The Bundeswehr in German Newspaper Coverage – Using Text Mining for Analysing Strategic Culture

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ID7785352
AuthorsDaniel Göler (0000-0003-0377-0724), Florence Reiter (0009-0005-7579-8816)
Year2023
Volume32
Issue2
Pages209-227
Publication date2023-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGerman Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-4008 • E-ISSN: 1743-8993
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644008.2021.1937602
OpenAlexW3175768615
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited32

Since the end of the Cold War, the international tasks of the Bundeswehr have become central issues of intense domestic debates in Germany. Thereby, the question of out-of-area missions has been a controversial issue for a long time. Against this backdrop, the article analyses the media coverage of the German Bundeswehr. Based on the strategic culture approach, we try to identify changes in the semantic fields connected to the Bundeswehr in articles from four leading German newspapers in the period 1990–2011. To handle the large amount of articles we use text mining methods summed up under the label of distant reading. Since these methods are not yet commonly used in political science research, testing selected distant reading approaches is an additional aim of this article

German · Media studies · Newspaper · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reading (process · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Media Studies and Communication

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