Research typically considers corporate actors such as large tech companies or government agencies as drivers of deep mediatization, the increasing saturation of society by digital media and their infrastructures. This article aims to focus on another group of collective actors: pioneer communities, exemplified by the Maker, Hacks/Hackers, and Quantified Self movements. They are characterized by their experimental practices and their visions of media-related, digital futures. On the basis of published research, the article discusses their life cycle, starting with their formation, when they emerged from the context of social movements and technology-related communities, through their peak phase, during which they receive media attention, to their dispersion phase, a stage in their development characterized by their “becoming everyday” as their experimentation is absorbed into everyday practices. It is argued that the role pioneer communities play in processes of deep mediatization rests in their ability to curate experimentation and visions of digital futures.

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数字未来的策展人：先锋社区的生命周期


研究通常将大型科技公司或政府机构等企业参与者视为深度媒体化的推动者，即数字媒体及其基础设施对社会的日益饱和。本文旨在关注另一组集体行动者：先锋社区，以创客、黑客和量化自我运动为例。他们的特点是实验实践和对媒体相关的数字未来的愿景。在已发表的研究的基础上，本文讨论了它们的生命周期，从它们的形成开始，从社会运动和技术相关社区的背景中出现，到它们受到媒体关注的高峰阶段，再到它们的分散阶段，这是他们发展的一个阶段，其特点是“成为日常”，因为他们的实验被吸收到日常实践中。有人认为，先锋社区在深度媒体化过程中发挥的作用取决于他们策划数字未来实验和愿景的能力。