In: Medien & Zeit, 2017, vol. 32, no. 2, p. 56-67
Die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Beschäftigung mit Fachidentität hat in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten stark zugenommen. Während sozialwissenschaftlich- empirische Studien vor allem aktuelle Fachinhalte mit Blick auf die verwendeten Theorien, Methoden und Gegenstände betrachten, befassen sich Beiträge aus einer fachhistorischen Perspektive verstärkt mit der institutionellen, personellen...
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In: Linguistik online, 2019/100/7/19/65-94
We investigate how untrained readers perceive the lexical richness of short texts written by 8 to 10-year-olds in French, German and Portuguese. Seven untrained adults rated the lexical richness of a set of argumentative and narrative texts on Likert Scales while performing on a Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) task. Results show that raters consider other criteria than solely vocabulary in their...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016COM010.
This study has examined how the ‘Ageing Society’ -a society with a rapidly ageing population, a growing share of older persons and a decreasing share of younger persons- and its implications for the Belgian population are represented in the Belgian quality newspaper De Standaard (2011-2013). As such, the study delivered first-time Belgian empirical findings about the coverage of the...
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In: The European Journal of Public Health, 2011, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 300-305
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In: Journalism and mass communication quarterly, 2012, vol. 89, no. 3, p. 414-430
This quantitative content analysis applies the theory of instrumental actualization to Swiss newspaper coverage of smoking bans in public places. The theory holds that journalists' opinions affect news selection; it is studied here for the weighting and evaluation of arguments in news stories. The editorial stance of newspapers was related to the weighting of argumentative fields and the...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
This dissertation examines the question, how Swiss German media cover the topic of overweight. Over the last years overweight has gained an increased interest in the Swiss media. The public awareness for overweight and obesity in Switzerland was raised in the mid 1980ies. In newspapers the topic gained public interest in the 1990ies, parallel to the publication of the fourth Swiss report on...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2009.
Discussion on the introduction of the smoking ban in Ticino has all the characteristics of a debate, where every participant takes a position. In this context, observing argumentative content means reconstructing the core of the discussion. However, understanding argumentative content is difficult because argumentation is a complex activity. Content analysis allows reconstruction of a small...
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