The 70th annual conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) will be held between March 19 and 21, 2025 and is organized by the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. The conference topic is “Öffentlichkeit(en) und ihre Werte” [Public Spheres and Their Values].
Several HBI researchers will be at the venue with their own presentations or participating in panels.
HBI Contributions at a Glance
Thursday, 20 March 2025
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Panel: Journalistische Wertorientierungen im DACH-Raum: Befunde zum Kern und zur Peripherie aus der dritten Welle der Worlds of Journalism Study [Journalistic Values in German-Speaking Countries: Core and Peripheral Findings from the Third Wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study]
Chair of the session: Wiebke Loosen
Presentation: Journalismus im Kern und an der Peripherie: Von den Schwierigkeiten, (repräsentative) Daten zu gewinnen – und warum es sich trotzdem lohnt [Journalism at the Center and on the Periphery: The Difficulties of Gaining (Representative) Data – and Why It’s Worth It Anyway]
Authors: Filip Dingerkus, Anna von Garmissen, Thomas Hanitzsch
Presentation: Journalistische Epistemologie: Was Journalist*innen im DACH-Raum über die (Un-)Möglichkeit von Objektivität denken [Journalistic Epistemology: What Journalists in the DACH Region Think about the (Im)Possibility of Objectivity]
Authors: Raoul Mitterstainer, Wiebke Loosen
Presentation: Die transformative Kraft der journalistischen Peripherie: Eine vergleichende Analyse von Rand- und Kernbereichen im Berufsfeld Journalismus [The Transformative Power of the Journalistic Periphery: A Comparative Analysis of the Core and the Margins in the Field of Journalism]
Anna von Garmissen, Folker Hanusch, Wiebke Loosen, Andreas Riedl
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Panel: Fortschritt durch Technik (?) [Progress through Technology]
Presentation: Chat-Based Artificial Intelligence Applications: A New Gateway for Political Information?
Authors: Michael V. Reiss, Eva L. Knor, Lisa Merten, Judith Möller
Presentation: Investigating User Intentions to Verify Responses From Generative AI Search Engine to Political Queries – A Conjoint Experiment
Authors: Eva L. Knor, Michael V. Reiss, Lisa Merten, Judith Möller
Panel: Vielfalt / Zusammenhalt [Diversity / Cohesion]
Presentation: Zur Transformation der gesellschaftlichen Verständigungsordnung [On the Transformation of the Social Order of Communication]
Authors: Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Hannah Immler
Panel: Journalistische Rollenverständnisse [Journalistic Role Perceptions]
Presentation: Journalistische Epistemologie und Ideale des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens: Eine vergleichende Analyse der Vorstellungen im Journalismus und in der Bevölkerung [Journalistic Epistemology and Ideals of Social Coexistence: A Comparative Analysis of the Ideas in Journalism and in Society]
Authors: Verena Albert, Anna von Garmissen, Wiebke Loosen
Friday, 21 March 2025
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Panel: Normative Erwartungen an Öffentlichkeit und ÖRR [Normative Expectations of the Public Sphere and PSB]
Presentation: Der Bildungsauftrag des ZDF aus Sicht seines Publikums [The Educational Mandate of the Second German Television from the Perspective of its Audience]
Authors: Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Uwe Hasebrink, Dieter Storll
Panel: Protest und Gegenöffentlichkeiten im Diskurs [Protest and Counter-Publics in Discourse]
Presentation: Fringe News Audience Fragmentation – An Audience Overlap Approach Combining Tracking and Survey Data to Investigate Audience Fragmentation in Alternative and Hyperpartisan News Use
Authors: Heidi Schulze, Lisa Merten, Helena Rauxloh, Cornelius Puschmann
15:30 – 16:30 Uhr
Panel: Öffentliche Diskurse zu Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit [Public Discourses on the Environment and Sustainability]
Presentation: The Missing Piece in the Puzzle? Examining the Role of News Exposure, Climate Importance and Participation
Authors: Patrick Zerrer, Vasilisa Kuznetsova, Hendrik Meyer, Lisa Merten, Cornelius Puschmann
Panel: Politische Kommunikation in sozialen Medien [Political Communication in Social Media]
Presentation: Telegram-Dateninfrastruktur für die Erforschung von Plattformdynamik und politischer Kommunikation [Telegram Data Infrastructure for Research on Platform Dynamics and Political Communication]
Authors: Philipp Kessling, Jan Rau, Felix Victor Münch
Panel: Individuelle Prädispositionen für Mediennutzung [Individual Predispositions for Media Use]
Presentation: The News You Care About vs. The News You Select: Investigating Discrepancies Between Aspired and Actual News Use with Web Tracking Data
Authors: Lisa Merten, Juhi Kulshrestha, Helena Rauxloh, Cornelius Puschmann, Judith Möller, Patrick Zerrer
