The aim and topic of the working group is the development of diachronic knowledge perspectives and sustainable research strategies for the study of the digital society
Investigation of the digital society.
The Working Group aims to open up and broaden the focus of communication science research on the digital society diachronically for long-term developments and processes. The focus of interest here is specifically on the complex historical contexts of the emergence of digital media culture(s) in the process of social penetration with computer and digital media technologies from the 1980s to the present day.
From a communication studies perspective, we want to give the computer and digital media their “own history” (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 living environments, as well as the resulting media-framed socio-cultural configuration and constitution of digital media culture(s).