Filter bubbles and echo chambers continue to be controversial topics among scholars in the realm of digital studies. Put simply, these two terms describe a digital quandary where users preferentially choose only to engage with ‘like-minded others’, creating an information cocoon that limits people’s worldviews. Numerous media scholars contend that filter bubbles and echo chambers, collectively referred to in the literature as ‘enclave deliberation’, pose a threat to democracy by creating a self-reinforcing feedback loop...

In times of major world events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the ever-increasing climate catastrophe and five changing governments in Austria since 2019, the headlines in newspapers and magazines tend to change rapidly. This paper takes a closer look at which issues have been pointed out most often, how they are related and what developments they may have undergone over certain periods of time. As part of a cooperation with the Salzburger Nachrichten, all news...

Der Klimawandel ist weltweit eines der dringlichsten Themen der letzten Jahre. Nachrichtenmedien stellen dabei eine Hauptinformationsquelle für die Gesellschaft dar und setzen die Agenda. Daher untersucht diese quantitative, computergestützte Studie die Berichterstattung der Salzburger Nachrichten zu den Themen Umwelt und Klimawandel von 2010 bis 2020. Während die durchschnittliche Artikelanzahl der Salzburger Nachrichten pro Monat im Zeitraum von 2010 bis 2020 deutlich sank, stieg die Anzahl der Artikel zu den Themen Klimawandel und Umwelt seit 2010...

The delineation between dimensions of power and their interrelationships improves our understanding of causality and the transformations in modes of social power, with the transformations in the way actors exercise and legitimise power resulting in profound social change. This paper aims to present an overview of how technologies interact with power centralisation and new and existing power asymmetries. Abstaining from a techno-deterministic perspective, this paper investigates how digitalisation can intensify power asymmetries and the centralisation...