Christiane Eilders
Biographic Data
| ID | 4169070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christiane Eilders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christiane |
| FAMILY NAME | Eilders |
| SIGNATURE | EILDERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3064-7281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Politische Polarisierung in und durch Massenmedien und soziale Medien auf Mikro-, Meso- und Makro-Ebene
Der Aufsatz diskutiert die Rolle von Massenmedien und sozialen Medien für die politische Polarisierung in Deutschland. Dafür schlagen wir eine theoretisch-konzeptionelle Systematisierung vor, die eine Dimensionierung entlang der Mikro-, Meso- und Makro-Ebene mit der Differenzierung von themen- und gruppenspezifischer Polarisierung verbindet. Besonders auffällig ist die Leerstelle auf der Meso-Ebene. Die Mikro-Ebene ist besser abgedeckt, hier deut…
Effects of online user comments on public opinion perception, personal opinion, and willingness to speak out
This paper presents a cross-cultural comparison in the field of spiral of silence online. We investigated the effects of user comments on public opinion perception and users’ opinions and willingness to speak out in two cultural settings. Previous research has indicated that spiral of silence effects are greater in collectivistic versus individualistic cultures. Our study was conducted in South Korea, which is collectivistic and Germany, which is…
Family, friends and taxi drivers in hybrid networks. Integrating the immediate social environment into the Spiral of Silence Theory
The relative neglect of the immediate social environment is one of the best-known criticisms of the Spiral of Silence Theory (SoS). Due to massive changes in communication technology, especially the advent of social media, the immediate social environment has become even more relevant which has amplified this gap. This paper integrates the immediate social environment into the SoS. The immediate social environment is the aggregate of individual a…
Do “Good Citizens” fight hate speech online? Effects of solidarity citizenship norms on user responses to hate comments
In an effort to counter hate speech, media platforms have increasingly come to rely on ordinary users to fight abusive content. However, little is known about the predictors of this type of user engagement, which we refer to as online civic intervention (OCI). This article presents an experimental inquiry (N = 337) into whether solidarity citizenship norms promote OCI. The results show that users who support solidarity citizenship norms tend to h…
Popularity cues in online media
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…
Lost in uncertainty
The Euro crisis has revealed severe conflicts between EU member states and challenged a shared European identity. This article investigates how the crisis was reflected in identity constructions in media discourses in EU key countries. European identity construction is conceptualized as framing of the EU in favour or against belonging to the EU and togetherness with other members. Conducting a systematic content analysis of two weekly newspapers …
Journalismus und Nachrichtenwert
A Systematic Review of Online Deliberation Research
Spiral of silence online
This study tests the spiral of silence theory under conditions of online communication. It is argued that a preference for user-generated content may result in different perceptions of the opinion climate than a preference for mass media. This may also affect willingness to speak out in public. This study tested the effects of selective exposure to information regarding climate change in Germany. The individual media diets were derived from onlin…
Die Repräsentation von Politik in fiktionaler Unterhaltung. Instrument, Anwendung und Befunde zur Systematisierung von Filmen und Fernsehserien
Entertainment accounts for the lion's share in today's media content. The political content and messages in entertainment however, have only lately moved into the spotlight of political communication research. The focus is usually on non-fictional entertainment such as talk shows or late-night-comedy. This paper deals with the representation of politics in fictional entertainment. It introduces an instrument which enables an empirically grounded …
Die Stimme der Medien
Massenmedien als Produzenten öffentlicher Meinungen — Pressekommentare als Manifestation der politischen Akteursrolle
In den meisten Medieninhaltsanalysen werden Kommentare aufgrund ihrer geringen Häufigkeit nicht gesondert von der Nachrichtenberichterstattung ausgewiesen. Die Meinungsäußerungen der Medien selbst verschwinden damit in der Menge der von den Medien lediglich berichteten Themen und Meinungen anderer Akteure. Dabei geht die ausgeprägte Konzentration auf die Primärfunktion der Informationsvermittlung von Medien häufig einher mit der Wahrnehmung von M…
News factors and news decisions. Theoretical and methodological advances in Germany
News value research has contributed a great deal to the understanding of news selection. For a long time scholars focused exclusively on news selection by the media. Yet, more recent approaches — inspired by cognitive psychology — have conceptionalized news factors as relevance indicators that not only serve as selection criteria in journalism, but also guide information processing by the audience. This article examines the theoretical and method…
Media under fire
The article reviews recentfindings on the quality of war reporting, the conditions under which it takes place, the information policies of the warring parties and their effects. Focusing on German media coverage of the 1991 Gulf war, the Kosovo war and the 2003 Iraq war, it discusses both typical shortcomings of reporting and recent improvements, highlights information control strategies and proposes standards for war reporting
Die Stimme der Medien
Die Stimme der Medien
Das „Kommentariat“
Im Mittelpunkt des WZB-Papers stehen die „Meinungsmacher“ der überregionalen Qualitätszeitungen in der Bundesrepublik. Die Kommentare dieser „Leitmedien“ wer-den im politischen System intensiv wahrgenommen. Die Themenpräferenzen und Meinungen der Kommentatoren dienen als Hinweise auf allgemeine Stimmungen in der Bevölkerung und auf die Durchsetzbarkeit konkreter Entscheidungen. Auch in öffentlichkeitstheoretischer Perspektive stellen Kommentatore…
Surfing the tide
The article investigates the picture of political parties and issues presented by the media in the 2002 German national elections campaign. The media process campaign information not with regard to particular party concerns, but according to their own relevance criteria. Not everything the parties bring up is considered relevant and not everything the parties try to play down is considered irrelevant by the media. A content analysis of five natio…
Conflict and Consonance in Media Opinion
This article examines the degree of conflict and consonance in the editorials of five German quality newspapers between 1994 and 1998. The degree of correspondence in the media system is discussed against the background of Germany's pluralistic media structure on the one hand and concepts of public opinion on the other hand. Rather than investigating the differential issue selection among the newspapers, the analysis compares the opinions on issu…
Research Note
This research note deals with the role of the media in assigning legitimacy to Germany's first participation in military action since the end of the Second World War. A content analysis of the war discourse in the editorials of the five leading German newspapers investigates the range of evaluations of the Kosovo war. Employing the concept of framing, a variety of competing diagnostic, prognostic and identity-related interpretations were identifi…
Media as political actors? Issue focusing and selective emphasis in the German quality press
This article examines media's active role in the political process. By selecting and emphasising certain issues in their editorials media outlets communicate their particular political position to the audience and establish a distinct ideological profile. It is assumed, however, that the impact of editorials on the political system depends on the degree of issue focusing in the media system. Only if different newspapers assign relevance to the sa…
Zum Konzept der Selektivität
Der Beitrag gibt einen systematischen Überblick über den Stand der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Selektionsforschung. Selektion wird dabei verstanden als Auswahl-Vorgang von Journalisten und Programmplanern einerseits und dem massenmedialen Publikum andererseits. Entsprechende Auswahlentscheidungen führen nicht etwa zu einem proportional verkleinerten Abbild der Realität oder des verfügbaren Angebots, sondern unterliegen politischem und ökonom…
Nachrichtenfaktoren und Rezeption
Nachrichtenfaktoren und Rezeption
News factors and news decisions. Theoretical and methodological advances in Germany
News value research has contributed a great deal to the understanding of news selection. For a long time scholars focused exclusively on news selection by the media. Yet, more recent approaches — inspired by cognitive psychology — have conceptionalized news factors as relevance indicators that not only serve as selection criteria in journalism, but also guide information processing by the audience. This article examines the theoretical and method…
Research Note
This research note deals with the role of the media in assigning legitimacy to Germany's first participation in military action since the end of the Second World War. A content analysis of the war discourse in the editorials of the five leading German newspapers investigates the range of evaluations of the Kosovo war. Employing the concept of framing, a variety of competing diagnostic, prognostic and identity-related interpretations were identifi…
Media as political actors? Issue focusing and selective emphasis in the German quality press
This article examines media's active role in the political process. By selecting and emphasising certain issues in their editorials media outlets communicate their particular political position to the audience and establish a distinct ideological profile. It is assumed, however, that the impact of editorials on the political system depends on the degree of issue focusing in the media system. Only if different newspapers assign relevance to the sa…
Conflict and Consonance in Media Opinion
This article examines the degree of conflict and consonance in the editorials of five German quality newspapers between 1994 and 1998. The degree of correspondence in the media system is discussed against the background of Germany's pluralistic media structure on the one hand and concepts of public opinion on the other hand. Rather than investigating the differential issue selection among the newspapers, the analysis compares the opinions on issu…
Spiral of silence online
This study tests the spiral of silence theory under conditions of online communication. It is argued that a preference for user-generated content may result in different perceptions of the opinion climate than a preference for mass media. This may also affect willingness to speak out in public. This study tested the effects of selective exposure to information regarding climate change in Germany. The individual media diets were derived from onlin…
Popularity cues in online media
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…
Do “Good Citizens” fight hate speech online? Effects of solidarity citizenship norms on user responses to hate comments
In an effort to counter hate speech, media platforms have increasingly come to rely on ordinary users to fight abusive content. However, little is known about the predictors of this type of user engagement, which we refer to as online civic intervention (OCI). This article presents an experimental inquiry (N = 337) into whether solidarity citizenship norms promote OCI. The results show that users who support solidarity citizenship norms tend to h…
Surfing the tide
The article investigates the picture of political parties and issues presented by the media in the 2002 German national elections campaign. The media process campaign information not with regard to particular party concerns, but according to their own relevance criteria. Not everything the parties bring up is considered relevant and not everything the parties try to play down is considered irrelevant by the media. A content analysis of five natio…
Lost in uncertainty
The Euro crisis has revealed severe conflicts between EU member states and challenged a shared European identity. This article investigates how the crisis was reflected in identity constructions in media discourses in EU key countries. European identity construction is conceptualized as framing of the EU in favour or against belonging to the EU and togetherness with other members. Conducting a systematic content analysis of two weekly newspapers …
Media under fire
The article reviews recentfindings on the quality of war reporting, the conditions under which it takes place, the information policies of the warring parties and their effects. Focusing on German media coverage of the 1991 Gulf war, the Kosovo war and the 2003 Iraq war, it discusses both typical shortcomings of reporting and recent improvements, highlights information control strategies and proposes standards for war reporting
Nachrichtenfaktoren und Rezeption
Nachrichtenfaktoren und Rezeption
Zum Konzept der Selektivität
Der Beitrag gibt einen systematischen Überblick über den Stand der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Selektionsforschung. Selektion wird dabei verstanden als Auswahl-Vorgang von Journalisten und Programmplanern einerseits und dem massenmedialen Publikum andererseits. Entsprechende Auswahlentscheidungen führen nicht etwa zu einem proportional verkleinerten Abbild der Realität oder des verfügbaren Angebots, sondern unterliegen politischem und ökonom…
Research Note
This research note deals with the role of the media in assigning legitimacy to Germany's first participation in military action since the end of the Second World War. A content analysis of the war discourse in the editorials of the five leading German newspapers investigates the range of evaluations of the Kosovo war. Employing the concept of framing, a variety of competing diagnostic, prognostic and identity-related interpretations were identifi…
Media as political actors? Issue focusing and selective emphasis in the German quality press
This article examines media's active role in the political process. By selecting and emphasising certain issues in their editorials media outlets communicate their particular political position to the audience and establish a distinct ideological profile. It is assumed, however, that the impact of editorials on the political system depends on the degree of issue focusing in the media system. Only if different newspapers assign relevance to the sa…
Conflict and Consonance in Media Opinion
This article examines the degree of conflict and consonance in the editorials of five German quality newspapers between 1994 and 1998. The degree of correspondence in the media system is discussed against the background of Germany's pluralistic media structure on the one hand and concepts of public opinion on the other hand. Rather than investigating the differential issue selection among the newspapers, the analysis compares the opinions on issu…
Die Stimme der Medien
Die Stimme der Medien
Das „Kommentariat“
Im Mittelpunkt des WZB-Papers stehen die „Meinungsmacher“ der überregionalen Qualitätszeitungen in der Bundesrepublik. Die Kommentare dieser „Leitmedien“ wer-den im politischen System intensiv wahrgenommen. Die Themenpräferenzen und Meinungen der Kommentatoren dienen als Hinweise auf allgemeine Stimmungen in der Bevölkerung und auf die Durchsetzbarkeit konkreter Entscheidungen. Auch in öffentlichkeitstheoretischer Perspektive stellen Kommentatore…
Surfing the tide
The article investigates the picture of political parties and issues presented by the media in the 2002 German national elections campaign. The media process campaign information not with regard to particular party concerns, but according to their own relevance criteria. Not everything the parties bring up is considered relevant and not everything the parties try to play down is considered irrelevant by the media. A content analysis of five natio…
Media under fire
The article reviews recentfindings on the quality of war reporting, the conditions under which it takes place, the information policies of the warring parties and their effects. Focusing on German media coverage of the 1991 Gulf war, the Kosovo war and the 2003 Iraq war, it discusses both typical shortcomings of reporting and recent improvements, highlights information control strategies and proposes standards for war reporting
News factors and news decisions. Theoretical and methodological advances in Germany
News value research has contributed a great deal to the understanding of news selection. For a long time scholars focused exclusively on news selection by the media. Yet, more recent approaches — inspired by cognitive psychology — have conceptionalized news factors as relevance indicators that not only serve as selection criteria in journalism, but also guide information processing by the audience. This article examines the theoretical and method…
Massenmedien als Produzenten öffentlicher Meinungen — Pressekommentare als Manifestation der politischen Akteursrolle
In den meisten Medieninhaltsanalysen werden Kommentare aufgrund ihrer geringen Häufigkeit nicht gesondert von der Nachrichtenberichterstattung ausgewiesen. Die Meinungsäußerungen der Medien selbst verschwinden damit in der Menge der von den Medien lediglich berichteten Themen und Meinungen anderer Akteure. Dabei geht die ausgeprägte Konzentration auf die Primärfunktion der Informationsvermittlung von Medien häufig einher mit der Wahrnehmung von M…
Die Stimme der Medien
Die Repräsentation von Politik in fiktionaler Unterhaltung. Instrument, Anwendung und Befunde zur Systematisierung von Filmen und Fernsehserien
Entertainment accounts for the lion's share in today's media content. The political content and messages in entertainment however, have only lately moved into the spotlight of political communication research. The focus is usually on non-fictional entertainment such as talk shows or late-night-comedy. This paper deals with the representation of politics in fictional entertainment. It introduces an instrument which enables an empirically grounded …
A Systematic Review of Online Deliberation Research
Spiral of silence online
This study tests the spiral of silence theory under conditions of online communication. It is argued that a preference for user-generated content may result in different perceptions of the opinion climate than a preference for mass media. This may also affect willingness to speak out in public. This study tested the effects of selective exposure to information regarding climate change in Germany. The individual media diets were derived from onlin…
Journalismus und Nachrichtenwert
Popularity cues in online media
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…
Lost in uncertainty
The Euro crisis has revealed severe conflicts between EU member states and challenged a shared European identity. This article investigates how the crisis was reflected in identity constructions in media discourses in EU key countries. European identity construction is conceptualized as framing of the EU in favour or against belonging to the EU and togetherness with other members. Conducting a systematic content analysis of two weekly newspapers …
Do “Good Citizens” fight hate speech online? Effects of solidarity citizenship norms on user responses to hate comments
In an effort to counter hate speech, media platforms have increasingly come to rely on ordinary users to fight abusive content. However, little is known about the predictors of this type of user engagement, which we refer to as online civic intervention (OCI). This article presents an experimental inquiry (N = 337) into whether solidarity citizenship norms promote OCI. The results show that users who support solidarity citizenship norms tend to h…
Politische Polarisierung in und durch Massenmedien und soziale Medien auf Mikro-, Meso- und Makro-Ebene
Der Aufsatz diskutiert die Rolle von Massenmedien und sozialen Medien für die politische Polarisierung in Deutschland. Dafür schlagen wir eine theoretisch-konzeptionelle Systematisierung vor, die eine Dimensionierung entlang der Mikro-, Meso- und Makro-Ebene mit der Differenzierung von themen- und gruppenspezifischer Polarisierung verbindet. Besonders auffällig ist die Leerstelle auf der Meso-Ebene. Die Mikro-Ebene ist besser abgedeckt, hier deut…
Effects of online user comments on public opinion perception, personal opinion, and willingness to speak out
This paper presents a cross-cultural comparison in the field of spiral of silence online. We investigated the effects of user comments on public opinion perception and users’ opinions and willingness to speak out in two cultural settings. Previous research has indicated that spiral of silence effects are greater in collectivistic versus individualistic cultures. Our study was conducted in South Korea, which is collectivistic and Germany, which is…
Family, friends and taxi drivers in hybrid networks. Integrating the immediate social environment into the Spiral of Silence Theory
The relative neglect of the immediate social environment is one of the best-known criticisms of the Spiral of Silence Theory (SoS). Due to massive changes in communication technology, especially the advent of social media, the immediate social environment has become even more relevant which has amplified this gap. This paper integrates the immediate social environment into the SoS. The immediate social environment is the aggregate of individual a…
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