Arista Beseler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4466541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arista Beseler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arista |
| FAMILY NAME | Beseler |
| SIGNATURE | BESELER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Passau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1906-0121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Disrupting or invigorating an anti-democratic counterpublic? How highly active commenters engage on RT German’s Facebook page
Anti-democratic counterpublic news media frequently open up participatory spaces, inviting their audiences to partake in the discussion of their content. However, research on how commenters engage in such participatory spaces opened up and overseen by anti-democratic actors is scarce. In order to fill this gap, we present in this article a case study of the 250 most active commenters on RT German’s Facebook page in a 6-month period at the height …
Conduits of the Kremlin’s Informational Influence Abroad? How German-Language Alternative Media Outlets Are Connected to Russia’s Ruling Elites
Extant research on alternative media in Western democracies has focused on scrutinizing their content, organization, production, and audiences. However, the extent to which alternative outlets are linked to powerful foreign actors has not yet been analyzed, despite the fact that a plethora of outlets have openly sided with Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, spreading the Kremlin’s propagandistic narratives. To fill …
A platform policy implementation audit of actions against Russia’s state-controlled media
A platform policy implementation audit of how major digital platforms implemented their content moderation policies towards RT and Sputnik accounts at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It shows a wide, yet inconsistent range of measures taken by tech giants
Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia’s foreign communication
This article advances extant research that has audited search algorithms for misinformation in four respects. Firstly, this is the first misinformation audit not to implement a national but a cross-national research design. Secondly, it retrieves results not in response to the most popular query terms. Instead, it theorizes two semantic dimensions of search terms and illustrates how they impact the number of misinformative results returned. Furth…
Beyond the Freebie Mentality: A News User Typology of Reasonings About Paying for Online Content
Online news providers struggle to pull audiences behind their paywalls in order to complement (insufficient) advertising revenue with sales income. But what do consumers think about paying for—once freely available—online news content and how does it affect their payment behavior? The present study complements the existing research by developing a typology of attitudes and behavior toward paying for online news content based on qualitative interv…
Different platforms, different plots? The Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex as a resource for Russia’s informational influence in Belarus during the Covid-19 pandemic
Extant research demonstrated that the algorithms of the Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex, compared to those of its US-based counterpart Google, frequently produce results that are biased toward the interests of Russia’s ruling elites. Prior research, however, audited Yandex’s algorithms largely within Russia. In contrast, this study is the first to assess the role of Yandex’s web search algorithms as a resource for Russia’s informational i…
Schutz durch Impfungen versus potenzielle Risiken? Die Diskussion über das Thema „Impfen und Impfungen“ in deutschsprachigen YouTube-Videos
Obwohl Impfungen nachweislich vor potenziell lebensbedrohlichen Krankheiten schützen und schwerwiegende Nebenwirkungen nur selten eintreten, existiert eine Minderheit an Personen, die sich gegen Impfungen ausspricht. Dabei dienen alternative Kommunikationsplattformen für Impfgegner*innen als Ort, um sich an der öffentlichen Kommunikation zum Thema „Impfen“ zu beteiligen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht mittels einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse…
Conduits of the Kremlin’s Informational Influence Abroad? How German-Language Alternative Media Outlets Are Connected to Russia’s Ruling Elites
Extant research on alternative media in Western democracies has focused on scrutinizing their content, organization, production, and audiences. However, the extent to which alternative outlets are linked to powerful foreign actors has not yet been analyzed, despite the fact that a plethora of outlets have openly sided with Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, spreading the Kremlin’s propagandistic narratives. To fill …
Different platforms, different plots? The Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex as a resource for Russia’s informational influence in Belarus during the Covid-19 pandemic
Extant research demonstrated that the algorithms of the Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex, compared to those of its US-based counterpart Google, frequently produce results that are biased toward the interests of Russia’s ruling elites. Prior research, however, audited Yandex’s algorithms largely within Russia. In contrast, this study is the first to assess the role of Yandex’s web search algorithms as a resource for Russia’s informational i…
Schutz durch Impfungen versus potenzielle Risiken? Die Diskussion über das Thema „Impfen und Impfungen“ in deutschsprachigen YouTube-Videos
Obwohl Impfungen nachweislich vor potenziell lebensbedrohlichen Krankheiten schützen und schwerwiegende Nebenwirkungen nur selten eintreten, existiert eine Minderheit an Personen, die sich gegen Impfungen ausspricht. Dabei dienen alternative Kommunikationsplattformen für Impfgegner*innen als Ort, um sich an der öffentlichen Kommunikation zum Thema „Impfen“ zu beteiligen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht mittels einer quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse…
A platform policy implementation audit of actions against Russia’s state-controlled media
A platform policy implementation audit of how major digital platforms implemented their content moderation policies towards RT and Sputnik accounts at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It shows a wide, yet inconsistent range of measures taken by tech giants
Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia’s foreign communication
This article advances extant research that has audited search algorithms for misinformation in four respects. Firstly, this is the first misinformation audit not to implement a national but a cross-national research design. Secondly, it retrieves results not in response to the most popular query terms. Instead, it theorizes two semantic dimensions of search terms and illustrates how they impact the number of misinformative results returned. Furth…
Beyond the Freebie Mentality: A News User Typology of Reasonings About Paying for Online Content
Online news providers struggle to pull audiences behind their paywalls in order to complement (insufficient) advertising revenue with sales income. But what do consumers think about paying for—once freely available—online news content and how does it affect their payment behavior? The present study complements the existing research by developing a typology of attitudes and behavior toward paying for online news content based on qualitative interv…
Different platforms, different plots? The Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex as a resource for Russia’s informational influence in Belarus during the Covid-19 pandemic
Extant research demonstrated that the algorithms of the Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex, compared to those of its US-based counterpart Google, frequently produce results that are biased toward the interests of Russia’s ruling elites. Prior research, however, audited Yandex’s algorithms largely within Russia. In contrast, this study is the first to assess the role of Yandex’s web search algorithms as a resource for Russia’s informational i…
Conduits of the Kremlin’s Informational Influence Abroad? How German-Language Alternative Media Outlets Are Connected to Russia’s Ruling Elites
Extant research on alternative media in Western democracies has focused on scrutinizing their content, organization, production, and audiences. However, the extent to which alternative outlets are linked to powerful foreign actors has not yet been analyzed, despite the fact that a plethora of outlets have openly sided with Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, spreading the Kremlin’s propagandistic narratives. To fill …
Disrupting or invigorating an anti-democratic counterpublic? How highly active commenters engage on RT German’s Facebook page
Anti-democratic counterpublic news media frequently open up participatory spaces, inviting their audiences to partake in the discussion of their content. However, research on how commenters engage in such participatory spaces opened up and overseen by anti-democratic actors is scarce. In order to fill this gap, we present in this article a case study of the 250 most active commenters on RT German’s Facebook page in a 6-month period at the height …
Business (5 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Audit (3 works) · Media Influence and Politics (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Advertising (2 works)