In the latest issue of the journal Tendenz, PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt asks whether social cohesion is under threat and how the public has changed in the age of digital intermediaries.
Article availabe for download (pdf, in German)
Abstract
The development from a media society to a network society creates scope for more participation, but also changes all communication structures. The formation of public opinion is increasingly influenced by intermediaries such as Google, Facebook or YouTube – characterised by an economically motivated algorithmic logic. Besides participation, propaganda, hate and shit storms can also be the consequences. A climate change?
Schmidt, Jan-Hinrik (2020): Das Partizipationsparadoxon. Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit in Zeiten digitaler Intermediäre [The Participation Paradox. Structural Change of the Public in Times of Digital Intermediaries]. In: Tendenz, 1/2020, pp. 8-11.