The Role of Online Platforms for Media Markets – Two‐Dimensional Spatial Competition in a Two‐Sided Market

We analyze the market for online and offline media in a model of two-dimensional spatial competition where media outlets sell content and advertising space. Consumer preferences are distributed along the style and type of news coverage where the distance costs may vary across dimensions. For integrated provision of online and offline platforms we show that entering the online market reduces average profits and may even constitute a prisoner's dilemma. Specialized provision may yield polarization in the style and type dimensions. This is in contrast to the maximum–minimum differentiation result previously established in the literature on multidimensional horizontal competition. We show that maximal differentiation in both dimensions occurs due to the discrete nature of the type dimension and asymmetric advertising markets.

Indigene Prepräsentation im "neuen" Venezolanischen Fernsehen

Das Fernsehen hat sich in vielen Gesellschaften dieser Erde zum dominierenden Medium entwickelt und ist Gegenstand andauernder Auseinandersetzungen zwischen externer Einflussnahme und journalistischer Autonomie. Im Falle Venezuelas haben die jüngsten politischen Transformationen auch innerhalb der Medienlandschaft zu massiven Veränderungen geführt. Auf Initiative der Regierung Chávez wurden mehrere staatliche Sender gegründet, die das emanzipatorische Ziel einer Demokratisierung des Fernsehens propagieren. Das "neue" Fernsehen verspricht eine "neue" Sichtweise, ausgehend von dem Konzept einer partizipativen Repräsentation, das eine weitgehende Integration aller VenezolanerInnen, vor allem der zuvor benachteiligten Klassen, auf praktischer und inhaltlicher Ebene vorsieht. Unter ihnen auch die indigenen Gruppen des Landes, die vormals entweder weitgehend ausgeblendet, oder durch klischeehafte Inhalte und klassische Stereotypen repräsentiert wurden. Welcher Platz wird nun den Indigenen im "neuen" venezolanischen Fernsehen zuteil? Wie findet Repräsentation statt und wann kann von partizipativer Repräsentation gesprochen werden? Das sind die Fragen, denen ich anhand eines Fallbeispiels aus der Perspektive der visuellen Anthropologie in diesem Beitrag nachgehen möchte.

Culturas políticas en la región andina

La región andina se caracteriza, en el nuevo milenio, por transformaciones radicales de sus culturas políticas. Los movimientos indígenas de Ecuador y Bolivia son paradigmáticos de un proceso de descolonización cultural que rompió con los esquemas poscoloniales de representación política. Junto a ello, se observa una ruptura con las políticas neoliberales que se expresa en una nueva izquierda latinoamericana asociada a nombres como Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales y Rafael Correa. El presente volumen reúne dieciocho contribuciones que analizan dichos cambios en las culturas políticas desde diversas perspectivas académicas. De este modo, Culturas políticas en la región andina constituye un aporte hacia un mayor entendimiento de un espacio político que está en movimiento.

Fukushima Effects on Media Coverage and Attitudes in Germany

The paper examines the question, in how far Fukushima caused changes in the media coverage and the public opinion about nuclear power in Germany. To answer this question we used two methods, content analysis and survey. Firstly we analysed data from a quantitative content analyses to examine changes in the media coverage about nuclear power between 2010 and 2011. The first investigation period lasted from 10.07.2010 to 04.09.2010, immediately before the German Bundestag vote for the lifetime extension of nuclear power stations. The second investigation period covered the first two months of media coverage after Fukushima from 12.03.2011 to 16.5.2011. Secondly our data consist of a representative telephone panel survey (n=341). As the first wave was carried out from 16.8.2010 to 06.9.2010 and the second wave from 15.5.2011 to 04.06.2011 these data set gives us the unique possibility to investigate attitude changes about nuclear power on the individual level.

In Search of Political Influence: Strategic Choices and Media Coverage of Political Parties, Interest Groups and Social Movements in Western European Countries

Outside lobbying is a key strategy for social movements, interest groups and political parties for mobilising public opinion through the media in order to pressure policymakers and influence the policymaking process. Relying on semi-structured interviews and newspaper content analysis in six Western European countries, this article examines the use of four outside lobbying strategies – media-related activities, informing (about) the public, mobilisation and protest – and the amount of media coverage they attract. While some strategies are systematically less pursued than others, we find variation in their relative share across institutional contexts and actor types. Given that most of these differences are not accurately mirrored in the media, we conclude that media coverage is only loosely connected to outside lobbying behaviour, and that the media respond differently to a given strategy when used by different actors. Thus, the ability of different outside lobbying strategies to generate media coverage critically depends on who makes use of them.