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 - 59岁）被理解为正常情况。因此，关于这一年龄组特殊性的研究很少，特别是关于社区建设的媒介化的研究。然而，这是一个具有典型的生命历程阶段的时代（例如职业生涯和重新定位；婚姻和伴侣的变化；孩子的出生和离开等），这些阶段与媒体挪用和（媒介化的）社群化的部分根本性变化密切相关。在此背景下，本研究的目的是探讨中年人的社区建设。在此基础上，他们的跨媒介传播网络和媒介化的社群视野被以类型化的方式重构。这使得我们有可能描述中年人在媒介化的社群化中所面临的挑战。这尤其是交际界定（社区的交际保障与其他责任相比）、交际流动性（以媒体为基础的社区组织与日常（工作）流动性相比）、交际参与（以媒体为基础的社区参与）和交际补偿（通过使用媒体来拦截社区损失）。将中年社会的这种媒介化特征与其他年龄组，即青年人（16-30岁）和老年人（60岁以上）的研究结果进行比较。这种方法使我们有可能通过典型的媒介化经验来重构不同的媒介世代及其塑造。特别是，描述与最新的数字化媒介化浪潮相关的（媒介化的）社群化的变化以及与之相关的沟通建构的变化成为可能。本研究的方法论基础是一种定性的网络分析，通过访谈三角测量、网络地图绘图、数字媒体日记和材料文档进行操作。作为这项研究的结果，该项目一方面提供了对媒介化世界内的社会化变化的总结性评估。另一方面，将综合本项目的实证结果、优先项目《被媒介化的世界》内的其他项目以及进一步的国际研究，发展一种关于在媒介化条件下现实的交际建构的综合理论。这将在英文专著中以合著的形式记录下来。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