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

研究生达米安Stankiewicz，由博士苏珊卡罗尔罗杰斯监督，将进行研究政府使用大众媒体，最近的欧洲经济和政治一体化，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，欧洲一体化越来越被理解为不仅是一种经济和政治结构，而且是一种社会和文化结构。大众媒体经常被用来实现这一目标。Stankiewicz，谁是法语流利，将进行12个月的人种学实地考察在车站的总部设在斯特拉斯堡，法国。 他的重点将是来自许多不同欧洲国家的ARTE工作人员如何确定欧洲对电视台活动的意义;工作人员如何将这些想法转化为具体的节目;以及来自官方、机构背景、授权和资金结构的统一欧洲的想法之间有什么关系，以及那些可能来自员工在跨国工作中的日常生活经验。他将使用混合方法人种学方法收集数据。这将包括参与观察作为一个站的新闻实习生，并专门用于解释一个欧洲国家的节目的生产和内容的分析;营销和观众定位策略的文件和分析;观察和分析工作场所的关系;以及深入采访。这项研究将为文化在国家建设和超国家建设中的作用的社会科学理论增添新的维度，这是一个具有相当国际重要性的未充分研究的话题。像这里正在进行的这种艰苦的、微观层面的人种学研究，使人们有可能理解政府思想转化为实践或不转化为实践的复杂方式。这项研究也将有助于社会科学家的教育。

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.