Migration has been a defining topic in the discourse in Germany since the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015. This corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis systematically reconstructs the discourse about migration in two influential German newspapers, thereby emphasizing the construction of different subject positions for people migrating to Germany. Mass media are an important arena for the fight for hegemony between discursive coalitions of culturalization regimes that are based on openness and closure respectively. The discursive space of the German discourse about migration offers multiple opportunities in this regard. In the left-leaning taz, we detect a general trend to support an open society although some (but often contested) elements of closure are detected in this medium as well. Die Welt leans much more towards closure and the problematization of migration although it also offers a diverse array of interpellations that depend on the usefulness or threating character of people coming to Germany.
Aufbauend auf dem Fundament des Critical Realism entwirft der Beitrag eine kritische digitale Politikwissenschaft, welche die menschliche Emanzipation im digitalen Kontext zum Ziel hat. Diese spezielle Form von Interdisziplinarität integriert Einsichten der Computer- und der Sozialwissenschaften durch ein in zweifacher Hinsicht kritisches Bewusstsein. Methoden der Computerwissenschaften müssen mit Gedanken der kritischen Theorie in Kontakt gebracht werden, um die durch sie generierten Ergebnisse interpretieren und die Methoden selbst kritisch hinterfragen zu können. Anschließend skizziert der Beitrag die Vermittlung der kritischen digitalen Politikwissenschaft in einem Bachelor-Seminar im Rahmen einer korpusbasierten Diskursanalyse und legt die durch einen Mixed-Methods-Ansatz gewonnen Erkenntnisse bei der Evaluation des Seminars dar.
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