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

本项目主要研究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提供民主政治传播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，因为它们通常侧重于对立的价值观，如对政治身份和社区的意识形态自信，因此有意识地排斥不同的政治态度。为此，杂志的媒体框架和叙事，他们的数字媒体环境的转变，以及他们的参考政治传播的变化，如激进或民粹主义的定性内容和材料分析进行了研究。

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.