Marcus Maurer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcus Maurer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcus |
| FAMILY NAME | Maurer |
| SIGNATURE | MAURER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4582-3623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Assessing the information quality of online sources used by first year students for solving generic critical online reasoning tasks
University students are increasingly using online media for learning purposes. However, the information presented there varies greatly in terms of quality. Previous studies have often examined the quality of online sources based on a simplified rating but have not explicitly studied the specific content of those sources or taken a multidimensional view of quality. The present study goes beyond previous research and, for the first time, explicitly…
The effects of constructive journalism: Towards a theoretical framework
News media coverage mainly focuses on problems and conflicts, resulting in unintended negative consequences for democracy and journalism itself. Constructive journalism aims to address these issues by emphasizing solution-oriented reporting. However, research on its effects remains inconsistent, mainly due to vague definitions of constructive journalism and a lack of theoretical foundation. This paper first proposes a content-centered definition …
How (Gendered) Media Portrayals of Refugees Affect Attitudes Toward Immigration. The Moderating Role of Political Ideology
The Quality of Covid-19 Coverage: Investigating Relevance and Viewpoint Diversity in German Mainstream and Alternative Media
The COVID-19 pandemic was a major challenge for journalism. In the case of Germany, critics very early on voiced concerns over the quality of mainstream media coverage. Mainstream media were attacked for the intensity of their coverage, for reporting too much and unnecessarily frightening audiences, for not presenting a diversity of viewpoints on the pandemic and the measures taken to mitigate it, and for being one-sided and too close to the gove…
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast-track to knowledge. To fulfill this functional role, those who claim epistemic authority need to be both subjectively recognized (have a perceived advantage in knowledge) and objectively justified (have…
Invisible transparency: How different types of ad disclaimers on Facebook affect whether and how digital political advertising is perceived
One central measure set out in the regulation of digital political advertising (DPA) concentrates on transparency disclaimers to make users aware that the respective content was bought and targeted at them with a specific intention by an advertiser. However, we lack scientific evidence about if and how users perceive transparency disclaimers of DPA on social media. This article aims to provide first empirical answers to these questions by drawing…
How Right-Wing Populists Instrumentalize News Media: Deliberate Provocations, Scandalizing Media Coverage, and Public Awareness for the Alternative for Germany (Afd)
The rise of right-wing populist parties in Western democracies is often attributed to populists’ ability to instrumentalize news media by making deliberate provocations (e.g., verbal attacks on migrants or politicians from other parties) that generate media coverage and public awareness. To explain the success of populists’ deliberate provocations, we drew from research on populism and scandal theory to develop a theoretical framework that we tes…
Investigating Opinions on Public Policies in Digital Media: Setting up a Supervised Machine Learning Tool for Stance Classification
Supervised machine learning (SML) provides us with tools to efficiently scrutinize large corpora of communication texts. Yet, setting up such a tool involves plenty of decisions starting with the data needed for training, the selection of an algorithm, and the details of model training. We aim at establishing a firm link between communication research tasks and the corresponding state-of-the-art in natural language processing research by systemat…
In Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria, Comorbid Depression Linked to Higher Disease Activity, and Substance P Levels
Background: Patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria often exhibit psychiatric comorbidities including depression that contribute to the impairment of their quality of life. How CSU and depression are linked isn't well-understood. Substance P has been shown to be increased in patients with CSU and is held to contribute to the pathogenesis of depression. Methods: We measured disease activity in 30 CSU patients without depression and 30 CSU pati…
How Do University Students’ Web Search Behavior, Website Characteristics, and the Interaction of Both Influence Students’ Critical Online Reasoning
The Internet has become one of the main sources of information for university students’ learning. Since anyone can disseminate content online, however, the Internet is full of irrelevant, biased, or even false information. Thus, students’ ability to use online information in a critical-reflective manner is of crucial importance. In our study, we used a framework for the assessment of students’ critical online reasoning (COR) to measure university…
Popularity cues in online media: Theoretical and methodological perspectives
Popularity cues, such as likes and shares, point to mainly positive user reactions. On an aggregated level, they either indicate relevance assignments or endorsements of online items, particularly in the context of political communication. Second, popularity cues may affect the audience’s political perceptions, behaviors, and attitudes. This paper addresses theoretical and methodological issues for both perspectives. Drawing on concepts such as p…
Motivierte Zweifel. Wie die Voreinstellungen der Rezipienten zum Berichterstattungsgegenstand ihre Wahrnehmung der Medienglaubwürdigkeit beeinflussen
Right-wing populist groups’ accusations of a ‘lying’ press and the increasing fear of the effects of fake news on public opinion formation give rise to the question of how trust in the news media can be explained. Social psychological theories such as the Hostile Media Effect or the idea of Motivated Reasoning suggest that recipients perceive media coverage as trustworthy, if it is in line with their own predispositions, regardless of notions of …
Auf den Spuren der Lügenpresse: Zur Richtigkeit und Ausgewogenheit der Medienberichterstattung in der „Flüchtlingskrise“
Nonverbale Politische Kommunikation
Nonverbale politische Kommunikation
Nonverbal Influence During Televised Debates: Integrating CRM in Experimental Channel Studies
Experimental studies find a strong influence of nonverbal signals on the evaluation of political candidates when raters are asked to judge unknown candidates from short-duration exposures. Yet when viewers are exposed to candidates' verbal and nonverbal communication in a more naturally occurring context, the presence of verbal communication can make the influence of nonverbal communication seem attenuated. To link these findings, the present stu…
Vorsprung durch Technik? Die Analyse journalistischer Online-Angebote mit Hilfe automatisierter Verfahren
Because of the growing importance of the internet as a communication channel, content analyses of websites are becoming more and more central to the field of communication research. Online content offers opportunities, such as digitalization and the availability of meta-data as well as challenges. These challenges are, e.g., the dynamics, multimediality, hypertextuality and personalization of websites. This article discusses frequently used strat…
Media Logic and Political Logic Online and Offline: The case of climate change communication
One aspect of the mediatization of politics is the idea that political actors adapt to the communication logic of news media to gain, for example, news media attention. Currently, this process may be influenced by the diffusion of the internet as a political communication channel, especially because online communication provides a new opportunity for political actors to communicate directly with citizens. Thus far, the adaptation to media logic b…
Die Spätentscheider
Die Spätentscheider: Medieneinflüsse auf kurzfristige Wahlentscheidungen
Die Spätentscheider: Medieneinflüsse Auf Kurzfristige Wahlentscheidungen
Realismus als Beruf: Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Medien und Wirklichkeit
Is There a Visual Dominance in Political Communication? How Verbal, Visual, and Vocal Communication Shape Viewers' Impressions of Political Candidates: Visual Dominance in Political Communication
On the basis of a televised debate in the 2005 German national election, this study compares the influence of verbal, visual, and vocal communication on viewers' immediate impressions of political candidates by using an innovative research design. A second-by-second content analysis of 17 verbal, visual, and vocal message elements is combined with a second-by-second analysis of viewers' immediate impressions using continuous response measurement …
Der mediale Attraktivitätsbonus: Wie die physische Attraktivität von Wahlkreiskandidaten die Medienberichterstattung in Wahlkämpfen beeinflusst
Sagen Bilder mehr als tausend Worte? Die Relevanz verbaler und visueller Informationen für die Urteilsbildung über Personen im Fernsehen
M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft , Seite 198 - 216
Auf den Spuren der Lügenpresse: Zur Richtigkeit und Ausgewogenheit der Medienberichterstattung in der „Flüchtlingskrise“
Popularity cues in online media: Theoretical and methodological perspectives
Popularity cues, such as likes and shares, point to mainly positive user reactions. On an aggregated level, they either indicate relevance assignments or endorsements of online items, particularly in the context of political communication. Second, popularity cues may affect the audience’s political perceptions, behaviors, and attitudes. This paper addresses theoretical and methodological issues for both perspectives. Drawing on concepts such as p…
Reliability and Validity of Real-Time Response Measurement: A Comparison of Two Studies of a Televised Debate in Germany
This paper investigates the reliability and validity of real-time response measurements (RTR). It is based on a comparison of two quasi-experimental studies independently conducted on the second televised debate of the two major candidates for chancellor in the 2002 German federal election campaign. Participants in Bamberg and Mainz—two mid-sized German cities—followed the debate on a large-scale screen. The viewers’ immediate reactions to the ca…
Issues and Personalities in German and Dutch Television News: Patterns and Effects
This article elucidates the role of issue news and personality news in Germany and the Netherlands. A party with a popular leader is assumed to benefit from increased media attention. A party may also benefit from issue news. News on an issue favours its `issue owner' (e.g. the German Social Democrats in the case of news on social security). Good news on issue developments (e.g. rising employment) favours the parties who make up the Dutch coaliti…
How Right-Wing Populists Instrumentalize News Media: Deliberate Provocations, Scandalizing Media Coverage, and Public Awareness for the Alternative for Germany (Afd)
The rise of right-wing populist parties in Western democracies is often attributed to populists’ ability to instrumentalize news media by making deliberate provocations (e.g., verbal attacks on migrants or politicians from other parties) that generate media coverage and public awareness. To explain the success of populists’ deliberate provocations, we drew from research on populism and scandal theory to develop a theoretical framework that we tes…
Sagen Bilder mehr als tausend Worte? Die Relevanz verbaler und visueller Informationen für die Urteilsbildung über Personen im Fernsehen
M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft , Seite 198 - 216
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast-track to knowledge. To fulfill this functional role, those who claim epistemic authority need to be both subjectively recognized (have a perceived advantage in knowledge) and objectively justified (have…
The Quality of Covid-19 Coverage: Investigating Relevance and Viewpoint Diversity in German Mainstream and Alternative Media
The COVID-19 pandemic was a major challenge for journalism. In the case of Germany, critics very early on voiced concerns over the quality of mainstream media coverage. Mainstream media were attacked for the intensity of their coverage, for reporting too much and unnecessarily frightening audiences, for not presenting a diversity of viewpoints on the pandemic and the measures taken to mitigate it, and for being one-sided and too close to the gove…
Nonverbal Influence During Televised Debates: Integrating CRM in Experimental Channel Studies
Experimental studies find a strong influence of nonverbal signals on the evaluation of political candidates when raters are asked to judge unknown candidates from short-duration exposures. Yet when viewers are exposed to candidates' verbal and nonverbal communication in a more naturally occurring context, the presence of verbal communication can make the influence of nonverbal communication seem attenuated. To link these findings, the present stu…
Investigating Opinions on Public Policies in Digital Media: Setting up a Supervised Machine Learning Tool for Stance Classification
Supervised machine learning (SML) provides us with tools to efficiently scrutinize large corpora of communication texts. Yet, setting up such a tool involves plenty of decisions starting with the data needed for training, the selection of an algorithm, and the details of model training. We aim at establishing a firm link between communication research tasks and the corresponding state-of-the-art in natural language processing research by systemat…
Motivierte Zweifel. Wie die Voreinstellungen der Rezipienten zum Berichterstattungsgegenstand ihre Wahrnehmung der Medienglaubwürdigkeit beeinflussen
Right-wing populist groups’ accusations of a ‘lying’ press and the increasing fear of the effects of fake news on public opinion formation give rise to the question of how trust in the news media can be explained. Social psychological theories such as the Hostile Media Effect or the idea of Motivated Reasoning suggest that recipients perceive media coverage as trustworthy, if it is in line with their own predispositions, regardless of notions of …
Media Logic and Political Logic Online and Offline: The case of climate change communication
One aspect of the mediatization of politics is the idea that political actors adapt to the communication logic of news media to gain, for example, news media attention. Currently, this process may be influenced by the diffusion of the internet as a political communication channel, especially because online communication provides a new opportunity for political actors to communicate directly with citizens. Thus far, the adaptation to media logic b…
Der mediale Attraktivitätsbonus: Wie die physische Attraktivität von Wahlkreiskandidaten die Medienberichterstattung in Wahlkämpfen beeinflusst
Issues and Personalities in German and Dutch Television News: Patterns and Effects
This article elucidates the role of issue news and personality news in Germany and the Netherlands. A party with a popular leader is assumed to benefit from increased media attention. A party may also benefit from issue news. News on an issue favours its `issue owner' (e.g. the German Social Democrats in the case of news on social security). Good news on issue developments (e.g. rising employment) favours the parties who make up the Dutch coaliti…
Schröder gegen Stoiber: Nutzung, Wahrnehmung und Wirkung der TV-Duelle
Unifying or Polarizing? Short-Term Effects and Postdebate Consequences of Different Rhetorical Strategies in Televised Debates
Despite a large body of research, little is known about the ways in which viewers react to different kinds of statements during televised debates nor about the degree to which these short-term reactions influence postdebate opinions. Taking the second televised debate in the 2002 German national election as an example, we address both of these questions. We identify the most unifying and polarizing statements and connect immediate reactions durin…
Medieninhalte
Der Band ist eine systematische und grundlegende Einführung in die Medieninhaltsforschung in Deutschland. Der erste Teil beschäftigt sich mit der quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse als Methode und gibt den Lesern Kriterien an die Hand, die ihm die Beurteilung der Qualität und die Interpretation von inhaltsanalytischen Befunden erleichtern sollen. Der zweite Teil stellt die wichtigsten Ergebnisse inhaltsanalytischer Studien in den Bereichen aktuelle Ber…
Reliability and Validity of Real-Time Response Measurement: A Comparison of Two Studies of a Televised Debate in Germany
This paper investigates the reliability and validity of real-time response measurements (RTR). It is based on a comparison of two quasi-experimental studies independently conducted on the second televised debate of the two major candidates for chancellor in the 2002 German federal election campaign. Participants in Bamberg and Mainz—two mid-sized German cities—followed the debate on a large-scale screen. The viewers’ immediate reactions to the ca…
Schröder gegen Merkel
Der SPD ist im Bundestagswahlkampf eine beispiellose Aufholjagd gelungen. Welche Rolle hat das TV-Duell zwischen Gerhard Schröder und Angela Merkel hierbei gespielt? Wie viele Wähler wurden durch das Duell umgestimmt? Wie muss man argumentieren, um die Wähler auf seine Seite zu ziehen? Welchen Einfluss hatte die Medienberichterstattung über das Duell? Diese Fragen werden im vorliegenden Band beantwortet. Die Autoren haben in ihrer Studie die Eind…
Medieninhalte: Eine Einführung
Schr oder gegen Merkel: Wahrnehmung und Wirkung des TV-Duells 2005 im Ost-West-Vergleich
Schröder Gegen Merkel: Wahrnehmung und Wirkung des TV-Duells 2005 Im Ost-West-Vergleich
Sagen Bilder mehr als tausend Worte? Die Relevanz verbaler und visueller Informationen für die Urteilsbildung über Personen im Fernsehen
M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft , Seite 198 - 216
Der mediale Attraktivitätsbonus: Wie die physische Attraktivität von Wahlkreiskandidaten die Medienberichterstattung in Wahlkämpfen beeinflusst
Is There a Visual Dominance in Political Communication? How Verbal, Visual, and Vocal Communication Shape Viewers' Impressions of Political Candidates: Visual Dominance in Political Communication
On the basis of a televised debate in the 2005 German national election, this study compares the influence of verbal, visual, and vocal communication on viewers' immediate impressions of political candidates by using an innovative research design. A second-by-second content analysis of 17 verbal, visual, and vocal message elements is combined with a second-by-second analysis of viewers' immediate impressions using continuous response measurement …
Die Spätentscheider
Die Spätentscheider: Medieneinflüsse auf kurzfristige Wahlentscheidungen
Die Spätentscheider: Medieneinflüsse Auf Kurzfristige Wahlentscheidungen
Realismus als Beruf: Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Medien und Wirklichkeit
Media Logic and Political Logic Online and Offline: The case of climate change communication
One aspect of the mediatization of politics is the idea that political actors adapt to the communication logic of news media to gain, for example, news media attention. Currently, this process may be influenced by the diffusion of the internet as a political communication channel, especially because online communication provides a new opportunity for political actors to communicate directly with citizens. Thus far, the adaptation to media logic b…
Vorsprung durch Technik? Die Analyse journalistischer Online-Angebote mit Hilfe automatisierter Verfahren
Because of the growing importance of the internet as a communication channel, content analyses of websites are becoming more and more central to the field of communication research. Online content offers opportunities, such as digitalization and the availability of meta-data as well as challenges. These challenges are, e.g., the dynamics, multimediality, hypertextuality and personalization of websites. This article discusses frequently used strat…
Nonverbale Politische Kommunikation
Nonverbale politische Kommunikation
Nonverbal Influence During Televised Debates: Integrating CRM in Experimental Channel Studies
Experimental studies find a strong influence of nonverbal signals on the evaluation of political candidates when raters are asked to judge unknown candidates from short-duration exposures. Yet when viewers are exposed to candidates' verbal and nonverbal communication in a more naturally occurring context, the presence of verbal communication can make the influence of nonverbal communication seem attenuated. To link these findings, the present stu…
Popularity cues in online media: Theoretical and methodological perspectives
Popularity cues, such as likes and shares, point to mainly positive user reactions. On an aggregated level, they either indicate relevance assignments or endorsements of online items, particularly in the context of political communication. Second, popularity cues may affect the audience’s political perceptions, behaviors, and attitudes. This paper addresses theoretical and methodological issues for both perspectives. Drawing on concepts such as p…
Motivierte Zweifel. Wie die Voreinstellungen der Rezipienten zum Berichterstattungsgegenstand ihre Wahrnehmung der Medienglaubwürdigkeit beeinflussen
Right-wing populist groups’ accusations of a ‘lying’ press and the increasing fear of the effects of fake news on public opinion formation give rise to the question of how trust in the news media can be explained. Social psychological theories such as the Hostile Media Effect or the idea of Motivated Reasoning suggest that recipients perceive media coverage as trustworthy, if it is in line with their own predispositions, regardless of notions of …
Auf den Spuren der Lügenpresse: Zur Richtigkeit und Ausgewogenheit der Medienberichterstattung in der „Flüchtlingskrise“
How Do University Students’ Web Search Behavior, Website Characteristics, and the Interaction of Both Influence Students’ Critical Online Reasoning
The Internet has become one of the main sources of information for university students’ learning. Since anyone can disseminate content online, however, the Internet is full of irrelevant, biased, or even false information. Thus, students’ ability to use online information in a critical-reflective manner is of crucial importance. In our study, we used a framework for the assessment of students’ critical online reasoning (COR) to measure university…
Media Studies and Communication (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · German (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (6 works)