Media Cultures of Young Turkish Migrants and German Resettlers in Germany

Authors

  • Annett Heft Free University of Berlin
  • Sünje Paasch-Colberg Free University of Berlin

Keywords:

Media culture, media use, online activities, social integration, digital media, migration, youth, representative survey, Turkish, resettlers

Abstract

This article contributes to the understanding of young people’s media cultures by addressing the question whether and to what extent young people with different cultural backgrounds differ in their exposure to and usage of traditional mass media and new digital media as well as in their engagement in various online activities. It presents empirical data of a German survey about the social environment, media use and Internet behaviour among 605 German resettlers and people with a Turkish migration background aged between 12 and 29 years living in North Rhine-Westphalia and compares the results of the 12- to 19-year old youth with data of the same age group within the German general population. To further assess how cultural and social factors might explain the variation within the youth and young adults with migration background, similarities and differences in their media use patterns are traced with respect to their cultural contexts as well as the factors education, age and gender. The findings are discussed in the context of societal integration of young people with migration background, the homogeneity of mediatised youth cultures and the thesis of the digital divide.

Author Biographies

Annett Heft, Free University of Berlin

Annett Heft, M.A., is a research associate and PhD-Candidate at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She studied Communication Science, Sociology and Cultural Communication at the Universities of Berlin and Valencia, Spain and she holds a Master degree in Journalism and Communication Science from the Freie Universität Berlin. Her main research interests are the comparative study of political communication in Europe and questions of media, social integration and migration.

Sünje Paasch-Colberg, Free University of Berlin

Sünje Paasch-Colberg, M.A., is a research associate and PhD-Candidate at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin since 2011. Before joining the Freie Universität, she worked as a research associate at the Universität Freiburg, Switzerland, for three years. Sünje Paasch-Colberg studied at Freie Universität Berlin and Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand) and holds a Master degree in Communication Studies, Political Science and Business Administration from the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include political communication and media effects, media and social integration as well as research methods.

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How to Cite

Heft, A., & Paasch-Colberg, S. (2013). Media Cultures of Young Turkish Migrants and German Resettlers in Germany. Global Media Journal - German Edition, 3(1). Retrieved from https://globalmediajournal.de/index.php/gmj/article/view/104