This dissertation investigates the survival of public service broadcasting in Germany as a contin... more This dissertation investigates the survival of public service broadcasting in Germany as a continuation of its postwar construction, which is linked to the federalist reconception of the country after 1945. It serves to argue that an emphasis of locality and local identity has ensured not only PSB’s survival, but also its longevity in competition with commercial broadcasters and globalised media text production. This paper will employ the Habermasian theories of the public sphere as well as elements of critical political economy. The work of key academics such as Peter Dahlgren and John Keane forms its theoretical bedrock. Empirical research will be undertaken by means of intensive interviews with experts and professionals from within PSB’s professional structures. The resulting regulative and creative processes will be aligned to the tripartite Reithian remit to discuss
German film from the post-reunification period, dealing with past and present characteristics of ... more German film from the post-reunification period, dealing with past and present characteristics of “German-ness” constitutes a relatively new phenomenon in media research. In former West Germany public service media mirrored the influence of the BBC model of World War Two victors Great Britain; the later adoption of commercial media strongly adhered to the American model of commercial media proprietorship. In many cases, West German films for cinema and television strove to adhere as much as possible to international standards and viewership, while the East German film industry remained under stern Communist rule and Soviet orientation. A politically unified German society was created from two formerly divided states. This ongoing process has further been influenced by endogeneous effects of year-long immigration and, additionally, increasing ethnic diversification. Exogenous effects are delivered by globalisation and advanced European integration, with Germany many times being nodal economically and politically, while still under especially discerning observationbecause of its harrowing past. Likewise, German film and cinema has adapted accordingly; consciously pondering about questions of national identity and advancing manifold explanations and interpretations of German society within several genres. With these questions on German national identity remaining somewhat ambiguous, I aim to present a comprehensive picture of how German post-reunification film has, and still is, reflecting and stimulating notions of national identity of the reunited society in all its facets.
My aim in this paper is to offer an alternative perspective to discourses on the current concerns... more My aim in this paper is to offer an alternative perspective to discourses on the current concerns of media utilisation for ethnic minority groups. The Turkish community in Germany may provide alternative viewpoints to research originating
in countries with colonial history. Besides a short historic overview I focus on the key purposes of media for this community as well as issues of mediated racism and how they are counterbalanced by the concept of transnationalism.
This project serves as a direct continuation of my M.A. (Mass Communication) via Distance Learnin... more This project serves as a direct continuation of my M.A. (Mass Communication) via Distance Learning at the University of Leicester, investigating the correlation of PSB’s survival in Germany and aspects of locality and local identity, which had been conditioned in the country’s social and political post-war developments. I intend to survey how PSB (or reconfigured as public service media – PSM – in its contemporary multi-platform guise) acts as a unifying superstructure in an expanding European Union (EU) and its heterogenous palate of identities, nation-states and social structures. The study adheres to Hallin & Mancini’s seminal media system model (2004) which, while strongly based on the old Western democracies, must now accommodate a wider variety of societal transformations, transnational development and new definitions of national identity based on locale, provenance and adherence to new geopolitical models.
This dissertation investigates the survival of public service broadcasting in Germany as a contin... more This dissertation investigates the survival of public service broadcasting in Germany as a continuation of its postwar construction, which is linked to the federalist reconception of the country after 1945. It serves to argue that an emphasis of locality and local identity has ensured not only PSB’s survival, but also its longevity in competition with commercial broadcasters and globalised media text production. This paper will employ the Habermasian theories of the public sphere as well as elements of critical political economy. The work of key academics such as Peter Dahlgren and John Keane forms its theoretical bedrock. Empirical research will be undertaken by means of intensive interviews with experts and professionals from within PSB’s professional structures. The resulting regulative and creative processes will be aligned to the tripartite Reithian remit to discuss
German film from the post-reunification period, dealing with past and present characteristics of ... more German film from the post-reunification period, dealing with past and present characteristics of “German-ness” constitutes a relatively new phenomenon in media research. In former West Germany public service media mirrored the influence of the BBC model of World War Two victors Great Britain; the later adoption of commercial media strongly adhered to the American model of commercial media proprietorship. In many cases, West German films for cinema and television strove to adhere as much as possible to international standards and viewership, while the East German film industry remained under stern Communist rule and Soviet orientation. A politically unified German society was created from two formerly divided states. This ongoing process has further been influenced by endogeneous effects of year-long immigration and, additionally, increasing ethnic diversification. Exogenous effects are delivered by globalisation and advanced European integration, with Germany many times being nodal economically and politically, while still under especially discerning observationbecause of its harrowing past. Likewise, German film and cinema has adapted accordingly; consciously pondering about questions of national identity and advancing manifold explanations and interpretations of German society within several genres. With these questions on German national identity remaining somewhat ambiguous, I aim to present a comprehensive picture of how German post-reunification film has, and still is, reflecting and stimulating notions of national identity of the reunited society in all its facets.
My aim in this paper is to offer an alternative perspective to discourses on the current concerns... more My aim in this paper is to offer an alternative perspective to discourses on the current concerns of media utilisation for ethnic minority groups. The Turkish community in Germany may provide alternative viewpoints to research originating
in countries with colonial history. Besides a short historic overview I focus on the key purposes of media for this community as well as issues of mediated racism and how they are counterbalanced by the concept of transnationalism.
This project serves as a direct continuation of my M.A. (Mass Communication) via Distance Learnin... more This project serves as a direct continuation of my M.A. (Mass Communication) via Distance Learning at the University of Leicester, investigating the correlation of PSB’s survival in Germany and aspects of locality and local identity, which had been conditioned in the country’s social and political post-war developments. I intend to survey how PSB (or reconfigured as public service media – PSM – in its contemporary multi-platform guise) acts as a unifying superstructure in an expanding European Union (EU) and its heterogenous palate of identities, nation-states and social structures. The study adheres to Hallin & Mancini’s seminal media system model (2004) which, while strongly based on the old Western democracies, must now accommodate a wider variety of societal transformations, transnational development and new definitions of national identity based on locale, provenance and adherence to new geopolitical models.
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A politically unified German society was created from two formerly divided states. This ongoing process has further been influenced by endogeneous effects of year-long immigration and, additionally, increasing ethnic diversification. Exogenous effects are delivered by globalisation and advanced European integration, with Germany many times being nodal economically and politically, while still under especially discerning observationbecause of its harrowing past. Likewise, German film and cinema has adapted accordingly; consciously pondering about questions of national identity and advancing manifold explanations and interpretations of German society within several genres.
With these questions on German national identity remaining somewhat ambiguous, I aim to present a comprehensive picture of how German post-reunification film has, and still is, reflecting and stimulating notions of national identity of the reunited society in all its facets.
in countries with colonial history. Besides a short historic overview I focus on the key purposes of media for this community as well as issues of mediated racism and how they are counterbalanced by the concept of transnationalism.
A politically unified German society was created from two formerly divided states. This ongoing process has further been influenced by endogeneous effects of year-long immigration and, additionally, increasing ethnic diversification. Exogenous effects are delivered by globalisation and advanced European integration, with Germany many times being nodal economically and politically, while still under especially discerning observationbecause of its harrowing past. Likewise, German film and cinema has adapted accordingly; consciously pondering about questions of national identity and advancing manifold explanations and interpretations of German society within several genres.
With these questions on German national identity remaining somewhat ambiguous, I aim to present a comprehensive picture of how German post-reunification film has, and still is, reflecting and stimulating notions of national identity of the reunited society in all its facets.
in countries with colonial history. Besides a short historic overview I focus on the key purposes of media for this community as well as issues of mediated racism and how they are counterbalanced by the concept of transnationalism.