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Foreign-language supplements to German daily newspapers are also
considered desirable, especially among the Turks. On the other hand, there is
little interest in “genuine ethnic media” produced by migrants themselves in
Germany. In general, Russo-Germans voice a demand for increased
participation in the production of the German mass media less frequently than
migrants from Turkey and Italy.
3. Summary
Of the three complexes media use, media content, and media production, the
use made of the media corresponds most closely to our model of media
integration. The majority of migrants makes use of both German and ethnic
media. Thus, the German public sphere and ethnic sub-spheres are in general
interconnected with one another. Only small minorities live in media ghettos.
In contrast, media content – of both German and ethnic media – meets
with a great deal of skepticism on the part of migrants. Mass media programs
are judged to be substantially lacking in integrating effects. This sort of
criticism is most common among Turks, most rare among Russo-Germans.
Large segments of the Russo-German population have undergone assimilative
media integration. Such differences can be plausibly explained by the
hypothesis of cultural conflict: the more remote from one another the cultures
of migrant and indigenous groups are, the more complications are involved in
media integration.
Migrants also note a distinct lack of integrating effects in the production
of German mainstream mass media. For these groups, increased participation
of migrants in media production is an important demand to counteract the
dominance of negative images in the media’s representation of migrants.
4. References
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Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung. Arbeitspapier
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Media – Migration – Integration
European and North American Perspectives
- Titel
- Media – Migration – Integration
- Untertitel
- European and North American Perspectives
- Autoren
- Rainer Geissler
- Horst Pöttker
- Verlag
- transcript Verlag
- Datum
- 2009
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-8376-1032-1
- Abmessungen
- 15.0 x 22.4 cm
- Seiten
- 250
- Schlagwörter
- Integration, Media, Migration, Europe, North America, Sociology of Media, Sociology
- Kategorie
- Medien