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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>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/49827</link>
      <description>Title: "In Russia we were Germans, and now we are Russians." - Dilemmas of identity formation and and communication among German-Russian Aussiedler
Authors: Pfetsch, Barbara
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>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Government news management - Strategic communication in comparative perspective</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/49821</link>
      <description>Title: Government news management - Strategic communication in comparative perspective
Authors: Pfetsch, Barbara
Abstract: 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 light of this general development, news management is one practical solution for governments to strategically communicate their messages and use the media to further their political and policy goals. The paper explores news management of governments in modern mass democracies from a variety of angles. What is news management? Does news management matter and if so, how is it related to the political process? How is news management organized and how does it vary across different countries? Our assumption is, that the variation in news management, its styles and outcomes across different political systems depend on a series of contextual factors, originating in the political system, the media system and the media culture. The main objective of the paper is to analyze news management and compare the context in which it occurs in three Western democracies: the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. The central argument we propose is that media centered news management is most likely to occur in the United States due to the context of a presidential system, a highly commercialized media system, and the predominance of adversarial journalism . On the other hand, political news management is expected to be the dominant type of strategic communication in Great Britain and Germany. Both European countries not only have parliamentary political systems and strong party governments in common, but also kept a political press and a rather strong public sector television. They also tend to feature a less adversarial working relationship between the government and the media.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>(Re)constructing Community in Berlin; Of Jews, Turks and German responsibility</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/49820</link>
      <description>Title: (Re)constructing Community in Berlin; Of Jews, Turks and German responsibility
Authors: Laurence, Jonathan
Abstract: 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 paper focuses on the financial aid for the Jewish community and the special immigration rights for Soviet Jews. In addition, it discusses why such exceptions are not made for Turks who arrived as guest-workers in the 1960s. The case study analyses the reasons for differing local government support of the Jewish and Turkish communities in the capital city, Berlin. A series of interviews were conducted with influential city administrators and politicians and Jewish and Turkish leaders during the first half of 1999. This elite-centered approach sheds light on the motivations and the ways in which actors perceive and justify their actions in relation to minority policies. The main finding is that the notion of the imagined community which is used by German elites leads to an institutionalized inclusive-minded policy towards Jews, regardless of nationality, and limited integration help for Turks.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Die Stimme der Medien im politischen Prozeß: Themen und Meinungen in Pressekommentaren</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/49818</link>
      <description>Title: Die Stimme der Medien im politischen Prozeß: Themen und Meinungen in Pressekommentaren
Authors: Neidhardt, Friedhelm; Eilders, Christiane; Pfetsch, Barbara
Abstract: 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 überregionaler Tageszeitungen den eigenständigen Beitrag von Medien zum politischen Diskurs zwischen 1993 und 1998 zu erfassen. Das Projekt geht zum einen der Frage nach, welche politischen Themen die Medien in ihren Kommentaren aufnehmen, in welcher Weise sie diese definieren und interpretieren und dabei bestimmte Akteure und Akteursbeziehungen ansprechen und bewerten. Es untersucht zum anderen, unter welchen Bedingungen die auf diese Weise erfolgenden Relevanzzuweisungen und Problemdeutungen im politischen System Resonanz finden. Die Annahme ist, daß die Wahrscheinlichkeit der politischen Resonanzerzeugung mit dem Ausmaß der in Kommentarvergleichen meßbaren thematischen Fokussierungen, Meinungskonsonanzen und Persistenzen im Mediensystem steigt. Ein Vergleich von Kommentaragenda und politischer Agenda - wie sie in Parteiprogrammen, Regierungserklärungen, Anfragen und aktuellen Stunden im Bundestag zum Ausdruck kommt - soll Aufschluß über wechselseitige Einflüsse zwischen Medien und Politik geben.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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