Integration through public communication is challenged by the parallel tendencies toward the stratification and segmentation of the citizenry. The milieu concept takes up this notion: According to this meso-level approach, basic political orientations and political efficacy are aligned with specific information repertoires and modes of communication. Aggregations of individual data display group-specific patterns of heterogeneous political communication practices. First, this paper aims to characterise milieus within the German citizenry. Based on an online survey (n = 1488) and a hierarchical cluster analysis, we identified 12 distinct milieus. Second, we analyse the status of two citizen-level conditions of political integration. These include overlapping information repertoires and milieu-specific issue agendas. Overall, we argue for using social groups’ lifeworld-specific contexts to explain patterns of political and communicative behaviour. Our typology serves as the basis for future projects on lifeworld-shaped political media use, the processing of media content, and its effects.

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分层和细分的公民身份？政治Mil废的识别及其交往融合的条件

通过公共传播进行整合面临着公民分层和分裂的平行趋势的挑战。环境概念采用了这一概念：按照这种中观层次的方法，基本的政治取向和政治效力与特定的信息资源和交流方式保持一致。单个数据的汇总显示了特定组的异类政治传播实践模式。首先，本文旨在描述德国公民中的环境。基于在线调查（n = 1488）和层次聚类分析，我们确定了12个不同的环境。其次，我们分析了两个公民层面的政治融合条件的状况。这些包括重叠的信息库和特定于环境的问题议程。总体，我们主张使用社会群体特定于生活世界的情境来解释政治和交往行为的模式。我们的类型学将成为有关生活世界形式的政治媒体使用，媒体内容处理及其效果的未来项目的基础。