Research Profile of the Institute

This longitudinal study surveys refugee families about their media use and production, as well as media rules and media literacy. Publications:

Rothenberger, Liane / Elmezeny, Ahmed & Wimmer, Jeffrey (2020): Geflüchtete Familien nach Medienrepertoires und Medienregeln befragen – Reflexion von Forschungsdesign und Umsetzung. In: Z’Flucht, Jg. 4, No. 1, S. 104-119.
https://doi.org/10.5771/2509-9485-2020-1-104

Rothenberger, Liane / Elmezeny, Ahmed & Wimmer, Jeffrey (2019): Mediating Media Usage in Times of Migration. Family Rules and Media Repertoires of Arab Refugee Children and Teens in Germany. In: MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, No. 35, (October), S. 55-73.
https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/35/2019.10.19.X

Rothenberger, Liane / Elmezeny, Ahmed & Wimmer, Jeffrey (2019): “YouTube helps us a lot.” Media repertoires and social integration of Iraqi and Syrian refugee families in Germany. In: Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, No. 17, mis en ligne le 01 septembre 2019, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/6857.
https://doi.org/10.4000/rfsic.6857

This projects examines the content produced for linguistic and national minorities, the institutional structures, conditions and audience evaluation.

Since the establishment of the dual broadcasting system in 1985, Bavaria has developed the most diverse local private radio landscape in Germany, and a network of local or regional privately operated television stations has emerged as well. This project examines the development of the wide range of stations and programs from various perspectives. Find more information here. 

The research initiative fosters a network of international scholars from the broader academic field, such as political communication, journalism studies, public relations, digital communication research, and cultural studies. Its research output is primarily presented in bi-annual conferences and compiled in collected volumes. Find more information here.

What shapes the relationship between politics, media and public relations? How does the political sphere present itself to the public? And how does the media report on it? These and other questions are the focus of the longitudinal research study “Media and Politics Atlas Germany”, which is being conducted at the University of Bamberg. Find more infornmation here.

In this project, an initial survey of the structural characteristics of the most popular podcasts in Germany is being conducted. The central research question is how the structure of the podcast landscape in Germany can be systematically described. Using quantitative content analysis, all podcasts listen in the top 200 on both Apple Podcast and Spotify will be analyzed. This will provide an initial systematic insight into the podcast landscape in Germany. Find more information here.

Currently, there is very little information available on the motivation, self-perception and job profiles of podcast producers in German-speaking countries. This project aims to close this research gap and focuses on the following key research questions: Who are the podcast producers in Germany? What motivates them to create their podcasts? How do they perceive their own work? And: What tasks do they perform? Find more infornmation here.

In the wake of digitalization, issues in communication science have increasingly become a focus of public debates in recent years. These debates often revolve around terms such as “fake news”, “alternative facts”, “echo chambers” or “filter bubbles”. As its core, however, the discussion addresses the more fundamental question of how society is transformed and stabilized through information and its interpretation. This question forms the basis of the dissertation project and is examined in relation to the public and public communication in revolutions. Find more information here.