 participants) and the 2019 European Parliamentary election campaign in Germany (1009 participants). Results indicate that while p…
Burckhardt, Jacob
Studium der Theologie in Basel, der Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte in Berlin und Bonn, Promotion 1843 in Basel; 1855 Professor für Kunstgeschichte in Zürich, ab 1858 Professor für Geschichte in Basel, ab 1874 dort zugleich auch Professor für Kunstgeschichte; neben seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit Verfasser von Gedichten und Erzählungen; bedeutender Wegbereiter moderner Kulturgeschichte und Kunstgeschichte; engere Kontakte u. a. zu Franz Kugler, G…
We Are the People and You Are Fake News: A Social Identity Approach to Populist Citizens’ False Consensus and Hostile Media Perceptions
This study aims to investigate the relationships between citizens’ populist attitudes, perceptions of public opinion, and perceptions of mainstream news media. Relying on social identity theory as an explanatory framework, this article argues that populist citizens assume that public opinion is congruent with their own opinion and that mainstream media reporting is hostile toward their own views. To date, only anecdotal evidence suggests that bot…
Eingegangene Bücher
Quellen sammeln, Geschichte schreiben. Zur Materialität historischen Wissens im 19. Jahrhundert
Der Beitrag analysiert den für die historische Forschung im 19. Jahrhundert zentralen Konnex von Sammeln und Wissen. Forscher und Gelehrte verpflichteten sich im 19. Jahrhundert zunehmend, Aussagen über die Vergangenheit auf der Grundlage von materialfundierten Beobachtungen anzustellen. Diese autonome Setzung hatte zur Folge, dass Gelehrte in Abhängigkeit gerieten von Akteuren und Einrichtungen, die über relevantes Quellenmaterial verfügten. Die…
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years
The present research examines the longitudinal average impact of frequency of use of Internet and social networking sites (SNS) on subjective well-being of adolescents in Germany. Based on five-wave panel data that cover a period of nine years, we disentangle between-person and within-person effects of media use on depressive symptomatology and life satisfaction as indicators of subjective well-being. Additionally, we control for confounders such…
Measuring Populist Attitudes on Three Dimensions
Theoretically, populism has been conceptualized as a political ideology with three sub-dimensions: anti-elitism attitudes, a preference for popular sovereignty, and a belief in the homogeneity and virtuousness of the people. However, empirical research to date has treated populist attitudes as a unidimensional construct. To address this issue, we propose to conceptualize populist attitudes as a latent higher-order construct with three distinct fi…
Alternative media for a populist audience? Exploring political and media use predictors of exposure to Breitbart, Sputnik, and Co
Alongside the recent rise of political populism, a new type of alternative media has established in past years that allegedly contribute to the distribution of the populist narrative. Using a large-scale quota survey of German Internet users (n = 1346) we investigate political and media use predictors of exposure to alternative media with an affinity to populism (AMP). Results reveal substantial differences between occasional and frequent AMP use…
The Polarizing Impact of News Coverage on Populist Attitudes in the Public: Evidence From a Panel Study in Four European Democracies
This study explores how news messages carrying parts of the populist ideology contribute to a polarization of public opinion about populism. It combines a content analysis of news coverage on two policy areas (N = 7,119 stories) with a two-wave panel survey (N = 2,338) in four European metropolitan regions (Berlin, Paris, London, and Zurich). In three regions, unopposed media messages with a populist stance have a conditional effect on populist a…
The Effects of Right-Wing Populist Communication on Emotions and Cognitions toward Immigrants
The persuasiveness of right-wing populist communication has become a widely discussed topic; it is often assumed that such messages might foster anti-immigrant attitudes among citizens. The present study explores the effects of the different components of right-wing populist communication—anti-immigrant messages, populist content, and populist style—on attitudes toward immigrants. By combining a media content analysis ( N = 605 articles) with a p…
Measuring Populism across Nations: Testing for Measurement Invariance of an Inventory of Populist Attitudes
The rising voter support for populist parties in Western Democracies in recent years has incited academic interest in populist voters and attitudes connected to the voting propensity of populist actors. In line of this research, numerous scales to measure populist attitudes among voters have been proposed. In most cases, however, the measurement of populist attitudes was tailored to specific countries and its applicability to cross-national resea…
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years
The present research examines the longitudinal average impact of frequency of use of Internet and social networking sites (SNS) on subjective well-being of adolescents in Germany. Based on five-wave panel data that cover a period of nine years, we disentangle between-person and within-person effects of media use on depressive symptomatology and life satisfaction as indicators of subjective well-being. Additionally, we control for confounders such…
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse
Philipp Müllerab* , Chung-Hong Chanbc, Katharina Ludwigab, Rainer Freudenthalerab & Hartmut Wessleraba Institute for Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germanyb Mannheim Center for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germanyc Department of Computational Social Science, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, GermanyPhilipp Müller (PhD, LMU Munich, 2015) is Senior Lecturer…
Populist alternative news use and its role for elections: Web-tracking and survey evidence from two campaign periods
This study explores voters’ populist alternative news use during (different types of) democratic elections and investigates starting points for preventing potentially harmful effects. We draw from two combined data sets of web-tracking and survey data which were collected during the 2017 German Bundestag campaign (1523 participants) and the 2019 European Parliamentary election campaign in Germany (1009 participants). Results indicate that while p…
Design follows politics? The visualization of political orientation in newspaper page layout
This article explores how the political orientation of newspapers is reflected in their page layout. The authors compare the layouts of five German national quality newspapers exemplarily and exploratively in a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Dimensions of comparison are typography, size, colouration, quantity and arrangement of elements. Results show systematic differences between the page layouts of left-wing and right-win…
National identity building through patterns of an international third-person perception in news coverage
This article argues that news coverage plays an important role for national identity building in the way that it evaluates the own nation better than foreign nations (in-group/out-group bias). This notion is being transferred to the media as an element of national cultural identity. This article identifies analogies between national identity building through the mass media and the third-person perception, which states that people assume others to…
The double-edged sword of online deliberation: How evidence-based user comments both decrease and increase discussion participation intentions on social media
Deliberation theory posits that users’ willingness to participate in online comment sections should increase if the discussions are more evidence-based. However, extant empirical research does not clearly support this assumption. The current study argues that social comparison processes and the metacognitive perception of knowledge mediate the relationship between evidence in comments and participation intention in different ways. Findings from t…
Populist Words Speak Louder? Ideology-Inconsistent Personalization and Voting for Populist Candidates
The private background of populist politicians oftentimes seemingly contradicts the populist ideology—which can be taken up in political communication. Using two experiments (nStudy 1 = 734; nStudy 2 = 568), we investigate the effects of such ideology-inconsistent personalization on the evaluation of and voting for a populist candidate. We manipulate the politician’s localness and social class (Study 1) and traditionalism in family life (Study 2)…
Archives and history: Towards a history of ‘the use of state archives’ in the 19 th century
This article probes the relationship between archives and history by examining the archive policy on historical research in the first modern administration state of the German lands, the kingdom of Bavaria. Given the continuing tradition of the theory and practice of the arcana imperii in the 19 th century, state archives served first and foremost the state. As a result, researchers’ interest in archival material was to undergo an administrative …
Divided by the Algorithm? The (Limited) Effects of Content- and Sentiment-Based News Recommendation on Affective, Ideological, and Perceived Polarization
Recent rises in political polarization across the globe are often ascribed to algorithmic content filtering on social media, news platforms, or search engines. The widespread usage of news recommendation systems (NRS) is theorized to drive users in homogenous information environments and, thereby, drive affective, ideological, and perceived polarization. To test this assumption, we conducted an online experiment ( n = 750) with running algorithms…
Facebook or Fakebook? How users’ perceptions of ‘fake news’ are related to their evaluation and verification of news on Facebook
Research suggests that Facebook’s reputation as a news source is in decline. One reason for this development might be found in how users perceive their own exposure to alleged ‘fake news’ - a phenomenon which has been strongly linked to Facebook in public debate. Using a quota survey of German Internet users (n = 743) we investigate how users’ self-perceived exposure to ‘fake news’ and the ‘fake news’ debate are related to their evaluation and ve…
Sovereignty Trade-Offs between Politics and the Economy: The Deconcentration of IG Farben after 1945
The postwar deconcentration of IG Farben AG shows that the Allied military governments and their German counterparts were anything but united on the extent and form of sovereignty the Federal Republic of Germany should receive. The American plan to divide the corporate enterprise into a large number of individual companies aimed to establish a democratic state independent from the influence of domestic business. By contrast, West German governmen…
Is a theory of media and communication history possible (and necessary)
While there has been a broad debate on the use of theory in history in general, there are few contributions by historians of communication and the media discussing the role of theory in their particular field. We therefore review and discuss some of the main arguments pertaining to the use of theory in historiography and apply them to the field of media and communication history. Such arguments include the assumption that theories are already imp…
Leserbehoeftes: N Nuwe vorm van sensuur
In one generation the world in which the Afrikaans newspaper operates has changed dramatically. In this article on Reader needs: a new form of censorship, the role of the printed media, especially the Afrikaans newspaper, in a changing South Africa is evaluated. Since February 2, 1990, the process of political change has put a greater responsibility on the shoulders of the press. The newspaper has to make sense to its readers of what they perceiv…
Geschichte machen: Überlegungen zu lokal-spezifischen Praktiken in der Geschichtswissenschaft und ihrer epistemischen Bedeutung im 19. Jahrhundert. Ein Literaturbericht
Explaining History. Hippolyte Taine’s Philosophy of Historical Science
National identity building through patterns of an international third-person perception in news coverage
This article argues that news coverage plays an important role for national identity building in the way that it evaluates the own nation better than foreign nations (in-group/out-group bias). This notion is being transferred to the media as an element of national cultural identity. This article identifies analogies between national identity building through the mass media and the third-person perception, which states that people assume others to…
Archives and history: Towards a history of ‘the use of state archives’ in the 19 th century
This article probes the relationship between archives and history by examining the archive policy on historical research in the first modern administration state of the German lands, the kingdom of Bavaria. Given the continuing tradition of the theory and practice of the arcana imperii in the 19 th century, state archives served first and foremost the state. As a result, researchers’ interest in archival material was to undergo an administrative …
Die neue Geschichte aus dem alten Archiv. Geschichtsforschung und Arkanpolitik in Mitteleuropa, ca. 1800 – ca. 1850
Das Studium von Urkunden und Akten in staatlichen Archiven zu historischen Zwecken ist uns heute ein vertrautes wie gängiges Verfahren, um etwas über die Vergangenheit zu erfahren. Gleichwohl dienten staatliche Archive zunächst nicht der historischen Forschung. Der vorliegende Artikel ermittelt zunächst die herrschaftspolitische Funktion der Archive für Staat und Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert, um schließlich danach zu fragen, wie vor der regier…
Barasa, Bribery and Beyond: Offences against the Administration of Justice at the International Criminal Court
Through the most recent proceedings initiated by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Walter Barasa, the issue of proceedings for alleged offences against the administration of justice pursuant to Article 70 of the Rome Statute has gained relevance for both legal practice and in the academic field. The regime established by the article differs significantly from the one applicable to the ad-hoc tribunals as it shifts p…
Romantik und Freiheit: Wechselspiele zwischen Ästhetik und Politik
Romanticism is hard to pin down. In a limited sense the group of German literary philosophers gathered around Friedrich Schlegel has been identified as a core of romantic thinking. But romanticism was, of course, not restricted to designating the days of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century in the city of Jena. Rather, romantic intellectual movements were widespread, reaching not only beyond Europe but also to questions beyond literar…
Europe
Public opinion surveys indicate that most people in European countries harbor negative attitudes toward ethnic minorities and favor policy programs intended to restrict immigration. This chapter provides an overview of how ethnic minorities are portrayed in the media in European countries. It explores how immigration and integration in Europe has developed and provides a summary of findings on media representations of ethnic minorities in Europe.…
Die Wahrnehmung des Medienwandels
Die Wahrnehmung des Medienwandels: Eine Exploration ihrer Dimensionen, Entstehungsbedingungen und Folgen
Medienwandel als Gegenstand der Forschung
National identity building as a mediated process
Is a theory of media and communication history possible (and necessary)
While there has been a broad debate on the use of theory in history in general, there are few contributions by historians of communication and the media discussing the role of theory in their particular field. We therefore review and discuss some of the main arguments pertaining to the use of theory in historiography and apply them to the field of media and communication history. Such arguments include the assumption that theories are already imp…
How Perceived Persuasive Intent and Reactance Contribute to Third-Person Perceptions: Evidence from Two Experiments
In two experiments, this study presents a process model that explains third-person perceptions (TPP) as a function of perceived persuasive intent and reactance. Using two nonstudent samples, findings were internally replicated for two topics. The study shows that media messages evoking perceptions of persuasive intent also activate reactance, which in turn predicts TPP topic-independently. Remarkably, half of the total stimulus effect on TPP coul…
Measuring Populist Attitudes on Three Dimensions
Theoretically, populism has been conceptualized as a political ideology with three sub-dimensions: anti-elitism attitudes, a preference for popular sovereignty, and a belief in the homogeneity and virtuousness of the people. However, empirical research to date has treated populist attitudes as a unidimensional construct. To address this issue, we propose to conceptualize populist attitudes as a latent higher-order construct with three distinct fi…
The special taste of snack news: An application of niche theory to understand the appeal of Facebook as a news source
Facebook has become an important source for political information since news posts are an essential part of the content that is shared and spread within the SNS. The present study applies the uses and gratifications approach and the theory of the niche to understand the specific appeal of Facebook as a source for political news. We compare the gratifications obtained from political Facebook news with those of political television news and newspap…
Looking left or looking right? Effects of newspaper layout style on the perception of political news
The perception of political messages may not only be shaped by textual information, but also by its visual appearance. An online experiment investigated how newspaper articles’ layout style and text slant affect the perception of a newspapers’ political orientation on the left-right axis. The layout versions were based on a prior analysis of correlations between design and political direction of quality newspapers. Results suggest the existence o…
The Polarizing Impact of News Coverage on Populist Attitudes in the Public: Evidence From a Panel Study in Four European Democracies
This study explores how news messages carrying parts of the populist ideology contribute to a polarization of public opinion about populism. It combines a content analysis of news coverage on two policy areas (N = 7,119 stories) with a two-wave panel survey (N = 2,338) in four European metropolitan regions (Berlin, Paris, London, and Zurich). In three regions, unopposed media messages with a populist stance have a conditional effect on populist a…
Design follows politics? The visualization of political orientation in newspaper page layout
This article explores how the political orientation of newspapers is reflected in their page layout. The authors compare the layouts of five German national quality newspapers exemplarily and exploratively in a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Dimensions of comparison are typography, size, colouration, quantity and arrangement of elements. Results show systematic differences between the page layouts of left-wing and right-win…
The Effects of Right-Wing Populist Communication on Emotions and Cognitions toward Immigrants
The persuasiveness of right-wing populist communication has become a widely discussed topic; it is often assumed that such messages might foster anti-immigrant attitudes among citizens. The present study explores the effects of the different components of right-wing populist communication—anti-immigrant messages, populist content, and populist style—on attitudes toward immigrants. By combining a media content analysis ( N = 605 articles) with a p…
Das Experiment in der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft: Grundlagen, Durchführung und Auswertung experimenteller Forschung
Facebook or Fakebook? How users’ perceptions of ‘fake news’ are related to their evaluation and verification of news on Facebook
Research suggests that Facebook’s reputation as a news source is in decline. One reason for this development might be found in how users perceive their own exposure to alleged ‘fake news’ - a phenomenon which has been strongly linked to Facebook in public debate. Using a quota survey of German Internet users (n = 743) we investigate how users’ self-perceived exposure to ‘fake news’ and the ‘fake news’ debate are related to their evaluation and ve…
Measuring Populism across Nations: Testing for Measurement Invariance of an Inventory of Populist Attitudes
The rising voter support for populist parties in Western Democracies in recent years has incited academic interest in populist voters and attitudes connected to the voting propensity of populist actors. In line of this research, numerous scales to measure populist attitudes among voters have been proposed. In most cases, however, the measurement of populist attitudes was tailored to specific countries and its applicability to cross-national resea…
Alternative media for a populist audience? Exploring political and media use predictors of exposure to Breitbart, Sputnik, and Co
Alongside the recent rise of political populism, a new type of alternative media has established in past years that allegedly contribute to the distribution of the populist narrative. Using a large-scale quota survey of German Internet users (n = 1346) we investigate political and media use predictors of exposure to alternative media with an affinity to populism (AMP). Results reveal substantial differences between occasional and frequent AMP use…
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