Historical Technography of Online Commenting (B03)

• Subject Area: Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438577023

Using computer-aided web archive analysis and interviews with web professionals the project examines three popularisation dynamics in a history of online commenting: 1.) the automation of text production, quantitative rankings, and community management, 2.) the aestheticization of quantities, activities, and text-paratext-relations and 3.) the platformisation of commenting systems and their emerging ‘oligopolies of attention’.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1472: Transformations of the Popular
• Applicant Institution: Universität Siegen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Anne Helmond, until 4/2022; Professor Dr. Johannes Paßmann