In einer wechselseitigen Beziehung? : eine Untersuchung der Entwicklung und der Beziehung zwischen Medienvertrauen und Zufriedenheit mit der Corona-Politik der Regierung in Deutschland im Zeitverlauf
In a reciprocal relationship? : examining the development and relationship between media trust and satisfaction with the government’s Coronavirus policy in Germany over time. - In: Studies in communication and media, ISSN 2192-4007, Bd. 13 (2024), 1, S. 46-71
Given the political consequences of the Coronavirus crisis, the present study examined the reciprocal relationship between satisfaction with the government’s Coronavirus policy and media trust in Germany during the first year of the Coronavirus pandemic. Using data from a panel survey conducted between April 2020 and April 2021, a random intercept cross-lagged panel model was applied to explore the reciprocal relationship over time. The findings revealed strong correlations between the random intercepts, indicating that people who were generally more satisfied with the government’s Coronavirus policy also showed higher levels of media trust than the average and vice versa. On the within-person level, however, the results clearly show just one cross-lagged effect at a very specific point in time during the pandemic: within-person changes in policy satisfaction in November 2020 caused within-person changes in media trust in April 2021. No reciprocal influence over time was found.
https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2024-1-46
Qualität der Berichterstattung über sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch an der Odenwaldschule: ein empirischer Vergleich zwischen Qualitäts- und Boulevardpresse :
Quality of reporting on child sexual abuse at the Odenwaldschule in Germany: an empirical comparison between quality and tabloid press. - In: Studies in communication and media, ISSN 2192-4007, Bd. 13 (2024), 1, S. 38-45
https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2024-1-38
Quality of reporting on child sexual abuse at the Odenwaldschule in Germany: an empirical comparison between quality and tabloid press :
Qualität der Berichterstattung über sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch an der Odenwaldschule: ein empirischer Vergleich zwischen Qualitäts- und Boulevardpresse. - In: Studies in communication and media, ISSN 2192-4007, Bd. 13 (2024), 1, S. 8-37
Von einer qualitätsvollen Medienberichterstattung wäre gemäß Public-Interest-Modell der normativen Medientheorie zu erwarten, dass sie sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch (SKM) als relevantes soziales Problem regelmäßig auf die Agenda setzt und in einer qualitätsvollen Weise behandelt, die zur gesellschaftlichen Sensibilisierung und Problemlösung beiträgt. Vor diesem Hintergrund war es Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit, erstmals die Qualität der SKM-Berichterstattung in der deutschsprachigen Presse zu analysieren. Die Analyse konzentrierte sich auf die Berichterstattung über SKM an der Odenwaldschule, da es sich um einen gut aufgeklärten Fall institutionellen Missbrauchs in Deutschland mit großer Tragweite und Medienresonanz handelt. Beantwortet werden sollten zwei Forschungsfragen: Welche etablierten journalistischen Qualitätskriterien (QK) erfüllt bzw. verletzt die SKM-Berichterstattung über die Odenwaldschule (F1)? Welche Qualitätsunterschiede gibt es in der SKM-Berichterstattung zwischen Qualitäts- und Boulevardpresse (F2)? Eine zweistufige bewusste Stichprobe von N = 325 Zeitungsartikeln über SKM an der Odenwaldschule (2010-2022; 23 Print- und Online-Zeitungen, 52.3 % Qualitätspresse, 47.7 % Boulevardpresse) wurde anhand eines Codebuchs einer Qualitätsanalyse unterzogen. Das deduktiv entwickelte und induktiv verfeinerte Codebuch bestand aus 12 formalen und 20 inhaltlichen Kategorien und zeigte eine hohe Reliabilität (Gwets AC1: 0.82 – 1.00). Die Datenanalyse erfolgte deskriptiv- und inferenzstatistisch mit der Software R. Die Studie ist präregistriert und alle Daten, Analyseskripte und Zusatzmaterialien sind auf OSF öffentlich zugänglich (https://osf.io/j5wcn). Es zeigte sich, dass in der SKM-Berichterstattung über die Odenwaldschule die meisten journalistischen QK erfüllt wurden, während gleichzeitig drei Qualitätsprobleme sichtbar waren: die mangelnde Thematisierung von Prävention und Intervention, eine sensationalistische Darstellung sowie die Nutzung unangemessener Begriffe (F1). Diese Probleme traten in der Qualitäts- und Boulevardpresse vergleichbar auf. Bei keinem Qualitätskriterium waren signifikante Unterschiede zwischen Qualitäts- und Boulevardpresse beobachtbar (F2). In Erweiterung des bisherigen Forschungsstandes zeigt die vorliegende Studie Verbesserungsbedarf in der SKM-Berichterstattung auf – und zwar in der Qualitäts- und Boulevardpresse gleichermaßen. Dass die Boulevardpresse nicht schlechter abschnitt, lässt sich damit erklären, dass sie in der Berichterstattung über SKM an der Odenwaldschule relativ häufig offen oder verdeckt auf Presseagenturmeldungen zurückgriff, deren Qualität in der Regel höher ist als bei der typischen boulevardesken Berichterstattung. Konsequenzen für die Forschung und Praxis werden diskutiert.
https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2024-1-8
Mediated crises and strategic crisis communication of third sector organizations: a content analysis of crisis reporting in six countries. - In: Corporate communications, ISSN 1758-6046, Bd. 0 (2024), 0
Purpose: This study aims to contribute to strategic crisis communication research by exploring international media representations of third sector crises and crisis response; expanding the range of crisis types beyond transgressions; and developing a framework that integrates framing and crisis communication theory. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative content analysis was applied to identify patterns in crisis reporting of 18 news media outlets in Canada, Germany, India, Switzerland, UK and US. Using an inductive framing approach, crisis coverage of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) between 2015 and 2018 was analyzed across a wide range of crises, including but not limited to prominent cases such as Oxfam, Kids Company, or the Islamic Research Foundation. Findings: The news media in six countries report more internal crises in the third sector than external crises. The most frequent crisis types were fraud and corruption, sexual violence/personal exploitation and attacks on organizations. Exploratory factor analysis revealed three components of crisis response strategies quoted in the media, conditional rebuild, defensive and justified denial strategies. Causal attributions and conditional rebuild strategies significantly influenced media evaluations of organizational crisis response. Three frames of third sector crises were detected; the critique, the damage and the victim frame. These frames emphasize different crisis types, causes, crisis response strategies and evaluations of crisis response. Originality/value: The study reveals the particularities of crises and crisis communication in the third sector and identifies factors that influence mediated portrayals of crises and crisis response strategies of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) from an international comparative perspective. The findings have relevant implications for crisis communication theory and practice.
https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-08-2023-0117
Codebook for the analysis of frames on climate change in media content and press releases in Indonesia. - Ilmenau : Research Group Empirical Media Research and Political Communication, Institute of Media and Communication Science, Technische Universität Ilmenau. - 1 Online-Ressource (30 Seiten)
The codebook is developed for research on framing of climate change in Indonesia. Operationalization of this codebook based on frame elements and frame dimensions on climate change. Frame elements include problem and benefit, causal interpretation, moral evaluation and solution on climate change whereas frame dimensions include scientific dimension, economic dimension as well as environmental and social dimensions.
https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.59813
Price effects of horizontal mergers : a retrospective on retrospectives
Update 2024. - Ilmenau : Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (26 Seiten). - (Ilmenau economics discussion papers ; vol. 29, no. 188)
This comprehensive review of ex-post merger studies assesses the price effects of horizontal transactions to determine whether there are common post-merger price effects, both overall and in specific markets. The aim is to derive implications for policy makers and competition authorities in terms of effective merger enforcement and competition policy. By combining and further analysing the results of 52 retrospective studies on 82 mergers or horizontal transactions, it can be shown that the sector in which the respective transaction takes place alone is not a strong indicator of the direction of price-related merger effects. In contrast, the "size" or "importance" of a transaction, as well as market concentration seem to be correlated with post-transaction price increases, especially in already highly concentrated markets. Overall, this meta-study shows the importance of ex-post case studies for improving ex-ante merger control: although generalisations can only be made with caution, the subsequent analysis of a case and its ex-post observable outcome can provide useful information for future merger enforcement in general, either in the same industry and/or with similar case characteristics, as well as for competition policy regulators.
https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00060003
Introducing personas and scenarios to highlight older adults' perspectives on robot-mediated communication. - In: HRI '24 companion, (2024), S. 209-213
Little is known about the expectations of older adults (60+ years old) in robot-mediated communication when leaving aside care-related activities. To bridge this gap, we carried out 30 semi-structured interviews with older adults to explore their experiences and expectations related to technology-mediated communication. We present the results of the collected data through personas that portray three archetype users, Conny Connected, Stephan Skeptical, and Thomas TechFan. These personas are presented in a specific communication scenario with individual goals that go beyond mere communication, such as the desire for closeness (Conny Connected), a problem-free experience (Stephan Skeptical), and exploring affordances of telepresence robots (Thomas Tech-Fan). Also, we provide two considerations when aiming at positive experiences for older adults with robots: balance generalizable aspects and individual needs and identify and challenge preconceptions of telepresence robots.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640659
Dynamic competition, exclusionary and exploitative abuses, and article 102 TFEU : towards a concept of systemic market power?. - Ilmenau : Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten). - (Ilmenau economics discussion papers ; vol. 29, no. 186)
In this paper, we comment on the debate about guidelines for Art. 102 TFEU in the face of the challenges brought by digital ecosystems and abuse of dominance in related markets. We take the perspective of dynamic competition economics and derive four recommendations for the future enforcement of abuse control and related merger control: (i) we advocate to abandon the as-efficient-competitor standard embraced in the late 2000s, (ii) we emphasize the relevance on focusing on exploitative abuses as well as on exclusionary ones, (iii) we suggest to implement a concept of systemic market power as a guideline to enforcement, and (iv) we argue that the same enhanced market power standard should also be applied in the corresponding merger control. While going beyond pure guideline recommendations and focusing on a dynamic-economic view, we are convinced that these steps are necessary to move towards a more effective competition policy towards abuse of digital dominance.
https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00059790
Financial regulation in sport championships as an anticompetitive institution. - Ilmenau : Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (20 Seiten). - (Ilmenau economics discussion papers ; vol. 29, no. 187)
Financial regulation in sports is usually discussed in the context of representing an instrument against “financial doping”. Notwithstanding the merits of this discussion, this paper takes the opposite perspective and analyses how market-internal financial regulation itself may anticompetitively influence sporting results. Virtually every regulative financial intervention distorts sporting competition to some extent and creates beneficiaries and losers. Sometimes, the actual winners and losers of financial regulation stand in line with the (legitimate) goals of the regulation like limiting financial imbalances or preventing distortive midseason insolvencies of teams. However, financial regulation may also display unintended side-effects like protecting hitherto successful teams from new challengers, cementing the competitive order, creating foreclosure and entry barriers, or serving vested interests of powerful parties. All of these effects may also be hidden agendas by those who are implementing and enforcing market-internal financial regulation or influencing it. This paper analyses various types of budget caps (including salary caps) with respect to potentially anticompetitive effects. UEFA’s so-called Financial Fair Play Regulations and Formula One’s recent budget cap are highlighted as examples. Furthermore, the paper discusses allocation schemes of common revenues (like from the collective sale of broadcasting rights) as another area of financial regulation with potentially anticompetitive effects. Eventually, the effects of standards for accounting, financial management, and auditing are discussed.
https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00059843
What fails and when? : a process view of innovation failure. - In: Technovation, Bd. 133 (2024), 102995, S. 1-14
Research on innovation failure has proliferated lately but with little theoretical attention given to the diversity of the concept. Using process theorizing, we present a model and propositions to understand how a firm's anticipation and value toward failure depends on the type of failure (task versus outcome) and the phase (divergent versus convergent) and point (early versus later) ‘within’ the process that the failure occurs. Using the anticipation-value stances, we then present a typology of four modes of innovation failure that can arise ‘from’ task and outcomes failure in the innovation process. The four modes (and associated learning response) are unsolicited failures (prevent-alert-eliminate); hazardous failures (predict-modify-mitigate); fortuitous failures (probe-expose-extrapolate); and excursive failures (facilitate-analyze-harness). To help explain the ideas in our process model and typology, we use the well-known IDEO shopping cart innovation project as an illustrative example. Together, these contributions provide contingency oriented insights on how failure varies and journeys within and from the innovation process, which helps researchers and managers to better understand the related causes, effects and learning responses.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2024.102995