Volume 58 (2025), Edition 1

The idea of Community has always been based on an appeal to human nature. At the same time, it is part of this "nature" to protect oneself in social relationships from excessive appropriation through the expectations of others. This creates many...

The present study examines the type of criticism expressed by so-called "broadcast objectors" toward public broadcasting and the role played by their refusal to pay the obligatory fee as well as their non-use of public offerings. Using a...

This article focuses on the sports film, which, like every film genre, is characterised by specific conventions of audiovisual storytelling. Six selected sports films are presented, which represent individual integration in sport on the one hand and...

Society and social developments are being closely observed and discussed in politics and the media. In the process, individual examples are mixed with representative studies, and emotions, opinions and facts are exchanged. This colorful mix is a...

This essay explores the question of what role media reporting plays in the increasingly polarized discussion about sustainable social change. The party “Bündnis 90/Die Grünen” is considered to be a key driver of transformation and has lost a...

Through service learning, future professional communicators in higher education can be sensitized to social responsibility. Empirical findings suggest that students engaged in service learning not only develop professional competencies but are also...

On the “Forum against Fakes”, citizens from all over Germany, between January and July 2024, developed recommendations for dealing with disinformation as part of a participatory online exchange and a citizens' assembly. These were presented to...

Contrary to a persistent cultural pessimism which predicts the end of the printed book, numerous bookworms are gathering on TikTok under the hashtag #booktok, thereby not only changing digital book cultures but also real numbers in the German and...

Western democratic societies are currently facing a significant stress test in terms of domestic and foreign policy. In the search for both explanatory possibilities for the manifold ongoing crises and solutions thereto, science also sees itself...

The more populist and extremist tendencies threaten social cohesion, the more the commitment to an inclusive and democratic society becomes an ethical necessity. Populist narratives must be questioned and the values of democracy and social cohesion...

The research project “Ritual Practice” (2021–2024), undertaken at the Heidelberg University for Jewish Studies, examined the extent to which Jews experience rejection due to their Jewish ritual practice. Under the direction of Rabbi Birgit...