The communicative construction of communitization within mediatized worlds: Horizons and challenges of middle agers' mediatized community building in media generational comparison

在受众研究中，中年人(31岁至59岁)被理解为正常情况。因此，关于这一年龄段的特殊性的研究很少，尤其是关于社区建设的中介作用。然而，这是一个生活过程中具有典型阶段的时代(例如，职业生涯和重新定位；婚姻和伴侣的改变；孩子的出生和离开等)，这与媒体专有和(调解的)社区化的部分根本性变化齐头并进。在这样的背景下，本研究的目的就是探讨中年人的中介社区建设。在此基础上，对他们的跨媒介传播网络和社区化的中介化视域进行了典型的重构。这使得描述中年人调解社区化的挑战成为可能。这尤其是通信界限(相对于其他责任而言，社区的通信安全)、通信流动性(基于媒体的社区化组织，而不是日常的(工作)流动性)、通信参与(社区内基于媒体的参与)和通信补偿(通过媒体使用阻止社区损失)。中年社区化中介化的这种特征与其他年龄段的研究结果进行了比较，即年轻人(16-30岁)和老年人(60岁以上)。这种方法使得通过典型的媒介化经验来重构不同的媒介世代及其塑造成为可能。特别是，可以描述与最新的数字化中介化浪潮有关的(中介化)社区化的变化，以及与之相关的传播结构的变化。这项研究的方法论基础是定性的网络分析，其中包括访谈、网络地图绘制、数字媒体日记和材料文档的三角测量。作为这项研究的结果，该项目一方面提供了对中介世界中的社区化变化的总结性评估。另一方面，将结合本项目、优先方案《媒体化世界》中的其他项目的经验结果以及进一步的国际研究，发展一种关于媒体化条件下的现实的传播建构的综合理论。这将在合著的英文专著中记录下来。研究领域：网络

Within audience research, middle agers (31 to 59 years) are understood as normal cases. Therefore, studies about the specificities of this age group are rare, especially concerning the mediatization of community building. However, this is an age with typical phases of the life course (for example professional career and re-orientation; marriage and partner change; birth and leave of children etc.), which go hand in hand with partly fundamental changes of media appropriation and (mediatized) communitization. Against this background, it is the aim of this research project to investigate the mediatized community building of middle agers. As a basis for this, their transmedial communication networks and mediatized horizons of communitization are reconstructed in a typifying way. This makes it possible to describe the challenges of a mediatized communitization for middle agers. This is especially the communicative demarcation (communicative securing of communities in contrast to other responsibilities), the communicative mobility (media based organisation of communitization in contrast to an everyday (working) mobility), communicative participation (a media based engagement within the communities) and communicative compensation (interception of community losses by media use). Such characteristics of a mediatization of communitization in middle age are compared with research results of other age groups, that is young people (16-30 years) and the elderly (above 60 years). Such an approach makes it possible to reconstruct different media generations and their moulding by typical experiences of mediatization. In particular, it becomes possible to describe the changes of (mediatized) communitization that relate to the latest mediatization wave of digitalisation and the related changes of communicative construction. The methodological basis of this research is a qualitative network analysis that operates with a triangulation of interviews, drawings of network maps, digital media diaries and a material documentation. As an outcome of this research the project offers on the one hand a concluding assessment of communitization change within mediatized worlds. On the other hand a comprehensive theory of the communicative construction of reality under the conditions of mediatization will be developed, integrating the empirical results of this project, other projects within the priority programme Mediatized Worlds, and further international research. This will be documented within an English monograph in co-authorship.Research area: Network