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Dominique Wirz

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University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

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Dominique Wirz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research areas include media consumption patterns, the impact of digital media on political communication, and the psychological effects of entertainment experiences. His recent articles examine topics such as news usage on social media, the relationship between media attributes and recovery, and the influence of education on news exposure.

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News Consumption and Infotainment on Social Media: Effects of entertaining features in digital news stories on exposure, engagement, knowledge and attitudes

Open Date: 2022-02-01

Close Date: 2026-01-31

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Andreas Fahr

Full Professor for Media Uses and Effects

University of Fribourg

SWITZERLAND

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Anne Schulz

Senior Research and Teaching Associate

University of Zurich

SWITZERLAND

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Ezgi Ulusoy

Michigan State University

UNITED STATES

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IOANNIS ANDREADIS

Professor

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

GREECE

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Allison Eden

Assistant Professor

Michigan State University

UNITED STATES

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Max Grömping

Senior Lecturer

Griffith University

AUSTRALIA

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Sina Blassnig

Professor

University of Fribourg

SWITZERLAND

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Alexander Ort

Lecturer & Senior Researcher

University of Lucerne

SWITZERLAND

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Björn Rasch

SWITZERLAND

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Sara M. Grady

Assistant Professor

Ohio State University

UNITED STATES

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Silke Adam

University of Bern

SWITZERLAND

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Articles (23)

Effects of Infotainment Features in Instagram News Stories on Knowledge: A Field Experiment

Binge-watching on TikTok vs Netflix

Do I Need Pleasure, Meaning, or New Ideas Today? Exploring the Relationship Between Daily Experiences, Motivations for Media Use, and Content Preferences

Infotainment on Social Media

Intellectual television harms relaxation, games help us detach? Different attributes of bedtime media are associated with multiple types of recovery.

Beyond pleasurable and meaningful: Psychologically rich entertainment experiences

A matter of perception? investigating subjective and objective exposure to hate speech with a survey and mobile longitudinal linkage study

News usage on Instagram: Frequency, motives, evaluation, and the role of political interest

Tracing Knowledge Gaps: Investigating the Influence of Education on News Exposure and Knowledge Using Digital Trace Data

A matter of perception? investigating subjective and objective exposure to hate speech with a survey and mobile longitudinal linkage study

Exploring Everyday Media Use: Viewing Motives, Multitasking, and Viewing Duration as Potential Drivers of Parasocial Interactions and Relationships

Infotainment on Social Media: How News Companies Combine Information and Entertainment in News Stories on Instagram and TikTok

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Is bedtime media use good or bad? A competitive analysis between the sleep displacement hypothesis and the media recovery hypothesis

Boundaries on a binge

An Unholy Alliance? The Influence of Negative Emotions Elicited by Media Reports on the Persuasiveness of Populist Communication

Parasocial relationships with morally ambiguous media characters – the role of moral foundations

The More You Watch, the More You Get?

The role of cliffhangers in serial entertainment: An experiment on cliffhangers’ effects on enjoyment, arousal, and intention to continue watching.

The Effects of Populist Identity Framing on Populist Attitudes Across Europe: Evidence From a 15-Country Comparative Experiment

Appraisal patterns as predictors of emotional expressions and shares on political social networking sites

Is binge-watching addictive?

Measuring Populism across Nations: Testing for Measurement Invariance of an Inventory of Populist Attitudes

Collaborators (11)

Andreas Fahr

Anne Schulz

Ezgi Ulusoy

IOANNIS ANDREADIS

Allison Eden

Max Grömping

Sina Blassnig

Alexander Ort

Björn Rasch

Sara M. Grady

Silke Adam

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