The Media Practice of Parliamentary Discourses: Ethnographic Comparisons of Fabrications and Utilizations of Political Positions

该项目调查了调解时代参与政治话语的现实条件。我们考察了两个国家议会中的代表办公室，从民族志的角度研究了捏造和利用政治内容(政治立场)的各种方式，并将它们与或多或少调解的民主竞争领域进行了比较。在这样做的过程中，该项目是正在进行的和已完成的实地研究(Scheffer等人2014年)和案例研究(Scheffer等人2014年)的继续，这些研究以调解方式捏造/利用德国联邦议院的政治立场。这些研究表明，制造/利用位置的方式在不同程度上以不同的方式中介。现在，系统地比较编造/利用立场的方法使我们能够将我们的分析扩展到第二届议会，从而调查调解在议会工作不同领域的特殊性和质量。因此，该项目在几个层面上研究进行政治话语的工作：我们调查关于当地媒体基础设施的政治立场的捏造及其在议会办公室的使用。在这里，我们对工作的民族志研究(加芬克尔1986)集中在调解如何改变办公室之间和办公室之间的劳动分工。我们的工作假设认为，政治立场的构建方式是进行政治话语工作的初步和不稳定的方法，随着民主竞争的不断调停而不断调整。我们通过比较他们在议会外的话语生涯来分析政治立场的利用。作为一个扩展的案例研究(Burawoy，1998)，这些项目侧重于针对同一资源公众的相互竞争的职位的表现。在此过程中，我们进一步探索了(成功)参与政治话语的条件，首先假设(成功)利用政治立场也会受到媒体变化的影响。我们通过对政治话语的实际需求进行深度比较(Scheffer/NiewÖhner 2010)来分析我们的案例研究民主理论的含义。在这里，我们调查民主竞争如何处理某些政治问题并赋予其特权(VGL.Latour，2008)。总而言之，该项目涉及媒体在政治中的作用，不仅涉及议会办公室的话语工作，而且涉及不同和相互竞争的政治立场所处理的政治问题本身。

The project investigates the practical conditions of taking part in political discourse in times of mediatization. We examine representatives offices within two national parliaments, ethnographically study various ways of fabricating and utilizing political contents (political positions), and compare them with regard to the more or less mediatized arenas of democratic competition. In so doing, the project is the continuation of ongoing and finished field studies (SCHEFFER 2014) and case studies (SCHEFFER et al 2014) of mediatized fabrications/utilizations of political positions in the German Bundestag. These studies suggest that the ways of fabricating/utilizing positions are mediatized to different degrees and in various ways. Systematically comparing the methods of fabricating/utilizing positions now enables us to extend our analysis to a second parliament, thereby investigating the specificities and qualities of mediatization in different areas of parliamentary work. Thus, the project studies the work of doing political discourse on several levels:We investigate the fabrication of political positions with regard to local sets of media infrastructures and their uses in parliamentary offices. Here, our ethnographic studies of work (GARFINKEL 1986) focus on how mediatization changes the divisions of labor between and across offices. Our working hypothesis suggests that the ways of fabricating political positions are preliminary and unstable methods of doing political discourse work that are constantly adapted in relation to the ongoing mediatization of democratic competition.We analyze the utilization of political positions by comparing their extra-parliamentary discourse careers. As an extended case-study (BURAWOY 1998), the projects focuses on the performance of competing positions addressing the same res publica. In doing so, we further explore conditions of (successfully) taking part in political discourse, starting with the hypothesis that the (successful) utilization of political positions is also subject to media change.We analyze the implications of our case studies theories of democracy by thick comparisons (SCHEFFER/NIEWÖHNER 2010) of the practical demands of political discourses. Here, we investigate how democratic competition processes and privileges certain political matter (vgl. LATOUR 2008). In sum, the project addresses the role of media in politics not only in relation to the discourse work of parliamentary offices, but also in relation to the political issues themselves being addressed by different and competing political positions.