Changing Media — Changing Democracy?
There is widespread consensus that social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube are changing political communication. However, no such consensus exists when it comes to assessing the effects that the emergence of social network services, blogging environments, and online discussion forums have on democracy. The new volume of the book series Relation wants to shed light on the changes of political processes caused by media transformations.
Contents:
Einführung | Introduction
Tobias Eberwein & Corinna Wenzel:
Introduction: Changing media – changing democracy?
Winfried Schulz:
Consequences of new media for democratic processes
Teil I | Part I
Zur Rolle der sozialen Medien in der öffentlichen
Kommunikation
The role of social media in public communication
Hans-Bernd Brosius & Mario Haim:
Agenda-Setting in der Onlinewelt: Empirische Befunde in einem
dynamischen Forschungsfeld | Agenda setting in the online world:
Empirical findings in a dynamic field of research
Michael Schenk, Julia Niemann-Lenz & Anja Briehl:
Das Selbstverständnis von Themenbloggern und ihr Beitrag zur
Meinungsbildung | The self-conception of issue bloggers and
their contribution to opinion building
Mathias König & Wolfgang König:
Twitter-Öffentlichkeit: Meinungsaustausch oder die Stunde der
Claqueure? | Twitter public sphere: Exchange of ideas or time of
the claqueurs?
Teil II | Part II
Soziale Medien, Journalismus und Medienorganisationen
Social media, journalism, and news organizations
Marlis Prinzing:
Geschwätz oder Bürger-Gespräch via Twitter? Inwiefern
führende Journalisten in Deutschland und der Schweiz über
Tweets den demokratischen Diskurs beleben | Chitchat or citizen
talk via Twitter? How leading journalists in Germany and
Switzerland revive the democratic discourse by way of tweets
Sophia Weis & Jürgen Wilke:
Zwischen Euphorie und Ernüchterung: Der Einfluss von Leser-
Communities auf den Arbeitsalltag und das berufliche Selbstbild
von Redakteuren | Between euphoria and disenchantment:
The influence of online communities on the everyday work and
the professional self-perception of journalists
Corinna Wenzel, Sergio Sparviero & Josef Trappel:
The social value of news organizations
Teil III | Part III
Soziale Medien und politische Partizipation
Social media and political participation
Florian Saurwein, Natascha Just, Michael Latzer & Sulkhan Metreveli:
A skeptical citizen’s view of digital democratization: Switzerland
in the international context
Beate Schneider & Christopher Buschow:
Neue politische Partizipation durch Begleitkommunikation?
Potenziale von Social TV am Beispiel politischer Talkshows |
New political participation through accompanying communication?
Potentials of Social TV – the case of political talk shows
Katharine Sarikakis & Bridgette Wessels:
The dynamics of social media, political culture, and communication
governance in civic participation
Teil IV | Part IV
Demokratische Qualitäten sozialer Medien
Democratic qualities of social media
Ricard Parrilla Guix, Stefan Gadringer & Josef Trappel:
Democratization through oligopolies? A power-critical analysis
of the contribution to democratic quality of social media
Laeed Zaghlami:
Social media in Algeria: New tools for democracy and press
freedom
Harald Rau:
Der gut informierte Bürger: Alfred Schütz und die Onlinekommunikation
| The well-informed citizen: Alfred Schütz and online
communication
Teil V | Part V
Soziale Medien und Medienpolitik
Social media and media policy
Amit Schejter & Noam Tirosh:
Much discourse about justice: Contemporary media policy in the
age of abundance, mobility, interactivity, and multimediality
Dirk Arnold:
Regulierung der Social Media: Rechte und Pflichten neuer Anbietertypen
im europäischen Vergleich | Regulation of social media:
Rights and duties of new content providers – a European comparison
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About the CMC book series "relation":
„relation“ is a peer-reviewed book series intended to advance the study of the multifaceted relationships between media and society by emphasizing the comparative dimensions of such research. Monographs, collection of articles, conference proceedings, or edited source material are published in this series. Papers in English and German language are accepted. „Relation“ is published in print and online by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.