Die Berichterstattung zur Europawahl 2014 in den Hauptabendnachrichten – ein historischer und internationaler Vergleich

Content Analysis in the Research Field of Election (Campaign) Coverage

“…Longitudinal studies are particularly interesting because they are especially suited to documenting whether and how media coverage of election (campaigns) has changed over time (Strömbäck and Kaid 2008, p. 1). Examples of such long-term analyses include Kleinnijenhuis (2003); Magin (2S012); Leidecker-Sandmann and Wilke (2019); Patterson (2000); Pfaffenberger (2016); Wilke and Reinemann (2000); Sigelman and Bullock (1991);van Hoof et al (2014); Wied (2007); Zeh and Schulz (2019) or Takens et al (2013).…”

“…In addition to newspapers, TV is often the subject of analysis, if only because of its greater reach compared to the press. The coding of TV news is somewhat more complex; long-term studies cannot go as far back as they can for the press (e.g., Cushion and Thomas 2016;Pfaffenberger 2016;Schäfer and Schmidt 2016;Takens et al 2013;Zeh and Schulz 2019). The analyses of election campaign coverage in traditional news media have increasingly been supplemented by studies of online and social media coverage (e.g., Blassnig et al 2019;Scharl and Weichselbraun 2008;Singer 2009;Harder et al 2016;Harmer and Southern 2019;Magin et al 2017;Papathanassopoulos and Giannouli 2019).…”