Wolfgang Donsbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Donsbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Donsbach |
| SIGNATURE | DONSBACH W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Dresden |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The International Encyclopedia of Communication
Gazette 51: 53-83, 1993. © 1993 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
&s;Objectivity&s; is one of the core professional values of journalism. However, there are many different definitions and interpretations of the term in the profession. These notions have changed over time in one country, and they differ between journalists in different cultural and political settings. In this paper we present comparative results of how journalists in different countries look at the term objectivity. The data are gathered from an…
F estinger, L eon
Leon Festinger was one of the most important figures in modern social psychology. He contributed seminal theoretical and methodological innovations to the field that today are still crucial for our understanding of human behavior. Among Festinger's most influential works rank his social comparison theory and the theory of cognitive dissonance. Although Festinger himself never showed a particular interest in media‐related phenomena, his influence …
Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, Contexts, and Methods
Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, Contexts, and Methods
"This volume lays out the theoretical and methodological framework to introduce the concept of journalistic role performance, defined as the outcome of concrete newsroom decisions and the style of news reporting when considering different constraints that influence the news product. By connecting role conception to role performance, this book addresses how journalistic ideals manifest in practice. The authors of this book analyze the disconnectio…
Political Online Information Searching in Germany and the United States: Confirmation Bias, Source Credibility, and Attitude Impacts
Before the 2013 German federal election, 121 participants completed a 2-session online study (which paralleled a U.S. study before the 2012 presidential election). They browsed online search results pertaining to 4 political issues while selective exposure was unobtrusively measured. In a 4 × 2 × 2 (topic × issue stance × source credibility) within-subjects design, the search results indicated either issue support or opposition, associated with l…
The Spiral of Silence: New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion
1. Open Questions and Future Directions in Spiral of Silence Research Wolfgang Donsbach, Yariv Tsfati, Charles Salmon 2. Public Opinion and Social Control Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann Part I: Overview, Evidence, Methods 3. Paradigm Shifts in the Study of Media Effects Denis McQuail 4. Three contexts of the Spiral of Silence Theory Hans Mathias Kepplinger 5. Methodological Conundrums in Spiral of Silence Research Jorg Matthes, Andrew F. Hayes 6. Speak…
Spiral of Silence: New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion
The Dissonant Self: Contributions from Dissonance Theory to a New Agenda for Studying Political Communication
Due to technological changes in today’s communication environments, the investigation of media use and media effects has become an ever more complex research venture. In order to adequately comprehend the social practices of media users in the age of the Internet, various scholars have recently recommended a new agenda for the future study of political communication. Based on these suggestions, the following paper briefly outlines two research st…
Journalism as the new knowledge profession and consequences for journalism education
The article starts with observations about an increasing marginalization of professional journalism in public communication. This development is mainly driven by two factors, decreasing interest in the public sphere and increasing selective exposure. Based on these observations, the author develops a definition of the core societal functions of journalism, that is, validation and shared reality. Assigning to professional journalism the role of th…
Methodische Designs zur Messung subjektiver Einflüsse auf Nachrichtenentscheidungen von Journalisten
Den Kern der Journalismusforschung bilden Kausalanalysen über Einflussfaktoren auf Medieninhalte. Für solche Kausalanalysen gibt es eine Reihe von Modellen, mit denen man die an Inhaltsentscheidungen beteiligten Faktoren systematisiert hat. Diese Modelle haben eine sinnvolle forschungsleitende Funktion. Eine Theorie, die sämtliche mögliche Faktoren integriert, steht aber noch aus und ist angesichts der Komplexität des Prozesses wahrscheinlich auc…
Risiken und Nebenwirkungen des Internets für die politische Kommunikation
This short essay observes some general trends concerning the internet's impact on political communication -based around notions of what we might expect from the citizens, media and political actors in a democratic society. It focuses on three central questions: 1) What kind of significance did the internet gain over recent years? 2) What kind of changes will current trends in communication carry for political cognition? 3) What sort of modificati…
Nothing Is As Practical As a Good Theory: What Communication Research Can Offer to the Practice of Political Communication
The demands brought on public relations (PR) by management can only be met by more evidence-based procedures. Of course, single and subjective experiences are also a form of “evidence” but they are of a different kind and of a different quality because they often are not measurable, not quantifiable, and not repeatable. Thus, they are nontheoretical in a sense as described above. This article takes a look at what communication research can offer …
The Sage Handbook of Public Opinion Research
Dissent in Organizations
Employee dissent occurs when employees express their disagreement or contradictory opinions about workplace policies and practices to various audiences. The most notable and obvious cases of dissent occur when employees engage in whistleblowing by dissenting to industry regulatory bodies, the media, or both. However, not all employees feel the need to voice their concerns in this manner. Rather, employees often express their dissent within organi…
The Identity of Communication Research
Despite its roots in ancient rhetoric communication as an academic field and discipline has a relatively young history. Starting in the first half of the 20th century it has seen an enormous growth over the last 10-30 years. However, the field has still not fully found its identity and borders. There are many reasons for this, among them are: an object that is almost without boundaries, an ongoing diversification and specialization of the field, …
Anpassungsprozesse in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Themen und Herkunft der Forschung in den Fachzeitschriften „Publizistik“ und „Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft“
eBook: Anpassungsprozesse in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Themen und Herkunft der Forschung in den Fachzeitschriften „Publizistik“ und „Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft“ (ISSN1615-634X) von aus dem Jahr 2005
Authors' and Reviewers' Preferences for Modes of Submitting and Reviewing Manuscripts
The publishing world is rapidly changing in many aspects, and it seems that scholarly journals are more affected by this than any other print category. One of the issues we will increasingly have to deal with in the future is online access to journal articles and what this means for authors’ rights and publishers’ businesses. For instance, the editors of IJPOR have agreed to a 24-months embargo on so-called ‘post-prints’. A post-print is defined …
Political News Journalists: Partisanship, Professionalism, and Political Roles in Five Countries
Most empirical studies of journalists' thinking and decision-making processes have been conducted as case studies of individual countries. They suffer from a considerable shortcoming insofar as they lack a larger context for assessing the validity of their findings. However, the question of how significant these findings are can be answered by use of comparative analyses, which include a range of different countries. The relevance of internationa…
PR und Nachrichtenagenturen
Bei der Betrachtung der bisherigen empirischen Ergebnisse zur Übemahme von PR in die Medienberichterstattung fällt auf, dass den Nachrichtenagenturen oftmals eine herausragende Bedeutung bei der Verbreitung von PR zugewiesen wird. Aber es finden sich kaum Studien zum Umgang von Nachrichtenagenturen mit PR. Nachrichtenagenturen werden deshalb hier in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtungen gerückt und die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie zur PR-Nutzu…
Psychology of News Decisions: Factors behind Journalists’ Professional Behavior
This article is about causal explanations for the way journalists report the news. In its first part, the article reviews traditional and current models or theories of journalists’ news decisions, concentrating on news factors, institutional objectives, the manipulative power of public relations by news sources and the subjective beliefs of journalists. It comes to the conclusion that most of these approaches do not explain the underlying process…
Chances and Effects of Authenticity: Candidates of the German Federal Election in TV News
Is “sound bite democracy” only a U.S. phenomenon? And how do different forms of a candidate’s appearance in television news affect his or her perception by the viewer? These are the major research questions we pursued using a large-scale content analysis of German television news coverage of the 1998 general election. The results show that German candidates still have a substantial opportunity on television news to speak to the people in their ow…
Media Thrust in the German Bundestag Election, 1994: News Values and Professional Norms in Political Communication
This article analyzes how the news media shape the political process particu larly in times of elections The so called "Super Wahljahr" in Germany with a total of 20 elections on all legislative levels culminating in the campaign for the federal parliament in October 1994 is taken as a case in point The data are supplied by the project "Medien Tenor " a continuous quantitative content analysis of some 15 German print and television news media of …
Guided perception: Characteristics and effects of media reality
The author argues that people's pictures of reality are to a large extent determined by media content and form. Although the audience does make up its own assumptions on political, social and economic events in society through media framing, a major element which should be kept in mind is selectivity. The latter is mainly based on content of media reality; the forms in which reality is presented by the media; and specific channel characteristics …
Mit kleinen Schritten voran Zum Stand der Medienwirkungsforschung zu Beginn der neunziger Jahre
Psychology of News Decisions: Factors behind Journalists’ Professional Behavior
This article is about causal explanations for the way journalists report the news. In its first part, the article reviews traditional and current models or theories of journalists’ news decisions, concentrating on news factors, institutional objectives, the manipulative power of public relations by news sources and the subjective beliefs of journalists. It comes to the conclusion that most of these approaches do not explain the underlying process…
Subjective objectivity. How journalists in four countries define a key term of their profession
Objectivity' is one of the core professional values of journalism. However, there are many different definitions and interpretations of the term in the profession. These notions have changed over time in one country, and they differ between journalists in different cultural and political settings. In this paper we present comparative results of how journalists in different countries look at the term objectivity. The data are gathered from an inte…
Journalism as the new knowledge profession and consequences for journalism education
The article starts with observations about an increasing marginalization of professional journalism in public communication. This development is mainly driven by two factors, decreasing interest in the public sphere and increasing selective exposure. Based on these observations, the author develops a definition of the core societal functions of journalism, that is, validation and shared reality. Assigning to professional journalism the role of th…
Comparative Indicators for the Way British and German Journalists Define Their Relations to the Public
Legitimacy Through Competence Rather Than Value Judgments: The Concept of Journalistic Professionalization Reconsidered
Media Thrust in the German Bundestag Election, 1994: News Values and Professional Norms in Political Communication
This article analyzes how the news media shape the political process particu larly in times of elections The so called "Super Wahljahr" in Germany with a total of 20 elections on all legislative levels culminating in the campaign for the federal parliament in October 1994 is taken as a case in point The data are supplied by the project "Medien Tenor " a continuous quantitative content analysis of some 15 German print and television news media of …
Exposure to Political Content in Newspapers: The Impact of Cognitive Dissonance on Readers' Selectivity
The concepts of selective exposure and cognitive dissonance have contributed to the paradigm of weak media effects which dominated communications research for about a quarter of a century. However, despite numerous studies in psychology and communications, empirical results have been mixed and the actual role of selectivity as a `protective shield' against persuasive messages has remained unclear. This study combines a survey including copy-tests…
Chances and Effects of Authenticity: Candidates of the German Federal Election in TV News
Is “sound bite democracy” only a U.S. phenomenon? And how do different forms of a candidate’s appearance in television news affect his or her perception by the viewer? These are the major research questions we pursued using a large-scale content analysis of German television news coverage of the 1998 general election. The results show that German candidates still have a substantial opportunity on television news to speak to the people in their ow…
Media Tone and Public Opinion: A Longitudinal Study of Media Coverage and Public Opinion on Chancellor Kohl
This study investigates the relationship between media coverage of Helmut Kohl in seven leading German print media and the opinions of the German general public about the politician between 1975 and 1984. For the content analysis evaluative assessments about Helmut Kohl on six different dimensions of characteristics were coded. The analysis of public opinion is based on 72 representative surveys in which respondents expressed their evaluations of…
How unique is the perspective of television? A field experiment on the perception of a campaign event by participants and television viewers
The present study compares how people perceive a political event as a participant and as a television viewer of the same event. More than any other medium, television can convey to its audience the illusion of being an eyewitness of an event. At the same time, due to its specific presentation techniques, television has a particular capability of creating impressions of an event that may differ considerably from the impression created by the real …
Objektivitätsmaße in der Publizistikwissenschaft
The Dissonant Self: Contributions from Dissonance Theory to a New Agenda for Studying Political Communication
Due to technological changes in today’s communication environments, the investigation of media use and media effects has become an ever more complex research venture. In order to adequately comprehend the social practices of media users in the age of the Internet, various scholars have recently recommended a new agenda for the future study of political communication. Based on these suggestions, the following paper briefly outlines two research st…
Nothing Is As Practical As a Good Theory: What Communication Research Can Offer to the Practice of Political Communication
The demands brought on public relations (PR) by management can only be met by more evidence-based procedures. Of course, single and subjective experiences are also a form of “evidence” but they are of a different kind and of a different quality because they often are not measurable, not quantifiable, and not repeatable. Thus, they are nontheoretical in a sense as described above. This article takes a look at what communication research can offer …
Legitimacy Through Competence Rather Than Value Judgments: The Concept of Journalistic Professionalization Reconsidered
Comparative Indicators for the Way British and German Journalists Define Their Relations to the Public
Selektive Zuwendung zu Medieninhalten
Die Frage nach den Kriterien, nach denen das Publikum aus dem Angebot der Massenmedien auswählt, spielt eine zentrale Rolle für die Medienwirkungsforschung. Diese Kriterien entscheiden darüber, mit welcher Wahrscheinlichkeit bestimmte Botschaften überhaupt zu den Rezipienten durchdringen und dort eine Wirkung ausüben können. So werden von den durchschnittlich 65 000 täglich in deutschen Tageszeitungen veröffentlichten Wörtern nur ungefähr 5 400 a…
Media Tone and Public Opinion: A Longitudinal Study of Media Coverage and Public Opinion on Chancellor Kohl
This study investigates the relationship between media coverage of Helmut Kohl in seven leading German print media and the opinions of the German general public about the politician between 1975 and 1984. For the content analysis evaluative assessments about Helmut Kohl on six different dimensions of characteristics were coded. The analysis of public opinion is based on 72 representative surveys in which respondents expressed their evaluations of…
The impact of camera perspectives on the perception of a speaker
Objektivitätsmaße in der Publizistikwissenschaft
Exposure to Political Content in Newspapers: The Impact of Cognitive Dissonance on Readers' Selectivity
The concepts of selective exposure and cognitive dissonance have contributed to the paradigm of weak media effects which dominated communications research for about a quarter of a century. However, despite numerous studies in psychology and communications, empirical results have been mixed and the actual role of selectivity as a `protective shield' against persuasive messages has remained unclear. This study combines a survey including copy-tests…
Wapor News
WAPOR NEWS Get access Wolfgang Donsbach Wolfgang Donsbach Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 4, Issue 2, SUMMER 1992, Pages 200–202, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/4.2.200 Published: 01 July 1992
Subjective objectivity. How journalists in four countries define a key term of their profession
Objectivity' is one of the core professional values of journalism. However, there are many different definitions and interpretations of the term in the profession. These notions have changed over time in one country, and they differ between journalists in different cultural and political settings. In this paper we present comparative results of how journalists in different countries look at the term objectivity. The data are gathered from an inte…
How unique is the perspective of television? A field experiment on the perception of a campaign event by participants and television viewers
The present study compares how people perceive a political event as a participant and as a television viewer of the same event. More than any other medium, television can convey to its audience the illusion of being an eyewitness of an event. At the same time, due to its specific presentation techniques, television has a particular capability of creating impressions of an event that may differ considerably from the impression created by the real …
Mit kleinen Schritten voran Zum Stand der Medienwirkungsforschung zu Beginn der neunziger Jahre
Guided perception: Characteristics and effects of media reality
The author argues that people's pictures of reality are to a large extent determined by media content and form. Although the audience does make up its own assumptions on political, social and economic events in society through media framing, a major element which should be kept in mind is selectivity. The latter is mainly based on content of media reality; the forms in which reality is presented by the media; and specific channel characteristics …
Media Thrust in the German Bundestag Election, 1994: News Values and Professional Norms in Political Communication
This article analyzes how the news media shape the political process particu larly in times of elections The so called "Super Wahljahr" in Germany with a total of 20 elections on all legislative levels culminating in the campaign for the federal parliament in October 1994 is taken as a case in point The data are supplied by the project "Medien Tenor " a continuous quantitative content analysis of some 15 German print and television news media of …
Chances and Effects of Authenticity: Candidates of the German Federal Election in TV News
Is “sound bite democracy” only a U.S. phenomenon? And how do different forms of a candidate’s appearance in television news affect his or her perception by the viewer? These are the major research questions we pursued using a large-scale content analysis of German television news coverage of the 1998 general election. The results show that German candidates still have a substantial opportunity on television news to speak to the people in their ow…
Political News Journalists: Partisanship, Professionalism, and Political Roles in Five Countries
Most empirical studies of journalists' thinking and decision-making processes have been conducted as case studies of individual countries. They suffer from a considerable shortcoming insofar as they lack a larger context for assessing the validity of their findings. However, the question of how significant these findings are can be answered by use of comparative analyses, which include a range of different countries. The relevance of internationa…
PR und Nachrichtenagenturen
Bei der Betrachtung der bisherigen empirischen Ergebnisse zur Übemahme von PR in die Medienberichterstattung fällt auf, dass den Nachrichtenagenturen oftmals eine herausragende Bedeutung bei der Verbreitung von PR zugewiesen wird. Aber es finden sich kaum Studien zum Umgang von Nachrichtenagenturen mit PR. Nachrichtenagenturen werden deshalb hier in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtungen gerückt und die Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie zur PR-Nutzu…
Psychology of News Decisions: Factors behind Journalists’ Professional Behavior
This article is about causal explanations for the way journalists report the news. In its first part, the article reviews traditional and current models or theories of journalists’ news decisions, concentrating on news factors, institutional objectives, the manipulative power of public relations by news sources and the subjective beliefs of journalists. It comes to the conclusion that most of these approaches do not explain the underlying process…
Anpassungsprozesse in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Themen und Herkunft der Forschung in den Fachzeitschriften „Publizistik“ und „Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft“
eBook: Anpassungsprozesse in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Themen und Herkunft der Forschung in den Fachzeitschriften „Publizistik“ und „Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft“ (ISSN1615-634X) von aus dem Jahr 2005
Authors' and Reviewers' Preferences for Modes of Submitting and Reviewing Manuscripts
The publishing world is rapidly changing in many aspects, and it seems that scholarly journals are more affected by this than any other print category. One of the issues we will increasingly have to deal with in the future is online access to journal articles and what this means for authors’ rights and publishers’ businesses. For instance, the editors of IJPOR have agreed to a 24-months embargo on so-called ‘post-prints’. A post-print is defined …
The Identity of Communication Research
Despite its roots in ancient rhetoric communication as an academic field and discipline has a relatively young history. Starting in the first half of the 20th century it has seen an enormous growth over the last 10-30 years. However, the field has still not fully found its identity and borders. There are many reasons for this, among them are: an object that is almost without boundaries, an ongoing diversification and specialization of the field, …
The Sage Handbook of Public Opinion Research
Dissent in Organizations
Employee dissent occurs when employees express their disagreement or contradictory opinions about workplace policies and practices to various audiences. The most notable and obvious cases of dissent occur when employees engage in whistleblowing by dissenting to industry regulatory bodies, the media, or both. However, not all employees feel the need to voice their concerns in this manner. Rather, employees often express their dissent within organi…
Methodische Designs zur Messung subjektiver Einflüsse auf Nachrichtenentscheidungen von Journalisten
Den Kern der Journalismusforschung bilden Kausalanalysen über Einflussfaktoren auf Medieninhalte. Für solche Kausalanalysen gibt es eine Reihe von Modellen, mit denen man die an Inhaltsentscheidungen beteiligten Faktoren systematisiert hat. Diese Modelle haben eine sinnvolle forschungsleitende Funktion. Eine Theorie, die sämtliche mögliche Faktoren integriert, steht aber noch aus und ist angesichts der Komplexität des Prozesses wahrscheinlich auc…
Risiken und Nebenwirkungen des Internets für die politische Kommunikation
This short essay observes some general trends concerning the internet's impact on political communication -based around notions of what we might expect from the citizens, media and political actors in a democratic society. It focuses on three central questions: 1) What kind of significance did the internet gain over recent years? 2) What kind of changes will current trends in communication carry for political cognition? 3) What sort of modificati…
Nothing Is As Practical As a Good Theory: What Communication Research Can Offer to the Practice of Political Communication
The demands brought on public relations (PR) by management can only be met by more evidence-based procedures. Of course, single and subjective experiences are also a form of “evidence” but they are of a different kind and of a different quality because they often are not measurable, not quantifiable, and not repeatable. Thus, they are nontheoretical in a sense as described above. This article takes a look at what communication research can offer …
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