Publications

Journal articles, with peer review

Otto, L.P., Thomas, F., Maier, M. (2026). Angry and alerted, happy and informed? An experience sampling study on the relationship between sentiment, affect, and attention towards campaign communication. Communication Research. doi: 10.1177/00936502261443864

Chu, X., Otto, L.P., Noetzel., S., Stubenvoll, M., Lecheler, S., Matthes, J., & Kruikemeier, S. (2026). The effects of data-driven campaigning: An integrative model and literature review. Annals of the International Communication Association. https://doi.org/10.1093/anncom/wlag004

Yu, Z., Otto, L., Assenmacher, D., Wagner, C. (2024). “A Systematic Review of the Effects of AI-Assisted Moderation on Individuals and Groups.” Human-Machine Communication 9 167–188. doi: https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.9.10.

Schmidt, F., Stier, S., & Otto, L.P. (2024). Incivility in comparison: how context, content and personal characteristics predict exposure to uncivil content. Social Science Computer Review. 42 (5): 1120-1135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241252638.

Vliegenthart, R., Vrielink, J., Dommett, K., Gibson, R., Bon, E., Chu, X., de Vreese, C., Lecheler, S., Matthes, J., Minihold, S., Otto, L., Stubenvoll, M., & Kruikemeier, S. (2024). Citizens’ acceptance of data-driven political campaigning: a 25-country cross-national vignette study. Social Science Computer Review. 42 (5), 1101–1119. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241249708.

Chu, X. Otto, L.P., Vliegenthart, R., Lecheler, S., de Vreese, C., & Kruikemeier, S. (2024) On or off topic? Understanding the effects of issue-related political targeted ads. Information, Communication, & Society. 27 (7), 1378-1404 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2265978

Chu, X., Vliegenthart, R., Otto, L.P., de Vreese, C.H., & Kruikemeier, S. (2024). Do online ads sway voters? Understanding the persuasiveness of online political ads. Political Communication. 41 (2), 290-314 https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2276104

Otto, L.P., Loecherbach, F., Vliegenthart, R. (2024). Linkage analysis revised – Linking digital traces and survey data. 18 (2), 186-204 Communication Methods & Measures, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2023.2257595

Chu, X. Otto, L.P., Vliegenthart, R., Lecheler, S., de Vreese, C., & Kruikemeier, S. (2023) On or off topic? Understanding the effects of issue-related political targeted ads. Information, Communication, & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2265978

Otto, L.P., Loecherbach, F., Vliegenthart, R. (2023). Linkage analysis revised – Linking digital traces and survey data. Communication Methods & Measures, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2023.2257595

Mangold, F., Wieland, M., Stier S., Otto, L. (2023). Neue Infrastrukturen für die Messung digitaler Mediennutzung. Publizistik. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-023-00804-9

Otto, L. P., & Kruikemeier, S. (2023). The smartphone as a tool for mobile communication research: Assessing mobile campaign perceptions and effects with experience sampling. New Media & Society, 25(4), 795–815. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231158651

Maier, J., Glogger, I., Otto, L. P., & Bast, J. (2023). Is there a visual bias in televised debates? Evidence from Germany, 2002–2017. Visual Communication, 22(2), 221–242. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357220974068

Matthes, J., Binder, A., Hirsch, M., Stubenvoll, M., Kruikemeier, S., Lecheler, S., & Otto, L.P. (2022). Understanding the democratic role of personalized political advertising: Longitudinal effects on trust in democracy and political interest. Journal of Information Technology & Politics. doi: 10.1080/19331681.2021.2016542

Otto, L.P., Thomas, F., Glogger, I., & De Vreese, C.H. (2022). Linking media content and survey data in a dynamic and digital media environment – Mobile longitudinal linkage analysis. Digital Journalism.10 (1), 200-215. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2021.1890169

Thomas, F., Shehata, A., Otto, L.P., Moeller, J., & Prestele, E. (2021). How to Capture Reciprocal Communication Dynamics: Comparing Longitudinal Statistical Approaches in Order to Analyze Within- and Between-Person Effects.  Journal of Communication. doi: 10.1093/joc/jqab003

Thomas, F., Otto, L.P., Ottenstein, C., & Maier, M. (2021). Measuring Reciprocal Dynamics between Communication Processes and Effects in Distinct Growth Sequences. Communication Methods and Measures, 15(1), 17-42. doi: 10.1080/19312458.2020.1776853

Nai, A. & Otto, L.P. (2021). When they go low, we gloat. How trait and state Schadenfreude moderate the perception and effect of negative political messages.  Journal of Media Psychology. 33(2), 82–93 doi: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000283

Otto, L.P. & Glogger, I. (2020). Expanding the methodological toolbox: Factorial surveys in journalism research. Journalism Studies, 21, 947-965. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1745663

Otto, L.P., Thomas, F., Maier, M., & Ottenstein, C. (2020). Only one moment in time? Investigating the dynamic relationship of emotions and attention towards political information with mobile experience sampling. Communication Research, 47(8), 1131-1154.  doi: 10.1177/0093650219872392

Otto, L.P., Lecheler, S.K., & Schuck, A.R.T. (2020). Is context the key? The (non-) differential effects of mediated incivility in three European countries. Political Communication, 37(1), 88-107. doi: 10.1080/10584609.2019.1663324

Otto, L.P., Glogger, I., & Maier, M. (2019). Personalization 2.0? – Testing the personalization hypothesis in citizens’, journalists’, and politicians’ campaign Twitter communication. Communications – The European Journal of Communication Research, 44(4), 359-381. doi:10.1515/commun-2018-2005

Glogger, I., & Otto, L. P. (2019). Journalistic Views on Hard and Soft News: Cross-Validating a Popular Concept in a Factorial Survey. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 96(3), 811–829. doi:10.1177/1077699018815890.

Otto, L. P. (2018). Beyond simple valence: Discrete emotions as mediators of political communication effects on trust in politicians. Studies in Communication and Media, 7(3), 364–391. doi:10.5771/2192-4007-2018-3-364

Otto, L., Glogger, I., & Boukes, M. (2017). The softening of journalistic political communication: A comprehensive framework model of sensationalism, soft news, infotainment, and tabloidization. Communication Theory, 27(2), 136–155. doi:10.1111/comt.12102

Schneider, F.M., Otto, L. & Bartsch, A. (2017). Das ist doch kein Zustand! Zur Messung von States und Traits in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. 65 (1). 83-100. doi: 10.5771/1615-634X-2017-1-83

Otto, L. & Maier, M. (2016). Soft news effects on political cynicism and trust in politicians: An experimental examination. Journal of Political Psychology/Politische Psychologie, 5 (1), 66-91.

Otto, L. & Maier, M. (2016). Mediated and moderated effects of personalized political communication on political trust. Communications – the European Journal of Communication Research, 41 (1), 21-45., doi: 10.1515/commun-2015-0028

Retzbach, J., Otto, L. & Maier, M. (2015). Measuring the perceived uncertainty of scientific evidence and its relationship to engagement with science. Public Understanding of Science, 24 (3), doi: 10.1177/0963662515575253

Otto, L., Glogger, I., & Maier, M. (2015). Image- or issue-orientation? How the presentation modality influences candidate perception in televised debates. Journal of Political Psychology/Politische Psychologie, 4 (2), 215-234.

Maier, M., Rothmund, T., Retzbach, A., Otto, L., Besley, J. (2014). Informal learning through science media usage. Educational Psychologist, 49 (2), 86-103. doi: 10.1080/00461520.2014.916215

Schneider, F.M., Otto, L., Alings, D. & Schmitt, M. (2014). Measuring traits and states in public opinion research: A latent state–trait analysis of political efficacy. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 26 (2), 202-223. doi:10.1093/ijpor/edu002

Retzbach, J., Retzbach, A., Maier, M., Otto L. & Rahnke, M. (2013). Effects of repeated exposure to science TV shows on beliefs about scientific evidence and interest in science. Journal of Media Psychology, 25(1), 3-13.

Otto, L. & Bacherle, P. (2011). Politisches Interesse Kurzskala (PIKS) – Entwicklung und Validierung. Politische Psychologie, 1(1), 19-35.

Retzbach, A., Marschall, J., Rahnke, M., Otto, L. & Maier, M. (2011). Public understanding of science and the perception of nanotechnology: The roles of interest in science, methodological knowledge, epistemological beliefs, and beliefs about science. Journal of nanoparticle research, 13(12), 6231-6244.

Book chapters

Otto, L.P. & Thomas, F. (2020). Experience sampling und mulitivariate Wachstumsmodelle zur Erfassung kurzfristiger selbstverstärkender Dynamiken in der Kommunikationswissenschaft. In S. Geiß, C. Schemer, T.K. Naab, C. Peter & P. Müller (Eds.), Dynamische Prozesse in der Kommunikationswissenschaft: Methodische Herausforderungen (S. 281-304). Köln: Herbert von Halem.

Otto, L.P. & Glogger, I. (2019). Hard and Soft News. In: T.P. Vos & V. Hanusch (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0229

Otto, L., Thomas, F., & Maier, M. (2018). Everyday dynamics of media skepticism and credibility: An ambulatory assessment study. In K. Otto & A. Köhler (Eds.), Trust in Media and Journalism. Empirical Perspectives on Ethics, Norms, Impacts and Populism in Europe (pp. 111–133). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-20765-6_7

Maier, M., Otto, L., Disch, K., & Ruppert, C. (2017). „Deutschlandkette statt Sachkompetenz“: Führt die Rezeption des TV-Duells zu einer personalisierten Wahrnehmung von Politik? In T. Faas, J. Maier, & M. Maier (Eds.), Merkel gegen Steinbrück: Analysen zum TV-Duell vor der Bundestagswahl 2013 (pp. 105-124). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

Vogel, I. C., & Otto, L. (2017). Die Bedeutung von Emotionen für die Rezeption der TV-Debatte 2013. In T. Faas, J. Maier, & M. Maier (Eds.), Merkel gegen Steinbrück: Analysen zum TV-Duell vor der Bundestagswahl 2013 (pp. 87-103). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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