Constructive journalism. Empirical analyses of the potential effects of a new form of journalism

建设性的新闻报道。

• 批准号: 512131520
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Marcus Maurer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Publizistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/512131520?language=en
• 关键词: Constructive; journalism.; Empirical; analyses; potential

Political media coverage focuses on problems and conflicts and is therefore strongly negative in tone. The consequences of this problem-focused reporting for the public range from negative emotions such as fear and anger to negative and polarized judgments about politics and a reluctance to participate in solving social problems. As an alternative to established, problem-focused journalism, constructive journalism has therefore been discussed for several years, which aims to discuss not only political and social problems but also successes and possible solutions to social problems and in this way should not only promote social engagement, but at the same time promote trust in journalism. However, if one looks at the previous research on constructive journalism, it becomes clear that 1) there is no systematically developed definition of constructive journalism, 2) the possible effects of constructive journalism have hardly been theoretically reflected and 3) hardly any systematic research on the effects of constructive journalism and its prerequisites and boundary conditions was carried out. Based on a working definition of constructive journalism as journalism that reports in a balanced and factual manner on socially relevant problems and ways to solve them, the aim of the project applied for here is a) to theoretically model the effects of constructive journalism on the emotions, cognitions and behavior (intents) of the recipients and b) to empirically examine these effects as well as their prerequisites (content and use of constructive journalism) and boundary conditions (characteristics of issues and recipients). This is to be done in three modules: Module A (content) uses a manual quantitative content analysis to examine how media that classify themselves as constructive journalism report on socially relevant topics and how this differs from the reporting of established news media. In Module B (potential use), an experimental survey is used to determine the size of the audience that prefers constructive journalism to problem-centric media reporting in a concrete decision-making situation and on which boundary conditions this depends. The core of the project is Module C (effects), in which the specific effects of the various dimensions of constructive journalism (balance, matter-of-factness, presenting solutions) on different issues and on people with different predispositions are to be examined with the help of a 2x2x2x2-factorial experimental design. The fourth module D (publications and transfer) serves to communicate the project results in science, journalism and society.

政治媒体的报道侧重于问题和冲突，因此语气非常消极。这种以问题为中心的报道对公众造成的后果从恐惧和愤怒等负面情绪到对政治的负面和两极化判断以及不愿参与解决社会问题。因此，作为既定的、以问题为中心的新闻报道的替代方案，建设性新闻报道已经讨论了好几年，其目的不仅是讨论政治和社会问题，而且是讨论成功和社会问题的可能解决方案，这样不仅应该促进社会参与，而且同时应该促进对新闻报道的信任。然而，纵观以往的建设性新闻研究，可以发现：1）建设性新闻没有系统的定义; 2）建设性新闻可能产生的效果没有得到理论上的反映; 3）建设性新闻的效果及其前提和边界条件没有得到系统的研究。基于建设性新闻的工作定义，即以平衡和事实的方式报道社会相关问题及其解决方法的新闻，这里申请的项目的目的是a）从理论上模拟建设性新闻对情感的影响，认知和行为（意图）的收件人和B）经验性地检查这些影响以及他们的先决条件（建设性新闻的内容和使用）和边界条件（问题和接受者的特点）。这将分三个模块完成：模块A（内容）使用手动定量内容分析来研究将自己归类为建设性新闻的媒体如何报道与社会相关的主题，以及这与现有新闻媒体的报道有何不同。在模块B（潜在用途）中，使用实验调查来确定在具体决策情况下，更喜欢建设性新闻而不是以问题为中心的媒体报道的受众规模，以及这取决于哪些边界条件。该项目的核心是模块C（效果），其中建设性新闻的各个方面（平衡，实事求是，提出解决方案）对不同问题和具有不同倾向的人的具体影响将在2x2 x2 x2因子实验设计的帮助下进行检查。第四个模块D（出版和转让）用于在科学、新闻和社会领域传播项目成果。