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Issue Attention and Semantic Overlap in Vaccination Coverage Within Switzerland...
Siegen, Dario; Vogler, DanielDespite broad scientific support, vaccination is traditionally a contested issue among the public. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the issue of vaccination received widespread attention in news media and on social media. Although we know that public debates on such disputed issues evolve over time in hybrid media systems, there is still little knowledge about the extent to which news media and social media align ...
Investigating News Deserts on the Content Level: Geographical Diversity in Swis...
Vogler, Daniel; Weston, Morley; Udris, LinardsWith its diverse landscape of regional and local news media, Switzerland seems far from being a news desert. However, the centralization of editorial offices following the economic crisis of journalism has led to news outlets that share most of their content but appear under different names in different regions. This development has fostered fears about declining geographical diversity at the regional level in ...
Mobile News Consumption and Its Relation to Young Adults’ Knowledge About and P...
Vogler, Daniel; Weston, Morley; Ryffel, Quirin; Rauchfleisch, Adrian; Jürgens, Pascal; Eisenegger, Mark; Schwaiger, Lisa; Christen, UrsThe news media are among the most important sources of information about political events, such as referendums. For young adults, the smartphone has become the main device for accessing news. However, we know little about the factors influencing mobile news consumption and how this consumption is related to political knowledge and political participation. This study investigates the antecedents of young individ...
Higher Education Institutions on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter: Comparing Sw...
Sörensen, Isabel; Fürst, Silke; Vogler, Daniel; Schäfer, Mike S.Public communication has become more important to higher education institutions (HEIs), with many HEIs using social media to communicate with stakeholders. However, scholarship on the subject is scarce and mainly based on single-platform studies and small datasets. Therefore, we conducted a cross-platform study to examine the communication of all Swiss HEIs on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The results were ...
Mapping and Explaining Media Quality: Insights from Switzerland’s Multilingual ...
Udris, Linards; Eisenegger, Mark; Vogler, Daniel; Schneider, Jörg; Häuptli, AndreaIn this article, we analyse how various macro- and meso-level factors influence news media’s provision of hard news, an important element of media quality. The research draws on a content analysis of more than 100,000 news items between 2015 and 2019 from 53 print, radio, TV, and online news outlets in Switzerland, a small state with three linguistically segmented media markets, each of which is partially influ...