Nicholas Jackob

Nikolaus Jackob (born May 17, 1975 in Mainz ) is a German communication scientist and university professor . He is a student of Hans Mathias Kepplinger and managing director of the Institute for Journalism at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and one of the initiators of the Mainz long-term study in media trust .

Life

Nikolaus Jackob studied journalism , political science and German studies in Mainz, where he has been researching and teaching at the Institute for Journalism since 2002. In 2005 he started a study on public communications at Cicero. PhD in journalism and rhetoric in the late Roman Republic . For this study he received the research award from the University of Mainz. In 2008 he was appointed to a professorship for public communication , but he was unable to accept the call for private reasons. In 2009, together with Thomas Petersen and Thomas Roessing, he received one of the three magazine awards of the German Society for Media and Communication Studies for his study Structures of the Effect of Rhetoric. An experiment on the relationship between text, emphasis and body language . He acquired the Venia Legendi for the subject of journalism in 2015 on the basis of his cumulative habilitation with experiments on the relationship between verbal and non-verbal elements in persuasive communication , online surveys on professional journalism and basic research on the causes and effects of media trust. The Mainz long-term study media trust emerged from the latter research project , which since 2008 and continuously since 2015 the state and development of trust in public communication (e.g. in the media , politicians ), its causes and consequences (e.g. trust in the political system or democracy ) on an annual basis representative collects and Germany.

Works (selection)

• Nikolaus Jackob: The media society and its victims. Borderline Cases of Journalistic Ethics in the Early Twenty-First Century . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. a. 2019.
• Nikolaus Jackob, Thomas Roessing, Karl N. Renner (2014): Product presentations and credibility. An experiment on the influence of product presentations and expert statements on the perception of advice articles on television . In: Studies in Communication / Media 4, pp. 469–496 .
• Martin Welker, Monika Taddicken, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Nikolaus Jackob: Online research manual. Social science data acquisition and evaluation in digital networks . Halem, Cologne 2014.
• Nikolaus Jackob, Stefan Geiß, Oliver Quiring (2013): The Secret Decision-Makers - About the Influence of IT Journalists on Recipients and IT Companies . In: Publizistik 58, pp. 179–199.
• Nikolaus Jackob: The tendency to trust as individual predisposition - exploring the associations between interpersonal trust, trust in the media and trust in institutions . In: Communications - The European Journal of Communication Research 37, pp. 99-120.
• Stefan Geiss, Nikolaus Jackob, Oliver Quiring (2012): The impact of communicating digital technologies: How ICT journalists conceptualize their influence on the audience and the industry . In: New Media & Society, published online December 10, 2012
• Nikolaus Jackob Jackob: Seen, read - believed? Why the media doesn't depict reality and why people trust them anyway . Olzog, Munich 2012.
• Nikolaus Jackob, Thomas Roessing, Thomas Petersen (2011): The effects of verbal and nonverbal elements in persuasive communication . In: Communications - The European Journal of Communication Research 36, pp. 245-271.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mainz long-term study in media trust
2. ^ Nikolaus Jackob: Public communication at Cicero. Journalism and Rhetoric in the Late Roman Republic . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005.
3. ↑ Nikolaus Jackob, Thomas Petersen, Thomas Roessing (2008): Structures of the Effect of Rhetoric. An experiment on the relationship between text, emphasis and body language . In: Publizistik 53, pp. 215–230.