Intensive Users of Social Media

What are the expectations of these information services? What are the respondents´ attitudes towards the relationship between politics and social networks? Topics: Social media use: frequency of use of social media; platforms used at least once a day; ranking of the four most frequently used social networks; preferred devices for social media use; type of use or reasons for use; attitude towards social media in general with regard to time spent, credibility of information, quality of social contacts, relevant information and life without social networks.

Politics and media: political interest; points of contact with politics in everyday life; frequency of use of various media offers for political information; attitude towards politics and political information in social networks with regard to trustworthiness, credibility and orientation. Political information behaviour in social networks: frequency of interaction with political activities of others in social networks; frequency of own political activities in social networks; seen political content on the social networks Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube and WhatsApp; opinion on political posts and contributions in the used social networks; personal consequences of political oversupply; Facebook users: active search for political content or automatic display in newsfeed; comparison of the quality of political discussions within and outside social networks; friends in social networks personally known; similar or rather different political views of these friends; own reaction to political posts of friends; following politicians, parties and political institutions in social networks; following persons and organizations sharing personal political opinions or with different political opinions; reasons why the respondent follows politicians etc. in social networks; perception of hate comments; evaluation of the law against hate comments.

Information behaviour concerning the Federal Government: importance of selected information offerings of the Federal Government; perception and frequency of use of these information offerings; expectations of information offerings of the Federal Government in social networks. Living conditions: assessment of one´s own economic situation; satisfaction with democracy; democracy as a good form of government; party identification.

Demography: sex; age; household size; education; gainful employment; occupational status; federal state; city size; net household income. Additionally coded was: weighting factor.