Pioneer Communities: The Quantified Self and Maker Movement as Collective Actors of Deep Mediatization

先锋社区：作为深度媒体化集体参与者的量化自我和创客运动

• 批准号: 394861196
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Andreas Hepp
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/394861196?language=en
• 关键词: Pioneer; Communities; Quantified; Self; Maker

The past decade has seen the rise of collectivities that act as hybrids of social movements and think tanks and strive to shape the intertwined change of media, culture and society: pioneer communities. Based on particular forms of collectivity, they build a bridge between media development and the everyday use of media and promote technological changes. Distinctive present examples are the Quantified Self and Maker movements. The aim of the project is to conduct a comparative investigation of how the changing media environment enables these two pioneer communities in Germany and the UK, and how at the same time the change of the media environment is advanced by them, their imagined and practiced concepts of media-related collectivity and societal transformation, as well as the public discourse surrounding them. The Quantified Self and Maker pioneer communities build complex transnational and transcultural networks that support the technology-based imagined concepts of collectivity they want to establish: collectivities related to digital practices of the self and digital practices of manufacturing. Pioneer communities are characterised by a remarkable tension: While they are - at least at their core - closely interwoven communities with strong concepts of belonging and power-relations, they unfold their social influence on collectivity building and societal transformation additionally via a much more open public discourse. Therefore, it is less a unidirectional diffusion of their media-related imagined concepts of collectivity and societal transformation but rather a complicated process of spreading technologies and journalistic coverage that builds the basis of their influence. The project will investigate this on three levels. First, it aims to reconstruct comparatively the communicative figurations of the two pioneer communities and their power-relations. Second, it will investigate their imagined concepts of media-related collectivity and societal transformation. In their very own perspective, the pioneer communities' conceptions in this respect are blueprints of possible transformation. Third, it investigates the public discourse surrounding these pioneer communities and compares the findings with their own structures and conceptions. Methodologically, the analysis is based on a media ethnography of the pioneer communities (including sorting methods, as well as crawler and qualitative network analysis), a qualitative content analysis of their imagined concepts of collectivity and societal transformation, and a longitudinal qualitative content analysis of the print, television and online media coverage they receive. The research will be conducted mainly in Germany and the UK with a focus on Berlin and London as two main European hubs for pioneer communities. As a further context of this, the origins of the pioneer communities in the US San Francisco Bay Area and important events in Europe are investigated.

过去十年来，集体的兴起充当社会运动和智囊团的混合体，并努力塑造媒体，文化和社会的交织在一起的变化：先驱社区。基于特定形式的集体形式，它们在媒体开发与媒体日常使用之间建立了桥梁，并促进技术变化。当前的独特例子是量化的自我和制造商运动。该项目的目的是对不断变化的媒体环境如何使德国和英国的这两个先锋社区如何进行比较调查，同时如何通过他们进行媒体环境的变化，他们想象中的和实践的与媒体相关的集体和社会转型的概念以及周围的公众讨论。量化的自我和制造商先驱社区建立了复杂的跨国和跨文化网络，以支持他们想要建立的基于技术的想象的集体概念：与制造业自我和数字实践的数字实践相关的集体。开拓者社区的特征是一个显着的紧张：虽然至少在核心方面，他们与归属和权力关系的概念紧密地交织在一起，但它们通过更开放的公共话语增强了他们对集体建设和社会转型的社会影响力。因此，这不是其与媒体相关的集体和社会转型概念的单向扩散，而是传播技术和新闻报道的复杂过程，从而建立了其影响力的基础。该项目将在三个层面上进行调查。首先，它旨在重建两个先锋社区及其权力关系的交流形象。其次，它将研究他们想象中的与媒体相关的集体和社会转型的概念。从他们自己的角度来看，先驱社区在这方面的概念是可能转变的蓝图。第三，它调查了围绕这些开拓者社区的公共话语，并将发现与其自己的结构和观念进行了比较。从方法上讲，该分析基于对先驱社区的媒体民族志（包括分类方法，以及爬行者和定性网络分析），对他们想象中的集体和社会转型概念的定性内容分析，以及对印刷，电视，电视，电视和在线媒体覆盖的纵向定性内容分析。这项研究将主要在德国和英国进行，重点是柏林和伦敦，作为先锋社区的两个主要欧洲枢纽。为此，研究了美国旧金山湾区的先驱社区的起源以及欧洲的重要事件。