How to Do Things With Words

The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

語用論(Pragmatics)を考える

Truth and method

Journalistic culture in a global context: A conceptual roadmap

Journalismus in Indonesien

Trotz der zunehmenden Bedeutung von Journalismuskultur als heuristisches Denkwerkzeug vor allem für die komparative und kultursoziologisch motivierte Journalismusforschung hat eine theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Konzept bislang kaum stattgefunden. Der vorliegende Beitrag versucht diese Lücke zu schließen, indem er ein Modell entwickelt, dessen Abstraktionsgrad und Universalität es erlaubt, die Vielfalt journalistischer Kulturen anhand ihrer zentralen Basiselemente abzubilden und auf einen gemeinsamen theoretischen Nenner zu bringen. Anhand des Forschungsstandes und der zugänglichen Literatur wird vorgeschlagen, Journalismuskultur in seine dimensionale Struktur zu dekonstruieren. Demnach setzt sich Journalismuskultur aus drei Konstituenten zusammen (institutionelle Rollen, Epistemologien und ethische Ideologien), die wiederum in sieben kontinuierliche Hauptdimensionen zerlegt werden können: Interventionismus, Machtdistanz, Marktorientierung, Objektivismus, Empirismus, Relativismus und Idealismus. Damit eröffnet das Modell einen siebendimensionalen Raum, in dem verschiedene journalistische Kulturen systematisch verglichen und taxonomisch eingeordnet werden können.

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Journalismuskultur: Zur Dimensionierung eines zentralen Konstrukts der kulturvergleichenden Journalismusforschung

6. Editorial Autonomy: Journalists’ Perceptions of Their Freedom

Political scientists often argue that political trust is critical to democracy. Mishler and Rose (2001: 30), for instance, maintain that trust links ordinary citizens to the institutions that are supposed to represent them, ‘thereby enhancing both the legitimacy and the effectiveness of democratic govern- ment’. It comes as no surprise that this proposition has sparked a large array of research on political trust, from David Easton’s (1965) early study of polit- ical support to more recent endeavors to trace trust across various nations (e.g. the World Values Survey), and to attempts to identify the sources of trust (Campbell, 2004; Luhiste, 2006; Mishler and Rose, 2001). Empirical evidence suggests a rather pessimistic outlook for many of the established democracies, which show alarming signs of widespread public discontent with politics and cynicism about government (Norris, 1999a). Mair (2006: 6) notes that ‘[n]ever before in the history of postwar Europe have govern- ments and their political leaders...been held in such low regard.’

Thomas Hanitzsch

Papers

Journalistic culture in a global context: A conceptual roadmap

Journalismus in Indonesien

Journalismuskultur: Zur Dimensionierung eines zentralen Konstrukts der kulturvergleichenden Journalismusforschung

6. Editorial Autonomy: Journalists’ Perceptions of Their Freedom

Political Trust among Journalists: Comparative Evidence from 21 Countries