I would like to thank all over the many years I am studying sociology and mediatheory. Special thanks demand my supervisor, Scott Lash, for allowing me to write something unconventional, Tom Cahill for getting through all the technical problems to view and being able to mark this dissertation, and Greg Myers for allowing me to use the Mulit-Media-Lab. I especially also want to thank Tine Henseling and Paul Haynes for the proofreading and for their prompt comments. Special thanks also to Baldo Blinkert, Wolfgang Eßbach, Jochen Jaehnke and Uwe Weissenbacher (+1996) for what you taught me and Mark Allen, Henk Aschmutat, Florian Burckhardt, Jon Cox, Andrew Hindley, Stephan Lamperts, Simon Liegle, Ulrich Voigt and many, many others for the ideas and inspirations.