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Schmidt, J.-H. (2017): Mitherausgeber von kommunikation@gesellschaft (wissenschaftliches Online-Journal) [Co-Editor of kommunikation@gesellschaft (Scientific Online-Journal)]
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In a pilot study, the Institute examines the use of journalistic automation tools in Germany and analyses the role of “communicative robots” (ComRobs) in the fulfilment of journalistic activities and functions, from an interdisciplinary perspective of journalism research and law.
The project, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), investigates how journalistic pioneers and pioneer communities envision an ideal future for journalism and, by that, actually shape the future of the field.
If Tinder works for dating, why should it not do so for news? In this project, the intuitive principle of Tinder will be applied to journalistic contents. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research promotes the development of an innovative news and information app for the city.
Journalists like to use Twitter if they need an easily accessible “voice from the public.” However, do active tweeters not differentiate themselves in terms of their personality structure from the tweeting population? Does the mood on Twitter have little to do with the overall population...
How can reader comments in news articles be semi-automatically analysed? The SCAN Project will develop a framework that supports journalist to identify and use opinions, topic suggestions or further information in user comments for journalistic purposes.
In their article, Julius Reimer, Wiebke Loosen and Lisa Merten, together with Marlo Häring and Walid Maalej, present a systematic literature review on content analysis of user comments in a journalistic context. The article has been published as an open access publication in the journal Digital...
Issue 1/2021 of our journal M&K is dedicated to the thematic focus "Forschungssoftware in der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung [Research Software in Communication and Media Studies]". With contributions by Andreas Hepp, Wiebke Loosen & Uwe Hasebrink, Richard Rogers, Karin van Es...
In this article, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Julius Reimer and Paul-Philip Solbach, together with their co-authors Laura Ahva, Mark Deuze and Lorenz Matzat, present the concept of "X Journalism": a tool for observing the development of journalism by analysing the constantly changing concepts...
Strippel, C.; Bock, A.; Katzenbach, C.; Mahrt, M.; Merten, L.; Nuernbergk, C.; Pentzold, C.; Waldherr, A. (2018): Theoretische und methodische Antworten der Kommunikationswissenschaft auf Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung [Theoretical and Methodological Responses of Communication Science to the...
Hölig, S.; Loosen, W. (2018): Das Publikum des Journalismus. Nachrichtenrezeption, Einstellungen und aktive Beteiligung [The Audience of Journalism. News Reception, Attitudes and Active Participation]. In: C. Nuernbergk, C. Neuberger (eds.), Journalismus im Internet [Journalism on the Internet]...
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