Mediatization and the 'molding force' of the media

摘要

The aim of this article is to contribute to the discussion surrounding media tization by presenting some arguments on how we could include questions of media specificity in an appropriate way. The core argument is that we have to do this by integrating 'media specificity' into a theory of communi cative practice or action. In doing so, we can grasp media in their institu tional and technological sense as 'molding force' of communicative action and research them empirically as part of mediatization processes.