Anke Wonneberger
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4269255 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anke Wonneberger |
| PRENOMES | Anke |
| SOBRENOME | Wonneberger |
| ASSINATURA | WONNEBERGER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2209-9983 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
From alarmed optimists to dismissive pessimists
Societies across the globe face the urgent need to transition to sustainable and renewable energy systems. Because the success of this transition depends in part on citizen engagement, it is important to understand how different groups of citizens perceive and engage with it. Citizen segmentation offers a useful approach for identifying meaningful differences in how citizens relate to the energy transition. While citizen segmentation approaches a…
Reviving the Balance Norm? Navigating Tensions Between Objectivity and Advocacy in Journalism on Climate Solutions
While there is a broad societal call towards climate action, the extent to which climate journalists see a role for themselves as climate advocates remains unknown. This study explores how climate journalists perceive and enact the journalistic role of advocacy when reporting on climate solutions, through semi-structured interviews with 21 Dutch climate journalists. Our results show that Dutch climate journalists are hesitant about the advocacy r…
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture reflect and shape culturally particular understandings of what role technology should play in an ideal agrifood future. This study employs a comparative media content analysis to identify sociotechnical imaginaries of agricultural gene editing and the actors who perform them in five countries with contrasting regulatory and cultural contexts: Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the Nether…
Constructing counter imaginaries
Climate-Solutions Polarization
Polarization dynamics around climate change are shifting from debates about the reality and severity of climate change to debates about climate solutions. We propose taking a value-based approach to understanding “climate-solutions polarization”. As a case study, we identified the discursive value expressions underlying the polarized biomass media discourse in the Netherlands, from 2019–2021. A discourse analysis showed how the value expressions …
Mutually Reinforcing or Excluding? How Compatibility Perceptions of Economy and Environment Link to Issue-Related Attitudes and Media Use
With growing discussions about the possible contribution of economic growth to increasingly severe environmental crises, scholars have called for greater attention to public opinion on the possible tradeoffs between continuous growths and protecting the environment. While ample research investigates public opinion on the environment-economy dilemma, so far, the role of the media environment has not been considered. Using a scale for perceived com…
Divergent Views and Common Values
Sustainability has become a widely used term in public discourse, yet it is connected to a variety of meanings with diverging implications for possible societal, political, and economic solutions. This study identifies and compares how sustainability is constructed by news media, businesses, and consumers to reveal gaps that may hinder mutual understanding when striving for sustainable development. A quantitative content analysis of 282 Dutch new…
Climate change litigation in the news
With climate change litigation (CCL) being increasingly used by climate activists, its consequences for public discourses on climate change warrants attention.Considering CCL as public campaigning tool, this study presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of national media coverage on three CCL cases in the Netherlands focusing on individual claims of key actors (N = 1,394).Discerning generic and issue-specific frames, this study compares …
Experiencing Climate Change Virtually
We conducted a pre-registered, between-subjects experiment to investigate whether experiencing climate change consequences virtually can influence cognitions, emotions, and pro-environmental intentions and behaviors. Participants (N = 277) experienced a wildfire through different media that varied in their degree of technological immersiveness (virtual reality vs. regular video vs. magazine articles only). Participants in the virtual reality cond…
Exploring Media-Covered Accountability of Public Agencies
Although journalism and media coverage are known to induce, inform, and affect public accountability processes, little is known about media-covered accountability. This study therefore explores accountability processes of Danish and Flemish agencies as subjects of the news. Drawing on news construction literature, our quantitative content analysis of newspaper coverage ( N = 13,540) focuses on the presence of accountability processes in media cov…
Agenda-Setting Effects of Climate Change Litigation
An increasing number of climate lawsuits worldwide address responsibilities of climate change mitigation or adaptation. Yet, we know little about wider socio-political consequences of climate change litigation. This study focusses on the successful case of Urgenda vs. the Netherlands, which has created precedence for similar lawsuits against governments in other countries. Following theories of intra-media and political agenda setting, we analyze…
Hashtag activism and the configuration of counterpublics
Social media platforms provide major opportunities for online activism and the emergence of digital counterpublics. Research on counterpublics has focused on actors and their narrative strategies aiming at deconstructing dominant discourses. Less attention has been paid to how the interplay between actors and platform-specific functions affects the configurations and therewith also the success of digital counterpublics. Existing studies mainly re…
Learning from the Covid-19 pandemic to combat climate change
The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are two global crises that require collective action. Yet, the inertia typically associated with behavior change to limit climate change stands in contrast to the speed associated with behavior change to stop the spread of COVID-19. Identifying the roots of these differences can help us stimulate climate-friendly behaviors. We assessed the extent to which a number of theory-based drivers underlie behaviors…
Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change
In summer 2019, several countries in Europe experienced unprecedented heatwaves. Two extreme event attribution (EEA) studies, which assess the role of climate change in extreme weather events, were published at roughly the same time as the heatwaves were taking place (June/August 2019). Building on a prior study of online news media coverage of the heatwaves, this study surveyed journalists from major news outlets in France, Germany, the Netherla…
Shifting public engagement
While it is often assumed that media attention for events, such as international climate change conferences, can influence public opinion, research studying changes in public opinion concerning climate change is scarce. Research on climate change audience segments and the theory of motivated reasoning suggest that media effects depend on the level of audience engagement with climate change. We analyze how exposure to media coverage of the COP21 a…
Using Visual Impact Metaphors to Stimulate Environmentally Friendly Behavior
Although people often are aware of the importance of adopting environmentally friendly lifestyles, they might be reluctant to do so as they believe that their actions do not make a difference (i.e. low response efficacy). Furthermore, they might experience reactance (e.g. negative attitudes) towards environmental messages that encourage them to adopt an environmentally friendly lifestyle. Therefore we experimentally tested whether it is possible …
Back to the Roots? The Applications of Communication Science Theories in Strategic Communication Research
Recently, the field of strategic communication has been criticized for lacking a coherent theoretical synthesis. Recognizing that strategic communication is a sub-discipline of communication science, we study how the field is anchored in the corpus of established communication theories – including social science, interpretative, and critical approaches. To describe the use, development, and context of communication theories in strategic communica…
Patterns of controversy and consensus in German, Canadian, and US online news on climate change
Responding to Interpersonal Political Disagreement
A key element of democracy is citizens exchanging viewpoints on political matters. Yet, we know little about how individuals respond to interpersonal political disagreement with peers: do they avoid it or yield, try to dominate others, or seek compromise? Based on two surveys with random assignment to different political statements, we study how individuals respond to interpersonal political disagreement on party choice and issue disagreement. Th…
How Much Time Do You Spend Online? Understanding and Improving the Accuracy of Self-Reported Measures of Internet Use
Given the importance of survey measures of online media use for communication research, it is crucial to assess and improve their quality, in particular because the increasingly fragmented and ubiquitous usage of internet complicates the accuracy of self-reported measures. This study contributes to the discussion regarding the accuracy of self-reported internet use by presenting relevant factors potentially affecting biases of self-reports and te…
Mass Media Orientation and External Communication Strategies
This study assesses relationships between mass media orientations of communication professionals in organisations and their external communication strategies. We assume that mass media orientations within an organisation may affect an organisation’s external communication strategies of bridging and buffering. A survey among 150 Dutch communication professionals working for both for-profit and public organisations as well as NPOs was conducted. Ou…
Selective Media Exposure and Increasing Knowledge Gaps in Swiss Referendum Campaigns
This study aims to contribute to the discussion on how the growing opportunities for media choice influence gaps in political knowledge among those motivated to consume news versus those who are not. With more television channels available, it becomes easier to choose content matching personal interests. While several studies have analyzed trends in news consumption and motivations among different citizen groups, there are still very few studies …
How keeping up diversifies
Although concerns have been raised that political infotainment programmes might increasingly substitute more serious information, empirical evidence about changes of individual viewing behaviour is scarce. The authors discuss audience specialization and diversification as two opposing patterns of audience response to a growing variety of public affairs programmes. While specialization results from selective programme choice, diversification may b…
How Much Time Do You Spend Online? Understanding and Improving the Accuracy of Self-Reported Measures of Internet Use
Given the importance of survey measures of online media use for communication research, it is crucial to assess and improve their quality, in particular because the increasingly fragmented and ubiquitous usage of internet complicates the accuracy of self-reported measures. This study contributes to the discussion regarding the accuracy of self-reported internet use by presenting relevant factors potentially affecting biases of self-reports and te…
Selective Media Exposure and Increasing Knowledge Gaps in Swiss Referendum Campaigns
This study aims to contribute to the discussion on how the growing opportunities for media choice influence gaps in political knowledge among those motivated to consume news versus those who are not. With more television channels available, it becomes easier to choose content matching personal interests. While several studies have analyzed trends in news consumption and motivations among different citizen groups, there are still very few studies …
Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change
In summer 2019, several countries in Europe experienced unprecedented heatwaves. Two extreme event attribution (EEA) studies, which assess the role of climate change in extreme weather events, were published at roughly the same time as the heatwaves were taking place (June/August 2019). Building on a prior study of online news media coverage of the heatwaves, this study surveyed journalists from major news outlets in France, Germany, the Netherla…
Patterns of controversy and consensus in German, Canadian, and US online news on climate change
Responding to Interpersonal Political Disagreement
A key element of democracy is citizens exchanging viewpoints on political matters. Yet, we know little about how individuals respond to interpersonal political disagreement with peers: do they avoid it or yield, try to dominate others, or seek compromise? Based on two surveys with random assignment to different political statements, we study how individuals respond to interpersonal political disagreement on party choice and issue disagreement. Th…
Back to the Roots? The Applications of Communication Science Theories in Strategic Communication Research
Recently, the field of strategic communication has been criticized for lacking a coherent theoretical synthesis. Recognizing that strategic communication is a sub-discipline of communication science, we study how the field is anchored in the corpus of established communication theories – including social science, interpretative, and critical approaches. To describe the use, development, and context of communication theories in strategic communica…
Mass Media Orientation and External Communication Strategies
This study assesses relationships between mass media orientations of communication professionals in organisations and their external communication strategies. We assume that mass media orientations within an organisation may affect an organisation’s external communication strategies of bridging and buffering. A survey among 150 Dutch communication professionals working for both for-profit and public organisations as well as NPOs was conducted. Ou…
Constructing counter imaginaries
Exploring Media-Covered Accountability of Public Agencies
Although journalism and media coverage are known to induce, inform, and affect public accountability processes, little is known about media-covered accountability. This study therefore explores accountability processes of Danish and Flemish agencies as subjects of the news. Drawing on news construction literature, our quantitative content analysis of newspaper coverage ( N = 13,540) focuses on the presence of accountability processes in media cov…
Learning from the Covid-19 pandemic to combat climate change
The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are two global crises that require collective action. Yet, the inertia typically associated with behavior change to limit climate change stands in contrast to the speed associated with behavior change to stop the spread of COVID-19. Identifying the roots of these differences can help us stimulate climate-friendly behaviors. We assessed the extent to which a number of theory-based drivers underlie behaviors…
How keeping up diversifies
Although concerns have been raised that political infotainment programmes might increasingly substitute more serious information, empirical evidence about changes of individual viewing behaviour is scarce. The authors discuss audience specialization and diversification as two opposing patterns of audience response to a growing variety of public affairs programmes. While specialization results from selective programme choice, diversification may b…
Selective Media Exposure and Increasing Knowledge Gaps in Swiss Referendum Campaigns
This study aims to contribute to the discussion on how the growing opportunities for media choice influence gaps in political knowledge among those motivated to consume news versus those who are not. With more television channels available, it becomes easier to choose content matching personal interests. While several studies have analyzed trends in news consumption and motivations among different citizen groups, there are still very few studies …
Mass Media Orientation and External Communication Strategies
This study assesses relationships between mass media orientations of communication professionals in organisations and their external communication strategies. We assume that mass media orientations within an organisation may affect an organisation’s external communication strategies of bridging and buffering. A survey among 150 Dutch communication professionals working for both for-profit and public organisations as well as NPOs was conducted. Ou…
How Much Time Do You Spend Online? Understanding and Improving the Accuracy of Self-Reported Measures of Internet Use
Given the importance of survey measures of online media use for communication research, it is crucial to assess and improve their quality, in particular because the increasingly fragmented and ubiquitous usage of internet complicates the accuracy of self-reported measures. This study contributes to the discussion regarding the accuracy of self-reported internet use by presenting relevant factors potentially affecting biases of self-reports and te…
Using Visual Impact Metaphors to Stimulate Environmentally Friendly Behavior
Although people often are aware of the importance of adopting environmentally friendly lifestyles, they might be reluctant to do so as they believe that their actions do not make a difference (i.e. low response efficacy). Furthermore, they might experience reactance (e.g. negative attitudes) towards environmental messages that encourage them to adopt an environmentally friendly lifestyle. Therefore we experimentally tested whether it is possible …
Back to the Roots? The Applications of Communication Science Theories in Strategic Communication Research
Recently, the field of strategic communication has been criticized for lacking a coherent theoretical synthesis. Recognizing that strategic communication is a sub-discipline of communication science, we study how the field is anchored in the corpus of established communication theories – including social science, interpretative, and critical approaches. To describe the use, development, and context of communication theories in strategic communica…
Patterns of controversy and consensus in German, Canadian, and US online news on climate change
Responding to Interpersonal Political Disagreement
A key element of democracy is citizens exchanging viewpoints on political matters. Yet, we know little about how individuals respond to interpersonal political disagreement with peers: do they avoid it or yield, try to dominate others, or seek compromise? Based on two surveys with random assignment to different political statements, we study how individuals respond to interpersonal political disagreement on party choice and issue disagreement. Th…
Shifting public engagement
While it is often assumed that media attention for events, such as international climate change conferences, can influence public opinion, research studying changes in public opinion concerning climate change is scarce. Research on climate change audience segments and the theory of motivated reasoning suggest that media effects depend on the level of audience engagement with climate change. We analyze how exposure to media coverage of the COP21 a…
Agenda-Setting Effects of Climate Change Litigation
An increasing number of climate lawsuits worldwide address responsibilities of climate change mitigation or adaptation. Yet, we know little about wider socio-political consequences of climate change litigation. This study focusses on the successful case of Urgenda vs. the Netherlands, which has created precedence for similar lawsuits against governments in other countries. Following theories of intra-media and political agenda setting, we analyze…
Hashtag activism and the configuration of counterpublics
Social media platforms provide major opportunities for online activism and the emergence of digital counterpublics. Research on counterpublics has focused on actors and their narrative strategies aiming at deconstructing dominant discourses. Less attention has been paid to how the interplay between actors and platform-specific functions affects the configurations and therewith also the success of digital counterpublics. Existing studies mainly re…
Learning from the Covid-19 pandemic to combat climate change
The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are two global crises that require collective action. Yet, the inertia typically associated with behavior change to limit climate change stands in contrast to the speed associated with behavior change to stop the spread of COVID-19. Identifying the roots of these differences can help us stimulate climate-friendly behaviors. We assessed the extent to which a number of theory-based drivers underlie behaviors…
Reporting on the 2019 European Heatwaves and Climate Change
In summer 2019, several countries in Europe experienced unprecedented heatwaves. Two extreme event attribution (EEA) studies, which assess the role of climate change in extreme weather events, were published at roughly the same time as the heatwaves were taking place (June/August 2019). Building on a prior study of online news media coverage of the heatwaves, this study surveyed journalists from major news outlets in France, Germany, the Netherla…
Exploring Media-Covered Accountability of Public Agencies
Although journalism and media coverage are known to induce, inform, and affect public accountability processes, little is known about media-covered accountability. This study therefore explores accountability processes of Danish and Flemish agencies as subjects of the news. Drawing on news construction literature, our quantitative content analysis of newspaper coverage ( N = 13,540) focuses on the presence of accountability processes in media cov…
Experiencing Climate Change Virtually
We conducted a pre-registered, between-subjects experiment to investigate whether experiencing climate change consequences virtually can influence cognitions, emotions, and pro-environmental intentions and behaviors. Participants (N = 277) experienced a wildfire through different media that varied in their degree of technological immersiveness (virtual reality vs. regular video vs. magazine articles only). Participants in the virtual reality cond…
Divergent Views and Common Values
Sustainability has become a widely used term in public discourse, yet it is connected to a variety of meanings with diverging implications for possible societal, political, and economic solutions. This study identifies and compares how sustainability is constructed by news media, businesses, and consumers to reveal gaps that may hinder mutual understanding when striving for sustainable development. A quantitative content analysis of 282 Dutch new…
Climate change litigation in the news
With climate change litigation (CCL) being increasingly used by climate activists, its consequences for public discourses on climate change warrants attention.Considering CCL as public campaigning tool, this study presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of national media coverage on three CCL cases in the Netherlands focusing on individual claims of key actors (N = 1,394).Discerning generic and issue-specific frames, this study compares …
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture
Sociotechnical imaginaries of gene editing in food and agriculture reflect and shape culturally particular understandings of what role technology should play in an ideal agrifood future. This study employs a comparative media content analysis to identify sociotechnical imaginaries of agricultural gene editing and the actors who perform them in five countries with contrasting regulatory and cultural contexts: Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the Nether…
Constructing counter imaginaries
Climate-Solutions Polarization
Polarization dynamics around climate change are shifting from debates about the reality and severity of climate change to debates about climate solutions. We propose taking a value-based approach to understanding “climate-solutions polarization”. As a case study, we identified the discursive value expressions underlying the polarized biomass media discourse in the Netherlands, from 2019–2021. A discourse analysis showed how the value expressions …
Mutually Reinforcing or Excluding? How Compatibility Perceptions of Economy and Environment Link to Issue-Related Attitudes and Media Use
With growing discussions about the possible contribution of economic growth to increasingly severe environmental crises, scholars have called for greater attention to public opinion on the possible tradeoffs between continuous growths and protecting the environment. While ample research investigates public opinion on the environment-economy dilemma, so far, the role of the media environment has not been considered. Using a scale for perceived com…
From alarmed optimists to dismissive pessimists
Societies across the globe face the urgent need to transition to sustainable and renewable energy systems. Because the success of this transition depends in part on citizen engagement, it is important to understand how different groups of citizens perceive and engage with it. Citizen segmentation offers a useful approach for identifying meaningful differences in how citizens relate to the energy transition. While citizen segmentation approaches a…
Reviving the Balance Norm? Navigating Tensions Between Objectivity and Advocacy in Journalism on Climate Solutions
While there is a broad societal call towards climate action, the extent to which climate journalists see a role for themselves as climate advocates remains unknown. This study explores how climate journalists perceive and enact the journalistic role of advocacy when reporting on climate solutions, through semi-structured interviews with 21 Dutch climate journalists. Our results show that Dutch climate journalists are hesitant about the advocacy r…
Political science (18 obras) · Media Studies and Communication (12 obras) · Public relations (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (10 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Climate change (7 obras)