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

该项目调查了在媒介化时代参与政治讨论的实际条件。我们研究了两个国家议会的代表处，民族志研究了制造和利用政治内容（政治立场）的各种方式，并将它们与民主竞争的或多或少的中介化舞台进行了比较。在此过程中，该项目是正在进行和完成的实地研究（SCHEFFER 2014）和案例研究（SCHEFFER et al 2014）的延续，这些研究涉及德国联邦议院政治立场的中介化捏造/利用。这些研究表明，制造/利用职位的方式在不同程度上以不同的方式被中介化。系统地比较制造/利用职位的方法，现在使我们能够将我们的分析扩展到第二届议会，从而调查在议会工作的不同领域的中介化的特点和质量。因此，该项目研究了在几个层面上做政治话语的工作：我们调查了关于当地媒体基础设施及其在议会办公室的使用的政治立场的捏造。在这里，我们的工作民族志研究（GARFINKEL 1986）集中在中介化如何改变办公室之间的劳动分工。我们的工作假设表明，政治立场的方式是初步的和不稳定的方法做政治话语工作，不断适应有关正在进行的民主竞争的中介化。我们分析了政治立场的使用，通过比较他们的议会外的话语生涯。作为一个扩展的案例研究（BURAWOY 1998），这些项目的重点是处理同一问题的竞争性职位的业绩。在此过程中，我们进一步探讨（成功）参与政治话语的条件，首先假设政治立场的（成功）利用也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入比较（SCHEFFER/NIEWÖHNER 2010），分析我们的案例研究民主理论的含义。在这里，我们调查如何民主竞争过程和特权某些政治问题（vgl。Latour 2008）。总之，该项目探讨了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.