Since the late 1990s, the music industry has been undergoing a period of significant and crisis-ridden changes. This period was launched and driven forward by a new set of technologies:digitalization, data compression and the Internet. This paper analyzes the repercussions of this new...

Since the late 1990s, the music business has been experiencing a period of crisis. A new set of technologies digitization, data compression and the Internet - has forced significant changes on the industry. This paper analyzes the repercussions of this new technological constellation on the...

For some years, the field of research on social movements has undergone fundamental changes. This is due above all to the internet and social media platforms that have become an integral part of the emergence, organization and mobilization of protest. This article examines the role which these...

Since the late 1990s, the music business has been experiencing a period of crisis. A new set of technologies digitization, data compression and the Internet - has forced significant changes on the industry. This paper analyzes the repercussions of this new technological constellation on 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...

In diesem einleitenden Beitrag stellen die Herausgeber des Sonderheftes 2022 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie dessen inhaltliche Ausrichtung und Themenfelder vor. Die Beiträge des Heftes befassen sich aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln – empirisch, theoretisch und...