Destructiveness in Contemporary Authoritarianism. Authoritarian Syndromes Revisited in the Context of Digital Media

当代威权主义的破坏性。

• 批准号: 516995250
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Vera King
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Sozialforschung (IfS) an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/516995250?language=en
• 关键词: Destructiveness; Contemporary; Authoritarianism.; Authoritarian; Syndromes

The aim of the project is to propose an empirically substantiated theory of contemporary forms of authoritarianism marked by destructiveness. We believe that there are three reasons for undertaking an accurate reappraisal of authoritarian syndromes in the context of the digital media. First, we plan to re-determine the genesis and the features of these syndromes against the background of the fact that the classical three-pronged constitution of authoritarianism – self-subjection, aggressiveness, conventionalism – has changed its shape. In the relevant political milieus and movements in Germany, that form the empirical basis of the project, societal authorities are attacked and self-subjection ascribed more often to opposing forces. Politically and socially, destructiveness now plays a key role; socio-psychological investigation of the factors and dynamics involved in this development are one of the crucial objectives of the project. Second, over and against earlier studies, it is necessary to pay closer attention to the media conditions, particularly the digital media with their specific communication forms, selection mechanisms and affective spirals. To this end, we are planning exemplary investigations of the way in which elements of the new authoritarianism and of destructive dynamics are conveyed via the media, both in content and form, the functions performed by digital media in life- and crisis-situations, and how they function as catalysts for authoritarianism. Third, more sophisticated conceptualisation is essential in relation both to classical and to more recent approaches to the problem of authoritarianism. The approach described here is rooted in sociological social psychology and also draws upon psychoanalytic perspectives. It proceeds on the conviction that, while biographical and socialisational dimensions do indeed have an effect, they are bound up in complex interactions with social and media conditions that need to be examined more closely. There is no reason to assume simple analogies between social conditions on the one hand and the complexion of familial relations on the other. Equally unlikely are continuity in authoritarian parent-child relations or one-dimensional effects stemming from psychic dispositions. What we need is a theoretical and methodical re-conception of the (still controversial) relation between disposition, socialisation and societal contexts in the light of the way the digital media are used. In practical research terms, the project will draw upon the empirically saturated theory formation characteristic of Grounded Theory methodology both to analyse narrative interviews with persons from the relevant contexts and forums and also to conduct an online-ethnographic part-study. The project is geared to theory formation, its innovative features lie in the focus on destructiveness as a powerful element of authoritarianism and in the way in which the various levels of investigation are linked with one another.

该项目的目的是提出一种以破坏性为特征的当代形式威权主义的经验证实理论。我们认为，在数字媒体的背景下，有三个原因需要对威权综合症进行准确的重新评估。首先，我们计划在权威主义的经典三管齐下的结构--自我服从、侵略性、因袭主义--已经改变了形态的背景下，重新确定这些综合征的起源和特征。在德国的相关政治环境和运动中，形成了该项目的经验基础，社会权威受到攻击，自我屈从往往归咎于对立力量。在政治和社会方面，破坏性现在起着关键作用;对这种发展所涉及的因素和动态进行社会心理调查是该项目的关键目标之一。第二，与以往的研究不同，有必要更加关注媒介条件，特别是数字媒介及其特定的传播形式、选择机制和情感螺旋。为此，我们计划对新威权主义和破坏性动态的要素通过媒体在内容和形式上传达的方式进行示范性调查，数字媒体在生活和危机情况下所发挥的作用，以及它们如何作为威权主义的催化剂。第三，更复杂的概念化是至关重要的，无论是古典的还是最近的方法来解决威权主义的问题。这里描述的方法植根于社会学社会心理学，也借鉴了精神分析的观点。它继续相信，虽然传记和社会化的维度确实有影响，但它们与社会和媒体条件的复杂互动密切相关，需要更仔细地研究。我们没有理由把社会状况与家庭关系的情况简单地类比。同样不太可能的是专制亲子关系的连续性或源于心理倾向的一维效应。我们需要的是在数字媒体使用方式的指导下，对性格、社会化和社会背景之间的关系（仍然存在争议）进行理论和方法上的重新定义。在实际研究方面，该项目将借鉴扎根理论方法论的经验饱和理论形成特征，分析与相关背景和论坛的人的叙事访谈，并进行在线民族志部分研究。该项目是面向理论的形成，其创新的特点在于对破坏性的关注，作为一个强大的因素，权威主义，并在其中的各个层次的调查是相互联系的方式。