Anne Bartsch & Lukas A. Angerer
Synergy effects of entertainment and information programs about organ donation on issue involvement and altruistic responses.

Digitalization and Civic Participation in Rural Areas. A Systematic Review of Scientific Journals, 2010-2020. Stein, V., Pentzold, C., Peter, S., & Sterly, S. (2022). Digitalization and Civic Participation in Rural Areas. A Systematic Review of Scientific Journals, 2010-2020. Spatial Research and Planning, 80(3), 251-266. The smart village is digitally networked and participatory. Its “smartness”, in […]

Future Home Stories: Participatory Predicaments and Methodological Scaffolding in Narrative Speculation on Alternative Domestic Lives Becker, Alexa; Haupt, Benedikt; Berger, Arne & Pentzold, Christian (2022). Future Home Stories: Participatory Predicaments and Methodological Scaffolding in the Narrative Speculation on Alternative Domestic Lives. Digital Creativity. Not infrequently, smart home imaginaries and installations are envisaged for nuclear families […]

Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity Heger, K., & Hoffmann, C. P. (2022). Feminist women’s online political participation: empowerment through feminist political attitudes or feminist identity? Journal of Information Technology & Politics, online first. DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2119320. Citizens in modern democracies have a continuously expanding set of tools at […]

The Social, Civic, and Political Uses of Instagram in Four Countries. Boulianne, S., & Hoffmann, C. P. (2022). The social, civic, and political uses of Insta-gram in four countries. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2. DOI: 10.51685/jqd.2022.001 Instagram has more than 1 billion monthly users. Yet, little is known about how citizens engage with […]

“Doing gender” by sharing: examining the gender gap in the European sharing economy. Eichhorn, T., Hoffmann, C. P., & Heger, K. (2022). „Doing gender“ by sharing: Examin-ing the gender gap in the European sharing economy. Internet Policy Review, 11(1), 1-23. In this study, based on survey data collected from twelve European countries (N=6111), we build […]

Dimensions of digital inequality in the sharing economy. Eichhorn, T., Jürss, S., & Hoffmann, C.P. (2022). Dimensions of digital inequality in the sharing economy. Information, Communication & Society, 25(3), 395-412, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1791218 Sharing economy platforms have grown to offer various commercial opportunities to a growing but still limited user base. We conceptualize engagement in the […]

How to Make Sense of Nonsense: Political Absurdity and Parodic Memes in the #Sharpiegate Affair. Pentzold, C., Zuber, C., Osterloh, F., & Fechner, D. J. (2022). How to Make Sense of Nonsense: Political Absurdity and Parodic Memes in the #Sharpiegate Affair. International Journal of Communication, 16, 1051-1076. This article interrogates the memetic reactions triggered by […]

Mundane Work for Utopian Ends: Freeing Digital Materials in Peer Production. Pentzold, C. (2021). Mundane Work for Utopian Ends: Freeing Digital Materials in Peer Production. New Media & Society, 23(4), 861-833. This article studies the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a core example of the storage and sharing of commons-based digital materials. It focuses on the […]

Digital Divides in Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Social Media Self‐Efficacy and Privacy Concerns. Hoffmann, C.P., & Lutz, C. (2021). Digital Divides in Political Participation: The Mediating Role of Social Media Self‐Efficacy and Privacy Concerns. Policy & Internet, 13(1), 6-29. DOI: 10.1002/poi3.225 Scholarship on political participation and the Internet has found that Internet use […]