Mass Media and Memory: The Communist GDR in Today’s Communicative Memory

Mass Media and Memory: The Communist GDR in Today’s Communicative Memory

Using the example of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the present study asks how mass media shape collective memory. How do reports in German media on the GDR affect communicative memory? To answer these questions, the present study is grounded in the theory of collective memory and relies on mo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Medijske studije 2014-01, Vol.5 (9), p.3-18
Hauptverfasser: Meyen, Michael, Pfaff-Rüdiger, Senta
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
collective identity
Collective memory
Communication studies
Communism
Dictatorship
Focus groups
focus groupss
GDR
Identity
Mass media
Mass media images
Media studies
Politics / Political Sciences
Politics of History/Memory
Social Sciences
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Zusammenfassung:Using the example of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) the present study asks how mass media shape collective memory. How do reports in German media on the GDR affect communicative memory? To answer these questions, the present study is grounded in the theory of collective memory and relies on more than 20 focus groups in very different social settings. Today’s mass media content on the GDR is almost always about dictatorship. This is why some East Germans do not find their picture of the past within the media and do not feel at home in reunited Germany, yet.
ISSN:1847-9758
1848-5030