Abstract
At a time when traditional forms of belonging are becoming less and less self-evident due to structural changes in the areas of family and work, but also due to the decline of state responsibilities, the longing to belong somewhere and not to be completely on one's own is not diminishing in the same way. This article takes a closer look at the relationship between media and community and the corresponding possibilities of modelling. In the first part, Brigitte Hipfl makes some excursions into various academic disciplines. She elaborates the socio-cultural context for the relationship between media and community and shows that media have a long tradition in the production of community and that this topic is about very fundamental questions of human coexistence and one's own self-understanding. In the second part, Theo Hug deals with some conceptual aspects of the topic and the plurality of concepts and understandings of media community. He develops an example of an orientation matrix for locating specific discourse spaces as well as a total of ten dimensions, all of which are relevant in the context of characterisations in the field of tension between media and communities. These dimensions are not understood here in the sense of a real definition, but as perspectives with which different descriptions of media and community can each be (re)constructed as variations sensu Nelson Goodman (1995).
