Im Rahmen der internationalen Tagung der Association of Internet Researchers Conference (AoIR2024) beteiligt sich Dr. Felix Münch an einem Panel zur Analyse von Nachrichtenpolarisierung. Die Beiträge des Panels behandeln Fragen der Nachrichtenpolarisierung in allen Phasen des journalistischen Prozesses, von der Nachrichtenproduktion über die Nachrichtenverbreitung und das Engagement bis hin zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit politischen Aussagen in den Nachrichten. Insgesamt liefern sie neue konzeptionelle, methodische und empirische Beiträge zur Analyse der Nachrichtenpolarisierung.
Über das Panel (auf Englisch)
Political polarisation – at the level of individual issues or broader ideologies, and expressed through differences of opinion on policies, divergent affective attachments, contrary interpretations of available information, or distinct patterns of interaction with other partisans – is necessarily always closely related to the information that individuals and groups engage with as they form and reinforce their own opinions about a given issue or topic, and contest the views of others. News in all its forms, from legacy to emerging, and mainstream to fringe media, continues to play a particularly important role in such information diets, but news coverage can itself be polarised and polarising.
This panel addresses polarisation in and by the news through a series of papers that examine the various stages of the news production and engagement process. Drawing on innovative methods and novel datasets, these five papers offer new perspectives on the patterns and dynamics that affect news quality, news distribution, news engagement, and news fact-checking in digital and social media environments. In combination, they offer a new and comprehensive overview of how we might further investigate news polarisation in contemporary contexts.
