Josef Seethaler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4447657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josef Seethaler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josef |
| FAMILY NAME | Seethaler |
| SIGNATURE | SEETHALER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8857-3935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 467 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Medienstrukturen revisited. Ein Plädoyer für eine gesellschaftlich relevante kommunikationswissenschaftliche Grundlagenforschung
Medienstrukturen im Sinne von Medien als Organisationen, Institutionen und Systeme prägen das Handeln von Akteuren, doch werden auch Organisationen, Institutionen und Systeme durch Akteurshandeln aufrechterhalten oder verändert. Diese theoretische Prämisse weist die Medienstrukturforschung als ein zentrales Forschungsfeld der Kommunikationswissenschaft aus. Gerade in Zeiten radikaler medialer und gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen, die häufig mit B…
Medienstrukturen revisited – die Rolle von Werten. Ein analytisches Modell zur Untersuchung des demokratiefördernden Potenzials nationaler Rechts- und Regulierungsrahmen
Der Beitrag stellt ein analytisches Modell vor, das klären will, inwieweit die nationalen rechtlichen und regulatorischen Rahmenbedingungen in den EU-Mitgliedstaaten Medienstrukturen schaffen oder stärken, die die Ausübung demokratisch relevanter Medienfunktionen gewährleisten. Die Entwicklung des Modells steht vor der Herausforderung, national unterschiedliche und sich wandelnde Vorstellungen von der Rolle der Medien in der Demokratie theoretisc…
Opinion-leading media as indicators of a democracy at risk: The press and the rise of National Socialism between 1927 and 1932
The rise of National Socialism in the late 1920s and 1930s happened within democratic societies with well-developed media systems. This gives rise to whether an increasingly right-wing press climate aided the emergence of National Socialism. Based on a comparative analysis of post-election reporting in German and Austrian newspapers, this paper argues that changes in the spectrum of opinion-leading media and in the relations both between them and…
Public value of community media in Austria
This article explores the public value of community media in Austria. Though they fulfil various important functions in civil society, they do not enjoy the same legislative recognition and financial funding like other public-value-generating broadcasters do. For this study five normative functions have been developed to measure the community media’s public value: the articulation function, the participation function, the complementary function, …
Evaluating M&As from a regional perspective: Media discourses on the asymmetric internationalization of Vienna’s banking sector
Firms are important regional identity anchors. Accordingly, acquisitions by foreign companies are publicly discussed regarding the gains or losses in regional prestige that they bring about. However, the perception and evaluation of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in public discourse has so far only been marginally analysed. The study therefore examines the interpretation and evaluation of inward and outward M&As in Vienna between 1999 and 2016 b…
Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Zwischen Kontinuität und Wandel: Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Twitter as a tool for agenda building in election campaigns? The case of Austria
During the 2017 Austrian national election campaign, political parties that had traditionally focused on press releases and conferences to influence the media’s agenda made extensive use of Twitter for the very first time. This study examines the impact of the parties’ Twitter campaigns on the substantive issue agendas of five leading legacy media outlets. Compared with the impact of parties’ news releases, the results show that, on an aggregated…
Community media and broadcast journalism in Austria: Legal and funding provisions as indicators for the perception of the media’s societal roles
Starting with considerations on the ongoing transformation of broadcast journalism borne by technological, economic and societal changes, the study aims at clarifying the role of Austrian community media in relation to the public and commercial sector. Setting out from the assumption that legal documents codify social change, and hence are barometers for collectively recognized conceptions and norms and of the changes they undergo, all Austrian l…
Dynamics of National Identity: Media and societal factors of what we are
Die Tagespresse der franzisko-josephinischen Ära
Phases of Mediatization: Empirical evidence from Austrian election campaigns since 1970
As election campaigns changed substantially in Western countries, it is generally hypothesized that this change in campaign communication is rooted in a revolution in communications, with the media rejecting its former role as mere transmitters and becoming a major actor in the campaigning process. Regarding the analysis of the “mediatization of politics”, Strömbäck presented a four phases model which offers a way to explore such a process in an …
Wahlen und Politikvermittlung Durch Massenmedien: Theoretisch-Methodische Implikationen längerfristiger Analysen
Mapping Journalism Cultures Across Nations: A comparative study of 18 countries
This article reports key findings from a comparative survey of the role perceptions, epistemological orientations and ethical views of 1800 journalists from 18 countries. The results show that detachment, non-involvement, providing political information and monitoring the government are considered essential journalistic functions around the globe. Impartiality, the reliability and factualness of information, as well as adherence to universal ethi…
Modeling Perceived Influences on Journalism: Evidence from a Cross-National Survey of Journalists
Surveying 1,700 journalists from seventeen countries, this study investigates perceived influences on news work. Analysis reveals a dimensional structure of six distinct domains—political, economic, organizational, professional, and procedural influences, as well as reference groups. Across countries, these six dimensions build up a hierarchical structure where organizational, professional, and procedural influences are perceived as more powerful…
Journalismuswelten – Ein Vergleich von Journalismuskulturen in 17 Ländern
Beispiele aus einem robusten und stetig wachsenden Korpus von Forschungsliteratur zum Thema. Die Erforschung von Journalismuskulturen
Medien & Kommunikations-forschung im Vergleich
Die Bedeutung vergleichender Ansätze in der Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung hat zugenommen. An zehn Forschungsfeldern wird exemplarisch illustriert, wie solche Vergleiche bisher angestellt worden sind, welche Perspektiven sie eröffnen und welche Probleme dabei auftreten. Neben Zeitvergleichen stehen internationale und systematische Vergleiche im Vordergrund. Das Spektrum der Forschungsfelder reicht von der Mediengeschichte über den Mediensyst…
Medien & Kommunikationsforschung im Vergleich: Grundlagen, Gegenstandsbereiche, Verfahrensweisen
Medien and Kommunikationsforschung Im Vergleich: Grundlagen, Gegenstandsbereiche, Verfahrensweisen
Wahlen und Politikvermittlung durch Massenmedien
Mapping Journalism Cultures Across Nations: A comparative study of 18 countries
This article reports key findings from a comparative survey of the role perceptions, epistemological orientations and ethical views of 1800 journalists from 18 countries. The results show that detachment, non-involvement, providing political information and monitoring the government are considered essential journalistic functions around the globe. Impartiality, the reliability and factualness of information, as well as adherence to universal ethi…
Modeling Perceived Influences on Journalism: Evidence from a Cross-National Survey of Journalists
Surveying 1,700 journalists from seventeen countries, this study investigates perceived influences on news work. Analysis reveals a dimensional structure of six distinct domains—political, economic, organizational, professional, and procedural influences, as well as reference groups. Across countries, these six dimensions build up a hierarchical structure where organizational, professional, and procedural influences are perceived as more powerful…
Journalismuswelten – Ein Vergleich von Journalismuskulturen in 17 Ländern
Beispiele aus einem robusten und stetig wachsenden Korpus von Forschungsliteratur zum Thema. Die Erforschung von Journalismuskulturen
Twitter as a tool for agenda building in election campaigns? The case of Austria
During the 2017 Austrian national election campaign, political parties that had traditionally focused on press releases and conferences to influence the media’s agenda made extensive use of Twitter for the very first time. This study examines the impact of the parties’ Twitter campaigns on the substantive issue agendas of five leading legacy media outlets. Compared with the impact of parties’ news releases, the results show that, on an aggregated…
Phases of Mediatization: Empirical evidence from Austrian election campaigns since 1970
As election campaigns changed substantially in Western countries, it is generally hypothesized that this change in campaign communication is rooted in a revolution in communications, with the media rejecting its former role as mere transmitters and becoming a major actor in the campaigning process. Regarding the analysis of the “mediatization of politics”, Strömbäck presented a four phases model which offers a way to explore such a process in an …
Opinion-leading media as indicators of a democracy at risk: The press and the rise of National Socialism between 1927 and 1932
The rise of National Socialism in the late 1920s and 1930s happened within democratic societies with well-developed media systems. This gives rise to whether an increasingly right-wing press climate aided the emergence of National Socialism. Based on a comparative analysis of post-election reporting in German and Austrian newspapers, this paper argues that changes in the spectrum of opinion-leading media and in the relations both between them and…
Community media and broadcast journalism in Austria: Legal and funding provisions as indicators for the perception of the media’s societal roles
Starting with considerations on the ongoing transformation of broadcast journalism borne by technological, economic and societal changes, the study aims at clarifying the role of Austrian community media in relation to the public and commercial sector. Setting out from the assumption that legal documents codify social change, and hence are barometers for collectively recognized conceptions and norms and of the changes they undergo, all Austrian l…
Wahlen und Politikvermittlung durch Massenmedien
Medien & Kommunikations-forschung im Vergleich
Die Bedeutung vergleichender Ansätze in der Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung hat zugenommen. An zehn Forschungsfeldern wird exemplarisch illustriert, wie solche Vergleiche bisher angestellt worden sind, welche Perspektiven sie eröffnen und welche Probleme dabei auftreten. Neben Zeitvergleichen stehen internationale und systematische Vergleiche im Vordergrund. Das Spektrum der Forschungsfelder reicht von der Mediengeschichte über den Mediensyst…
Medien & Kommunikationsforschung im Vergleich: Grundlagen, Gegenstandsbereiche, Verfahrensweisen
Medien and Kommunikationsforschung Im Vergleich: Grundlagen, Gegenstandsbereiche, Verfahrensweisen
Journalismuswelten – Ein Vergleich von Journalismuskulturen in 17 Ländern
Beispiele aus einem robusten und stetig wachsenden Korpus von Forschungsliteratur zum Thema. Die Erforschung von Journalismuskulturen
Mapping Journalism Cultures Across Nations: A comparative study of 18 countries
This article reports key findings from a comparative survey of the role perceptions, epistemological orientations and ethical views of 1800 journalists from 18 countries. The results show that detachment, non-involvement, providing political information and monitoring the government are considered essential journalistic functions around the globe. Impartiality, the reliability and factualness of information, as well as adherence to universal ethi…
Modeling Perceived Influences on Journalism: Evidence from a Cross-National Survey of Journalists
Surveying 1,700 journalists from seventeen countries, this study investigates perceived influences on news work. Analysis reveals a dimensional structure of six distinct domains—political, economic, organizational, professional, and procedural influences, as well as reference groups. Across countries, these six dimensions build up a hierarchical structure where organizational, professional, and procedural influences are perceived as more powerful…
Wahlen und Politikvermittlung Durch Massenmedien: Theoretisch-Methodische Implikationen längerfristiger Analysen
Phases of Mediatization: Empirical evidence from Austrian election campaigns since 1970
As election campaigns changed substantially in Western countries, it is generally hypothesized that this change in campaign communication is rooted in a revolution in communications, with the media rejecting its former role as mere transmitters and becoming a major actor in the campaigning process. Regarding the analysis of the “mediatization of politics”, Strömbäck presented a four phases model which offers a way to explore such a process in an …
Dynamics of National Identity: Media and societal factors of what we are
Die Tagespresse der franzisko-josephinischen Ära
Community media and broadcast journalism in Austria: Legal and funding provisions as indicators for the perception of the media’s societal roles
Starting with considerations on the ongoing transformation of broadcast journalism borne by technological, economic and societal changes, the study aims at clarifying the role of Austrian community media in relation to the public and commercial sector. Setting out from the assumption that legal documents codify social change, and hence are barometers for collectively recognized conceptions and norms and of the changes they undergo, all Austrian l…
Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Zwischen Kontinuität und Wandel: Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Twitter as a tool for agenda building in election campaigns? The case of Austria
During the 2017 Austrian national election campaign, political parties that had traditionally focused on press releases and conferences to influence the media’s agenda made extensive use of Twitter for the very first time. This study examines the impact of the parties’ Twitter campaigns on the substantive issue agendas of five leading legacy media outlets. Compared with the impact of parties’ news releases, the results show that, on an aggregated…
Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Public value of community media in Austria
This article explores the public value of community media in Austria. Though they fulfil various important functions in civil society, they do not enjoy the same legislative recognition and financial funding like other public-value-generating broadcasters do. For this study five normative functions have been developed to measure the community media’s public value: the articulation function, the participation function, the complementary function, …
Evaluating M&As from a regional perspective: Media discourses on the asymmetric internationalization of Vienna’s banking sector
Firms are important regional identity anchors. Accordingly, acquisitions by foreign companies are publicly discussed regarding the gains or losses in regional prestige that they bring about. However, the perception and evaluation of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in public discourse has so far only been marginally analysed. The study therefore examines the interpretation and evaluation of inward and outward M&As in Vienna between 1999 and 2016 b…
Opinion-leading media as indicators of a democracy at risk: The press and the rise of National Socialism between 1927 and 1932
The rise of National Socialism in the late 1920s and 1930s happened within democratic societies with well-developed media systems. This gives rise to whether an increasingly right-wing press climate aided the emergence of National Socialism. Based on a comparative analysis of post-election reporting in German and Austrian newspapers, this paper argues that changes in the spectrum of opinion-leading media and in the relations both between them and…
Medienstrukturen revisited. Ein Plädoyer für eine gesellschaftlich relevante kommunikationswissenschaftliche Grundlagenforschung
Medienstrukturen im Sinne von Medien als Organisationen, Institutionen und Systeme prägen das Handeln von Akteuren, doch werden auch Organisationen, Institutionen und Systeme durch Akteurshandeln aufrechterhalten oder verändert. Diese theoretische Prämisse weist die Medienstrukturforschung als ein zentrales Forschungsfeld der Kommunikationswissenschaft aus. Gerade in Zeiten radikaler medialer und gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen, die häufig mit B…
Medienstrukturen revisited – die Rolle von Werten. Ein analytisches Modell zur Untersuchung des demokratiefördernden Potenzials nationaler Rechts- und Regulierungsrahmen
Der Beitrag stellt ein analytisches Modell vor, das klären will, inwieweit die nationalen rechtlichen und regulatorischen Rahmenbedingungen in den EU-Mitgliedstaaten Medienstrukturen schaffen oder stärken, die die Ausübung demokratisch relevanter Medienfunktionen gewährleisten. Die Entwicklung des Modells steht vor der Herausforderung, national unterschiedliche und sich wandelnde Vorstellungen von der Rolle der Medien in der Demokratie theoretisc…
Political science (16 works) · Media Studies and Communication (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Sociology and Education Studies (4 works) · Congresses (3 works)