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    <title>Öffentliche Kommunikationsbereitschaft: ein Test zentraler Bestandteile der Theorie der Schweigespirale</title>
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    <description>Title: Öffentliche Kommunikationsbereitschaft: ein Test zentraler Bestandteile der Theorie der Schweigespirale
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Fuchs, Dieter; Gerhards, Jürgen; Neidhardt, Friedhelm
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Der von Noelle-Neumann entwickelten Theorie der Schweigespirale liegt die zentrale Hypothese zugrunde, daß es einen Zusammenhang gibt zwischen der individuellen Perzeption der öffentlichen Mehrheitsmeinung zu einem Thema und der Bereitschaft von Individuen, sich öffentlich zu diesem Thema zu äußern. Diejeinigen, die glauben, die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung hinter sich zu haben, erweisen sich in öffentlichen Situationen kommunikationsbereiter als diejenigen, die sich mit ihrer Meinung in der Minderheit fühlen. Wir haben versucht, diese Kernhypothese der Theorie der Schweigespirale umfassend zu testen und dazu eine gesonderte Befragung durchgeführt. Die Kernhypothese der Theorie der Schweigespirale wird durch unsere Analysen falsifiziert. Öffentliche Kommunikationsbereitschaft in kleinen Öffentlichkeiten hängt nicht davon ab, ob sich der Befragte in Übereinstimmung mit der Mehrheit oder mit der Minderheit fühlt. Auf der Suche nach alternativen Erklärungen für öffentliche Kommunikationsbereitschaft kommen wir zu folgendem Ergebnis: Weder normative Erwartungen der Mehrheitsmeinung, noch soziodemographische Variablen wie Bildung, Alter, Geschlecht oder ideologische Einstellungen entscheiden über die Teilnahme an einem öffentlichen Gespräch, sondern allein subjektive Handlungsmotivationen der Befragten - politisches Interesse, subjektiv empfundene Wichtigkeit des Themas und der Glaube, Kommunikationspartner beeinflussen zu können.</description>
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    <title>In Russia we were Germans, and now we are Russians - dilemmas of identity formation and and communication among German-Russian Aussiedler</title>
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    <description>Title: In Russia we were Germans, and now we are Russians - dilemmas of identity formation and and communication among German-Russian Aussiedler
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Pfetsch, Barbara
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: 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 formation and communication among German-Russian Aussiedler. In the conceptual part, it is assumed that integration must be seen as a complex process of reciprocal social exchange between minority and majority communities, in which selfdefinitions and other-definitions play a crucial role. The media enter the picture as the negotiations of group identities are based on communication in the public sphere. Mass media create a social and political reality, thereby providing a reference system for both majority and minority communities. Against this background, identity politics and mass media functions are examined on the basis of focus group discussions with German-Russian Aussiedler. Identity politics among Ethnic Germans is fundamentally linked to the dilemma that, on the one hand, as full German citizens they belong to the majority society in legal terms. On the other hand, because of their cultural heritage, the experience of migration and language barriers, they feel excluded from the majority community to which they want to belong so badly. Concerning the role of mass media, we found that identity formation, as it is revealed by the orientations of Ethnic Germans, is not made an issue whatsoever in either minority media nor majority media. Not even the media produced for Russian-Germans in Germany touch on questions of identity or self-location of the minority vis a vis the majority. Instead, the minority media are full of practical cookbook-recipes of how to behave properly in a stereotypically-portrayed German society.</description>
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    <title>The observation of public opinion by the governmental system</title>
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    <description>Title: The observation of public opinion by the governmental system
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Fuchs, Dieter; Pfetsch, Barbara
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: 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 the government responds to the interests and demands of the citizens. In our analysis we aim to determine both theoretically and empirically the rationales and conceptions regarding the observation of public opinion held by actors in public information agencies of the government. As public opinion is an ambiguous concept we begin with a discussion of the concept and then seek to explicate the observation of public opinion from a systems theory point of view. In the empirical part we present evidence about the images of public opinion which make up for the knowledge structure of those collective actors whose task is the observation of public opinion. Our main hypothesis was that the systematic monitoring of opinion polls and surveys is the focus of observing public opinion. However, we found that in addition, the assumption of the importance of media effects leads to an equally important observation of the mass media.</description>
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    <title>The impact of editorial content on the political agenda in Germany: theoretical assumptions and open questions regarding a neglected subject in mass communication research</title>
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    <description>Title: The impact of editorial content on the political agenda in Germany: theoretical assumptions and open questions regarding a neglected subject in mass communication research
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Eilders, Christiane
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: 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 relevance to certain issues or subissues and framing and interpreting political events according to their editorial stance. It may be assumed that the impact of editorials on the political system depends on the degree of issue focusing and opinion consonance: If different newspapers comment on the same issues and express similar opinions, considerable pressure is put on the political system. Our theoretical considerations of the role of “media opinion” in the political process and a review of the relevant agenda-building literature indicate a research gap regarding the impact of editorials on the political agenda. The empirical project outlined in this paper intends to help closing this gap. Editorial content of the leading German newspapers between 1993 and 1998 will be related to data on statements and decisions of the political system in order to investigate under what circumstances media consonance is achieved and how the political system reacts to it.</description>
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