In their article, Claudia Lampert and Marcel Rechlitz, together with Rudolf Kammerl, Jane Müller and Katrin Potzel, discuss the methodological demands that the increasing mediatisation of children's environments places on socialisation research. It has been published open access in Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik 16 [Yearbook Media Education 16].
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Abstract
Recording and analysing mediatised socialisation processes appropriately is accompanied by great challenges for research. On the one hand, socialisation is a complex and protracted process in which various actors are involved and which extends across different social spaces of experience. On the other hand, the media conditions that frame this process have changed considerably. They have become more differentiated in the recent past - in addition to other conditions of the everyday life. This article discusses the methodological demands that the increasing mediatisation of children's environments places on socialisation research. It discusses these challenges in the context of an often one-sided or truncated view of research on the processes of growing up. It confronts it with the theoretical approach of communicative figurations for a comprehensive approach to socialisation. Implications and challenges of the approach for empirical research are shown based on its constituent features. The article argues for the use of qualitative longitudinal methods in order to do justice to the complexity of the research object.
Kammerl, R.; Lampert, C.; Müller, J.; Rechlitz, M.; Potzel, K. (2021): Mediatisierte Sozialisationsprozesse erforschen. Methodologische Implikationen [Researching Mediatised Socialisation Processes]. In: K. D. Wolf, K. Rummler, P. Bettinger, S. Aßmann (ed.): Jahrbuch Medienpädagogik 16: Medienpädagogik in Zeiten einer tiefgreifenden Mediatisierung [Yearbook Media Education 16: Media Education in Times of Profound Mediatisation], pp. 185-209, https://doi.org/10.21240/mpaed/jb16/2021.02.24.X
