The concern and topic of the Working Group is the development of diachronic knowledge perspectives and sustainable research strategies for the
investigation of digital society.
The Working Group aims to open up and broaden the focus of communication studies research on digital society diachronically for long-term developments and processes. The focus of interest is specifically the complex historical contexts of the emergence of digital media culture(s) in the process of social penetration with computer and digital media technologies since the 1980s until today.
From a communication studies perspective, we want to give computers and digital media a “history of their own” (Danyel 2012: 186) and see this contribution in particular in the question of the negotiations, appropriations and formations, the practices and processes of embedding computer and digital media technologies in everyday life, society and lifeworlds, as well as the resulting media-framed socio-cultural configuration and constitution of digital media culture(s).