Stefan Geiss
About
Research focus:
Agenda setting and agenda building: How do issue sponsors, inter media influence, and journalists‘ conceptions of the audience influence which issues move into the public’s focus? How do issues compete with one another for media and public attention? How long do issues capture the media‘s and the public‘s attention? Does the attention-span of media and the public respond to different qualities of issues such as relevance and complexity? How does the plurality of issues and viewpoints in the mass media (content-as-sent) translate to individuals (content-as-received)?
Frame setting and frame building: How do frame sponsors, inter media influence, and journalists‘ conceptions of the audience influence which frames dominate the mass media and which are held by the audience? How do frames compete with one another for media and public attention? How is the success of frames contingent on established cultural themes and memes?
Opinion formation and information seeking: Does successful agenda setting lead to increased scrutiny of the issue, heightened motivation and attention in making up one’s mind? Do levels of knowledge, and satisfaction with information and opinion-formation increase? Is there an increase in information seeking? How long do these effects endure and which aspects of media coverage sustain interest and effort for opinion formation? When do news consumers react to issues with boredom, aversion, reactance, leading to issue avoidance?
Scandals, crises, and conflicts as catalysts: Scandals, crises and major conflicts in society catalyze processes of agenda and frame building as well as agenda setting, frame setting, and opinion formation. Studying these processes is socially relevant as they often pose turning points and crossroads for society. How do news media report about actual and alleged norm violations? Do they protect the presumption of innocence? How do news consumers process messages about norm violations? How do they make inferences about the guilt or innocence of the accused public actors? However, they also provide ample opportunity to study processes of political communication and public opinion formation as they happen with increased speed and intensity.
Decision-Making in Journalism: Journalists make important decisions every day, e.g. whether to cover a particular topic, which way to approach the story, what images to use or not use. Due to large actual or anticipated media effects, there are various pressure groups -- audience, sources, colleagues and superordinates, competitors -- that can and do influence their decisions. In additional, their own ethical considerations, their self-conceptions, and their professional training shape their decisions. Studying these influences is even more interesting in times of fast technological and economical development in the media business.
Publications
2023
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Geiss, Stefan;
Magin, Melanie.
(2023)
“Many shades of red”: Trondheim etter Ottervik-epoken.
Website (informational material)
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Geiss, Stefan.
(2023)
Two Journalisms? Linear and Curvilinear Relationships Between Journalists’ Role Ideals and Degree of Democracy.
Journalism Studies
Academic article
2022
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Geiss, Stefan.
(2022)
The Agenda-Setting-Effects of News Factor Exposure: A Field Study Comparing the Transmission Paths and Impact of Issue Exposure and News Factor Exposure.
Sage Open
Academic article
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Hilmo Lundheim, Sigurd;
Pellegrini-Masini, Giuseppe;
Kløckner, Christian;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2022)
Developing a Theoretical Framework to Explain the Social Acceptability of Wind Energy.
Energies
Academic article
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Geiss, Stefan.
(2022)
A Matter of Perspective? The Impact of Analysis Configurations on Testing the Agenda‐Setting Hypothesis.
Media and Communication
Academic article
2021
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Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan;
Stark, Birgit;
Jürgens, Pascal.
(2021)
Common Core in Danger? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda.
The International Journal of Press/Politics
Academic article
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Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2021)
Kvantitativ innholdsanalyse: fra problemstilling til gjennomført analyse.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Geiss, Stefan;
Magin, Melanie;
Jürgens, Pascal;
Stark, Birgit.
(2021)
Loopholes in the Echo Chambers: How the Echo Chamber Metaphor Oversimplifies the Effects of Information Gateways on Opinion Expression.
Digital Journalism
Academic article
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Geiss, Stefan.
(2021)
Politische Talkshows.
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Geiss, Stefan.
(2021)
Statistical power in content analysis designs: How effect size, sample size and coding accuracy jointly affect hypothesis testing – a monte carlo simulation approach.
Computational Communication Research (CCR)
Academic article
2020
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Schemer, Christian;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2020)
Massenkommunikation.
Nomos
Chapter
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Schemer, Christian;
Masur, Philipp K;
Geiss, Stefan;
Müller, Philipp;
Schäfer, Svenja.
(2020)
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Academic article
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Steiner, Miriam;
Magin, Melanie;
Stark, Birgit;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2020)
Seek and you shall find? A content analysis on the diversity of five search engines’ results on political queries.
Information, Communication & Society
Academic article
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Stark, Birgit;
Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2020)
Meinungsbildung in und mit sozialen Medien.
Springer
Chapter
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Geiss, Stefan.
(2020)
Self-inflicted deprivation? Quality-as-sent versus quality-as-received in three current affairs topics.
Media and Communication
Academic article
2019
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Geiss, Stefan.
(2019)
The Media's Conditional Agenda-Setting Power: How
Baselines and Spikes of Issue Salience Affect Likelihood and
Strength of Agenda-Setting .
Communication Research
Academic article
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Koch, Thomas;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2019)
On the reliability of peer-reviewing
A study of inter-rater reliability between reviewers for DGPuK
conference submissions.
SCM. Studies in Communication and Media
Academic literature review
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Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan;
Jürgens, Pascal;
Stark, Birgit.
(2019)
Schweigespirale oder Echokammer? Zum Einfluss sozialer Medien auf die Artikulationsbereitschaft in der Migrationsdebatte.
Nomos
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2019)
Beyond Time and Space: The Impact of Autonomy from Politics and Commercialization Pressure on Mediatization in German and Austrian Newspapers—A Multilevel Approach.
Political Communication
Academic article
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Schemer, Christian;
Geiss, Stefan;
Müller, Philipp.
(2019)
Applying the Reinforcing Spirals Model to Dynamic Communication Phenomena: Conceptual and Statistical Pitfalls.
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Müller, Philipp;
Geiss, Stefan;
Schemer, Christian;
Naab, Teresa;
Peter, Christina.
(2019)
Dynamische Prozesse der öffentlichen Kommunikation
Methodische Herausforderungen .
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Methoden und Forschungslogik der Kommunikationswissenschaft (.)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Geiss, Stefan.
(2019)
How Content–User Data Linking Decisions Affect Media Effects Estimates: A Model Comparison Approach.
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Müller, Philipp;
Geiss, Stefan;
Schemer, Christian;
Naab, Teresa;
Peter, Christina.
(2019)
Die Dynamik öffentlicher Kommunikationsprozesse als Herausforderung für die empirische Forschung.
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2018
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Geiss, Stefan;
Magin, Melanie;
Stark, Birgit;
Jürgens, Pascal.
(2018)
["Common Meeting Ground"? Selection Logics of Political Information Sources and Their Influence on Individual-Level Issue Fragmentation].
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft
Academic article
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Geiss, Stefan.
(2018)
The dynamics of media attention to issues:
Towards standardizing measures, dimensions, and profiles.
Amsterdam University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2017
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Geiss, Stefan;
Schemer, Christian.
(2017)
Latent Growth Curve Modeling.
Wiley-Blackwell
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Journal publications
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Geiss, Stefan.
(2023)
Two Journalisms? Linear and Curvilinear Relationships Between Journalists’ Role Ideals and Degree of Democracy.
Journalism Studies
Academic article
-
Geiss, Stefan.
(2022)
The Agenda-Setting-Effects of News Factor Exposure: A Field Study Comparing the Transmission Paths and Impact of Issue Exposure and News Factor Exposure.
Sage Open
Academic article
-
Hilmo Lundheim, Sigurd;
Pellegrini-Masini, Giuseppe;
Kløckner, Christian;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2022)
Developing a Theoretical Framework to Explain the Social Acceptability of Wind Energy.
Energies
Academic article
-
Geiss, Stefan.
(2022)
A Matter of Perspective? The Impact of Analysis Configurations on Testing the Agenda‐Setting Hypothesis.
Media and Communication
Academic article
-
Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan;
Stark, Birgit;
Jürgens, Pascal.
(2021)
Common Core in Danger? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda.
The International Journal of Press/Politics
Academic article
-
Geiss, Stefan;
Magin, Melanie;
Jürgens, Pascal;
Stark, Birgit.
(2021)
Loopholes in the Echo Chambers: How the Echo Chamber Metaphor Oversimplifies the Effects of Information Gateways on Opinion Expression.
Digital Journalism
Academic article
-
Geiss, Stefan.
(2021)
Statistical power in content analysis designs: How effect size, sample size and coding accuracy jointly affect hypothesis testing – a monte carlo simulation approach.
Computational Communication Research (CCR)
Academic article
-
Schemer, Christian;
Masur, Philipp K;
Geiss, Stefan;
Müller, Philipp;
Schäfer, Svenja.
(2020)
The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on Well-Being: A Longitudinal Analysis of Adolescents Across Nine Years.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Academic article
-
Steiner, Miriam;
Magin, Melanie;
Stark, Birgit;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2020)
Seek and you shall find? A content analysis on the diversity of five search engines’ results on political queries.
Information, Communication & Society
Academic article
-
Geiss, Stefan.
(2020)
Self-inflicted deprivation? Quality-as-sent versus quality-as-received in three current affairs topics.
Media and Communication
Academic article
-
Geiss, Stefan.
(2019)
The Media's Conditional Agenda-Setting Power: How
Baselines and Spikes of Issue Salience Affect Likelihood and
Strength of Agenda-Setting .
Communication Research
Academic article
-
Koch, Thomas;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2019)
On the reliability of peer-reviewing
A study of inter-rater reliability between reviewers for DGPuK
conference submissions.
SCM. Studies in Communication and Media
Academic literature review
-
Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2019)
Beyond Time and Space: The Impact of Autonomy from Politics and Commercialization Pressure on Mediatization in German and Austrian Newspapers—A Multilevel Approach.
Political Communication
Academic article
-
Geiss, Stefan;
Magin, Melanie;
Stark, Birgit;
Jürgens, Pascal.
(2018)
["Common Meeting Ground"? Selection Logics of Political Information Sources and Their Influence on Individual-Level Issue Fragmentation].
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft
Academic article
Books
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Müller, Philipp;
Geiss, Stefan;
Schemer, Christian;
Naab, Teresa;
Peter, Christina.
(2019)
Dynamische Prozesse der öffentlichen Kommunikation
Methodische Herausforderungen .
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Methoden und Forschungslogik der Kommunikationswissenschaft (.)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Part of book/report
-
Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2021)
Kvantitativ innholdsanalyse: fra problemstilling til gjennomført analyse.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Geiss, Stefan.
(2021)
Politische Talkshows.
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Schemer, Christian;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2020)
Massenkommunikation.
Nomos
Chapter
-
Stark, Birgit;
Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan.
(2020)
Meinungsbildung in und mit sozialen Medien.
Springer
Chapter
-
Magin, Melanie;
Geiss, Stefan;
Jürgens, Pascal;
Stark, Birgit.
(2019)
Schweigespirale oder Echokammer? Zum Einfluss sozialer Medien auf die Artikulationsbereitschaft in der Migrationsdebatte.
Nomos
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Schemer, Christian;
Geiss, Stefan;
Müller, Philipp.
(2019)
Applying the Reinforcing Spirals Model to Dynamic Communication Phenomena: Conceptual and Statistical Pitfalls.
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Geiss, Stefan.
(2019)
How Content–User Data Linking Decisions Affect Media Effects Estimates: A Model Comparison Approach.
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Müller, Philipp;
Geiss, Stefan;
Schemer, Christian;
Naab, Teresa;
Peter, Christina.
(2019)
Die Dynamik öffentlicher Kommunikationsprozesse als Herausforderung für die empirische Forschung.
Herbert von Halem Verlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Geiss, Stefan.
(2018)
The dynamics of media attention to issues:
Towards standardizing measures, dimensions, and profiles.
Amsterdam University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Geiss, Stefan;
Schemer, Christian.
(2017)
Latent Growth Curve Modeling.
Wiley-Blackwell
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
INFORMASJONSMATR
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Geiss, Stefan;
Magin, Melanie.
(2023)
“Many shades of red”: Trondheim etter Ottervik-epoken.
Website (informational material)
Teaching
Courses
Media
2023
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Academic lectureRiedl, Andreas; Geiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit; Jandura, Olaf. (2023) Leftist Coverage From Leftist Journalists? Effects of journalists' political orientation on neutrality, partisan source selection and value frames. POLKOM-senteret POLKOM-konferansen 2023 , Oslo 2023-12-05 -
2022
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Kelly, Conor Andre. (2022) Crisis topic diversity in «The Times» 1785-2020. . Norsk medieforskerlag Norsk mediekonferanse 2022 , Stavanger 2022-10-12 - 2022-10-13
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Academic lectureViehmann, Christina; Geiss, Stefan. (2022) „Eine Welle bedeutet Veränderung“: CommunicationWave-Detector (CoWaD) zur Identifikation von Aufmerksamkeitswellen in öffentlichen Kommunikationsinhalten. German Communication Association, Method Section Annual Conference of the Method Section of the German Communication Association , München 2022-10-05 - 2022-10-06
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Academic lectureMonzer, Cristina; Geiss, Stefan. (2022) Dimensions of Cultural Resonance—COVID-19 Political Vaccination Debate on Facebook. International Communication Association (ICA) 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) , Paris 2022-05-26 - 2022-05-30
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan. (2022) Two Journalisms? Linear and Curvilinear Relationships Between Journalists’ Role Ideals and Degree of Democracy. International Communication Association (ICA) 2nd Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) , Paris 2022-05-26 - 2022-05-30
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Viehmann, Christina; Baden, Christian; Quiring, Oliver. (2022) An Unprecedented ‘Age of Crisis’? Putting Coverage of Recent Crises into a Long-Term Perspective 1788-2020. . International Communication Association (ICA) 72nd Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) , Paris 2022-05-26 - 2022-05-30
2021
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InterviewMagin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Brandslet, Steinar. (2021) Sosiale medier betyr mindre enn fryktet. Gemini.no Gemini.no [Internet] 2021-05-20
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan. (2021) Constructing Crises, 1785-2015. European Communication Research and Education Association ECREA Political Communication Section Conference 2021 "Communicating Crisis: Political Communication in the Age of Uncertainty" , Bukarest 2021-03-26 - 2021-03-27
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Guinaudeau, Isabelle; Haßler, Jörg; Wagner, Aleksandra; Monzer, Cristina; Lundheim, Sigurd Hilmo. (2021) How ‘Cultural Eyeglasses’ Affect Public Opinion About Energy: Cross-national Differences in How Considerations Affect Energy Policy Preferences. International Communication Association 71st Annual Conference of the ICA , Virtual Conference 2021-05-27 - 2021-05-31
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Kepplinger, Hans Mathias. (2021) Are All News Created Equal? Even Types’ Two-Fold Impact on News Selection. International Communication Association 71st Annual Conference of the ICA , Virtual Conference 2021-05-27 - 2021-05-31
2020
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Monzer, Cristina. (2020) Strategisches Wählen im Blindflug? Stört Social Media-Nutzung die Güte subjektiver Wahlvorhersagen und was heißt das für die Wahlentscheidung?. LMU Munich 65th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) “#Medien #Mensch #Gesellschaft” , Munich 2020-03-10 - 2020-03-12
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Monzer, Cristina; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2020) Opinion Formation Is More Than Persuasion – Measuring Depth of Opinion Formation and Tracking Opinion Formation Processes: Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Validation. International Communication Association 70th Annual ICA Conference “Open Communication” , Gold Coast 2020-05-21 - 2020-05-25
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Academic lectureMagin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Stark, Birgit; Jürgens, Pascal. (2020) Endangering the Common Core? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda. International Journal of Press/Politics 2020 International Journal of Press/Politics Virtual Conference , Loughborough 2020-09-21 - 2020-09-24
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Monzer, Cristina. (2020) Content analysis—A “methodological island”? Assessing the usefulness of multi-item measurement in content analysis: A Montecarlo simulation approach. International Communication Association Annual Conference of the ICA 2020 , Virtual presentation 2020-05-20 - 2020-05-27
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Academic lectureMonzer, Cristina; Geiss, Stefan. (2020) Convergent solutions? The impact of document filters and term filters on topic modeling solutions. International Communication Association Annual Conference of the ICA 2020 , Virtual presentation 2020-05-20 - 2020-05-27
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Monzer, Cristina. (2020) How Effect Size, Sample Size and Coding Accuracy Jointly Affect Hypothesis Testing in Content Analysis: A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach. International Communication Association Annual Conference of the International Communication Association 2020 "Open Communication" , Virtual presentation 2020-05-20 - 2020-05-27
2019
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Granow, Viola; Schemer, Christian. (2019) Unpleasant Lessons in Trust: Effects of Exposure to Attacks and Incivilities on Trust in Politicians. International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) “Communication Beyond Boundaries” , Washington, D.C. 2019-05-24 - 2019-05-28
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PosterGeiss, Stefan; Kepplinger, Hans Mathias. (2019) Stronger Together? Interactions Between News Factors in Editorial Decisions on News Emphasis. International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) “Communication Beyond Boundaries” , Washington, D.C. 2019-05-24 - 2019-05-28
2018
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Academic lectureMagin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2018) Endangering the Common Meeting Ground? How Personalized Online Information Sources Influence the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda. European Communication Research and Education Association 7th European Communication Conference “Centres and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation" , Lugano 2018-10-31 - 2018-11-03
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2018) How to Start a Spiral of Silence: Asymmetric Mobilization of Opinion Camps on Facebook. Political Communication Division of ICA Preconference to the 68th ICA Annual Conference on “Refugees, Religious Threats, and Political Radicalization: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives” , Prague 2018-05-23 - 2018-05-23
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Magin, Melanie; Stark, Birgit. (2018) Algorithmische Selektion im Meinungsbildungsprozess zur “Flüchtlingskrise“. Einflüsse auf die Artikulationsbereitschaft. . University of Hohenheim Annual Conference of the Media Reception and Effects Section of the German Communication Association , Hohenheim 2018-01-25 - 2018-01-27
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2018) A Spiral of Silence in the Echo Chamber? Symmetric and Asymmetric Mobilization of Opinion Camps in the Debate on the Refugee Crisis. Erik Knudsen, UiB The 1st Scandinavian Audience Oriented Political Communication Workshop , Bergen 2018-11-27 - 2018-11-27
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Academic lectureGeiss, Stefan; Magin, Melanie; Haßler, Jörg. (2018) Gender Constellations Moderate the Escalation of Conflict in Political Talk Shows. European Communication Research and Education Association 7th European Communication Conference “Centres and Peripheries: Communication, Research, Translation“ , Lugano 2018-10-31 - 2018-11-03
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Academic lectureMagin, Melanie; Geiss, Stefan; Jürgens, Pascal; Stark, Birgit. (2018) “Common meeting ground” in Gefahr? Zum Einfluss personalisierter Online-Informationsquellen auf die Fragmentierung der Publikumsagenda. German Communication Association (DGPuK) 63th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) , Mannheim 2018-05-09 - 2018-05-11