Michael Schenk’s scientific contributions

... We are dealing with a heterogeneous but in fact interrelated constellation of actors that can be designated as a specific and dynamic collectivity of debate emerging in cross-media debates on the crisis. The journalists and bloggers involved share a specific idea of 'advocating communication' ( Debatin 2011;Schenk et al. [in press]) inasmuch as they explicitly characterize themselves and their contributions to public communication as guided by their personal opinions and interests. ...

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Moralizing and Deliberating in Financial Blogging. Moral Debates in Blog Communication During the Financial Crisis 2008

... Lenz et al. (2018)argue, there are multiple reasons. The young people we spoke to stated their biggest reason was the entertainment value of the show, and the shared talking point with their friends:"[I] watch it because I have nothing else to do [. . . . ...

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Love Island and Relationship Education

... Eine genrespezifische Betrachtung von Medieninhalten und -wirkungen ist empirisch begründet: Vielseher_innen von soapartigen Scripted-Reality-Formaten überschätzten beispielsweise den Anteil tätowierter Personen in der Bevölkerung (Gölz et al. 2016). Der wiederholten Rezeption episodischer Scripted-Reality-Formate wurde zudem -empirisch untermauert -ein Einfluss auf Einstellungen zum sozialen Zusammenleben in Familien und der Wichtigkeitseinschätzung von Ehrlichkeit zugeschrieben (Fahr et al. 2013). ...

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Die Darstellung von Sexualität im deutschen Reality-TV: Eine Inhaltsanalyse der Serie „Berlin – Tag und Nacht“

... The experience sampling method (ESM) is a variant of a longitudinal survey design. It captures the momentary behaviors, experiences, thoughts, and attitudes of a person in his or her natural everyday life at several designated time intervals, ranging from a few hours to a day (Niemann & Schenk, 2014;Riediger, 2009). Instant access to emails, web browsers, and user-friendly survey apps such as Expimetrics-all through the convenience of smartphones-has reduced the costs and simplified the logistics of ESM (Beal, 2015;Arnold & Rohn, 2019). ...

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Conducting organizational survey and experimental research online: From convenient to ambitious in study designs, recruiting, and data quality

... Finally, the question remains whether privacy self-efficacy might also affect self-disclosure. Niemann and Schenk (2014) found that privacy self-efficacy influenced self-withdrawal but not self-disclosure behaviors in SNSs. Also, from a theoretical perspective it can be argued that because the entire infrastructure of SNSs is built for self-disclosure, self-disclosing on SNSs is easy and does not necessitate high levels of competence or perceived behavioral control. ...

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The psychology of privacy: Analyzing processes of media use and interpersonal communication

... Less emphasis is placed on the creators of journalistic podcasts. While research on role perception has been extensively conducted for various types of communicators, such as journalists, politicians, and bloggers (Elsen 2004;Hanitzsch and Lauerer 2019;Schenk et al. 2014), there has been a lack of exploration into the role perception of podcasters in general and news podcasters in particular. In this paper, news podcasters are defined as producers of news podcasts based on current research (Newman 2023). ...

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Infotainers, Mediators, or Watchdogs? Mapping the Field of News Podcasters and Their Role Conceptions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland