Media and Democracy. Participation and Depoliticization

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics Politic Communications grade: 10 University of Frankfurt (Main) language: English abstract: Without any doubt the procedures of political work and public exercise of influence had been changed by the rise of the new media. Thus it is worth to figure out in which way this happened a few decades ago in times where most public debates were held via television or newspapers. In comparison to this there will be an analysis of the new media and its impact on democracy and in which ways it confirms the presence of an audience and paparazzi democracy in this case primarily in Germany. To set limits this analysis will concentrate on the aspect of a rising participation in accordance with a rising depoliticization which might be seen as a result of the already mentioned transformation.