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Founded 100 years ago, the Bauhaus was Germany's most successful cultural export of the 20th century. New research reveals how the communicative links between members of the Bauhaus enabled the institution to continue functioning after its closure in 1933 as an early form of "virtual community". The study steps away from a more conventional stylistic examination to take a fresh look at the movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vor 100 Jahren gegründet, gilt das Bauhaus als der erfolgreichste deutsche Kulturexport des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine Studie verdeutlicht, wie der kommunikative Austausch zwischen den Bauhaus‐Angehörigen die Institution auch nach ihrer Schließung 1933 als eine frühe Form „virtueller Gemeinschaft" fortleben ließ. Ein neuer Blick jenseits üblicher, von stilistischen Überlegungen geprägter Betrachtungen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From 1930 to 1933, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe shaped the fate of the Bauhaus; in particular, he tailored the avant-garde institution to the study of architecture. While research has so far concentrated on the content of his teaching, the group of students he specifically trained remained in the dark. With the help of statistical analysis and evaluation, the present essay takes a new methodical approach to describe Mies' 169 architecture students in more detail; the focus is particularly on the 78 diploma students. It becomes clear that the ›pure Mies influence‹ was hardly present in these 5 semesters at the Bauhaus. Instead, the very heterogeneous group was characterized until the end by political trench warfare that had already arisen under the previous director Hannes Meyer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Personalities in the media both influence and restrict topics of discussion and the amount of information available, thus exerting a substantial influence on the formation of the audience's political opinion. The present study examines this impact by integrating the theoretical concepts of parasocial relationship and opinion leadership. The resulting phenomenon, parasocial opinion leadership, is based on viewers' perceptions and emerges if (a) a media user ascribes certain attributes to a media communicator based on a parasocial relationship, which (b) allows for a gradual influence of the media personality on the user's opinions and attitudes by fulfilling at least one of three functions: information and reduction of complexity, orientation, or arousal of interest. A qualitative survey among TV users confirms the main assumptions of the concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The term “social navigation” (SN) refers to media use patterns that are driven by the previous media activities of others. This phenomenon is widely encountered in social media environments, which allow users to easily leave and receive information. However, investigating the variety of SN actions, such as rating, forwarding, and even producing media items oneself, increases the prevalent challenges of empirical research on web content. The article reflects on these challenges and offers possible solutions via the example of a pilot study concerning online news based on a multi-method design with a particular emphasis on online content analysis. Special attention is devoted to the dynamics of online media and online news in particular, data reactivity during research, algorithmic content production, and the impact of relationship-related information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The diffusion of the internet in Germany was accompanied by strong attention from the traditional mass media who considered the new medium extensively in their coverage. Their media framing of the internet is analyzed following the four dimensions of framing identified in earlier research on media issues. Central to this process are the argumentation patterns used in this research which were defined with regard to a qualitative analysis of the multimedia discourse. Results of a quantitative content analysis of German news magazine coverage (1995--8) indicate that these media had a strong tendency towards a favorable assessment of the internet. The euphoric and economically optimistic argumentation patterns were most important, and outcomes of the development were evaluated as supporting the emancipation of the individual. However, this particular way of framing the internet issue is only partly reflected in the perceptions of users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]