Mass-Media and Political Opinion Making (Content Analysis)

Reporting on foreigners in magazines and newspapers of the Federal Republic. Topics: 1. Formal aspects: magazine or newspaper name; date of publication; number of the article taken from the edition; number of first page; placement on page; extent; series part; category; information on title or headline; authorship; article genre; layout and presentation; language level of article; attitude of author to topic. 2. Topic and content aspect: sources of information of the article; manner of presentation; spatial reference; time reference; foreigner group; group articulating itself in the article; main topic of the article; reports about foreigner crime, criminal offenses, culprits, crime victims and causes of crime; contents of sensationalism articles as well as reports on discrimination against foreigners, political inflitration and political dangers from foreigners; foreigners and women; foreigners and health problems; topics of good-will reports; integration as a topic; foreigners as vehicle of culture; topics of non-fiction articles; causes and motives of migration; contents of reports about country of origin; statistical information; reports about political interest and political participation of foreigners; reports about social problems of foreigners; information about family questions; information about foreign children and young people; housing problems; support measures reported on and support organizations; reports about accidents, accident frequency and causes of accidents; rights of foreigners; information about the attitude of the German population to foreigners; job market reports and reports aout the economic situation; assessment and evaluation of national economy and business management aspects of foreigner employment; occupational trainers and qualification; statement about adaptation to industrial work and frequency of change of job; foreigners as competition for German workers; demands of the author raised in the article; characteristics attributed to foreigners in the article. Also encoded was: assessment of the ease of encoding by the coder.