Political debate, pamphlet, or propaganda? Contributions of political magazines to the political culture of the Berlin republic

该项目侧重于政治杂志的功能分析及其对德国柏林共和国（1991-2021）政治文化的影响。主要研究目标是评估杂志在民主国家提供政治交流的典型预期功能的能力，例如，政治辩论，批评，控制或包容少数群体，因为它们通常关注反对的价值观，如政治身份和社区的意识形态自信，因此有意识地排除不同的政治态度。为此，杂志的媒体框架和叙事，它们在数字媒体环境下的转变，以及它们对激进化或民粹主义等政治传播转变的参考，都通过定性内容和材料分析进行了调查。

This project focuses on the functional analysis of political magazines and their impact on the political culture of the Berlin republic (1991–2021) in Germany. The primary research objective is to evaluate the magazines’ capability to provide the typically expected functionalities of political communication in democracies, e.g., political debate, critique, control, or inclusion of minorities, as they typically focus on opposing values like ideological self-assurance of political identities and communities and therefore consciously exclude different political attitudes. For that purpose, the magazines’ media frames and narratives, their transformation by digital media environments, and their references to shifts in political communication like radicalization or populism are investigated by qualitative content and material analysis.