Abstract (eng)
The doctoral thesis dealt with the influence of the social metaprocesses of mediatization and digitization on the research subject of media socialization and its term in the professional understanding of communication science. A conceptual analysis was carried out on the basis of the theoretical foundations of Alfred Schütz and Berger & Luckmann. Changes due to the mediatization of the three areas of social knowledge, socialization and identity construction of children and adolescents were pointed out. This led to the need to adapt the concept of media socialization and to recalibrate the research subject by linking previously separate sociological and psychological socialization theories. In the analysis, a new communication model as well as a refined socialization model were developed, which were subsequently used to adapt the concept of media socialization. In this context, it was proposed to replace the concept of media socialization with that of mediatized socialization, which takes into account the changed social framework conditions on a socio-ecological basis and thus broadens the understanding of media socialization in the field of communication science.