期刊名称：Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications
电子版ISSN：2407-9499
出版年度：2016
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：21-32
DOI：10.30958/ajmmc.2.1.2
语种：English
出版社：Athens Institute for Education and Research
摘要：Faced with an increasingly diverse society, Germany is challenged with the integration of different ethnic minorities. Previous studies have shown that mass media can play a crucial role in the integration process. However, what has not been extensively researched in this context yet are social media in particular. What is missing in research is a conceptual framework to better understand the interplay between social media use and integration. Therefore, this paper focuses on social media use and the integration of ethnic minorities into German society from a conceptual perspective. What is proposed here is a new interdisciplinary conceptual framework which clearly distinguishes between integration that happens in society ("offline") and integration that happens in virtual communities ("online").The aim of this paper is to expand integration research to social media use as well as to offer a new interdisciplinary conceptual framework for further empirical research.
