Political Communication Publications

Schäfer, S., Greber, H., Sülflow , M., & Lecheler, S. (2024). A Matter of perspective: An experimental study on potentials of constructive journalism for communicating a crisis. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 101(3), 774-796. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990221095751

Masullo, G. M., Wilhelm, C., Lee, T., Gonçalves, J., Riedl, M. J., & Stroud, N. J. (2024). Signaling news outlet trust in a Google Knowledge Panel: A conjoint experiment in Brazil, Germany, and the United States. New Media and Society, 26(9), 5379-5402. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221135860

Lecheler, S., Katja, G., & Aaldering, L. (2024). Disinformation and the Brussels bubble: EU correspondents’ concerns and competences in a digital age. Journalism, 25(8), 1736-1753. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231188259, https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231188259

Kermani, H., & Hooman, N. (2024). Hashtag feminism in a blocked context: The mechanisms of unfolding and disrupting #rape on Persian Twitter. New Media & Society, 26(8), 4750-4784. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221128827

Schäfer, S., Rebasso, I., Boyer, M. M., & Planitzer, A. M. (2024). Can We Counteract Hate? Effects of Online Hate Speech and Counter Speech on the Perception of Social Groups. Communication Research (CR), 51(5), 553-579. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502231201091

Mayen, S. M., Reinhardt, A., & Wilhelm, C. (2024). Instruments for Measuring Youth Digital Media Use: A Comparison of App- and Web-based Mobile Experience Sampling Tools. MedienPädagogik. Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, (60), 93-119. https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/60/2024.04.25.X

Schäfer, S., Betakova, D., & Lecheler, S. (2024). Zooming in on topics: An investigation of the prevalence and motives for selective news avoidance. Journalism Studies, 25(12), 1423-1440. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2024.2338114

Mellado, C., Márquez Ramírez, M., Van Leuven, S., Jackson, D., Mothes, C., Arcila-Calderón, C., Berthaut, J., Blanchett, N., Boudana, S., Chen, K. Y. N., Davydov, S., De Maio, M., Fahmy, N., Ferrero, M., Garcés, M., Hagen, L., Hallin, D. C., Humanes, M. L., Himma-Kadakas, M., ... Viveros Aguilar, D. (2024). Comparing journalistic roleperformance across thematic Beats: A 37-country study. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 101(1), 97-126. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990231173890

Pachinger, P., Goldzycher, J., Planitzer, A. M., Wojciech, K., Hanbury, A., & Neidhardt, J. (2024). AustroTox: A Dataset for Target-Based Austrian German Offensive Language Detection. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.08080

Kermani, H., Bayat Makou, A., Tafreshi, A., Mohamad Ghodsi, A., Atashzar, A., & Nojoumi, A. (2024). Computational vs. qualitative: Analyzing different approaches in identifying networked frames during the Covid-19 crisis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 27(4), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2023.2186566

Weikmann, T., & Lecheler, S. (2024). Cutting through the hype: Understanding the implications of deepfakes for the fact-checking actor-network. Digital Journalism, 12(10), 1505-1522. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2194665

Uth, B., Stehle, H., Wilhelm, C., Detel, H., & Podschuweit, N. (2024). Die Journalismus-Publikum-Beziehung als Herausforderung für den politischen Journalismus. Eine Literaturanalyse zu Verständnis und Modellierungen. In C. Nuernbergk, J. Haßler, J. Schützeneder, & N. F. Schuhmacher (Eds.), Politischer Journalismus: Konstellationen – Muster – Dynamiken (pp. 147-162). Nomos Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748939702-147, https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748939702-147

Mellado, C., Blanchett, N., Stępińska, A., Mothes, C., Lecheler, S., & Blanco Herrero, D. (2024). Does news platform matter? Comparing online journalistic role performance to newspaper, radio, and television. Digital Journalism, 12(3), 376-399. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2191332

Chu, X., Vliegenthart, R., Otto, L., Lecheler, S., de Vreese, C., & Kruikemeier, S. (2024). Do online ads sway voters? Understanding the persuasiveness of online political ads. Political Communication, 41(2), 290-314. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2276104

Greber, H. (2024). Power to the User: The Future of Immersive Storytelling Might Lie in Understanding the Audience Authors. 11.

Wilhelm, C., & Schulz-Tomančok, A. (2024). Predicting user engagement with anti-gender, homophobic and sexist social media posts–a choice-based conjoint study in Hungary and Germany. Information Communication and Society, 27(11), 2094-2113. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2275012

de Haan, Y., Kruikemeier, S., & Lecheler, S. (2024). Searching, selecting, and verifying: Online journalistic sourcing strategies. Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap, 52(2), 150-176. https://doi.org/10.5117/TCW2024.X.001.HAAN

Wilhelm, C. (2024). Stine Eckert, Ingrid Bachmann (Eds.): Reflections on feminist communication and media scholarship. Theory, method, impact. rezensionen:kommunikation:medien.

Greber, H. (2024). The Effect of Interactivity in Immersive Journalism on Participating In the Media and Through the Media. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 00(00). https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241271089

Kermani, H., Bayat Makou, A., Tafreshi, A., Mohamad Ghodsi, A., & Ataee, H. (2023). Bots versus humans: Discursive activism during the pandemic in the Iranian Twittersphere. Social Media + Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/205630512312169

Kermani, H., Khorshidi, M., & Ashtiani Araghi, M. (2023). A case study on the COVID-19 discourse in politicians’ speeches: Investigations into the speeches of former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Studies in Communication Sciences, 23(3), 279-295. https://doi.org/10.24434/J.SCOMS.2023.03.2984

Weikmann, T., & Lecheler, S. (2023). Visual Disinformation in a Digital Age: A Literature Synthesis and Research Agenda. New Media & Society, 25(12), 3696-3713. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221141648

Hallin, D. C., Mellado, C., Cohen, A., Hubé, N., Nolan, D., Szabó, G., Abuali, Y., Arcila-Calderón, C., Attia, M., Blanchett, N., Chen, K. Y. N., Davydov, S., De Maio, M., Garcés, M., Himma-Kadakas, M., Humanes, M. L., I-Hsuan Lin, C., Lecheler, S., Misook, L., ... Ybáñez, N. (2023). Journalistic role performance in times of COVID. Journalism Studies, 24(16), 1977-1998. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2274584

Lecheler, S., Vreese, C. D., Otto, L., Vliegenthart, R., & Chu, X. (2023). On or off topic? Understanding the effects of issue-related political targeted ads. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/0.1080/1369118X.2023.2265978

Guenther, L., Wilhelm, C., Oschatz, C., & Brück, J. (2023). Science communication on Twitter: Measuring indicators of engagement and their links to user interaction in communication scholars’ Tweet content. Public Understanding of Science, 32(7), 860-869. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625231166552

Lecheler, S., Bos, L., & Egelhofer, J. (2023). Short but Critical?: How “Fake News” and “Anti-Elitist” Media Attacks Undermine Perceived Message Credibility on Social Media. Communication Research (CR), 50(6), 695-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502231178432

Noetzel, S., Mussalem Gentile, M. F., Lowery, G., Zemanova, S., Lecheler, S., & Peter, C. (2023). Social campaigns to social change? Sexual violence framing in U.S. news before and after #metoo. Journalism, 24(6), 1232-1262. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211056386

Georgarakis, G. (2023). Yikes! The Effect of Incidental Disgust and Information on Public Attitudes During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Political Psychology, 44(3), 493-513. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12865

Reinhardt, A., Wilhelm, C., & Mayen, S. M. (2023). Time for digital media but no time for school? An investigation of displacement effects among adolescents of Gen X, Y, and Z. Psychology of Popular Media, 13(4), 633-642. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000479

Wilhelm, C., Joeckel, S., & Dogruel, L. (2023). A women’s issue? The role of backlash and issue ownership in users’ engagement with articles about gender equality. Feminist Media Studies, 24(3), 575-592. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2203874

Dogruel, L., Joeckel, S., & Wilhelm, C. (2023). Are byline biases an issue of the past? The effect of author’s gender and emotion norm prescriptions on the evaluation of news articles on gender equality. Journalism, 24(3), 560-579. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849211012176

Kermani, H. (2023). #MahsaAmini: Iranian Twitter activism in times of computational propaganda. Social Movement Studies - Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest . Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2023.2180354

Schulz-Tomančok, A., & Wilhelm, C. (2023). „Gender-Gaga-Forschung unerwünscht!“: Eine qualitative Analyse von User:innen-Kommentaren zu anti-genderistischen Hate Speech Postings in Deutschland. Medien Journal, 46(3), 26-46. https://doi.org/10.24989/medienjournal.v46i3.2195

Boyer, M. M., & Lecheler, S. (2023). Social mobility or social change? How different groups react to identity-related news. European Journal of Communication, 38(1), 58-76. https://doi.org/10.1177/02673231221105168

Wilhelm, C. (2023). Die Kaufentscheidung als Lernprozess: The Theory of Buyer Behavior von John Howard und Jagdish Sheth. In T. G. K. Meitz, N. S. Borchers, & B. Naderer (Eds.), Schlüsselwerke der Werbeforschung (1 ed., pp. 119-130). Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36508-0_11

Jovanović , T., Bodroža , B., Orchard , L., Fullwood, C., Kermani, H., Casale , S., Fioravanti , G., Buljan , I., & Hren , D. (2023). Cross-cultural validity of the psycho-social aspects of Facebook Use (PSAFU) scale. Psihologija, 56(1), 31-62. https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI210702013J

Greber, H., Lecheler, S., Aaldering, L., de Haan, Y., Kruikemeier, S., Goutier, N., & de Bruin, K. (2023). Feeling the news? The differential effects of immersive journalism on emotional response. Digital Journalism, 11(1), 39-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2155205

Schäfer, S., Aaldering, L., & Lecheler, S. (2023). “Give Me a Break!” Prevalence and Predictors of Intentional News Avoidance During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Mass Communication and Society , 26(4), 671-694. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2022.2125406

Haberl, M. (2023). Interview mit Melanie Haberl: Das „gute“ Gespräch als Spiel: Unterhaltung durch und mit Chatbots. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie der Universität Wien, 32(Jahresbericht 2023), 107-109.

Stehle, H., Bock, A., Wilhelm, C., Springer, N., Mahrt, M., Lobinger, K., Linke, C., Engelmann, I., Detel, H., & Brantner, C. (Accepted/In press). In/visibility in the digital age: A literature review from a communication studies perspective. International Journal of Communication (IJoC).