@article{glavanovics_2012, 
  title={Papst Benedikt XVI. und die Macht der Medien}, 
  DOI={10.25365/thesis.21598}, 
  abstractNote={The research interest was based on the change of the media image of Pope
Benedict XVI in the German-language media during the first five years of his
pontificate. The research question - How Pope- and communication experts explain
the media image of Pope Benedict XVI- was focused with an explorative, theorygenerating
research approach. Expert interviews with open guideline were
conducted with fifteen Pope- and communication experts. These interviews were
analyzed with a reconstructive evaluation approach.
From these reconstructed expert interviews an explanation-model for the media
image of Pope Benedict XVI was deduced. This model and the results of the
interviews were discussed in the context of communication theories, especially
within system-theory and constructivist approaches.
Two systems were extracted -church and media-, which contribute with their
subsystems and other factors to explane the media image of Pope Benedict XVI.
Within the system church, these are the local churches and the subsystem Vatican,
which forms within the system church a special closed system.
It is Pope Benedict XVI himself who affects the issues coming through as media
image concerning his personality, style of communication and his Pontiff roledesign.
As a result of the personalization of the church via the person of the Pope, there
arise a lot of image-relevant interactions.
Within the media system the sub-sytem of media-organizations and journalists could
be defined as issues that in various ways, for example via media mechanisms,
contribute to the forming of the media image of Pope Benedict XVI.
The relations between the two systems –church and media- are influenced by other
image-relevant factors.
The power of media affects Pope Benedict XVI as Supreme Pontiff, but it has no
influence on Joseph Ratzinger as person. Mass media construct an image of Pope
Benedict XVI which is not bound to reality, but only to viability.}, 
  author={Glavanovics, Friederike}, 
  year={2012}
  }