Veronika Karnowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 4617028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronika Karnowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronika |
| FAMILY NAME | Karnowski |
| SIGNATURE | KARNOWSKI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | LMU Klinikum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2138-255X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From social to informational exclusion: How othering shapes acculturation trajectories and health information access among international students
Introduction In recent years, Germany has experienced a steady rise in international student enrollment at its higher education institutions. While universities publicly commit to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles, many fall short in translating these commitments into concrete practices. The lack of initiatives fostering meaningful cross-cultural engagement frequently contributes to integration challenges and experiences of otheri…
Distinguishing Person-Specific from Situation-Specific Variation in Media Use: A Meta-Analysis
Media use varies between persons (person-specific variation) and within persons (situation-specific variation, that is, the same individual uses media differently across situations). Understanding the relative importance of these two levels of variation in media use is fundamental to theory building as it helps determine whether theories of media use should focus on person- or situation-specific factors. To examine the relative importance of pers…
Taking stock of social media privacy: Meta-analytic evidence on how control, trust, and concerns are associated with social media use, disclosure, and protection
Social media users face uncertainty regarding the flow and use of their data. They engage in a variety of privacy behaviors, such as limiting how much social media they use, controlling what they disclose, and protecting their privacy, while considering their options—for example, deciding whether they can trust certain providers, whether they feel that they have control over their privacy settings, or how much concern they should feel. This study…
Between clicks and colleagues: The Janus-faced nature of data in the media industry
This research delves into the dualistic nature of datafication, revealing its capacity to both illuminate and mask realities within media organizations. Datafication, the strategic use of data in organizations, offers insights into, and transforms, how work and individual outcomes are perceived and evaluated. This study examines how data-centric practices—embodied in metrics, rankings, and algorithms—can skew the playing field, creating scenarios…
Mobile news access, mobile news repertoires, and users’ tendency to talk about the news – an experience sampling study on mobile news consumption
Purpose Over the past three decades, our media ecologies have substantially transformed, changing how people get in touch with the news. These changes have also led to higher variability in news access across users’ daily lives. Using the microcosm of mobile news consumption as a proxy for the changes in our general news use, we explore types of mobile news access and mobile news repertoires and their relations to users’ tendency to talk about th…
Learning about climate change with algorithmic news? A two-wave panel study examining the role of “news-finds-me” perception
In an ambient news environment, people often believe that they can be well-informed without actively seeking news, resulting in the “news-finds-me” (NFM) perception. Leveraging a two-wave panel survey in China (W1N = 1,465; W2N = 1,015), we examined the impact of the NFM perception on climate change knowledge. Findings showed that NFM did not influence climate change knowledge, while algorithmic news attitude (ANA) played a mediating role. Specif…
Momentary motivations for digital disconnection: An experience sampling study
A much-discussed solution for undesirable (over-)use of mobile technologies lies in digital disconnection. Reasons for why individuals reduce their digital media use have been assessed mostly cross-sectionally without accounting for various disconnection practices across everyday situations. This study focuses on three motivations to disconnect that can vary between situations: to (a) avoid distractions, (b) improve well-being, and (c) be more pr…
Subtle momentary effects of social media experiences: An experience sampling study of posting and social comparisons on connectedness and self-esteem
Part of the current mental health crisis is attributed to the increasing reliance on social media for daily tasks. By understanding behavioral or cognitive patterns that influence facets of well-being in real-time within individuals, we can empower individuals to intentionally adjust their behavior, thereby enhancing these aspects. This study utilized an experience sampling method to investigate the real-time effects of social media-induced socia…
The situation in media and communication research
Communication researchers have long sought to situate or contextualize media behaviors in their natural settings. However, the many approaches taken to understand media behavior in context have varied considerably. This article proposes a metatheoretical framework for theorizing media behavior at the situational level, encompassing the entirety of circumstances surrounding a media behavior at a given moment. The framework describes how psychologi…
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast-track to knowledge. To fulfill this functional role, those who claim epistemic authority need to be both subjectively recognized (have a perceived advantage in knowledge) and objectively justified (have…
More than counting steps: Identifying types of self-tracking usage among German young adults
Self-tracking technologies have been regarded both very optimistic and very critical. However, these conclusions are often based on single application studies and lack empirical evidence on actual self-tracking usage. We set out to identify types of self-tracking usage based on users’ mobile media ensembles and their varying levels of engagement with the technology. Using latent class analysis, we empirically identified three types of self-tracki…
A replication and extension of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework
The recently forwarded Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework (PSMEF) allows researchers to study social media in terms of generalized types of user interfaces. This study formally extended the PSMEF via the Digital User Interface Model and replicated previous work by evidencing the existence of new (e.g., Overtly Algorithmic Content Pages) and validating previously identified types of user interfaces (e.g., Home Pages and Chats/Messages) that…
Between reflective evaluation and opinion-finds-me – News-YouTubers’ role in young adults’ political opinion-forming process
With more young adults turning to YouTube for up-to-date news, this development raises questions about their news usage patterns and, more precisely, their perception of News-YouTubers as a crucial source for opinion-forming. Drawing on concepts of social media information behavior and the heuristic-systematic model, this study provides initial insights into the role of YouTube and especially News-YouTubers in young adults’ involvement with the n…
Celebrating 10 years of Mobile Media & Communication
Business as usual? Taking stock of submissions and reviews two years after the first coronavirus lockdowns
Worth to Share? How Content Characteristics and Article Competitiveness Influence News Sharing on Social Network Sites
We investigated how sharing performance on Facebook and Twitter is influenced both by news articles’ content characteristics and the availability of additional news articles reporting on the same news topic. We conducted a multi-method study, integrating automated data collection and manual/automated content analyses of 1,764 German online news articles. Our findings show the influence of news factors and, more importantly, news outlets on sharin…
News Junkie or Only Accidentally Informed? An in-Situ Study on Situational Types and Individual Repertoires of Mobile News Access Among German Young Adults
Over the past three decades our media ecologies have changed substantially, not at least changing the ways in which we get in touch with the news. These changes have led both to high hopes for more equality in news access and a better-informed electorate, as well as fears of news avoidance, filter bubbles, and increasing knowledge gaps, with recent empirical evidence leaning towards rather pessimistic perspectives. However, most of the research t…
Online and (the feeling of being) informed: Online news usage patterns and their relation to subjective and objective political knowledge
Mobile Devices as Tools for Media and Communication Research: A Scoping Review on Collecting Self-report Data in Repeated Measurement Designs
Mobile devices are deeply embedded in people’s everyday lives. On the one hand, this opens up a new field for media and communication research. On the other hand, the widespread diffusion allows for integrating mobile devices into our methodological toolkit. Researchers across the globe have creatively started to take advantage of these new opportunities in the past years. One area of development is building upon the tradition of repeated self-re…
Developing an Awareness Campaign to Reduce Second Hand Smoke Among Disadvantaged Families—A Participatory M-Health Approach
Children from disadvantaged families are particularly exposed to second hand smoke in their home environment. Using a mixed methods participatory approach, we aimed at identifying suitable media channels and appropriate content for a campaign increasing caregivers' knowledge about the risks of second hand smoke (SHS) exposure for their children and appropriate measures for exposure reduction. In the first phase of the mixed method design, we eval…
Reporting Mobile Social Media Use: How Survey and Experience Sampling Measures Differ
Quantifying the ubiquitous, ephemeral, and highly diverse patterns of mobile social media (MSM) use is a challenge for communication research. Most researchers employ retrospective survey measurement, thus depending on the accuracy of users’ memories and generalizations. Alternatively, some researchers rely on in-situ measurement, being less dependent on users’ memories and generalizations, but requiring random situation samples. To assess differ…
From incidental news exposure to news engagement. How perceptions of the news post and news usage patterns influence engagement with news articles encountered on Facebook
An English scale for measuring mobile phone appropriation: Translation and assessment
The mobile phone appropriation (MPA) scale, originally developed in German, was translated into and adapted to English and initially validated through a confirmatory factory analysis (CFA) in this study. First, the theoretical background of the MPA model is briefly introduced, followed by explanations regarding the process of translating the original German scale into English (and its back-translation). English data CFA results are discussed in c…
Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants – fruchtbares empirisches Konzept für die Kommunikationswissenschaft oder populärwissenschaftliche Fiktion
News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks
This article provides a review of scientific, peer-reviewed articles that examine the relationship between news sharing and social media in the period from 2004 to 2014. A total of 461 articles were obtained following a literature search in two databases ( Communication & Mass Media Complete [CMMC] and ACM), out of which 109 were deemed relevant based on the study’s inclusion criteria. In order to identify general tendencies and to uncover nuance…
An Integrative Model of Mobile Phone Appropriation
The evolution of mobile communication devices and services has taken up a dynamic which makes any prognosis on in this field almost impossible. Whereas part of this dynamic may remain inscrutable, we believe that a much higher degree of explanation can be achieved by paying more attention to the process of appropriation. To seize this potential, we propose to combine existing research efforts in this domain. Therefore, an integrative model to ana…
Evolving Mobile Media: Uses and Conceptualizations of the Mobile Internet
International audience
Heuristic and Systematic Use of Search Engines
It is becoming increasingly important to understand in greater detail how people process information and make decisions while searching on the World Wide Web. With the distinction between systematic and heuristic processing, dual-process theories and decision theory provide a useful framework for analyzing this decision-making. A laboratory quasi-experiment was conducted, combining a client-oriented Web content analysis, think aloud technique, an…
The situation in media and communication research
Communication researchers have long sought to situate or contextualize media behaviors in their natural settings. However, the many approaches taken to understand media behavior in context have varied considerably. This article proposes a metatheoretical framework for theorizing media behavior at the situational level, encompassing the entirety of circumstances surrounding a media behavior at a given moment. The framework describes how psychologi…
Epistemic authority in the digital public sphere. An integrative conceptual framework and research agenda
We develop an integrative conceptual framework and research agenda for studying epistemic authorities in the digital age. Consulting epistemic authorities (e.g., professional experts, well-informed laypeople, technologies) can be an efficient fast-track to knowledge. To fulfill this functional role, those who claim epistemic authority need to be both subjectively recognized (have a perceived advantage in knowledge) and objectively justified (have…
Reporting Mobile Social Media Use: How Survey and Experience Sampling Measures Differ
Quantifying the ubiquitous, ephemeral, and highly diverse patterns of mobile social media (MSM) use is a challenge for communication research. Most researchers employ retrospective survey measurement, thus depending on the accuracy of users’ memories and generalizations. Alternatively, some researchers rely on in-situ measurement, being less dependent on users’ memories and generalizations, but requiring random situation samples. To assess differ…
Zur Diffusion Neuer Medien: Kritische Bestandsaufnahme aktueller Ansätze und Überlegungen zu einer integrativen Diffusions- und Aneignungstheorie Neuer Medien
M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft , Seite 56 - 74
Learning about climate change with algorithmic news? A two-wave panel study examining the role of “news-finds-me” perception
In an ambient news environment, people often believe that they can be well-informed without actively seeking news, resulting in the “news-finds-me” (NFM) perception. Leveraging a two-wave panel survey in China (W1N = 1,465; W2N = 1,015), we examined the impact of the NFM perception on climate change knowledge. Findings showed that NFM did not influence climate change knowledge, while algorithmic news attitude (ANA) played a mediating role. Specif…
Momentary motivations for digital disconnection: An experience sampling study
A much-discussed solution for undesirable (over-)use of mobile technologies lies in digital disconnection. Reasons for why individuals reduce their digital media use have been assessed mostly cross-sectionally without accounting for various disconnection practices across everyday situations. This study focuses on three motivations to disconnect that can vary between situations: to (a) avoid distractions, (b) improve well-being, and (c) be more pr…
Welcome to Mobile Media & Communication
More than counting steps: Identifying types of self-tracking usage among German young adults
Self-tracking technologies have been regarded both very optimistic and very critical. However, these conclusions are often based on single application studies and lack empirical evidence on actual self-tracking usage. We set out to identify types of self-tracking usage based on users’ mobile media ensembles and their varying levels of engagement with the technology. Using latent class analysis, we empirically identified three types of self-tracki…
A replication and extension of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework
The recently forwarded Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework (PSMEF) allows researchers to study social media in terms of generalized types of user interfaces. This study formally extended the PSMEF via the Digital User Interface Model and replicated previous work by evidencing the existence of new (e.g., Overtly Algorithmic Content Pages) and validating previously identified types of user interfaces (e.g., Home Pages and Chats/Messages) that…
Between reflective evaluation and opinion-finds-me – News-YouTubers’ role in young adults’ political opinion-forming process
With more young adults turning to YouTube for up-to-date news, this development raises questions about their news usage patterns and, more precisely, their perception of News-YouTubers as a crucial source for opinion-forming. Drawing on concepts of social media information behavior and the heuristic-systematic model, this study provides initial insights into the role of YouTube and especially News-YouTubers in young adults’ involvement with the n…
Celebrating 10 years of Mobile Media & Communication
An English scale for measuring mobile phone appropriation: Translation and assessment
The mobile phone appropriation (MPA) scale, originally developed in German, was translated into and adapted to English and initially validated through a confirmatory factory analysis (CFA) in this study. First, the theoretical background of the MPA model is briefly introduced, followed by explanations regarding the process of translating the original German scale into English (and its back-translation). English data CFA results are discussed in c…
The Webnas Analysis Method: A Holistic Approach to the Analysis of Web Navigating and Searching Behavior
As progressively more information and everyday tasks move to the domain of the Web, it is increasingly important to understand how users navigate and search in a Web environment. Whereas numerous studies have focused on specific questions and methods in analyzing selective aspects of this behavior, few have employed an integrative approach, taking multiple factors into account simultaneously. The Web Navigation and Searching (WEBNAS) analysis met…
Zur Diffusion Neuer Medien: Kritische Bestandsaufnahme aktueller Ansätze und Überlegungen zu einer integrativen Diffusions- und Aneignungstheorie Neuer Medien
M&K Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft , Seite 56 - 74
Heuristic and Systematic Use of Search Engines
It is becoming increasingly important to understand in greater detail how people process information and make decisions while searching on the World Wide Web. With the distinction between systematic and heuristic processing, dual-process theories and decision theory provide a useful framework for analyzing this decision-making. A laboratory quasi-experiment was conducted, combining a client-oriented Web content analysis, think aloud technique, an…
Das Mobiltelefon im Spiegel fiktionaler Fernsehserien
Das ehemals als mobiles Telefon eingeführte Handy ist heute ein umfassendes Innovationscluster, das neben Diensten der Individualkommunikation auch massenmediale Anwendungen beinhaltet. Um den Erfolg dieses Innovationsclusters erklären und prognostizieren zu können, gilt es über die bloße Kaufentscheidung hinaus dessen Aneignung im Alltag der Nutzer zu betrachten. In eben diesem Aneignungsprozess beleuchtet Veronika Karnowski die Rolle der Massen…
Mobiltelefon Im Spiegel Fiktionaler Fernsehserien: Symbolische Modelle der Handyaneignung
Das Mobiltelefon im Spiegel fiktionaler Fernsehserien: Symbolische Modelle der Handyaneignung
An Integrative Model of Mobile Phone Appropriation
The evolution of mobile communication devices and services has taken up a dynamic which makes any prognosis on in this field almost impossible. Whereas part of this dynamic may remain inscrutable, we believe that a much higher degree of explanation can be achieved by paying more attention to the process of appropriation. To seize this potential, we propose to combine existing research efforts in this domain. Therefore, an integrative model to ana…
The Webnas Analysis Method: A Holistic Approach to the Analysis of Web Navigating and Searching Behavior
As progressively more information and everyday tasks move to the domain of the Web, it is increasingly important to understand how users navigate and search in a Web environment. Whereas numerous studies have focused on specific questions and methods in analyzing selective aspects of this behavior, few have employed an integrative approach, taking multiple factors into account simultaneously. The Web Navigation and Searching (WEBNAS) analysis met…
Welcome to Mobile Media & Communication
Evolving Mobile Media: Uses and Conceptualizations of the Mobile Internet
International audience
Digital Natives vs. Digital Immigrants – fruchtbares empirisches Konzept für die Kommunikationswissenschaft oder populärwissenschaftliche Fiktion
News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks
This article provides a review of scientific, peer-reviewed articles that examine the relationship between news sharing and social media in the period from 2004 to 2014. A total of 461 articles were obtained following a literature search in two databases ( Communication & Mass Media Complete [CMMC] and ACM), out of which 109 were deemed relevant based on the study’s inclusion criteria. In order to identify general tendencies and to uncover nuance…
An English scale for measuring mobile phone appropriation: Translation and assessment
The mobile phone appropriation (MPA) scale, originally developed in German, was translated into and adapted to English and initially validated through a confirmatory factory analysis (CFA) in this study. First, the theoretical background of the MPA model is briefly introduced, followed by explanations regarding the process of translating the original German scale into English (and its back-translation). English data CFA results are discussed in c…
From incidental news exposure to news engagement. How perceptions of the news post and news usage patterns influence engagement with news articles encountered on Facebook
Developing an Awareness Campaign to Reduce Second Hand Smoke Among Disadvantaged Families—A Participatory M-Health Approach
Children from disadvantaged families are particularly exposed to second hand smoke in their home environment. Using a mixed methods participatory approach, we aimed at identifying suitable media channels and appropriate content for a campaign increasing caregivers' knowledge about the risks of second hand smoke (SHS) exposure for their children and appropriate measures for exposure reduction. In the first phase of the mixed method design, we eval…
Reporting Mobile Social Media Use: How Survey and Experience Sampling Measures Differ
Quantifying the ubiquitous, ephemeral, and highly diverse patterns of mobile social media (MSM) use is a challenge for communication research. Most researchers employ retrospective survey measurement, thus depending on the accuracy of users’ memories and generalizations. Alternatively, some researchers rely on in-situ measurement, being less dependent on users’ memories and generalizations, but requiring random situation samples. To assess differ…
News Junkie or Only Accidentally Informed? An in-Situ Study on Situational Types and Individual Repertoires of Mobile News Access Among German Young Adults
Over the past three decades our media ecologies have changed substantially, not at least changing the ways in which we get in touch with the news. These changes have led both to high hopes for more equality in news access and a better-informed electorate, as well as fears of news avoidance, filter bubbles, and increasing knowledge gaps, with recent empirical evidence leaning towards rather pessimistic perspectives. However, most of the research t…
Online and (the feeling of being) informed: Online news usage patterns and their relation to subjective and objective political knowledge
Mobile Devices as Tools for Media and Communication Research: A Scoping Review on Collecting Self-report Data in Repeated Measurement Designs
Mobile devices are deeply embedded in people’s everyday lives. On the one hand, this opens up a new field for media and communication research. On the other hand, the widespread diffusion allows for integrating mobile devices into our methodological toolkit. Researchers across the globe have creatively started to take advantage of these new opportunities in the past years. One area of development is building upon the tradition of repeated self-re…
Worth to Share? How Content Characteristics and Article Competitiveness Influence News Sharing on Social Network Sites
We investigated how sharing performance on Facebook and Twitter is influenced both by news articles’ content characteristics and the availability of additional news articles reporting on the same news topic. We conducted a multi-method study, integrating automated data collection and manual/automated content analyses of 1,764 German online news articles. Our findings show the influence of news factors and, more importantly, news outlets on sharin…
Between reflective evaluation and opinion-finds-me – News-YouTubers’ role in young adults’ political opinion-forming process
With more young adults turning to YouTube for up-to-date news, this development raises questions about their news usage patterns and, more precisely, their perception of News-YouTubers as a crucial source for opinion-forming. Drawing on concepts of social media information behavior and the heuristic-systematic model, this study provides initial insights into the role of YouTube and especially News-YouTubers in young adults’ involvement with the n…
Celebrating 10 years of Mobile Media & Communication
Business as usual? Taking stock of submissions and reviews two years after the first coronavirus lockdowns
More than counting steps: Identifying types of self-tracking usage among German young adults
Self-tracking technologies have been regarded both very optimistic and very critical. However, these conclusions are often based on single application studies and lack empirical evidence on actual self-tracking usage. We set out to identify types of self-tracking usage based on users’ mobile media ensembles and their varying levels of engagement with the technology. Using latent class analysis, we empirically identified three types of self-tracki…
A replication and extension of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework
The recently forwarded Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework (PSMEF) allows researchers to study social media in terms of generalized types of user interfaces. This study formally extended the PSMEF via the Digital User Interface Model and replicated previous work by evidencing the existence of new (e.g., Overtly Algorithmic Content Pages) and validating previously identified types of user interfaces (e.g., Home Pages and Chats/Messages) that…
Mobile news access, mobile news repertoires, and users’ tendency to talk about the news – an experience sampling study on mobile news consumption
Purpose Over the past three decades, our media ecologies have substantially transformed, changing how people get in touch with the news. These changes have also led to higher variability in news access across users’ daily lives. Using the microcosm of mobile news consumption as a proxy for the changes in our general news use, we explore types of mobile news access and mobile news repertoires and their relations to users’ tendency to talk about th…
Computer Science (22 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Social Media and Politics (12 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (11 works) · Social media (11 works) · World Wide Web (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Internet privacy (7 works) · Advertising (6 works)