Research work is mainly focused on the integrating and identity forming potential of the media. However, in a constantly changing and increasingly diverse society, the principal emphasis has been on theoretical considerations as to whether and in what form the media could and should offer an integrative potential, and on how far concepts of inclusion should replace earlier ideas of an “integration” function. Nevertheless, it is obvious that modern societies cannot function without at least a minimum of national identity. Therefore, one needs to ask how a socially acceptable and peace-enhancing national identity can be developed and what role the media are playing in the identity formation process.
Funding
Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, within the framework of its South Eastern European Science Cooperation Initiative: Subproject “Western Balkan Countries and the EU: Reciprocal Perceptions, Expectations and Skepticism”
National Science Centre Poland: Subproject “Media Coverage of the Polish EU Presidency”
Cultural Department of the City of Vienna: Congress organization “Vienna Forum of Social Sciences”
Cooperation Partners
Subproject “Dynamics of National Identity”:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Grimm, University of Vienna, Department of Communication,
Prof. Leonie Huddy, PhD, Stony Brook University New York, Department of Political Sciences
Prof. Dr. Peter Schmidt, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Subproject “Media Coverage of the Polish EU Presidency”:
Adam-Mickiewicz-University Posen
Subproject: “Western Balkan Countries and the EU: Reciprocal Perceptions, Expectations and Skepticism”
Congress Organisation
Annual Conference of the International and Intercultural Communication Section of the German Communication Association (with the Austrian Foreign Ministry and the Comenius University Bratislava), Vienna and Bratislava, 4-5 October 2013
Vienna Forum of Social Sciences (with the Forum for Methods at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna, and the Austrian Association for Communication Science (ÖGK)), Vienna, 1-2 December 2011
Publications and Lectures
Books and Monographs
- Jewish Images in the Media. / Liepach, Martin (Herausgeber:in); Melischek, Gabriele (Herausgeber:in); Seethaler, Josef (Herausgeber:in) et al.
Wien: Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2007. 298 S. (Relation: Beiträge zur vergleichenden Kommunikationsforschung / Communication Research in Comparative Perspective).
Articles and Book Chapters
- EU Accession, crimes and sports: The thematic frame of reciprocal perceptions between Western Balkan countries and EU. / Wöhlert, Romy; Hodzic, Sanela; Pudar, Gazela et al.
Changing identities in South Eastern Europe: Between europeanisation, globalisation, regionalisation and nationalism. Wien/Ljubljana: Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana/Center for Social Innovation, 2012. S. 46-67.
Research Papers
Lectures
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Hochschule Fulda, Fachbereich Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften, Fulda
Media integration of migrant minorities as a reflection of national self-perceptions and as an indicator of societal acceptance
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
30 Oct 2014 -
Trier
Migrantenminderheiten und Medien - Ungleichheitssemantiken und Integrationspotenziale [Migrant's minorities and media - inequality semantics and integration potentials]
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
9 Oct 2014 -
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, Comenius Universität Bratislava
Does the European Union have new value? An international comparative study on the news coverage of the Polish EU presidency in 2011
Stepinska, A. (Contributor), Wöhlert, R. (Speaker) & Velders, K. (Contributor)
4 Oct 2013 -
Manchester
Die (Des-)Integration ethnischer Minderheiten in österreichischen Medien
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
25 May 2013 -
Posen
The Austrian and German news coverage of Poland during the Polish EU Presidency in 2011
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
20 Sep 2012 -
Sarajevo
The EU enlargement to the Western Balkans: Current reciprocal perceptions between Western Balkan countries and the EU
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
25 May 2012 -
Wien
Future EU members or Europe's internal other? Reciprocal perceptions between Western Balkan countries and the EU and conceptions of a European collective identity
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
2 Dec 2011 -
Wien
Dimensions of national identity and prejudice: Results of a panel survey on the influence of the media on concepts of identity and the forming of attitudes
Grimm, J. (Contributor), Schmidt, P. (Contributor) & Seethaler, J. ((Co-)Author)
2 Dec 2011 -
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid
In or out? Reciprocal perceptions between Western Balkan countries and the EU against the background of a future EU accession
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
21 Oct 2011 -
Center for Research in Communication NSPSPA, Bucharest
(Future) EU Members or Europe's internal Others. Current reciprocal perceptions between Western Balkan countries and the EU
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
27 Sep 2011 -
Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, Vienna
Westbalkanstaaten und EU: Wechselseitige Wahrnehmungen, Erwartungen und Skepsis
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
20 May 2011 -
Zadar
Zivilisation gegen Barbarei: Eine Typologie arabisch/muslimischer Andersheit und nationale Selbstkonzepte in deutschen und US-amerikanischen Printmedien im Kontext von 9/11
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
11 Sep 2010 -
Zagreb
Zivilisation gegen Barbarei: Eine Typologie arabisch/muslimischer Andersheit und nationale Selbstkonzepte in deutschen und US-amerikanischen Printmedien im Kontext von 9/11
Wöhlert, R. (Speaker)
13 May 2010 -
Barcelona
Representation and Construction of integration in mass media. An Austrian case study
Gruber, O. (Speaker), Herczeg, P. (Contributor) & Wallner, C. (Contributor)
27 Nov 2008