Project leaders: Dr. Steffen Lepa, Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinzierl

Project assistants: Anne-Kathrin Hoklas

Since more than one hundred years, our everyday life has been shaped by ever-changing technologies for the recording, transmission and playback of music. Due to the growing digitization and interconnectedness of our media environment, we may presently observe an additional substantial change concerning the possibilities of integrating mediated musical practices into our everyday lives – which may potentially also lead to a transition regarding the social meaning of music.

In accordance with the aims of the DFG priority program “Mediatized Worlds” and from an interdisciplinary perspective, the project tries to better understand these processes by means of analyzing the interaction of material technologies, auditory musical content, and users of different social backgrounds within everyday social practice. To realize this, we plan to get an overall picture of the ‘German status quo’ of the mediatization of music by means of an empirical mixed method research design: The explorative-quantitative part is a socio-demographically representative survey that tries to fill a pressing research gap by typologizing the dominant actual patterns of music media gadget and application use within German society. Within the complementing qualitative-interpretative part of the research design, we then try to interpret the established probabilistic relationships between social milieux, gender, and age cohorts on class membership and the established audio media repertoires. Therefore, data from biographical-narrative interviews conducted with selected ‘typical’ class members are employed to establish plausible explanations for the worked-out regularities and to find additional hints on a possible long-term change in the social functions of music in everyday life.

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Research field: Action and interaction forms

Publications

Blüthmann, Irmela/Lepa, Steffen/Thiel, Felicitas (2012): Überfordert, Enttäuscht, Verwählt oder Strategisch? Eine Typologie vorzeitig exmatrikulierter Bachelorstudierender. In: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 58 (1), pp. 89-108.

Erbes, Vera/Schultz, Frank/Lindau, Alexander/Weinzierl, Stefan (2012): An extraaural headphone system for optimized binaural reproduction. In: Fortschritte der Akustik: Tagungsband der 38. DAGA (Darmstadt). Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA), pp. 313-314.

Guljamow, Martin/Lepa, Steffen/Weinzierl, Stefan (2013): Survey Musik und Medien 2012: Die Nutzung neuer digitaler Technologien und Angebote des alltäglichen Musikhörens durch Jugendliche. In: merz medien + erziehung, 06/2013, pp. 84-96.

Hoklas, Anne-Kathrin/Krotz, Friedrich/Lepa, Steffen (in preparation): Medienhandeln und Mediendispositive. In: Krotz, Friedrich (Ed.): Die Mediatisierung sozialer Welten: Synergien empirischer Forschung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Lepa, Steffen (2013): Emotionale Musikrezeption in unterschiedlichen Alltagskontexten: Eine wahrnehmungsökologische Perspektive auf die Rolle der beteiligten Medientechnologien. In: Schröter, Jens/Vollmar, Axel (Eds.): Auditive Medienkulturen. Techniken des Hörens und Praktiken der Klanggestaltung. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 373-391.

Lepa, Steffen/Hoklas, Anne-Kathrin/Guljamow, Martin/Weinzierl, Stefan (2013): Wie hören die Deutschen heute Musik? Trends und Basisdaten zur musikbezogenen Audiomediennutzung 2012 in Deutschland. In: Media Perspektiven, 11/2013, pp. 545-553.

Lepa, Steffen (2012): Was kann das Affordanzkonzept für eine Methodologie der Populärkulturforschung ‚leisten‘? In: Kleiner, Marcus S./Rappe, Michael (Eds.): Methoden der Populärkulturforschung: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Film, Fernsehen, Musik, Internet und Computerspiele. Münster: LIT Verlag, pp. 273-298.

Preuß, Philipp/Lepa, Steffen (2012): Alien Voices: The Sonic Construction of Foreignness in Science Fiction Film. In: Zakharine, Dmitri/Meise, Nils (Eds.): Electrified Voices: Medial, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice Transfer. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 343-358.

Schärer, Zora/Weinzierl, Stefan (2012): Empirische Fallstudie zum Einfluss der Raumakustik auf die musikalische Interpretation. In: Fortschritte der Akustik: Tagungsband der 38. DAGA (Darmstadt). Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA), pp. 619-620.

Weinzierl, Stefan/Maempel, Hans-Joachim (2012): Sind Hörversuche subjektiv? Zur Objektivität akustischer Maße. In: Fortschritte der Akustik: Tagungsband der 38. DAGA (Darmstadt). Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA), pp. 315-316.

Presentations

Hoklas, Anne-Kathrin/Lepa, Steffen: Zur empirischen Rekonstruktion alltäglicher musikalischer Mediendispositive. Presentation at the annual conference of the section "Methoden der qualitativen Sozialforschung" of the German Sociological Association (GSA) in Gießen, held 2013-04-12.

Lepa, Steffen: The Media Dispositif as a middle-range concept for integrating empirical research on mediatized worlds. Presentation at the Comparative Media Systems: Audience Transformations. Postgraduate Course & Research Conference, 2013-04-08 - 2013-04-10 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, held 2013-04-10.

Lepa, Steffen: A critical realist approach to mediatization research. Presentation at the International Research Workshop "Mediatization & New Media" of the ECREA TWG Mediatization, 2013-03-15 - 2013-03-16 in Copenhagen, Denmark, held 2013-03-16.

Lepa, Steffen: Survey Musik und Medien. Zur empirischen Rekonstruktion der Mediatisierung alltäglicher Musikrezeption in Deutschland. Presentation at the University of Bremen, ZeMKI Forschungskolloquium Medienkultur, held 2013-01-24.

Lepa, Steffen/Weinzierl, Stefan: Latent Class Analysis als Werkzeuge zur Mixed-Method-Untersuchung von Mediatisierungsprozessen. Presentation at the workshop on methods  „Mediatisierungsprozesse in der Empirie: Methodendesigns zur Analyse von ‚Wandel’“ of the priority program, 2013-09-19 - 2013-09-20 at the University of Münster, held 2013-09-20.

Lepa, Steffen/Ungeheuer, Elena/Maempel, Hans-Joachim/Weinzierl, Stefan: When the medium is the message: An experimental exploration of 'medium effects' on the emotional expressivity of music dating from different forms of spatialization. Presentation at the 8th Conference of the Media Psychology Division of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), 2013-09-04 - 2013-09-06 in Würzburg, held 2013-09-06.

Lepa, Steffen/Bleisteiner, Marcus/Fuß, Alexander/Steger, Dominik: Buildup, Breakdown and Drop. An initial experimental approach for explaining the emotional impact of DJ performances in Electronic Dance Music (EDM). Poster at the 3rd International Conference on Music & Emotion (ICME 3) 2013-06-11 - 2013-06-15 in Jyväskylä, Finnland, held 2013-06-12.

Lepa, Steffen/Maempel, Hans-Joachim/Ungeheuer, Elena/Weinzierl, Stefan: Technology matters: An experimental exploration on how the spatial cues afforded by different audio playback devices shape the perceived emotional expression of mediatized music. Presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Music & Emotion (ICME 3) 2013-06-11 - 2013-06-15 in Jyväskylä, Finnland, held 2013-06-12.

Lepa, Steffen/Geimer, Alexander: Socio-material negotiations of authenticity in a digitally mediatized world. On the problems of aura and passion in postmodern popular music cultures. Presentation at the Media & Passion International Conference in Lund, Sweden, held 2013-03-21.

Lepa, Steffen/Weinzierl, Stefan/Hoklas, Anne-Kathrin: Survey Musik und Medien. Drei Herausforderungen als Diskussionseinstieg. Presentation at a meeting of the research field "action and interaction forms" of the priority program on "Mediatisierung als Grenzverschiebung" in Berlin, held 2012-12-14.

Lindau, Alexander/Lepa, Steffen: Dynamische Binauralsynthese - ein Verfahren der virtuellen Akustik als Ansatz zur Untersuchung technologiebezogener Hypothesen im Rahmen medienpsychologischer Rezeptionsexperimente. Presentation at the annual conference 2013 of the section "methosds" of the DGPuK (German Communication Association), Münster, held in 2013.

Lykartsis, Athanasios/Pysiewicz, Andreas/von Coler, Henrik/Lepa, Steffen: The Emotionality of Sonic Events : Testing the Geneva Emotional Music Scale (GEMS) for Popular and Electroacoustic Music. Presentation at the International Conference of Music & Emotion (ICME 3), Jyväskyla, Finnland, 2013.