Headlines

Controversies over Jörg Becker’s Biography

• Chronology of the legal conflicts

Critiques of Jörg Becker’s Biography (in German)

• Die Welt
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Südkurier
• Tagesspiegel
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• H-Soz-u-Kult
• Deutschlandradio
• Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte (with friendly permission of the author and the editor)

Recent Publications

• Ralph E. Schmidt & Thomas Petersen: Beyond Marienthal: The Relationship Between Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann und Paul F. Lazarsfeld. In: International Journal of Communication, 2022, 16, Forum pp. 664-672.
• Elizabeth Stoycheff: Under Surveillance: Examining Facebook’s Spiral of Silence Effects in the Wake of NSA Internet Monitoring. In: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2016, 93, 296-311.
• Sherice Gearhart & Weiwu Zhang: “Was It Something I Said?” “No, It Was Something You Posted!” A Study of the Spiral of Silence Theory in Social Media Contexts. In: Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2015, 18, 208-213.
• Alexander E. Hopkins: Effects of the “Spiral of Silence” in Digital Media. In: Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse, 2015, 7 (09).
• Keith N. Hampton et al.: Social Media and the Spiral of Silence. Pew Research Center, Washington, DC, 2014.
• Cristina Malaspina: The Spiral of Silence and Social Media: Analysing Noelle-Neumann’s Phenomenon Application on the Web during the Italian Political Elections of 2013. London School of Economics and Political Science, London 2014.
• Wolfgang Donsbach, Charles T. Salmon, & Yariv Tsfati (Eds.): The Spiral of Silence – New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion. Routledge, London 2013.