Project collaboration: Patrick Zerrer, Paul Pressmann Student assistant: Karima Küster The Internet and social media are essential to contemporary public communication, particularly for younger citizens. The digital media change introduces the transformation of science communication by bringing various challenges for science, politics, and the media such as fragmented information landscapes, the rise of alternative communicators, (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Sebastian Stier, Dr. Katrin Weller Project collaboration: Helena Rauxloh Funding: Leibniz Association The online information environment offers citizens a wealth of news and other content that is relevant to political opinion formation and varies considerably in terms of journalistic quality and political extremity. Politicians, journalists and academics have (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Patrick Zerrer The AMBITION project is a scientific pilot study on the news and media usage behavior of Fridays for Future supporters. The project examines the role of media and news offerings and the motivations for political action. For example, the aim is to find out whether and in (…)

Project management: Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann The useNews dataset has been compiled to enable the study of online news engagement. It relies on the MediaCloud and CrowdTangle APIs as well as on data from the Reuters Digital News Report. The entire dataset builds on data from 2019 and 2020 as well as a total of (…)