In modern society, "the public" is inevitably a mediated sphere as only media can bridge its spatial, temporal and topical diversity. While this media has traditionally been mass media (one-to-many), the arrival of the Internet has popularised meso media (many-to-many). In that context, the...

Das Internet und die Digitalisierung stellen den Buchsektor seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre vor große Herausforderungen. Dabei lassen sich mit dem Online-Buchhandel, digitalen Zusatzprodukten und dem Auftreten marktfähiger Technologie-Sets zur Substitution des gedruckten Buches drei...

The platformization of communication architectures is accompanied by a diversification of individual media use and an erosion of clear structural boundaries between different streams of public exchange. Nevertheless, it is by now evident that the digital transformation does not lead to a general...

Over the last 20 years, open source development has become an integral part of the software industry and a key component of the innovation strategies of all major IT providers. Against this backdrop, this paper seeks to develop a systematic overview of open source communities and their...