Sabine Reich

Universität Bremen | Uni Bremen · ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research

Being socially excluded seriously threatens individuals’ need to belong and emotional well-being. This article investigates to what extent different coping strategies help overcome these detrimental effects: thinking about real-life friends/enemies (i.e., orthosocial relationships, OSRs) and thinking about (dis)liked media characters (i.e., parasoc...

Socially excluded individuals often use media to cope with their feelings of loneliness, restore threatened needs, and regulate their emotions. However, social exclusion experiences have often been studied from a social-psychological perspective, with little consideration of media-specific characteristics. Thus, this paper aims to identify which di...

Women who visibly engage in politics online experience a lot of backlash. The presented study investigates sexist incivility against women in online political spaces as a possible explanation for the gender gap in online political discussion and expression. Online sexism solidifies the masculine norm in online political spaces. Drawing on social co...

Feeling ostracised, that is, feeling ignored and excluded, in a social media environment causes negative affect and threatens fundamental human needs. Socially anxious people are especially fearful of social exclusion and may—if they feel ostracised—suffer even more when they do not have low-risk coping options such as using the Like button. Using...

This preregistered study investigates how sexism in the form of denying women competence in online discussions affects the political participation in online environments of men and women. It also explores various possible side factors as well as the general prevalence of hostile online discussion experiences among a representative sample of German...

In this preprint we report findings of a quota sample of the adult German online population and their experiences with various forms of online harassment.

Als zentrale Kommunikationsplattform für den öffentlichen Klimadiskurs hat sich Twitter herausgebildet. Diese Arbeit untersucht mittels einer Inhaltsanalyse von N_Replies=1362 Twitter-Kommentaren (N_Ursprungstweets=281), ob sich Nutzer:innenkommentare auf Tweets von weiblichen vs. männlichen Akteur:innen der Klimaschutzbewegung hinsichtlich sexisti...

This volume offers a wide range of insights into current media reception and effects research on the topic of ‘sustainability’. The contributions it contains deal with how this topic is communicated and negotiated on (social) media, how various message and context features affect sustainable behaviour, and what role established and ‘new’ actors—suc...

Die Darstellung von Frauen in fiktionalen Unterhaltungsangeboten erfolgt auch heute noch überwiegend einseitig und konform mit traditionellen Geschlechterrollen: Frauen werden in der Rolle der Partnerin und Mutter gezeigt oder als sexuelles Objekt auf ihre körperliche Attraktivität reduziert. Berufliche Kompetenzen von Frauen stehen hingegen selten...

Our study looks at the effect of pro-tolerance messages in popular music on xenophobia and political attitudes towards refugees. We investigate the influence of music lyrics on right-wing election campaign claims for restrictive asylum politics and political attitudes in the months leading up to the Federal Elections 2017 in Germany.

The chapter provides a systematic overview of the role gender plays in entertainment research. Starting with a theoretical primer on the gender concepts, the chapter continues by summarizing empirical findings on gender differences in the selection of, exposure to, and responses to entertainment, using the examples of violent, dramatic, and sexuall...

This document contains the English Version of the Online Vigilance Scale (Reinecke et al., 2018). The scale can be freely used for non-commercial, scientific purposes. Further information concerning the construction and psychometric properties of the original scale can also be found in Reinecke et al. (2018).

This document provides a Chinese translation of the Online Vigilance Scale (Reinecke et al., 2018). The scale can be freely used for non-commercial, scientific purposes. Further information concerning the construction and psychometric properties of the original scale can also be found in Reinecke et al. (2018).

Das beigefügte Dokument listet die deutschsprachigen Items der Online Vigilance Scale (Reinecke et al., 2018). Die Skala darf für nicht-kommerzielle, wissenschaftliche Zwecke unter Nennung der Originalquelle (siehe unten) frei verwendet werden. Weiter Angaben zum Skalenkonstruktionsprozess, den psychometrischen Eigenschaften und der Anwendung und...

Background. Research on playing motivation and passion for MMORPGs and gender has so far mainly focused on biological sex and neglected variables related to social gender such as masculinity and femininity. As some playing motivations and obsessive passion are assumed to be related to problematic game play, problematic game play is still considered...

Smartphones and other mobile devices have fundamentally changed patterns of Internet use in everyday life by making online access constantly available. The present paper offers a theoretical explication and empirical assessment of the concept of online vigilance, referring to users’ permanent cognitive orientation towards online content and communi...

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The paper looks at the symbolic interactions on social networking sites, such as Likes on Facebook, and their role in users' sense of social in- or exclusion. In an online experiment, users of Facebook were asked to write a possible status update and then received note about the numbers of hypothetical Likes they received (zero, two, or thirty) and...

How can we operationalize the new phenomenon of being permanently online, permanently connected (POPC)? In this chapter, we highlight established and innovative methods of data collection in POPC research with a focus on smartphones. After identifying conceptual as well as methodological obstacles and opportunities when measuring POPC, we synthesiz...

In times of being always online and connected, cyberostracism—the feeling of being ignored or excluded over the Internet—is a serious threat to fundamental human needs: belonging, self-esteem, control, and meaningful existence. According to the temporal need-threat model, responses to ostracism lead to immediate and universal experiences of negativ...

The present study takes an interest in the reflexive responses and coping mechanisms of socially anxious individuals if threatened by ostracizing signals in the online world, for example, non-responsiveness. Cyberostracism – feeling ignored or excluded online – is a serious threat to fundamental human needs (i.e., belongingness, self-esteem, contro...

Music offers convenient access to a soothing and vitalizing amenity everywhere. The current study investigated the recovery potential of listening to music from a mood regulation perspective, extending it by questioning the role of social groups and the social embeddedness of personal stress relief. We experimentally examined the recovery potential...

How does abstract and concrete thinking about health messages impact the mental representation about a public health issue and the consequent attitudes and knowledge? The dissertation assesses in two studies how situated factors such as mood or construal level, individual preferences for abstract and concrete thinking, and cultural differences due...

Technische Innovation und der kommunikative Alltag permanenter Vernetzung Die Verfügbarkeit von mobilem Breitbandinternet versetzt mittlerweile wachsende Bevölkerungsanteile – in einigen Segmenten wie den hochgebildeten und einkom-mensstarken jungen urbanen Eliten sogar die dominierende Mehrheit – in die Lage, Dienste und Funktionen der Online-Komm...

The systematic description and explanation of people spending time with video (or computer) games is a relatively new topic for communication research. Theories, models, concepts, and the theoretical constructs that have been used in order to describe and explain these player experiences are not entirely new. They have been developed in different a...

Bringen uns TV-Sendungen die neusten Erkenntnisse aus der Wissenschaft näher? Lernen wir in Computerspielen etwas über den Völkermord in Darfur? Verändern Radioserien unser Gesundheitsverhalten? Die unterhaltsame, mediale Vermittlung von Informationen, Einstellungen, Werten und Verhaltensweisen hält Einzug in sämtliche Bereiche unseres Alltags. Der...

The investigation at hand describes the role of the trait need to belong in the use of social networking services. People vary in their individual need for positive and frequent social contact, a social preference captured by the need to belong. 286 German undergraduate students took part in a questionnaire study gathering comprehensive social netw...

The investigation at hand describes the role of the trait need to belong in the use of social networking services. People vary in their individual need for positive and frequent social contact, a social preference captured by the need to belong. 286 German undergraduate students took part in a questionnaire study gathering comprehensive social netw...

The increasing availability of modern information technology offers new opportunities for teaching and learning, but has also become “primarily, if ironically, a distraction from what matters most—effective learning and good teaching” (Kearsley, 1998, p. 47). The current investigation examined the prevalence of engaging in other activities during c...

As a contribution to the debate on narratives in video game, this paper investigates the influence of the narrative in video games on a cognitive and emotional level; more specifically the study concentrated on aggression and violent video games. Thus, the paper assesses if the information from the narrative in a video games has any impact on the p...

Stereotype in der politischen Popaganda -- ..bei der Darstellung gesellschaftlicher Guppen in den Medien (Migrant / Migration) -- Methodische Ansätze zur Analyse von Bildinhalten und Bildwirkung (Bildberichterstattung).

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