Journalists in Switzerland : structures and attitudes revisited

It is often stated that journalism and the media are going through some fundamental changes. In this article, we present a description of the journalists in Switzerland, based on a nation-wide survey conducted in 2015. This data gives a quantitative description of journalists in Switzerland. Furthermore, this article makes comparison between various groups of journalists, for example between the different language regions in Switzerland, in order to give a differentiated picture of who the journalists are, what their working situation looks like and how they perceive their own professional role in society

Journalists in Switzerland : structures and attitudes revisited

It is often stated that journalism and the media are going through some fundamental changes. In this article, we present a description of the journalists in Switzerland, based on a nation-wide survey conducted in 2015. This data gives a quantitative description of journalists in Switzerland. Furthermore, this article makes comparison between various groups of journalists, for example between the different language regions in Switzerland, in order to give a differentiated picture of who the journalists are, what their working situation looks like and how they perceive their own professional role in society

Journalistische Produktion : Trends, Innovationen & Organisation

Expertise z. Hd. der Eidgenössischen Medienkommission EME

Native Ads erkennen und beurteilen

Native Ads oder gesponserte Inhalte in journalistischen Angeboten sind nicht neu, aber sie haben aus ökonomischen und technologischen Gründen im Online-Journalismus eine neue Bedeutung erlangt. Diese Studie versucht die Frage zu beantworten, inwiefern Mediennutzende gesponserten Inhalte auf journalistischen News-Websites als solche erkennen und wenn ja, woran. Weiter wird untersucht, welchen journalistischen Wert Mediennutzende Native Ads beimessen, und wie sich die Tatsache, dass ein Beitrag gesponsert ist, auf diese Einschätzung auswirkt. Schliesslich wurden Mediennutzende danach befragt, inwiefern sie die verschiedenen Bezeichnungen für gesponserte Inhalte einordnen können und verstehen, welche Arbeitsteilung zwischen journalistischer Redaktion und Sponsor bei den verschiedenen Formen besteht. Um Antworten auf diese Fragen zu finden, wurden ein Online-Experiment mit 1800 Teilnehmenden aus der deutschen und der französischen Schweiz sowie ein Eye-Tracking-Experiment mit 24 jungen Mediennutzenden durchgeführt. Die Untersuchungen zeigen, dass gut ein Drittel der Teilnehmenden nicht erkennt, dass es sich bei den als Native Ads gekennzeichneten Beiträgen um Native Ads handelt. Wenn der Hinweis erkannt wird, dann meist gegen Ende des Artikels – also dann, wenn der Beitrag schon gelesen ist. Der journalistische Wert von Native Ads wird je nach Thema und Sponsor unterschiedlich bewertet. In mehreren Fällen schätzten die Proband:innen den Informationsgehalt und die Glaubwürdigkeit des jeweiligen Beitrags höher ein, wenn sie ihn als Native Ad erkannten, als die Kontrollgruppe, die den gleichen Beitrag ohne Hinweise las. Was die Arbeitsteilung bei der Produktion eines Native Ads betrifft und wer für den Inhalt verantwortlich ist, bleibt für die Teilnehmenden häufig unklar. Im Eye Tracking wurde zudem ersichtlich, wie Hinweise auf das Sponsoring, die nicht direkt als Lauftext im Beitrag erscheinen, kaum zur Kenntnis genommen werden

Virtual reality as a tool for political decision-making? An empirical study on the power of immersive images on voting behavior

One of the strengths of virtual reality (VR) is to provide a highly realistic user experience. How would VR's power of realism affect political decision-making, for example, when experienced by citizens before they cast their vote on an issue? We set out to empirically assess if and how voting information presented in VR would influence people's voting behavior, compared to the traditional text presentation format. In a 2 (format: text vs. VR) × 2 (argumentation: pro vs. con) between-subject factorial experiment, we assessed participants' voting behavior on a fictitious popular initiative. We first asked all participants (N = 179) to cast their vote based on a brief text, inspired by the traditional Swiss voting booklet (baseline). We then randomly assigned participants to one of four experimental conditions containing the same pro or con arguments concerning the voting issue. Participants could then adjust their previously-cast vote. This was followed by retrospective interviews (N = 32) to gain deeper insights into the decision-making process of the participants. Our study shows that the presentation format has a reinforcing effect, that is, leading to more YES votes for the VR group, and fewer YES votes for the text group. Irrespective of the pro or con arguments, participants show an overall increase in YES votes in VR, which is not the case for the text group. We identified six factors that may have led to this positive change with VR: (1) the affirmative power of images, (2) the vividness of immersive images, (3) first-person storytelling and storyliving, (4) the greater affordances of VR for engagement through interaction, (5) the design of the VR environment, and (6) the novelty of the VR technology

Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television

The shifting role of journalism in a digital age has affected long-standing journalistic norms across media platforms. This has reinvigorated discussion on how work in online newsrooms compares to other platforms that differ in media affordances and forms. Still, more studies are needed on whether those differences translate into distinct practices, especially when examining cross-national studies. Based on a content analysis of 148,474 stories produced by 365 media organizations from 37 countries, this article compares the performance of journalistic roles in online newsrooms to three other types of media—TV, radio, and print. The paper analyzes if journalistic roles present themselves differently across platforms, and if these differences are constant or they vary across countries. Results show that there are measurable differences in role performance in online journalism compared to other platforms. Platform had a significant impact, particularly in terms of service and infotainment orientation, while the implementation of roles oriented toward public service was more similar. Additionally, country differences in the relationship between role performance and platforms mainly emerged for roles that enable political influence on news coverage, with differences in the relationship between online vs. traditional platforms appearing to be distinct features of the specific political system. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

Was kann ich wissen? : Journalismusforschung und journalistische Praxis

Referat und Roundtable im Vorfeld des DGPuK-Nachwuchstags 2014 in Berlin

European Journalism Observatory

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