Per Ole Uphaus

Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences · Institute for Media Management

In the wake of recent trends forcing local news organisations to adjust business models, local news publishers are often challenged with recognising new technologies as business opportunities. This contribution investigates the role of localisation technologies by using an abductive qualitative approach. We analyse how local media managers' everyda...

Eine der zentralen Herausforderungen für Politiker:innen ist es, zu erkennen, welche Faktoren einen Einfluss auf das Vertrauen der Bevölkerung in die Politik haben. Von besonderer Relevanz ist dabei das Wissen über vertrauensbildende Faktoren bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen, damit Politiker:innen ihr Verhalten zukunftsweisend ausrichten kön...

Absatzprobleme, anhaltende Konzentrationsprozesse und fortschreitende Digitalisierung: Der Druck auf traditionelle Medienunternehmen ist enorm und vielfach beschrieben. Journalistische Routinen sind in Produktion und Rezeption ohne digitale Werkzeuge längst nicht mehr vorstellbar und aus technischer Sicht rückt verstärkt das Thema SoLoMo (social, l...

Facing the last decades of information technology, the importance of ‘usable privacy and security’ (UPS) increased significantly. Previous studies have uncovered a tremendous gap in UPS-related research, especially concerning location-based services (LBS). This contribution aims to reduce this gap by identifying factors leading to a more user-centr...

By measuring the possibilities of enterprises linking location-based services (LBS) to regional and local content of interest, research found a tremendous lack of knowledge, how media enterprises – as well as content providers – in- and outside legacy media can use innovative LBS. One could presume that the absence of fulfiling market-information a...

In today’s information era, the ability to address the needs of potential customers at a moment when they are particularly receptive to the information provided becomes increasingly important. Modern mobile devices allow to collect precise data about the users’ context, thus enhancing possibilities to better estimate, proof and react to current sit...

This contribution focuses on tourists’ usage behaviour of Location-Based Services (LBS) during their vacation. LBS represents technologies that localise a user’s mobile device (Turowski & Pousttchi 2004: 73) to offer services and content based on the user’s current geographical location (Egger & Jooss 2010: 21; Frey et al. 2015: 124). In vacation s...

This contribution focuses on obstacles in the adoption of location based services (LBS) as a tool for potential providers of localised applications and content. The following key question needs to be answered: What are the key factors preventing LBS from being accepted in their full potential by potential providers and being used as an element of c...