Wessler, Hartmut
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+49-621-181-2300
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University Mannheim
68131
Mannheim
DE
Visiting Address
University Mannheim
B 6, 30-32
Room: 425
68159
Mannheim
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Communication and Digitalization
Communication and Digitalization
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Monographie
Edited Book
Book Chapter
Ludwig, Katharina
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Rainer Freudenthaler
,
Philipp Müller
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2024):
Differenzieller Rassismus in den Nachrichten: Implizite und explizite Stigmatisierungen.
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Kleinen-von Königslöw, Katharina
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2024):
Transnationalization of media and governance.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Rainer Freudenthaler
,
Julia Jakob
,
Patrik Haffner
(2022):
Öffentlichkeitstheorien.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2021):
Internetkonzerne und algorithmische Fantasie. Wie algorithmische Systeme die öffentliche Kommunikation verändern und wie Alternativen entwickelt werden können.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2020):
Constructive engagement across deep divides – what it entails and how it changes our role as communication scholars.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Diana Rieger
,
Jonathan Cohen
,
Peter Vorderer
(2018):
Permanent connections around the globe. Cross-cultural differences and intercultural linkages in POPC.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Christoph Kilian Theil
,
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
,
Angelika Storrer
,
Marc Debus
(2017):
'Wikiganda' : Detecting Bias in Multimodal Wikipedia Entries.
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Lück, Julia
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Antal Wozniak
(2017):
Journalistische Narrative in der Klimaberichterstattung: Eine vergleichende Inhaltsanalyse zur Identifikation und Erklärung journalistischer Erzählungen in Zeitungsnachrichten.
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Debus, Marc
,
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2015):
On the Use of Different Modalities in Political Communication: Evidence from German Election Manifestos.
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Ponzetto, Simone
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Lydia Weiland
,
Stephan Kopf
,
Wolfgang Effelsberg
,
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
(2015):
Automatic Classification of Iconic Images Based on a Multimodal Model. An Interdisciplinary Project.
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Adolphsen, Manuel
,
Julia Lück
(2012):
Non-routine interactions behind the scenes of a global media event: How journalists and political PR professionals co-produced the 2010 UN climate conference in Cancún.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz
(2012):
Grenzüberschreitende Medienkommunikation. Konturen eines Forschungsfeldes im Prozess der Konsolidierung.
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Journal Article
Freudenthaler, Rainer
,
Hartmut Wessler
(9998):
How Alternative Are Alternative Media? Analyzing Speaker and Topic Diversity in Mainstream and Alternative Online Outlets.
Digital Journalism,
pp. (publ. online before print).
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Chan, Chung-hong
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Marc Jungblut
,
Kasper Welbers
,
Scott Althaus
,
Joseph Bajjalieh
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
(2024):
Challenging the Global Cultural Conflict Narrative: An Automated Content Analysis on How Perpetrator Identity Shapes Worldwide News Coverage of Islamist and Right-Wing Terror Attacks.
International Journal of Press-Politics,
29,
4,
pp. 1064-1089.
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Jakob, Julia
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Timo Dobbrick
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2024):
Discourse integration in positional online news reader comments: Patterns of responsiveness across types of democracy, digital platforms, and perspective camps.
New Media & Society,
26,
11,
pp. 6796-6814.
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Jungblut, Marc
,
Scott Althaus
,
Joseph Bajjalieh
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Kasper Welbers
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2024):
How shared ties and journalistic cultures shape global news coverage of disruptive media events: The case of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Journal of Communication,
74,
3,
pp. 183–197.
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Löb, Charlotte
,
Eike Mark Rinke
,
Carina Weinmann
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2024):
Unpacking the determinants of outrage and recognition in public discourse: Insights across socio-cultural divides, political systems, and media types.
International Journal of Press/Politics,
29,
1,
pp. 273–294.
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Jakob, Julia
,
Timo Dobbrick
,
Rainer Freudenthaler
,
Patrik Haffner
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2023):
Is Constructive Engagement Online a Lost Cause? Toxic Outrage in Online User Comments Across Democratic Political Systems and Discussion Arenas.
Communication Research,
50,
4,
pp. 508–531.
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Müller, Philipp
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Katharina Ludwig
,
Rainer Freudenthaler
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2023):
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse.
Political Communication,
40,
4,
pp. 396-414.
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Jakob, Julia
,
Timo Dobbrick
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2023):
The Integrative Complexity of Online User Comments Across Different Types of Democracy and Discussion Arenas.
The International Journal of Press/Politics,
28,
3,
pp. 580-600.
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Welbers, Kasper
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Joe Bajjalieh
,
Dan Shalmon
,
Pradnyesh Joshi
,
Scott Althaus
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Marc Jungblut
(2022):
Linking event archives to news: a computational method for analyzing the gatekeeping process.
Communication Methods and Measures,
16,
1,
pp. 59-78.
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Rinke, Eike Mark
,
Timo Dobbrick
,
Charlotte Löb
,
Cäcilia Zirn
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2022):
Expert-informed topic models for document set discovery.
Communication Methods and Measures,
16,
1,
pp. 39-58.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Scott Althaus
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Marc Jungblut
,
Kasper Welbers
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
(2022):
Multiperspectival Normative Assessment: The Case of Mediated Reactions to Terrorism.
Communication Theory,
32,
3,
pp. 363–386.
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Dobbrick, Timo
,
Julia Jakob
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2022):
Enhancing Theory-Informed Dictionary Approaches with “Glass-box” Machine Learning: The Case of Integrative Complexity in Social Media Comments.
Communication Methods and Measures,
16,
4,
pp. 303-320.
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Freudenthaler, Rainer
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2022):
Mapping emerging and legacy outlets online by their democratic functions – agonistic, deliberative or corrosive?.
The International Journal of Press/Politics,
27,
2,
pp. 417-438.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2022):
Ein Ideenforum für die „Vorsondierungen“ der Kommunikationswissenschaft.
Publizistik: Vierteljahreshefte für Kommunikationsforschung,
67,
pp. 9-17.
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Chan, Chung-hong
,
Joseph Bajjalieh
,
Loretta Auvil
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Scott Althaus
,
Kasper Welbers
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Marc Jungblut
(2021):
Four best practices for measuring news sentiment using ‘off-the-shelf’ dictionaries: a large-scale p-hacking experiment.
Computational Communication Research,
3,
1,
pp. 1-27.
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Wozniak, Antal
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Julia Lück
(2021):
The Event-Centered Nature of Global Public Spheres: The UN Climate Change Conferences, Fridays for Future, and the (Limited) Transnationalization of Media Debates.
International Journal of Communication,
15,
pp. 688–714.
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Löb, Charlotte
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2021):
Mediated Deliberation in Deep Conflicts: How Might Deliberative Media Content Contribute to Social Integration Across Deep Divides?.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy,
17,
2,
pp. 69-80.
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Schäfer, Mike S.
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2020):
Öffentliche Kommunikation in Zeiten künstlicher Intelligenz. Warum und wie die Kommunikationswissenschaft Licht in die Black Box soziotechnischer Innovationen bringen sollte.
Publizistik,
65,
3,
pp. 307-331.
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Chan, Chung-hong
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Eike Mark Rinke
,
Kasper Welbers
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Scott Althaus
(2020):
How Combining Terrorism, Muslim, and Refugee Topics Drives Emotional Tone in Online News: A Six-Country Cross-Cultural Sentiment Analysis.
International Journal of Communication,
14,
pp. 3569–3594.
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Chan, Chung-hong
,
Jing Zeng
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Marc Jungblut
,
Kasper Welbers
,
Joseph Bajjalieh
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Scott Althaus
(2020):
Reproducible Extraction of Cross-lingual Topics (rectr).
Communication Methods and Measures,
14,
4,
pp. 285-305.
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van Atteveldt, Wouter
,
Scott Althaus
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2020):
The trouble with sharing your privates. Pursuing ethical open science and collaborative research across national jurisdictions using sensitive data.
Political Communication,
38,
1-2,
pp. 192-198.
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Halfmann, Annabell
,
Helena Dech
,
Jana Riemann
,
Leonie Schlenker
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2019):
Moving closer to the action: How viewers’ experiences of eyewitness videos in TV news influence the trustworthiness of the reports.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,
96,
2,
pp. 367–384.
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Lück, Julia
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Rousiley Maia
,
Antal Wozniak
(2018):
Journalist-source relations and the deliberative system: A network performance approach to investigating journalism’s contribution to facilitating public deliberation in a globalized world.
International Communication Gazette,
80,
6,
pp. 509-531.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Patrik Haffner
,
Eike Mark Rinke
(2018):
Selbstbestimmung in der digitalen Welt: Über die Vorteile eines ebenenübergreifenden normativen Basiskonzepts für die empirische Erforschung der digitalen Kommunikation.
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft,
66,
4,
pp. 395-406.
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Lück, Julia
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Antal Wozniak
,
Diogenes Lycariao
(2018):
Counterbalancing global media frames with nationally colored narratives: A comparative study of news narratives and news framing in the climate change coverage of five countries.
Journalism,
19,
12,
pp. 1635–1656.
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Wozniak, Antal
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Julia Lück
(2017):
Who prevails in the visual framing contest about the UN Climate Change Conferences?.
Journalism Studies,
18,
11,
pp. 1433-1452.
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Schieferdecker, David
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2017):
Bridging segregation via media exposure? Ingroup identification, outgroup distance, and low direct contact reduce outgroup appearance in media repertoires.
Journal of Communication,
67,
6,
pp. 993–1014.
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Knop, Katharina
,
Julian S. Öncü
,
Jana Penzel
,
Theresa S. Abele
,
Tobias Brunner
,
Peter Vorderer
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2016):
Offline time is quality time: Comparing within-group self-disclosure in mobile messaging applications and face-to-face interactions.
Computer in Human Behavior,
55,
B,
pp. 1076-1084.
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Lück, Julia
,
Antal Wozniak
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2016):
Networks of Coproduction: How Journalists and Environmental NGOs Create Common Interpretations of the UN Climate Change Conferences.
International Journal of Press/Politics,
21,
1,
pp. 25-47.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Antal Wozniak
,
Lutz Hofer
,
Julia Lück
(2016):
Global multimodal news frames on climate change. A comparison of five democracies around the world.
International Journal of Press/Politics,
21,
4,
pp. 423-445.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Eike Mark Rinke
,
Charlotte Löb
(2016):
Should we be Charlie? A deliberative take on religion and secularism in mediated public spheres.
Journal of Communication,
66,
2,
pp. 314-327.
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Wozniak, Antal
,
Julia Lück
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2015):
Frames, Stories, and Images: The Advantages of a Multimodal Approach in Comparative Media Content Research on Climate Change.
Environmental Communication,
9,
4,
pp. 469-490.
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Vorderer, Peter
,
Christoph Klimmt
,
Diana Rieger
,
Eva Baumann
,
Dorothée Hefner
,
Karin Knop
,
Nicola Krömer
,
Jutta Mata
,
Thilo von Pape
,
Thorsten Quandt
,
Sabine Reich
,
Leonard Reinecke
,
Sabine Trepte
,
Sabine Sonnentag
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2015):
Der mediatisierte Lebenswandel - Permanently online, permanently connected.
Publizistik,
60,
3,
pp. 259-276.
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Brüggemann, Michael
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2014):
Transnational communication as deliberation, ritual and strategy.
Communication Theory,
24,
4,
pp. 394-414.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Eike Mark Rinke
(2014):
Deliberative performance of television news in three types of democracy: Insights from the United States, Germany, and Russia.
Journal of Communication,
64,
5,
pp. 827-851.
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Rinke, Eike Mark
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Charlotte Löb
,
Carina Weinmann
(2013):
Deliberative qualities of generic news frames: Assessing the democratic value of strategic game and contestation framing in election campaign coverage.
Political Communication,
30,
3,
pp. 474-494.
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Presentation
Freudenthaler, Rainer
,
Katharina Ludwig
,
Philipp Müller
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2024):
Medienvermittelter Rassismus: Theoretische Konzeptualisierung, ein Vorschlag zur Messbarmachung und mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2023):
Public sphere theory in the age of generative artificial intelligence: Some thoughts on an unlikely alliance.
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Freudenthaler, Rainer
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Katharina Ludwig
,
Philipp Müller
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2023):
One language model fits all? On the challenges of adopting an automated measure of racialized group stigmatization for Tweets.
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Müller, Philipp
,
Katharina Ludwig
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Rainer Freudenthaler
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2022):
Gruppenbezogener Rassismus im politischen Journalismus? Eine automatisierte Analyse expliziter und impliziter Stigmatisierungen ethnischer und religiöser Gruppen in der medialen Öffentlichkeit Deutschlands.
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Müller, Philipp
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Katharina Ludwig
,
Rainer Freudenthaler
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2022):
Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Coverage.
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Jakob, Julia
,
Timo Dobbrick
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2021):
(Un)sophisticated Reasoning? The Integrative Complexity of User-Generated Debates Across Political Systems and Online Discussion Arenas.
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Dobbrick, Timo
,
Julia Jakob
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2021):
The (De)civilizing Impact of an Inclusive Actor Set in News Articles on Associated User Debates.
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Jakob, Julia
,
Timo Dobbrick
,
Rainer Freudenthaler
,
Patrik Haffner
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2021):
The End of Constructive Engagement Online? Toxic Outrage in User-Generated Debates Across Political Systems and Online Discussion Arenas.
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Chan, Chung-hong
,
Adrian Rauchfleisch
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Pilipp Müller
,
Katharina Ludwig
(2021):
Estimation of differential implicit media bias.
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Althaus, Scott
,
Joseph Bajjalieh
,
Marc Jungblut
,
Dan Shalmon
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Kasper Welbers
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2020):
Is It Easier to Scare Us or Piss Us Off? The Impact of Terrorist Attacks on News Discourse Across 74 Years of New York Times Reporting.
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Chan, Chung-hong
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Scott Althaus
(2020):
Are Right-Wing Attackers Also Terrorists? An Automated Content Analysis on How Perpetrator Identity Shapes Worldwide English-Language News Coverage of Islamist and Right-Wing Attacks.
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Chan, Chung-hong
,
Jing Zeng
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Marc Jungblut
,
Kasper Welbers
,
Joseph Bajjalieh
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Scott Althaus
(2020):
Reproducible Extraction of Cross-Lingual Topics Using R.
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Welbers, Kasper
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Scott Althaus
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Joseph Bajjalieh
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Marc Jungblut
(2020):
Media Portrayal of Terrorist Events: Using Computational Text Analysis to Link News Items to the Global Terrorism Database.
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Welbers, Kasper
,
Wouter van Atteveldt
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Scott Althaus
(2020):
Suspect by Association: Untangling Semantic Relations Between Muslim Communities and Terrorism in the News.
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Jakob, Julia
,
Timo Dobbrick
,
Patrik Haffner
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2020):
What Facilitates Constructive Engagement? A Dictionary-Based Comparison of Outrage and Recognition Across Online Platforms.
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Jakob, Julia
,
Timo Dobbrick
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2020):
What Promotes Sophisticated Reasoning? The Integrative Complexity of User-Generated Political Debates Across Different Types of Democracy and Online Discussion Arenas.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2019):
Emotional underpinnings of constructive engagement. Rereading deliberative theory.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2019):
Responsible terrorism coverage. How media can cover attacks without serving terrorist agendas.
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Chan, Chung-hong
,
Joseph Bajjalieh
,
L. Auvil
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Scott Althaus
,
K. Welbers
,
W. van Atteveldt
(2019):
Using ‘off-the-shelf’ sentiment dictionaries without revalidation: a p-hacking experiment.
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Wozniak, Antal
,
Julia Lück
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2019):
The episodic nature of global public spheres: The UN Climate Change Conferences and the transnationalization of media debates.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Chung-hong Chan
(2018):
Using Text Analytics Methods to Provide New Insights for Research on Contentious Processes.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2018):
Comparing sentiments in media coverage on refugees, Islam and terrorism. A six-country study.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2018):
How Can Communication Support Constructive Engagement Across Deep Divides?.
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Rinke, Eike Mark
,
Cäcilia Zirn
,
Charlotte Löb
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2017):
Big-Data-Forschung als Interaktion zwischen Topic Models und Expertendaten: Ein neuer Ansatz zur Erfassung der thematischen Vernetzung nationaler Onlinedebatten.
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Rinke, Eike Mark
,
Cäcilia Zirn
,
Charlotte Löb
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2017):
Combining expert surveys and topic modeling to identify unknown issues in multinational media discourses.
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Lück, Julia
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Rousiley Maia
,
Antal Wozniak
(2017):
Journalist-source relations and the deliberative system: A network performance approach to investigating journalism‘s contributions to facilitating public deliberation in a globalized world.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2017):
Against false oppositions: Rediscovering mediated deliberation in non-deliberative contexts.
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Wozniak, Antal
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Julia Lück
(2016):
Global convergence or national segmentation? The discursive role of the UN Climate Change Conferences in the transnational mediated public sphere.
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Löb, Charlotte
,
Eike Mark Rinke
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2016):
Measuring mediated contestation: Four dimensions of democratic news cultures.
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Zirn, Cäcilia
,
Eike Mark Rinke
,
Charlotte Löb
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2016):
Big data research as interaction between topic models and expert data: A new approach to capturing national online debates.
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John, Kristina
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Scott Althaus
(2015):
Global Coverage of Climate Change Stories about Small Island Developing States: A Worldwide Comparison from 1979 to 2012.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2015):
Strengthening the systemic approach to deliberation in political communication research.
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Wessler, Hartmut
(2015):
Networks of coproduction: How journalists and NGOs interact during UN climate change conferences.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Maria Röder-Tzellos
(2015):
Achieving citizenship through communication: Five types of mediated participation in the Egyptian uprising 2011.
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Debus, Marc
,
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
,
Angelika Storrer
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2015):
Wikiganda: How neutral is Wikipedia?.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Antal Wozniak
,
Lutz Hofer
,
Julia Lück
(2015):
Global multimodal news frames on climate change.
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Debus, Marc
,
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2014):
On the Use of Different Modalities in Political Communication: Evidence from German Election Manifestos.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Antal Wozniak
,
Lutz Hofer
,
Julia Lück
(2014):
Sustainable media events? Media coverage of the UN climate conferences in democratic countries.
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Wozniak, Antal
,
Julia Lück
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2014):
Visual strategies and representations: How journalists and PR professionals coproduce the images of climate change..
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Ponzetto, Simone Paolo
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Lydia Weiland
,
Stephan Kopf
,
Wolfgang Effelsberg
,
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
(2014):
Automatic Classification of Iconic Images Based on a Multimodal Model. An Interdisciplinary Project.
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Rinke, Eike Mark
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2013):
Multiperspectival normative assessment of mediated contestation.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Julia Lück
,
Antal Wozniak
(2013):
Networks of coproduction: How mainstream NGOs and journalists create common interpretations of the UN climate summits.
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Wessler, Hartmut
,
Eike Mark Rinke
(2013):
Deliberative strengths and weaknesses in television news: Insights from the US, Germany, and Russia.
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Rinke, Eike Mark
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Charlotte Löb
,
Carina Weinmann
(2012):
Deliberative qualities of generic news frames: Assessing the democratic value of strategic game and contestation framing in election campaign coverage.
More
Report
Ludwig, Katharina
,
Philipp Müller
,
Rainer Freudenthaler
,
Chung-hong Chan
,
Hartmut Wessler
(2023):
Implizite und explizite Stigmatisierung von ethnisch-gelesenen Gruppen in der deutschen Medienöffentlichkeit im Jahr 2022.
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Schäfer, Mike
,
Peter Berglez
,
Hartmut Wessler
,
Elisabeth Eide
,
Brigitte Nerlich
,
Saffron O'Neill
(2016):
Investigating mediated climate change communication: A best-practice guide.
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Web Articles
Wessler, Hartmut
,
Julia Lück
,
Antal Wozniak
(2017):
Communication, negotiation, and influence at international climate change meetings and summits.
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