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

由于过去15年来法医学的连续媒介化（在项目第一阶段中有所描述）及其帮助建立的法医学市场，新的利益攸关方受到经济、象征性和媒体回报的前景的吸引，正在与其老的同行（警察、法医学、政治）一起在国内安全方面发挥相关和积极的作用。在本项目阶段主要考虑了警察、法医学和媒体的重要性之后，下一阶段将研究媒体所激发的受众和在法医学市场上经营的私营企业家的作用。作为激活器，媒体通过Facebook、社交电视或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）。这使受众的作用及其挪用的传播实践逐渐发生了质的变化，因为他们现在可以评论、评价、增加和改变媒体提供的内容（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。然而，不仅仅是活跃的受众成为这个市场的积极利益相关者。还有各种私营企业家，他们观察、审查和交流评估法医媒体市场，认识到其相关性，开发产品和服务，在两波研究中，通过在参与性观察、录像、小组讨论、人工分析和访谈的基础上对两类利益攸关方进行审查，其目的是要表明（a）在这两个群体中可以找到哪些形式的挪用的交往实践，（B）在这两个群体中可以观察到哪些形式和程度的活动，以及（c）中介化进程在建立知识系统和法医学知识在法医学市场利益攸关方之间的流通方面发挥何种作用。这样（在审查了先前项目中的其他相关利益攸关方群体之后），就确定了该领域的所有相关利益攸关方及其行动的逻辑。这是一个先决条件，不仅是为了进一步从理论上概念化法医领域和市场的中介化，而且也是为了在SPP的各个项目中制定关于一般中介化过程的声明。

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.