{"id":9143,"date":"2019-02-26T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T09:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&#038;p=9143"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:22:29","slug":"how-do-intermediaries-shape-news-related-media-repertoires-and-practices","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/how-do-intermediaries-shape-news-related-media-repertoires-and-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Intermediaries Shape News-Related Media Repertoires and Practices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on focus groups and interviews, this study examines the role of online intermediaries such as search engines, social networking sites and video platforms in the political information repertoires of German users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9141 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/26-07-31-Wie-beeinflussen-Intermediaere-die-Medienrepertoire-und-praktiken-im-Bereich-der-Nachrichten-Schmidt-Merten-Hasebrink-300x193.png\" alt=\"Cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/26-07-31-Wie-beeinflussen-Intermediaere-die-Medienrepertoire-und-praktiken-im-Bereich-der-Nachrichten-Schmidt-Merten-Hasebrink-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/26-07-31-Wie-beeinflussen-Intermediaere-die-Medienrepertoire-und-praktiken-im-Bereich-der-Nachrichten-Schmidt-Merten-Hasebrink-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/26-07-31-Wie-beeinflussen-Intermediaere-die-Medienrepertoire-und-praktiken-im-Bereich-der-Nachrichten-Schmidt-Merten-Hasebrink.png 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Online intermediaries such as search engines, social network sites, or video platforms provide access to diverse content; however, there is a school of thought that argues that they may also contribute to the structural deformation of the public sphere. To assess the impact of these Web-based services, research needs to address them not as isolated platforms but as part of broader media environments. Based on 6 group discussions and 18 interviews with German participants varying in age and political engagement the authors mapped individual information repertoires with a particular focus on online intermediaries, reconstructed key episodes in which these services were used for gathering information on current news events, and investigated participants\u2019 awareness of the architecture and mechanisms of these intermediaries. Findings show that for most participants, online intermediaries are an indispensable part of their media repertoires, but are seldom dominant, let alone the only source of information on political topics. Most respondents possessed some knowledge on the basic workings of the intermediaries they used, but were not familiar with details such as algorithmic personalization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/jan-hinrik-schmidt\/\">Schmidt, Jan-Hinrik<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/lisa-merten\/\">Lisa Merten<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/uwe-hasebrink\/\">Uwe Hasebrink<\/a> \/ Isabelle Petrich \/ Amelie Rolfs (2019): How Do Intermediaries Shape News-Related Media Repertoires and Practices? Findings From a Qualitative Study. In: International Journal of Communication, Vol. 13 (2019), S. 853-873.<\/p>\n<p>Available for <a href=\"https:\/\/ijoc.org\/index.php\/ijoc\/article\/view\/9080\/2572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2433,"template":"","tags":[398,408],"class_list":["post-9143","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous","tag-other-publication"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Do Intermediaries Shape News-Related Media Repertoires and Practices? - Leibniz HBI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/how-do-intermediaries-shape-news-related-media-repertoires-and-practices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Do Intermediaries Shape News-Related Media Repertoires and Practices?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Based on focus groups and interviews, this study examines the role of online intermediaries such as search engines, social networking sites and video platforms in the political information repertoires of German users. 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