{"id":9233,"date":"2019-05-13T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T08:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&p=9233"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:12:16","slug":"the-media-logic-of-information-intermediaries-and-its-significance-for-opinion-formation","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/the-media-logic-of-information-intermediaries-and-its-significance-for-opinion-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Logic of Information Intermediaries and Its Significance for Opinion Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a dossier of the Federal Agency for Civic Education<\/a> on the subject of “Digital Disinformation”, PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt<\/a> writes about the media logic of information intermediaries such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.<\/p>\n

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\"Logo“Mit dem Internet, und speziell mit den sozialen Medien, hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren das Gef\u00fcge der \u00d6ffentlichkeit […] ver\u00e4ndert. Plattformen wie Facebook, YouTube, Instagram und Twitter, aber auch die Suchmaschine Google sind f\u00fcr viele Menschen zu unverzichtbaren Medienangeboten geworden, um Informationen zu allen nur erdenklichen Themen zu erhalten oder selbst zu verbreiten. Sie fungieren als “Intermedi\u00e4re”, die selbst keine eigenen Inhalte produzieren, sondern die Voraussetzung schaffen, dass ihre Nutzer Inhalte aller Art verbreiten bzw. auffinden k\u00f6nnen. Doch welchen Einfluss haben sie auf die Meinungsbildung? Wo funktionieren sie anders als die vertrauten journalistisch-publizistischen Angebote aus Fernsehen, Radio und Print?”<\/p>\n

[“With the Internet, and especially with social media, the structure of the public […] has changed in recent years. Platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter, but also the search engine Google have become indispensable media offers for many people in order to receive or distribute information on all conceivable topics. They function as “intermediaries” who themselves do not produce their own content, but create the conditions for their users to be able to disseminate or find content of all kinds. But what influence do they have on the formation of opinion? Where do they function differently from the familiar journalistic and journalistic offerings from television, radio and print?”]<\/p>\n

To the article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Schmidt, Jan-Hinrik (2019): Die Medienlogik der Informationsintermedi\u00e4re und ihre Bedeutung f\u00fcr Meinungsbildung [The Media Logic of Information Intermediaries and Its Significance for Opinion Formation], in bpb.de, http:\/\/www.bpb.de\/gesellschaft\/digitales\/digitale-desinformation\/290575\/die-medienlogik-der-informationsintermediaere-und-ihre-bedeutung-fuer-meinungsbildung<\/a> (13.05.2019)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2433,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-9233","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Media Logic of Information Intermediaries and Its Significance for Opinion Formation - 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\/the-media-logic-of-information-intermediaries-and-its-significance-for-opinion-formation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Media Logic of Information Intermediaries and Its Significance for Opinion Formation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a dossier of the Federal Agency for Civic Education on the subject of “Digital Disinformation”, PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt writes about the media logic of information intermediaries such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. “Mit dem Internet, und speziell mit den sozialen Medien, hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren das Gef\u00fcge der \u00d6ffentlichkeit […] ver\u00e4ndert. 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