The Mediatization of German Forensics: Activated audience and private entrepreneurs as stakeholders in the forensics market

在过去的15年中（在第一个项目阶段中描述），法医的连续媒介化及其帮助建立的法医市场的结果是，新的利益相关者，被经济，象征和媒体回报的前景所吸引，正在与旧的同行（警察，法医，政治）一起在国内安全中发挥相关和积极的作用。在本项目阶段主要审议了警察、法医和媒体的重要性之后，下一阶段将审议媒体所动员的观众和在法医市场上经营的私营企业家的作用。作为激活者，媒体通过Facebook、social TV或Twitter等社交媒体更深入地吸引法医电视格式的观众参与其内容（从而参与市场活动）。这给观众的角色和他们挪用的交际实践带来了逐渐的质变，因为他们现在评论、评价、添加和改变媒体产品（在某种程度上是在广播期间），甚至创造新的产品和服务，并在由此产生的市场上分享它们。然而，在这个市场中，不仅仅是活跃的受众成为了活跃的利益相关者。还有各种各样的私营企业家，他们观察、审查和沟通评估法医媒体市场，并认识到其相关性，开发产品和服务。通过在两波研究中基于参与性观察、录像、小组讨论、人工制品分析和访谈来检查两组利益相关者，目的是显示(a)在这两组中可以发现哪些形式的挪用交际实践，(b)在这两组中可以观察到哪些形式和程度的活动。(c)调解过程在建立知识系统和法医知识在法医市场利益相关者之间的流通方面发挥了什么作用。通过这种方式（在检查了前面项目中的其他相关干系人组之后），该领域中的所有相关干系人和他们的行为逻辑都被定义了。这是一个先决条件，不仅是为了在理论上进一步概念化法医领域和市场的媒介化，也是为了在SPP的各个项目中制定关于媒介化过程的总体声明。

As a consequence of the successive mediatization of forensics that has taken place over the past 15 years (described in the first project phase) and the forensics market it has helped to establish, new stakeholders, attracted by the prospect of economic, symbolic and media rewards, are coming to play a relevant and active role in internal security alongside their old counterparts (police, forensic medicine, politics). After the current project phase has primarily considered the importance of the police, forensic medicine and the media, the next will look at the role of the audience activated by the media and of the private entrepreneurs operating on the forensics market. As activators, the media engage the audience of forensic TV formats more deeply in their content (and thereby in market activity) through social media such as Facebook, Social TV or Twitter. This has brought about a gradual qualitative change in the role of the audience and their communicative practice of appropriation, since they now comment, rate, add to and alter media offerings (to some extent during a broadcast) or even create new products and services and share them on the resulting market. Yet it is not just the activated audience that become active stakeholders in this market. There are also various private entrepreneurs who observe, scrutinize and communicatively assess the forensics media market and, recognizing its relevance, develop products and services to offer on it. By examining both groups of stakeholders on the basis of participatory observation, videography, group discussion, artefact analysis and interviews in two waves of research, the intention is to show (a) which forms of communicative practice of appropriation can be found among the two groups, (b) what forms and extent of activity can be observed in the two groups, and (c) what role mediatization processes play for building knowledge systems and the circulation of forensic knowledge among stakeholders in the forensics market. In this way (following examination of the other relevant stakeholder groups in the preceding projects), all the relevant stakeholders in the field and the logic of their actions have been defined. This is a precondition not only in order to further conceptualize the mediatization of the forensics field and market theoretically, but also to formulate statements on the mediatization process in general across various projects in the SPP.