Daniel Vogler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4168907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Vogler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Vogler |
| SIGNATURE | VOGLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0211-7574 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Everything has changed”: A qualitative study of trends in university communication over the past decade
Universities are pivotal in contemporary knowledge societies, bridging science and society. Amidst societal transformations, communication has become crucial for higher education institutions (HEIs). Yet, research on university communication is limited, with few studies capturing long-term developments. This qualitative study addresses this gap by examining changes in university communication departments over the past decade in Switzerland. Semi-…
Religion(s) in Swiss newspapers: A longitudinal analysis of salience and topics from 1998 to 2022
Religion has long been a topic of interest in news coverage. However, research shows that its representation and prominence fluctuate with different thematic foci, often depending on perceived newsworthiness driven by real-world events. However, comprehensive longitudinal studies of religion(s) in news coverage remain scarce. Addressing this research gap, our study examined the coverage of religion and religious traditions in different types of n…
Analyzing the Relation between News Coverage of Heat, Drought, and Climate Change and Meteorological Data from 1998 to 2023
Driven by climate change, extreme weather events are increasing worldwide. Through their reporting, news media can inform public understanding of this trend. However, it is not yet clear to what extent the media report on extreme weather events, how their reporting relates to actual weather conditions, and whether they address the connection to climate change in their coverage. We use automated content analysis to examine the coverage of heat, dr…
The Short-Term Impact of an On-Site Literacy Intervention on Discerning Deepfake Videos Based on Visual Features
This study examines how well individuals in Switzerland can distinguish high-quality deepfakes from real videos and whether a brief literacy intervention improves detection. In an online experiment with 1,361 participants, we tested the deepfake detection skills and how prior exposure and experience with deepfakes and various forms of media literacy relate to performance. Participants struggled to identify deepfakes when attending to visual featu…
Tracking the Roots of Low News Usage on Smartphones – Do Individual Interests, Political Attitudes, and Media Consumption Habits Affect the Mobile News Use of Young Adults
While democratic opinion formation relies on citizens receiving vital information from the news, an increasing number of people consistently consume very little of it. To address this concern, we tracked the mobile news consumption of 382 young adults in Switzerland and combined it with survey data of the participants to determine the effect of topical interests, political attitudes, and media consumption habits on news usage. We found that inter…
Issue Attention and Semantic Overlap in Vaccination Coverage Within Switzerland’s Hybrid Media System
Despite broad scientific support, vaccination is traditionally a contested issue among the public. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the issue of vaccination received widespread attention in news media and on social media. Although we know that public debates on such disputed issues evolve over time in hybrid media systems, there is still little knowledge about the extent to which news media and social media align or differ in their issue attention d…
The plurivocal university: Typologizing the diverse voices of a research university on social media
Science communication has diversified in the wake of the digital transformation of communication and media ecosystems. Social media enable universities, but also academics and institutions affiliated with them, to expand their communication. This leads to increasing plurivocality of universities, yet the many different voices remain largely unexplored. This study develops a typology to conceptually distinguish eight voices by their representation…
Politics on the Pitch – How Is Mediatized Football Consumption Related to the Exposure to and Recall of Political Incidents During the Euro 2024
Major sport events attract large audiences, making them an attractive platform for political actors seeking to engage the public. However, to date, there is little research on how the public perceives mediatized political incidents during sports events. This study examines the intersection of sports and political communication by analyzing how audiences perceive political incidents during the UEFA Euro 2024 football tournament. Using survey data …
Days, Schedules, and Attention: How Time Affects Mobile News Consumption Among Young Swiss People
News consumption is often treated as static behavior, yet situational and temporal factors play a significant role in shaping how individuals consume news throughout their daily lives. Mobile phones have become a driving force of dynamic news habits, especially among younger audiences. This study aims to bridge the gap between static perceptions of news consumption and the dynamic realities of daily mobile usage. To investigate this, we tracked n…
Misperceptions of Public Opinion During Crises: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Support for deepfake regulation: The role of third-person perception, trust, and risk
Like other emerging technologies, deepfakes present both risks and benefits to society. Due to harmful applications such as disinformation and non-consensual pornography, calls for their regulation have increased recently. However, little is known about public support for deepfake regulation and the factors related to it. This study addresses this gap through a pre-registered online survey (n = 1,361) conducted in Switzerland, where citizens can …
Deepfakes or Synthetic Media? The Effect of Euphemisms for Labeling Technology on Risk and Benefit Perceptions
The language used in public debates and in the news can influence how citizens perceive the risks and benefits of technology. While framing effects on technology perception are well understood, few studies have focused on the effects of specific terms used to describe technology. We analyze how the terms deepfake and synthetic media affect risk and benefit perceptions across application fields. Using Switzerland as a case, our manual content anal…
Beyond the News Media Logic? Analyzing the Social Media Orientation of University Leadership
Building on scholarship on the mediatization of organizations, we propose a conception of the social media orientation of organizational leaders and apply it to higher education. Based on an online survey of 276 leaders of Swiss higher education institutions, we show that social media platforms have made their way into university management and communication but are still not as important as news media. The study discusses differences between uni…
The Mediated Construction of Crises—Combining Automated and Qualitative Content Analysis to Investigate the Use of Crisis Labels in Headlines of Swiss News Media between 1998 and 2020
The recent accumulation of crises has led scholars to diagnose that crises increasingly dominate news headlines. However, there is little empirical evidence for this diagnosis because previous research often misses the longitudinal perspective. To address this gap in research, we used automated content analysis to investigate to what extent five Swiss newspapers used the crisis label in their headlines between 1998 and 2020. In the next step, we …
Kritische Infrastruktur für den Journalismus? Zur Rolle der Nachrichtenagenturen in einem sich rapide wandelnden Medienmarkt
Nachrichtenagenturen haben trotz ihrer großen Bedeutung für die Medienberichterstattung bisher nur wenig Beachtung in der Journalismusforschung gefunden. Besonders zum deutschen Agenturmarkt fehlen aktuelle Daten. Die vorliegende Studie nutzt eine Kombination aus quantitativen und qualitativen Methoden, um den Stellenwert der Agenturen für die Berichterstattung deutscher Medien sowie die Entwicklung von Geschäftsmodellen nachzuzeichnen. So zeigt …
The Elephant(s) in the Newsroom: A Mixed Methods Study on the Use of News Agency Material
News agencies remain one of the most important sources of journalistic reporting. It is all the more astonishing that, with a few exceptions, they still represent a major blind spot in journalism research. Using a mixed method approach of quantitative content analysis and qualitative interviews with practitioners from media outlets and news agencies, this study investigates how and how much online media outlets of different media types located in…
It’s Not so Easy to Measure impact”: A Qualitative Analysis of How Universities Measure and Evaluate Their Communication
Universities are key actors at the intersection of science and society and their strategic communication and its effective implementation is essential, as is the measurement and evaluation (M&E) of its impact. Despite the growing relevance of M&E in university communication, however, empirical studies on the subject are rare. Therefore, this study explores M&E practices of central communication departments at Swiss universities through semi-struc…
Norm Setting in Times of Crisis: A Time-Series Analysis of the Dynamics Between Media Reporting and Perceived Norms in the Context of the Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-Out
Social norms have great potential for mitigating crisis as people align their prevention behavior with the norms they perceive. However, there is insufficient knowledge of how normative perceptions are formed to exploit this potential. Drawing from agenda-setting theory, the present study examined norm-setting processes of media reporting on perceptions of vaccination norms during the COVID-19 pandemic. It combined data of a continuous content an…
Situational effects of journalistic resources on gender imbalances in the coverage of Swiss news media: A longitudinal analysis from 2011 to 2019
Gender imbalances in news coverage have been traced back to overarching societal structures and the characteristics of media companies, newsrooms and journalists. However, studies have rarely considered if and how journalistic resources can act situationally as drivers of gender imbalances. We investigated how often and in which contexts women are represented in Swiss news media articles between 2011 and 2019 ( n = 77,427) by combining manual and…
Analysing the media repertoires that Swiss expatriates use to inform themselves about their heritage country
For people who migrate, the media are an important source of information about their heritage country. However, we know little about which media expatriates from wealthy countries like Switzerland use to inform themselves about their heritage country. Using data from a readership survey of the Swiss Revue, the official publication of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA), we investigate the media consumption of Swiss expatriates. We identify…
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Swiss Universities’ Social Media Communication
Public communication has become more important to higher education institutions (HEIs), with many HEIs using social media to communicate with stakeholders. However, scholarship on the subject is scarce and mainly based on single-platform studies and small datasets. Therefore, we conducted a cross-platform study to examine the communication of all Swiss HEIs on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The results were based on two datasets: an automated …
Mobile News Consumption and Its Relation to Young Adults’ Knowledge About and Participation in Referendums
The news media are among the most important sources of information about political events, such as referendums. For young adults, the smartphone has become the main device for accessing news. However, we know little about the factors influencing mobile news consumption and how this consumption is related to political knowledge and political participation. This study investigates the antecedents of young individuals’ smartphone news consumption an…
How Covid-19 Displaced Climate Change: Mediated Climate Change Activism and Issue Attention in the Swiss Media and Online Sphere
Issues continuously compete for attention in the news media and on social media. Climate change is one of the most urgent problems for society and (re)gained wide public attention in 2019 through the global climate strike protest movement. However, we hypothesize that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 challenged the role of climate change as a routine issue. We use extensive news media and Twitter data to explore if and how the …
Sourcing practices of online news media in Switzerland during the war in Ukraine
Introduction In times of war, sourcing becomes a major challenge for journalists. Information is often unavailable because access is restricted or because reporting on the ground is prohibited, too dangerous, or even simply too costly for media having to work with limited resources. Which sources actually shape the news is a highly relevant question because news media still constitute the main channel of information for many citizens, especially …
Investigating News Deserts on the Content Level: Geographical Diversity in Swiss News Media
With its diverse landscape of regional and local news media, Switzerland seems far from being a news desert. However, the centralization of editorial offices following the economic crisis of journalism has led to news outlets that share most of their content but appear under different names in different regions. This development has fostered fears about declining geographical diversity at the regional level in the news coverage of Swiss news medi…
Measuring Media Content Concentration at a Large Scale Using Automated Text Comparisons
The structural crisis of the news media and the according lack of resources for journalism has led to several types of concentration in most Western media markets. Not only is concentration of news media ownership increasing, but there is also more editorial cooperation between and within media companies and more reliance on external sources for content, such as from news agencies. Editorial cooperation and external source reliance have led to co…
Change in News Access, Change in Expectations? How Young Social Media Users in Switzerland Evaluate the Functions and Quality of News
Online media environments have changed the way young people access news. Despite much research on the topic, the expectations of journalistic news by young adults who have turned their back on traditional news media remain unclear. We use a novel multimethod qualitative online study design to investigate the perceived quality, functions, and expectations toward journalistic news of young adults in Switzerland who use social media as their main so…
Mapping and Explaining Media Quality: Insights from Switzerland’s Multilingual Media System
In this article, we analyse how various macro- and meso-level factors influence news media’s provision of hard news, an important element of media quality. The research draws on a content analysis of more than 100,000 news items between 2015 and 2019 from 53 print, radio, TV, and online news outlets in Switzerland, a small state with three linguistically segmented media markets, each of which is partially influenced by a large neighbouring countr…
Investigating News Deserts on the Content Level: Geographical Diversity in Swiss News Media
With its diverse landscape of regional and local news media, Switzerland seems far from being a news desert. However, the centralization of editorial offices following the economic crisis of journalism has led to news outlets that share most of their content but appear under different names in different regions. This development has fostered fears about declining geographical diversity at the regional level in the news coverage of Swiss news medi…
Deepfakes or Synthetic Media? The Effect of Euphemisms for Labeling Technology on Risk and Benefit Perceptions
The language used in public debates and in the news can influence how citizens perceive the risks and benefits of technology. While framing effects on technology perception are well understood, few studies have focused on the effects of specific terms used to describe technology. We analyze how the terms deepfake and synthetic media affect risk and benefit perceptions across application fields. Using Switzerland as a case, our manual content anal…
It’s Not so Easy to Measure impact”: A Qualitative Analysis of How Universities Measure and Evaluate Their Communication
Universities are key actors at the intersection of science and society and their strategic communication and its effective implementation is essential, as is the measurement and evaluation (M&E) of its impact. Despite the growing relevance of M&E in university communication, however, empirical studies on the subject are rare. Therefore, this study explores M&E practices of central communication departments at Swiss universities through semi-struc…
Sourcing practices of online news media in Switzerland during the war in Ukraine
Introduction In times of war, sourcing becomes a major challenge for journalists. Information is often unavailable because access is restricted or because reporting on the ground is prohibited, too dangerous, or even simply too costly for media having to work with limited resources. Which sources actually shape the news is a highly relevant question because news media still constitute the main channel of information for many citizens, especially …
Transregional News Media Coverage in Multilingual Countries: The Impact of Market Size, Source, and Media Type in Switzerland
In reporting about the regions of a country, news media help define relevant topics and contribute to the integration of society. In multilingual countries, covering news across language boundaries is especially important, yet challenging and costly to perform. To what extent the news media use transregional coverage, that is, look beyond their own language regions, is therefore a particularly relevant question for multilingual societies. This st…
How users tweet about a cyber attack: An explorative study using machine learning and social network analysis
Cybercrime is a growing threat for firms and customers that emerged with the digitization of business. However, research shows that even though people claim that they are concerned about their privacy online, they do not act correspondingly. This study investigates how prevalent security issues are during a cyber attack among Twitter users. The case under examination is the security breach at the US ticket sales company, Ticketfly, that compromis…
Validity and Reliability of the Hutchins Behavior Inventory: A Confirmatory Maximum Likelihood Analysis
The authors provide evidence of the validity and reliability of the Hutchins Behavior Inventory, an instrument designed to assess a client's thinking, feeling, or acting dominance
The influence of national societal contexts on the media reputation of multinational corporations: A comparison between Switzerland and the US
Transnational News Sharing on Social Media: Measuring and Analysing Twitter News Media Repertoires of Domestic and Foreign Audience Communities
In digitized media environments, users can access news from all over the world. The internationalization of news consumption is intensified by social media like Twitter, as users share news from different countries. In our study, we combine the two strands of research about media repertoires as well as transnational news consumption. Switzerland is a compelling case with regard to transnational news consumption as media outlets in the three offic…
The effects of media reputation on third-party funding of Swiss universities
Purpose This study analyzed the effects of the visibility and evaluation of universities in news media coverage on the development of their private and public third-party funds. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the concept of media reputation to investigate the effects of news media coverage on the outcome of funding decisions by firm managers and scientific experts. Extensive news media data from 2011 to 2017, collected with manual con…
How users tweet about a cyber attack: An explorative study using machine learning and social network analysis
Cybercrime is a growing threat for firms and customers that emerged with the digitization of business. However, research shows that even though people claim that they are concerned about their privacy online, they do not act correspondingly. This study investigates how prevalent security issues are during a cyber attack among Twitter users. The case under examination is the security breach at the US ticket sales company, Ticketfly, that compromis…
Measuring Media Content Concentration at a Large Scale Using Automated Text Comparisons
The structural crisis of the news media and the according lack of resources for journalism has led to several types of concentration in most Western media markets. Not only is concentration of news media ownership increasing, but there is also more editorial cooperation between and within media companies and more reliance on external sources for content, such as from news agencies. Editorial cooperation and external source reliance have led to co…
Mapping and Explaining Media Quality: Insights from Switzerland’s Multilingual Media System
In this article, we analyse how various macro- and meso-level factors influence news media’s provision of hard news, an important element of media quality. The research draws on a content analysis of more than 100,000 news items between 2015 and 2019 from 53 print, radio, TV, and online news outlets in Switzerland, a small state with three linguistically segmented media markets, each of which is partially influenced by a large neighbouring countr…
Public Sphere in Crisis Mode: How the Covid-19 Pandemic Influenced Public Discourse and User Behaviour in the Swiss Twitter-sphere
In modern democracies, large societal crises like the COVID-19 pandemic are accompanied by intensified public discourse about which policies and strategies are adequate to fight the crisis. In such times, the public sphere switches to crisis mode with fundamentally different communicative dynamics compared to routinised periods. Data from social media platforms like Twitter offers new possibilities to study such dynamics. However, comprehensive s…
Transregional News Media Coverage in Multilingual Countries: The Impact of Market Size, Source, and Media Type in Switzerland
In reporting about the regions of a country, news media help define relevant topics and contribute to the integration of society. In multilingual countries, covering news across language boundaries is especially important, yet challenging and costly to perform. To what extent the news media use transregional coverage, that is, look beyond their own language regions, is therefore a particularly relevant question for multilingual societies. This st…
Assessing changes in the public communication of higher education institutions: A survey of leaders of Swiss universities and colleges
Over the past decades, higher education institutions (HEIs) across the world have institutionalized communication departments and played an increasingly important role in communicating science to the public. While a growing body of research has analyzed the practices and structures of central communication departments in HEIs, little is known about developments over time. This study examines perceived changes in HEI communication along different …
Change in News Access, Change in Expectations? How Young Social Media Users in Switzerland Evaluate the Functions and Quality of News
Online media environments have changed the way young people access news. Despite much research on the topic, the expectations of journalistic news by young adults who have turned their back on traditional news media remain unclear. We use a novel multimethod qualitative online study design to investigate the perceived quality, functions, and expectations toward journalistic news of young adults in Switzerland who use social media as their main so…
Situational effects of journalistic resources on gender imbalances in the coverage of Swiss news media: A longitudinal analysis from 2011 to 2019
Gender imbalances in news coverage have been traced back to overarching societal structures and the characteristics of media companies, newsrooms and journalists. However, studies have rarely considered if and how journalistic resources can act situationally as drivers of gender imbalances. We investigated how often and in which contexts women are represented in Swiss news media articles between 2011 and 2019 ( n = 77,427) by combining manual and…
Analysing the media repertoires that Swiss expatriates use to inform themselves about their heritage country
For people who migrate, the media are an important source of information about their heritage country. However, we know little about which media expatriates from wealthy countries like Switzerland use to inform themselves about their heritage country. Using data from a readership survey of the Swiss Revue, the official publication of the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA), we investigate the media consumption of Swiss expatriates. We identify…
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Swiss Universities’ Social Media Communication
Public communication has become more important to higher education institutions (HEIs), with many HEIs using social media to communicate with stakeholders. However, scholarship on the subject is scarce and mainly based on single-platform studies and small datasets. Therefore, we conducted a cross-platform study to examine the communication of all Swiss HEIs on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The results were based on two datasets: an automated …
Mobile News Consumption and Its Relation to Young Adults’ Knowledge About and Participation in Referendums
The news media are among the most important sources of information about political events, such as referendums. For young adults, the smartphone has become the main device for accessing news. However, we know little about the factors influencing mobile news consumption and how this consumption is related to political knowledge and political participation. This study investigates the antecedents of young individuals’ smartphone news consumption an…
How Covid-19 Displaced Climate Change: Mediated Climate Change Activism and Issue Attention in the Swiss Media and Online Sphere
Issues continuously compete for attention in the news media and on social media. Climate change is one of the most urgent problems for society and (re)gained wide public attention in 2019 through the global climate strike protest movement. However, we hypothesize that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 challenged the role of climate change as a routine issue. We use extensive news media and Twitter data to explore if and how the …
Sourcing practices of online news media in Switzerland during the war in Ukraine
Introduction In times of war, sourcing becomes a major challenge for journalists. Information is often unavailable because access is restricted or because reporting on the ground is prohibited, too dangerous, or even simply too costly for media having to work with limited resources. Which sources actually shape the news is a highly relevant question because news media still constitute the main channel of information for many citizens, especially …
Investigating News Deserts on the Content Level: Geographical Diversity in Swiss News Media
With its diverse landscape of regional and local news media, Switzerland seems far from being a news desert. However, the centralization of editorial offices following the economic crisis of journalism has led to news outlets that share most of their content but appear under different names in different regions. This development has fostered fears about declining geographical diversity at the regional level in the news coverage of Swiss news medi…
Beyond the News Media Logic? Analyzing the Social Media Orientation of University Leadership
Building on scholarship on the mediatization of organizations, we propose a conception of the social media orientation of organizational leaders and apply it to higher education. Based on an online survey of 276 leaders of Swiss higher education institutions, we show that social media platforms have made their way into university management and communication but are still not as important as news media. The study discusses differences between uni…
The Mediated Construction of Crises—Combining Automated and Qualitative Content Analysis to Investigate the Use of Crisis Labels in Headlines of Swiss News Media between 1998 and 2020
The recent accumulation of crises has led scholars to diagnose that crises increasingly dominate news headlines. However, there is little empirical evidence for this diagnosis because previous research often misses the longitudinal perspective. To address this gap in research, we used automated content analysis to investigate to what extent five Swiss newspapers used the crisis label in their headlines between 1998 and 2020. In the next step, we …
Kritische Infrastruktur für den Journalismus? Zur Rolle der Nachrichtenagenturen in einem sich rapide wandelnden Medienmarkt
Nachrichtenagenturen haben trotz ihrer großen Bedeutung für die Medienberichterstattung bisher nur wenig Beachtung in der Journalismusforschung gefunden. Besonders zum deutschen Agenturmarkt fehlen aktuelle Daten. Die vorliegende Studie nutzt eine Kombination aus quantitativen und qualitativen Methoden, um den Stellenwert der Agenturen für die Berichterstattung deutscher Medien sowie die Entwicklung von Geschäftsmodellen nachzuzeichnen. So zeigt …
The Elephant(s) in the Newsroom: A Mixed Methods Study on the Use of News Agency Material
News agencies remain one of the most important sources of journalistic reporting. It is all the more astonishing that, with a few exceptions, they still represent a major blind spot in journalism research. Using a mixed method approach of quantitative content analysis and qualitative interviews with practitioners from media outlets and news agencies, this study investigates how and how much online media outlets of different media types located in…
It’s Not so Easy to Measure impact”: A Qualitative Analysis of How Universities Measure and Evaluate Their Communication
Universities are key actors at the intersection of science and society and their strategic communication and its effective implementation is essential, as is the measurement and evaluation (M&E) of its impact. Despite the growing relevance of M&E in university communication, however, empirical studies on the subject are rare. Therefore, this study explores M&E practices of central communication departments at Swiss universities through semi-struc…
Norm Setting in Times of Crisis: A Time-Series Analysis of the Dynamics Between Media Reporting and Perceived Norms in the Context of the Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-Out
Social norms have great potential for mitigating crisis as people align their prevention behavior with the norms they perceive. However, there is insufficient knowledge of how normative perceptions are formed to exploit this potential. Drawing from agenda-setting theory, the present study examined norm-setting processes of media reporting on perceptions of vaccination norms during the COVID-19 pandemic. It combined data of a continuous content an…
Analyzing the Relation between News Coverage of Heat, Drought, and Climate Change and Meteorological Data from 1998 to 2023
Driven by climate change, extreme weather events are increasing worldwide. Through their reporting, news media can inform public understanding of this trend. However, it is not yet clear to what extent the media report on extreme weather events, how their reporting relates to actual weather conditions, and whether they address the connection to climate change in their coverage. We use automated content analysis to examine the coverage of heat, dr…
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Social Media and Politics (19 works) · Media Studies and Communication (17 works) · Public relations (16 works) · Business (14 works) · Advertising (13 works) · News media (12 works) · Social science (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works)