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@PHDTHESIS{Metzmacher:709223,
author = {Metzmacher, Marina},
othercontributors = {Heinen, Armin and Häußling, Roger},
title = {{D}as {P}apier der digitalen {W}elt.
{C}omputerzeitschriften als „{A}kteure“ im {N}etzwerk
von (jugendlichen) {N}utzern, {H}ardware und {S}oftware
1980-1995},
school = {RWTH Aachen University},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Aachen},
reportid = {RWTH-2017-09791},
pages = {1 Online-Ressource (299 Seiten) : Illustrationen,
Diagramme},
year = {2017},
note = {Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen
University; Dissertation, RWTH Aachen University, 2017},
abstract = {Using a qualitative analysis of eight different computer
journals in the period 1980-1995, the work at hand presents
the dynamic development of home and personal computers as
technical and cultural innovation and classifies them into
their specific societal context with a view to their actors.
I assume that magazines establish the network of hardware,
software and users, thereby excluding groups and including
others. In this logic, the present work offers an analysis
of the various levels of actors and their change in
1980-1995 within the new world of home and personal
computers. My original research achievement is to take
computer magazines seriously as mediators of the new
mass-market computer age. A particular focus therefore lies
on the question of the functions and significance of
computer magazines during this period. Basically, I assume
that adolescents have been the dominant user group since
1980. They have come together in the computer magazines as a
new communicative space in addition to the peer group.
Questions about the technical development of home and
personal computers are therefore in the context of
generational-historical approaches, which question how youth
deals with technology and why young people in the 1980s
turned to computers.The methodological approach is a
distinctive feature, which combines media, social, everyday
history and youth research, as well as the history of
technology and innovation research, with the methods of
technological history with approaches of cultural studies.
It provides a comprehensive view of the technical and
cultural changes in home and personal computers from 1980
under the focus of youth culture, which in this form is
unique in German-speaking research.In order to be able to
grasp the diverse developmental strands analytically, a
pronounced instrumentation was necessary. The theoretical
borrowings on the dispositive, the concept of Social
Construction of Technology (SCOT) and youth studies as part
of Cultural Studies should help to map both the social
components of the technological-historical development of
computerization 1980-1995, as well as a consideration of the
thingness of home and personal computers and their functions
and symbolic dimensions. The social construction of home and
personal computers as a technical artefact is decisive.The
description mode for hardware and software of the home and
personal computers 1980-1995 is the dispositive. It helps to
question how youth deals with computer technology.SCOT
sharpens the view on the young users who have created new
communicative spaces around the computer. Magazines and
their editorial departments took up this need for exchange
and communication and, against the background of
commercialized leisure activities, offered themselves as a
new communicative space.Computer magazines were essential
for the dissemination of computer skills and the
establishment of home and personal computers in Germany.
Especially in the 1980s, when much more than application
knowledge and handling skills were needed for computer use,
they prepared computer expertise targeted and
understandable. The editors knew about the experience
horizons of their young readers, built on these and
connected them with computer technology. The emerging
collectivity enabled readers in the 1980s to feel attached
to an advancing group that helped shape computerization. The
home and personal computers became symbols of their special
lifestyle. Computer magazines formed the space for the
identification of computer users. They were therefore scene
magazines and setting of sub-milieus with their own
communication structures. At the same time, it was possible
to bring together consumers and producers as actors in the
journals. The resulting construction of reality around home
and personal computers led to inscriptions that were
recorded in society. First of all, the perception of
computer use in leisure time was decisive as a youth
dominated space.In the course of the 1990s, the consulting
and orientation functions of the computer magazines examined
grew with a clear focus on the PC as a multimedia machine as
well as user software. Youth-cultural and milieu-specific
design factors took a back seat. Instead, computer magazines
opened up to a broad readership that aimed less at
collectivisation than at informational dynamics. At the same
time, PCs in German society were no longer viewed as a
youthful equipment feature, but rather as an
intergenerational device.Consequently, the computer
magazines represented the technically oriented developments
of hardware as well as changed user structures that
accompanied software developments. At the same time, they
had an eye on the changing target audience of their
magazines, which they not only served, but helped to shape
by making new perspectives available.},
cin = {741410},
ddc = {100},
cid = {$I:(DE-82)741410_20140620$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
doi = {10.18154/RWTH-2017-09791},
url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/709223},
}
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