The approach of governments to public information has changed from a rather traditional press release policy - based on interpersonal exchanges between politicians and journalists - to a professionalized and specialized process of strategic communication controlling the flow of news. In the...

In discussions of citizenship law and concepts of nationhood, Germany has served scholars as a paradigm of ethno-cultural exclusivity. Until recent legislative changes, Germany adhered to the ius sanguinus principle where citizenship is acquired almost exclusively through German ancestry. This...

This paper reports preliminary findings generated by a German-Israeli research project on the production and consumption of media by and for ethnic and minority communities. It discusses questions of social integration of ethnic minorities and mass media with respect to dilemmas of identity...

In vielen Beiträgen über die Rolle der Markt- und Meinungsforschung in Deutschland wird vorausgesetzt, daß die Branche der Markt- und Meinungsforschung in den letzten Jahren gewachsen ist. Im Gegensatz zur herausragenden Rolle von Umfragen und Marktforschungsunternehmen in der modernen...

Basierend auf den Erkenntnissen der Soziologie sozialer Bewegungen werden die unterschiedlichen Konjunkturen in der Konstitutionsphase der NSDAP in München zwischen 1925 und 1930 untersucht. Insbesondere wird entlang von Framing-Strategien der Frage nachgegangen, ob und in welchem Maß die...

In einem von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten und am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin durchgeführten Projekt untersuchen wir anhand einer Inhaltsanalyse von Kommentaren überregionaler Tageszeitungen sowie von Anfragen und aktuellen Stunden im Bundestag, Parteiprogrammen und...

Der vorliegende Beitrag skizziert den theoretischen Hintergrund, das Untersuchungsdesign und die zentralen Fragestellungen des Projekts „Stimme der Medien im politischen Prozeß: Themen und Meinungen in Pressekommentaren“. Ziel des Projekts ist es, anhand einer Inhaltsanalyse von Kommentaren...

This paper takes the perspective of media as autonomous actors in the political process. In editorials media legitimately try to influence the agendas and decisions of the political system not only by explicitly expressing their opinions on issues and political actors, but also by assigning...

News value research has contributed a great deal to the understanding of the process of news selection. This study takes a fairly uncommon perspective by focusing on the news selection of recipients rather than journalists. It departs from the assumption that journalists and recipients select...

The paper addresses the observation of public opinion as one form of communication between the governmental system and its environment. It starts with the premise that public opinion is the major point of reference of the governmental system, when it comes to the question of how and how strongly...