Extreme Right-Wing Racial Violence — An Effect of the Mass Media?
1997; De Gruyter Mouton; Volume: 22; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1515/comm.1997.22.1.57
ISSN1613-4087
Autores ResumoThe search for causes of the renaissance of right-wing extremism and of the escalation of violence against foreigners in Germany since reunification not only refers to social and institutional conditions but also includes the mass media. With respect to the mass media, two hypotheses are discussed : first, media coverage of foreigners and of political asylum since the late 1980s could have created a social climate which encourages violence against foreigners. Second, the intensity and the sensationalism of television reporting particularly on the excesses of racial violence - as for example in Hoyerswerda (in 1991) or Rostock (in 1992) - play an important role in the dynamics of the escalation in acts of violence against foreigners. The objective of this article is to sketch the public and scholarly debates on these assumptions. Against this background, the discrepancy between general public assumptions and scientific evidence of media influence in this area is discussed
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