Die Kontroverse um die Mediennutzung von Migranten: Massenmediale Ghettoisierung oder Einheit durch Mainstream? / The Controversy about Media Usage by Minorities: Media Usage and Integration of Turkish Migrants in Germany

Cultural Proximity or Cultural Distance? Selecting Media Content among Turkish Diasporic Audiences in Germany

“…A study conducted more than a decade later for the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees established that Turkish migrants were more likely to consume media from their coun try of origin than other migrant groups now residing in Germany (Babka von Gostomski 2010, 120). Terms such as parallel societies and media ghetto have been used to describe Turkish television as a kind of cultural ghetto for Turkish diasporic audiences (Schatz, Holtz-Bacha, and Nieland 2000;Hafez 2001;Geißler and Pöttker 2005;Butterwegge and Hentges 2006;Schneider and Arnold 2006). Furthermore, Turkish media has been criticized for negatively affecting integration rather than fostering it (Müller 2005).…”

Types of Integration, Acculturation Strategies and Media Use of Young Turks in Germany

“…This discussion often builds on the simple (and naturally implicit) stimulus-response paradigm of the media as tool or key for successful integration. Even more often, the dysfunctional argument is used: Minority media use or the use of transnational satellite broadcasting from the country of origin supposedly leads migrants into the ethnic media ghetto and harms integration (Goldberg, 1998;Meier-Braun, 2002;Schneider and Arnold, 2006).…”