Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The television station "ARTE" and the production of Europe

博士论文改进补助金：电视台“ARTE”和欧洲的制作

• 批准号: 0719772
• 负责人: Susan Carol Rogers
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0719772&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; television

Graduate student Damien Stankiewicz, supervised by Dr. Susan Carol Rogers, will undertake research on the relationship between governmental use of mass media, recent European economic and political integration, and nation building. The research will be conducted at the Franco-German and European cultural television station, ARTE, whose particular mandate is to increase European unity. In the last two decades, European integration has been understood increasingly as not only an economic and political structuring, but also as social and cultural structuring. The mass media often are employed to achieve this.Stankiewicz, who is fluent in French, will conduct twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork at the station''s headquarters in Strasbourg, France. His focus will be on how ARTE staff, who come from many different European nations, determine what Europe means for the television station''''s activities; how the staff translate these ideas into specific programming; and what relationship there is between ideas of a unified Europe that come from official, institutional contexts, mandates, and funding structures, and those that might come out of the staff''''s everyday lived experiences of multinational work. He will use a mixed methods ethnographic approach to data collection. This will include participant observation as a station news intern, and analysis of the production and content of programs specifically intended to explain one European country to another; documentation and analysis of marketing and audience-targeting strategies; observation and analysis workplace relationships; as well as in-depth interviewing. This research will add a new dimension to social science theories of the role of culture in nation building and supra-nation building, an understudied topic of considerable international importance. Painstaking, micro-level ethnographic research, such as is being undertaken here, makes it possible to understand the complex ways in which governmental ideas are or are not translated into practice. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

研究生Damien Stankiewicz将在苏珊·卡罗尔·罗杰斯博士的指导下，研究政府对大众媒体的使用、最近的欧洲经济和政治一体化以及国家建设之间的关系。这项研究将在法德和欧洲文化电视台ARTE进行，该电视台的特别任务是加强欧洲的团结。在过去的二十年里，欧洲一体化不仅被理解为一种经济和政治结构，而且被理解为一种社会和文化结构。大众媒体经常被用来实现这一点。说一口流利法语的斯坦凯维奇将在法国斯特拉斯堡的S总部进行为期12个月的民族志田野工作。他的重点将是来自许多不同欧洲国家的ARTE工作人员如何决定欧洲对电视台S活动的意义；工作人员如何将这些想法转化为具体节目；来自官方、机构背景、授权和资金结构的统一欧洲的想法与工作人员可能产生的跨国工作日常体验之间有何关系。他将使用混合方法人种学方法来收集数据。这将包括作为电台新闻实习生的参与者观察，分析专门用于向另一个欧洲国家解释的节目的制作和内容；记录和分析营销和受众定位战略；观察和分析工作场所的关系；以及深入采访。这项研究将为社会科学理论增加一个新的维度，即文化在国家建设和超国家建设中的作用，这是一个未被研究但具有相当重要国际意义的话题。艰苦的、微观层面的人种学研究，就像这里正在进行的那样，使人们有可能理解政府思想被或不被转化为实践的复杂方式。这项研究还将有助于社会科学家的教育。