Der schmale Grat zwischen Anpassung und Integration

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• 作者：Prof. Dr. Bernhard Debatin
• 关键词：SchlüsselwörterZeitungskunde ; Integrationswissenschaft ; Normative Reflexion ; Historisch ; normative Publizistik ; Wissenschaftsethik
• 刊名：Publizistik
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：62
• 期：1
• 页码：7-23
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• 刊物主题：Social Sciences, general; Communication Studies; Journalism; Media Sociology; Political Communication;
• 出版者：Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
• ISSN：1862-2569
• 卷排序：62

文摘

On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of German communication studies and of the Leipzig institute for newspaper research, this article presents a short overview of the institute’s changing history, followed by systematic considerations on the discipline as integrative scholarship. The transformation of the field in post-war West Germany from the normative-historical “Publizistik” to empirical-descriptive communication studies is not only an advancement but also a restriction. The focus on the empirical side may be accompanied by a loss of historical and normative approaches, and thus by a loss of the demand for an integrative scholarship. If there is a lack of normative reflection and historical contemplation of the deeper meaning, the danger of idle, voided research emerges – a research that can be instrumentalized and misused by power interests. What is therefore needed, in addition to integrating excluded approaches and developing a reflected science ethics, are a critical distance to fads in academe, better mentoring of junior faculty, more communication across disciplinary and methodological borders, and a stronger societal involvement of communication studies.