Rainer Freudenthaler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rainer Freudenthaler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rainer |
| FAMILY NAME | Freudenthaler |
| SIGNATURE | FREUDENTHALER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mannheim |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9075-1232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Priming Effects of Emotion-Based Group Stigmatization in the News
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…
How Alternative Are Alternative Media? Analyzing Speaker and Topic Diversity in Mainstream and Alternative Online Outlets
Alternative outlets can differ in their degree of partisanship, activism, and their opposition to a perceived news “mainstream.” We expect this could lead to diverging contributions to overall news diversity. We assess how mainstream-like, partisan and activist media differ from mainstream reporting concerning migration and refugee policy in Germany. We combine a manual analysis of speaker diversity in 12 mainstream and alternative outlets (N = 1…
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, …
Is Constructive Engagement Online a Lost Cause? Toxic Outrage in Online User Comments Across Democratic Political Systems and Discussion Arenas
This study is the first to simultaneously investigate country-level and platform-related context factors of toxic outrage, that is, destructive incivility, in online discussions. It compares user comments on the public role of religion and secularism from 2015/16 in four democracies (Australia, United States, Germany, Switzerland) and four discussion arenas on three platforms (News websites, Facebook, Twitter). A novel automated content analysis …
Differential Racism in the News
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…
Mapping Emerging and Legacy Outlets Online by Their Democratic Functions—Agonistic, Deliberative, or Corrosive
In this study, we offer a novel approach to research on migration reporting by focusing on the argumentative substance prevalent in different online outlets. Taking German refugee policy as our case in point we map the role that moral, ethical–cultural, legal, and pragmatic argumentations play within journalistic, partisan, and activist outlets; and how these coincide with incivility and impoliteness. Using dictionary-based content analysis on a …
Which Online Counter-Publics on Facebook are Fostering Agonistic Respect? An Assessment of Counter-Publics Debating Germany’s Refugee Policy
Online publics offer new spaces for actors to counteract hegemonic narratives within mainstream publics. At the same time, they can also offer spaces for anti-pluralist movements to delegitimise their political opponents—which threatens the agonistic respect modern democracies are dependent on. This paper aims to show whether counter-publics on Facebook do in fact foster or threaten such respect. To do so, the posts of 1465 public Facebook pages …
Differential Racism in the News
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…
Mapping Emerging and Legacy Outlets Online by Their Democratic Functions—Agonistic, Deliberative, or Corrosive
In this study, we offer a novel approach to research on migration reporting by focusing on the argumentative substance prevalent in different online outlets. Taking German refugee policy as our case in point we map the role that moral, ethical–cultural, legal, and pragmatic argumentations play within journalistic, partisan, and activist outlets; and how these coincide with incivility and impoliteness. Using dictionary-based content analysis on a …
Which Online Counter-Publics on Facebook are Fostering Agonistic Respect? An Assessment of Counter-Publics Debating Germany’s Refugee Policy
Online publics offer new spaces for actors to counteract hegemonic narratives within mainstream publics. At the same time, they can also offer spaces for anti-pluralist movements to delegitimise their political opponents—which threatens the agonistic respect modern democracies are dependent on. This paper aims to show whether counter-publics on Facebook do in fact foster or threaten such respect. To do so, the posts of 1465 public Facebook pages …
Mapping Emerging and Legacy Outlets Online by Their Democratic Functions—Agonistic, Deliberative, or Corrosive
In this study, we offer a novel approach to research on migration reporting by focusing on the argumentative substance prevalent in different online outlets. Taking German refugee policy as our case in point we map the role that moral, ethical–cultural, legal, and pragmatic argumentations play within journalistic, partisan, and activist outlets; and how these coincide with incivility and impoliteness. Using dictionary-based content analysis on a …
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…
Is Constructive Engagement Online a Lost Cause? Toxic Outrage in Online User Comments Across Democratic Political Systems and Discussion Arenas
This study is the first to simultaneously investigate country-level and platform-related context factors of toxic outrage, that is, destructive incivility, in online discussions. It compares user comments on the public role of religion and secularism from 2015/16 in four democracies (Australia, United States, Germany, Switzerland) and four discussion arenas on three platforms (News websites, Facebook, Twitter). A novel automated content analysis …
Differential Racism in the News
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…
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, …
How Alternative Are Alternative Media? Analyzing Speaker and Topic Diversity in Mainstream and Alternative Online Outlets
Alternative outlets can differ in their degree of partisanship, activism, and their opposition to a perceived news “mainstream.” We expect this could lead to diverging contributions to overall news diversity. We assess how mainstream-like, partisan and activist media differ from mainstream reporting concerning migration and refugee policy in Germany. We combine a manual analysis of speaker diversity in 12 mainstream and alternative outlets (N = 1…
Priming Effects of Emotion-Based Group Stigmatization in the News
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…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · German (3 works) · Mainstream (3 works)