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Social media is contributing to a change in the structure of the public sphere. It has an effect on how information is distributed or how the private and the public sphere behave to one another. The project, “Social Media and Networked Public Spheres” is uniting numerous publications and...
What role does social media play at the 2015 Hamburg state election?
What role do intermediaries like Google, Facebook, YouTube or WhatsApp play when people get informed about social issues or when they form an opinion?
Within the scope of this project, a discourse analyses on the topics of drug policy and drug consumption in social media will be carried out in an explorative way.
In the event of terrorist attacks or natural disasters, timely and reliable information is extremely important for media users. In order to find out what information needs people have in such situations and what media they use, a study design was developed with which empirical data can be collected...
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...
In her blog article "From #MeToo to #RiceBunny: How Social Media Users are Campaigning in China" our guest researcher Jing Zeng describes the creativ use of nicknames and emoijs to discuss the issue of #MeToo in China. In Chinese, the phrase “rice bunny” is pronounced as &ldquo...
Dr. Sascha Hölig examines in a study to what extent the athmosphere on Twitter reflects the current athmosphere within society. The conclusion: Twitter fails as a mood barometer. In an interview on WDR 5, he spoke today with Anja Backhaus about the "elite network" and about the risks...
Twitter users are not many but they are loud. With their discourse on the platform, they have great influence on the coverage of “traditional media.” In his study , Dr. Sascha Hölig observed active Twitter users and recognised interesting characteristics they have. Some of them were...
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Merten, L. (2016): Rezension zu Mejova, Y. / Weber, I. / Macy, M. W.: Twitter: A Digital Socioscope [Review of Mejova, Y. / Weber, I. / Macy, M. W.: Twitter: A Digital Socioscope] . Cambridge University Press. In: Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft [Media & Communication Research], 64(3), p...
Schmidt, J.-H. (2016): Twitter Friend Repertoires: Introducing a Methodology to Assess Patterns of Information Management on Twitter. In: First Monday, Vol. 21, No. 4, 4 April 2016. DOI: 10.5210/fm.v21i4.6207
Hölig, Sascha (2017): "Fake News werden die Wahlen in Deutschland nicht entscheiden [Fake News Will Not Decide the Elections in Germany]". In: Die Netzdebatte der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung [The Online Debate of the Federal Agency for Civic Education] (online).
Schmidt, J.-H. (2014): Twitter and the Rise of Personal Publics. In: K. Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt, C. Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 3-14.
Puschmann, C.; Ausserhofer, J.; Maan, N.; Hametner, M. (2017): It’s All About Information: The Following Behaviour of Professors and PhD Students on Twitter. In: International Journal of Communication, 8, pp. 1690-1709 (online).
Linek, S.; Hadgu, A. T.; Hoffmann, C. P.; Jäschke, R.; Puschmann, C. (2017): It’s All about Information? The Following Behaviour of Professors and PhD Students in Computer Science on Twitter. In: The Journal of Web Science, 3 (1), pp.1-15. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/106.00000008.
Ford, H.; Dubois, E.; Puschmann, C. (2016): Keeping Ottawa Honest—One Tweet at a Time? Politicians, Journalists, Wikipedians and Their Twitter Bots. In: International Journal of Communication, 10 (24), pp. 4891-4914.
Heyd, T; Puschmann, C. (2017): Hashtagging and Functional Shift: Adaptation and Appropriation of the #. In: Journal of Pragmatics, 116, S. 51–63 (online).
Puschmann, C. (2017): Beitragstypen der öffentlichen rezeptionsbegleitenden Kommunikation auf Twitter bei fiktionalen TV-Inhalten [Types of Entertainment-Related Second-Screen Communication on Twitter]. In: U. Göttlich, L. Heinz, M. R. Herbers (eds.), Ko-Orientierung in der Medienrezeption...
Schmidt, J.-H. (2017): Twitter-Nutzung von Kandidierenden der Bundestagswahl 2017. Verbreitung, Aktivität und Informationsquellen [Twitter Use of Candidates for the German Federal Election 2017: Dissemination, Activity and Sources of Information]. In: Media Perspektiven, 12, pp. 616-629. (pdf)
In his current contribution to the journal 'Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft' 2/2018, Dr. Sascha Hölig writes about the personal characteristics of active Twitter users. The article is available at the eLibrary of Nomos. S. Hölig (2018): Eine meinungsstarke Minderheit als S...
Puschmann, C.; Ausserhofer, J.; Maan, N.; Hametner, M. (2016): Information Laundering and Counter-Publics: The News Sources of Islamophobic Groups on Twitter. In: Workshops of the Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media: Technical Report WS-16-19. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. pp....
Puschmann, C.; Burgess, J. (2013): The Politics of Twitter Data. In: K. Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt, C. Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 43-54.
Gaffney, D.; Puschmann, C. (2013): Data Collection on Twitter. In: K. Weller, A. Bruns, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt, C. Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York: Peter Lang. pp. 55-67.
Weller, K.; Bruns, A.; Burgess, J.; Mahrt, M.; Puschmann, C. (eds.) (2013): Twitter and Society. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
"Keeping Ottawa Honest One Tweet at a Time?”, talk by C. Puschmann at the pre-conference on "Algorithms, Automation and Politics“ prior to the "66th Annual Conference“ of the International Communication Association (ICA) on 8 June 2016 in Fukuoka (in collaboration wi...
"Ohne Twitter hätt ich schon längst abgeschaltet‘ – Studie zum Einfluss von Social TV auf die Sendungsbewertung ["Without Twitter I Would Have Already Turned Off the TV" - Study on the Influence of Social-TV Usage on the Assessment of Programmes]", lecture b...
"Twitter Friend Repertoires. Presenting a New Methodology to Assess Patterns of Information Management", lecture by L. Merten at the Digital Media Research Center of Queens University of Technology on 2 March 2016.
"Information Laundering and Counter-Publics: The News Sources of Islamophobic Groups on Twitter”, talk by C. Puschmann at the preconference “SMNews16” of the event "ICWSM2016“ on 17 May 2016 in Cologne (in collaboration with J. Ausserhofer, N. Maan, M. Hametner).
“L’évolution structurelle de l’opinion publique sous l’effet des intermédiaires de l’information: Pratiques, principes et pathologies de Facebook, Twitter et compagnie [The Structural Development of Public Opinion through Information Intermediaries:...
"The Voice of the People"- Do Tweets Represent the Opinion of Ordinary Citizens?", lecture by S. Hölig at the pre-conference "Ordinary Citizens in the News" prior to the "67th Annual Conference" of the International Communication Association (ICA) on 25 May 20...
“News Sharing on Twitter: A Nationally Comparative Study” lecture by A. Bruns, B. Moon, F. Münch, J-H. Schmidt, L. Merten, H. Moe, S. Schwartz at the “AOIR 2016” on 6 October 2016 in Berlin.
„Twitter Friend Repertoires. Interferring Sources of Information Management from Digital Traces“, lecture by J-H. Schmidt, L. Merten, W. Loosen, U. Hasebrink and S. Hölig at the “AOIR 2016” on 7 October 2016 in Berlin.
“L’évolution structurelle de l’opinion publique sous l’effet des intermédiaires de l’information: Pratiques, principes et pathologies de Facebook, Twitter et compagnie [The Structural Development of Public Opinion through Information Intermediaries: Practi...
“Beitragsrepertoires der rezeptionsbegleitenden Kommunikation via Twitter [Message Categories in Second-Screen Twitter Discourse]”, workshop presentation by C. Puschmann at “Co-Orientation in Media Reception: Practices of Second Screen Usage” on June 12, 2015 in Friedri...
“Collecting Twitter Data”, presentation by C. Puschmann at the event “New Social Media, New Social Science?” on April 16, 2013 in London, Great Britain.
“The politics of (Twitter) data”, keynote speech by C. Puschmann at the annual summer school of the “Digital Methods Initiative” on June 24, 2013 in Amsterdam.
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