In the course of technical media convergence and growing crossmedia distribution of moving images content the boundaries are blurring between as yet clearly distinguishable media and communication services.
How the information repertoires of the German population constitute themselves was examined by the Hans-Bredow-Institut in a pilot study.
Does television influence how historical events are remembered? In her PhD-project, Juliane Finger has developed an approach to conceive long-term media effects using the example of the Holocaust presented on German TV.
A Differentiation of Bonus-Determined Communicative Actions between Mass and Interpersonal Communication
The increasing digitalisation of media environments enables viewers to access audio-visual content anywhere at any time. Uwe Hasebrink investigated why viewers switch from linear to non-linear forms of TV services.
In an article on the innovation.dpa.com, Leonie Wunderlich writes about the first results of our project "Use The News" on news usage in the digital age. You can read the complete article here. Abstract Population-representative studies on news usage, such as the recent...
Hans-Ulrich Wagner writes in the media journal of the Evangelischer Pressedienst epd medien about the new service of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) - SWR Retro. SWR is the first public broadcaster to make historical archive material available to the public in the ARD Mediathek [ARD media library]. &...
Wagner, H.-U. (2018): Beate Meyer: Fritz Benscher. Ein Holocaust-Überlebender als Rundfunk- und Fernsehstar in der Bundesrepublik [A Holocaust Survivor as a Radio and TV Star in Germany]. Review. Rundfunk und Geschichte 44 (1-2), pp. 72-73.
Bleicher, J. (2018): Reality TV in Deutschland - Geschichte, Themen, Formate [Reality TV in Germany - History, Themes, Formats]. Hamburg: Avinus Verlag. Publisher Information