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Media: A. The media industry is made up of newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and online media. See also Television, Newspaper, Cinema, Social Media, Internet. - B. In information theory, the medium is a channel through which information is transmitted. The medium can be a radio wave, a cable, or a piece of paper. See also Information theory.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Jürgen Habermas on Media - Dictionary of Arguments

IV 190
Medium/Language/Habermas: the communication participants move so much within their language by performing or understanding a speech act that they cannot bring forward a current utterance as "something inter-subjective" in the way that they experience an event as something objective (...).
>Intersubjectivity
, >Language/Habermas, >Communicative action/Habermas, >Communication theory/Habermas,
>Communication/Habermas, >Communicative practice/Habermas,
>Communicative rationality/Habermas.
The medium of communication remains in a peculiar semi-transcendence. As long as the participants retain their performative attitude, the currently used language remains in their backs. The speakers cannot take an extra-mundane position towards it.
>Agreement, >Perspective.
IV 209
Medium/Habermas: the interactions interwoven into the network of everyday communicative practice form the medium through which culture, society and person reproduce themselves. These reproductive processes extend to the symbolic structures of the lifeworld. We must differentiate between the preservation of the material substrate of the lifeworld.
>Culture, >Society, >Person, >Lifeworld, >Substrate.
IV 273
Media/control media/communication media/language/Habermas: the conversion from language to control media (money, power (influence, reputation)) means a decoupling of the interaction from lifeworld contexts.
>Lifeworld/Habermas, >Control media, >Communication media.
Media such as money and power begin with the empirically motivated ties; they code a purpose-rational handling of calculable amounts of value and enable a generalized strategic influence on the decisions of other interaction participants, bypassing linguistic consensus-building processes.
>Money/Habermas, >Power.
N.B.: thus, the lifeworld is no longer needed for the coordination of actions.
IV 407
Media/Habermas: Thesis: Conditions for an optimal institutionalisation of media (here: money and power): Real values and coverage reserves must be such that they have an empirically motivating force. The physical control of cover reserves must be possible. It must be possible to measure, relinquish and deposit the media. The normative anchoring of media must not lead to new communication efforts and no further risks of dissent.
Problem: this reaches its limits at the level of the social system: new names for media can always be found, but these are initially only postulates that must prove useful.(1)
IV 410
For example, placing value retention and influence on the same level as media with money and power as media is not particularly plausible. The former are not as calculable as money and power. It is therefore not possible to deal with them strategically.
>Recognition.
IV 412
Influence and value retention are so little neutral to the alternative of agreement and failed understanding that, rather, with solidarity and integrity, they raise two cases of agreement to generalized value. Unlike the media, they cannot replace money and power with language in their coordination function, but merely relieve the complexity of the lifeworld through abstraction. Media of this kind cannot mechanize the lifeworld.
>Agreement/Habermas, >Language/Habermas.

1.Vgl. St. Jensen, J. Naumann, Commitments, in: Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft, Jg. 9, 1980, S. 79f.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Ha I
J. Habermas
Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988

Ha III
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981

Ha IV
Jürgen Habermas
Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981


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