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Schmidt, J.-H. (2017): Mitherausgeber von kommunikation@gesellschaft (wissenschaftliches Online-Journal) [Co-Editor of kommunikation@gesellschaft (Scientific Online-Journal)]
2017
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.
What effects do the internet and social media have on the organisation of journalism, changing audience relationships and news coverage? This project seeks to answer this question within the framework of the planned research association “Transforming Communications.”
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]...
Loosen, W.; Häring, M.; Kurtanović, Z.; Merten, L.; Reimer, J.; van Roessel, L.; & Maalej, W. (2017): Making Sense of User Comments. Identifying Journalists’ Requirements for a Comment Analysis Framework. S│CM Studies in Media and Communication, 7(4), http://www.scm.nomos.de/en/archiv...
Strippel, C.; Bock, A.; Katzenbach, C.; Mahrt, M.; Merten, L.; Nuernbergk, C.; Pentzold, C.; Puschmann, C.; Waldherr, A. (2018): Die Zukunft der Kommunikationswissenschaft ist schon da, sie ist nur ungleich verteilt. Eine Kollektivreplik [The Future of Communication Science Is Already Here, It Is Ju...
The collective volume "News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World" (ed.: An Nguyen), including an article by Wiebke Loosen and Julius Reimer, has been published. The different chapters of the volume do not only look on how journalists (mis-)understand and use numbers and stati...
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