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Reimer, J. (2013): Die Tagesschau und ihr Publikum. [Tagesschau and its Audience] In: European Journalism Observatory (online).
Julius Reimer, M. A.
2013
How does each individual establish a connection to the public through media and, thus, change the communicative figuration of the public? The project “Public Connection”, financed by the German Research Foundation, seeks to answer these questions as part of the research association &ldqu...
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.
The relationship between journalism and its audience is changing, yielding consequences for what journalists cover and how. The project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), examines the breadth, depth, and diversity of this re-figuration and its consequences.
The international cooperation project investigates how the Internet has changed and will continue to change societies in the USA, Europe and China.
A population survey collected representative data for the first time on the tasks assigned to journalists by the German population. These were then compared with existing data on the self-perception of journalistic roles.
Together with Christian Nuernbergk, Jan-Hinrik Schmidtt analyses the importance of Twitter in the work of political journalists in an article in the journal Publizistik. As journalists and politicians increasingly use social media, the "communicative figuration" of political journal...
Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen) and Wiebke Loosen present the project molo.news in an article in the journal Media and Communication. They developed an online platform for local journalism based on the findings of previous interviews, group discussions and surveys. What is presente...
Facebook can be forced to delete hate postings worldwide. This is the ruling of the European Court of Justice in the Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Limited (C-18/18) case. Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, former spokeswoman for the Austrian Green Party, had sued the US company after it refused to...
In their contribution to the Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research, Prof. Dr. Uwe Hasebrink and Dr. Sascha Hölig write about one of the most important tools in communication science: the survey. „Within the broad repertoire of communication research methods, 's...
Irene Broer and first-time author Dr. Stefanie Trümper have published this paper in the journal Memory Studies, which explores how media professionals incorporate memories of historical events into their journalistic work. The study was funded by the interdisciplinary excellence cluster Climate...
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