Dennis Steffan

Dennis Steffan
Freie Universität Berlin | FUB · Institute for Media and Communication Studies

Doctor of Philosophy

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An evolving body of research generally referred to as visual politics has brought the heavy research focus on linguistic modalities of political communication closer to parity with visual emphasis. The study reported here transcends this schism by joining momentum toward multimodality as an ontological departure point for research. We expanded an e...
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The authenticity of political candidates has become a decisive factor in their evaluation by the public. In response, political candidates employ self-presentation techniques to appear genuine to constituents, and social media provides politicians with new tools to perform authenticity. Yet, we still know little about how politicians construct auth...
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Trust in the news media is an important prerequisite for democracies. Building on media trust and accuracy research, we investigate reciprocal effects between perceived accuracy and trust in news. We implemented a two-wave online panel survey ( N = 952) in the context of the 2021 German federal election. For media individuals' use, we find that tru...
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Visuals are ubiquitous in politics. They frame the way viewers understand issues and events and they affect candidate evaluations and even voting behaviour. Nevertheless, little is known about the strategic use of visuals in election campaigns. This book investigates the visual communication strategies of political parties and candidates from both...
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Visuals are ubiquitous in politics. They frame the way viewers understand issues and events and they affect candidate evaluations and even voting behaviour. Nevertheless, little is known about the strategic use of visuals in election campaigns. This book investigates the visual communication strategies of political parties and candidates from both...
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Visuals are ubiquitous in politics. They frame the way viewers understand issues and events and they affect candidate evaluations and even voting behaviour. Nevertheless, little is known about the strategic use of visuals in election campaigns. This book investigates the visual communication strategies of political parties and candidates from both...
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Visuals are ubiquitous in politics. They frame the way viewers understand issues and events and they affect candidate evaluations and even voting behaviour. Nevertheless, little is known about the strategic use of visuals in election campaigns. This book investigates the visual communication strategies of political parties and candidates from both...
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Visuals are ubiquitous in politics. They frame the way viewers understand issues and events and they affect candidate evaluations and even voting behaviour. Nevertheless, little is known about the strategic use of visuals in election campaigns. This book investigates the visual communication strategies of political parties and candidates from both...
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Visuals are ubiquitous in politics. They frame the way viewers understand issues and events and they affect candidate evaluations and even voting behaviour. Nevertheless, little is known about the strategic use of visuals in election campaigns. This book investigates the visual communication strategies of political parties and candidates from both...
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This study investigates the visual self-presentation of political candidates on different social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) in seven Western democracies (Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Drawing on Grabe and Bucy’s visual framing approach, I conducted a quantitative conten...
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Election campaigns in hybrid media systems are characterised by the integration of newer and older media. With the rise of social media platforms, newer tools of political communication emerge, such as online campaign posters, complementing older tools, such as traditional campaign posters. This raises the question whether the newer medium online c...
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Die regionalen Zeitungsmärkte in Deutschland und Österreich unterscheiden sich grundlegend im Hinblick auf die publizistisch relevanten Pressemedien. Während in Deutschland aus publizistischer Sicht eindeutig die Tageszeitungen, die überwiegend im Abonnement oder im Einzelverkauf vertrieben werden, dominieren, spielen die Anzeigenblätter eine allen...
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Freiheitliche Demokratien setzen eine freie Meinungs- und Willensbildung voraus. Dafür bedarf es in modernen Gesellschaften publizistische Medien als Foren der Deliberation. Den Medien werden normativ und empirisch wichtige Funktionen für eine freiheitliche Gesellschaft zugeschrieben, weshalb ihnen in den Verfassungen bzw. Grundgesetzen besondere i...
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Das Untersuchungsobjekt der Studie bildet die Lokal- und Regionalpresse in Deutschland und Österreich. Unter Regionalpresse oder -zeitungen werden periodische Druckerzeugnisse verstanden, die ein regionales oder lokales Verbreitungsgebiet haben und über eine professionell journalistische Regionalberichterstattung in Gestalt eines regionalen Ressort...
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Ausgehend von der zentralen Annahme des Structure-Conduct-Performance-Ansatzes (vgl. Kap. 1) ging es in unserer Studie um die Frage, welche mittel- bis langfristigen Folgen unterschiedliche Entwicklungen regionaler Pressemärkte auf die publizistische Vielfalt haben. Die Pressemärkte haben wir dabei als Strukturen verstanden, die durch nationale Med...
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Der heutige pressepolitische Ordnungsrahmen Deutschlands und Österreichs ging zunächst von einer gemeinsamen bzw. ähnlichen Ausgangslage aus, entwickelt sich in der Folge allerdings recht unterschiedlich. Den gemeinsamen Ausgangspunkt bildet die sogenannte Stunde Null (Hurwitz 1972) und die darauffolgende Reorganisation des Pressewesens nach dem En...
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Der Band untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen regionaler Pressemarktentwicklung und inhaltlicher Vielfalt in Deutschland und Österreich. Er führt Erkenntnisse aus der Pressekonzentrationsforschung, Vielfalts- und Qualitätsforschung sowie kommunikationspolitischen Presseforschung zusammen. Mittels einer Strukturanalyse werden - bezogen auf Titelzahl...
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Der Beitrag untersucht die Professionalität der Plakatkampagnen der politischen Parteien Deutschlands im Europawahlkampf in struktureller und strategischer Hinsicht. Der Prozess der Professionalisierung, mit dem politische Parteien auf den gesellschaftlichen Wandel durch abnehmende Parteienbindung der Wählerschaft und Medialisierung reagieren, schl...
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Faced with fundamental societal changes such as partisan dealignment and mediatisation, political parties in Germany as well as in other Western democracies professionalise their communication. Drawing on the concept of professionalisation of political communication, the present study investigates changes of campaign posters for German Bundestag el...
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This study examines the professionalization of political communication by focusing on changes to campaign posters for Bundestag elections over the course of five eras of German post-war history. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of both visual and textual elements of campaign posters (N = 1,857) in the period from 1949 to 2017 with regar...
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Die Arbeitszufriedenheit von Journalisten wird in der deutschsprachigen Journalismusforschung in der Regel deskriptiv ausgewertet und nicht kausal durch andere Faktoren erklärt. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht daher, wovon die Arbeitszufriedenheit der Journalisten in Deutschland abhängig ist. Hierzu wurde eine Sekundäranalyse der „Journalismus i...

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