The effect of democratic media quality on user engagement on Social Media: An Analysis of the contents of five Swiss news media outlets on Facebook

Häuptli, Andrea; Schwaiger, Lisa; Eisenegger, Mark

doi:10.21241/ssoar.66880

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“…The most obvious explanation is misinformation spread on social media (Gabarron et al, 2021), which can hamper adherence to preventive measures (Roozenbeek et al, 2020). In addition, on a more subtle level, the characteristics of social media impair the quality of information: low-quality news content on social media has been associated with more user engagement than high-quality news (Häuptli et al, 2020). Another aspect is that social media may restrict traditional elites from communicating policy measures.…”

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Young people's media use and adherence to preventive measures in the “infodemic”: Is it masked by political ideology?

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Speranza

Robin

et al. 2023

Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Young people's media use and adherence to preventive measures in the “infodemic”: Is it masked by political ideology?

Juvalta

Speranza

Robin

et al. 2023

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Fourth, due to the increasing importance of thirdparty platforms, it would be necessary to examine media types including third-party platforms (e.g., outlets' Twitter accounts, Facebook pages etc.) to check to what extent outlets possibly adapt to the platforms' logics and change their hard news orientation (Häuptli, Schwaiger, & Eisenegger, 2020;Steiner et al, 2019).…”

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Mapping and Explaining Media Quality: Insights from Switzerland’s Multilingual Media System

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Eisenegger

Vogler

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In 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 influenced by a large neighbouring country (Germany, France, and Italy). The research design takes into account the multi-dimensional character of hard news and allows for analysis with explanatory factors on different levels: On the meso-level, ownership types complemented with media types, and on the macro-level language regions of different market size. Findings show large differences in the importance of hard news overall and these findings are consistent across the three dimensions of hard news (topic dimension, focus dimension, style dimension). Hard news orientation differs especially between private and public media, but also within privately held media outlets, and less so within public media, which points to a general quality culture embedded within public media organizations. Thus, rather than by language region and the according media market size or by ownership types, quality differences can be best explained by media types.

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The effect of democratic media quality on user engagement on Social Media: An Analysis of the contents of five Swiss news media outlets on Facebook

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

Young people's media use and adherence to preventive measures in the “infodemic”: Is it masked by political ideology?

Young people's media use and adherence to preventive measures in the “infodemic”: Is it masked by political ideology?

Mapping and Explaining Media Quality: Insights from Switzerland’s Multilingual Media System

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