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%T Online media consumption in Germany: The role of political information: An analysis of German mass communication online %A Brentel, Inga %P 33 %D 2023 %K online news consumption; audience fragmentation; issue publics; audience duplication; The Longitudinal IntermediaPlus Data Source (2014-2016), ZA5769 (https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13530) %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-85950-3 %X Fragmented, thus, widely scattered, non-overlapping media-consumption patterns often are seen as a logical consequence of increasing numbers in online offerings, specialization and personalization, undermining a media-mediated common ground sufficient for democracy. Empirical evidence yet is missing maybe resulting from data lacking granularity in online-media consumption measured as aggregated online media offerings not detailing the level of single entities (subpages of a website). Using social network analysis and the theoretical framework of news reading publics, this article exploratively analyses patterns of online-media consumption for ~4,000 single entities of commercially-driven, German websites and 339,423 people. A new methodological approach measuring overlapping media-consumption patterns accounting for individual online-media repertoires is suggested. Using community detection, two thematically driven online-groupings of overlapping audiences characterized by using/not using political- and digital-online-media offerings are identified. However, a total fragmentation in online-media patterns is missing: 43 percent of users observed are part of both news reading publics detected. %C DEU %G en %9 Arbeitspapier %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info