Heads of project: J. Rinceanu, R. Stephenson, P. Granata, F. Zufall
The Internet and social media have triggered a radical shift in our digital media environment. Discourse production in society has moved onto a new medium and changed its structure and dynamic. The most fundamental features of this new environment have been, first, a shift from an offline “broadcasting” to an online “participatory” communication model and, second, the rise of dominant, privately owned digital intermediaries, the so-called “Big Five”.
