ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the immediate and longer-term aftermath of the boycott movements in West Germany, with an eye to distilling key features of the new citizenship. The intention is to reveal a form of coherence in these struggles that can point toward new possibilities for deepening and extending democracy. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the process of unification of the former East and West Germany under the latter's existing constitutional system over the subsequent two years, and then the social, political, economic and cultural fallout of this major watershed would understandably dominate German domestic politics through the first half of the 1990s. A brief glance at Big Brother Awards in other countries shows that while Germans are among the more sensitive populations in perceiving threats to data protection, these trends are not specifically German. Media coverage would grow steadily over the intervening years. While an exhaustive reporting of prizewinners through the first decade of the 21st century.
