Social media are fundamentally changing the structure of the media, communications patterns and the public sphere
1995
1997
2014
The first German newspaper,
namely the leftist/liberal taz,
goes online only six years after
the foundation of the World
Wide Web. After its go-live,
the membership of the digitaz
community surges.
About 4.1 million German citizens
over the age of 14 use the new
online access channels at least
occasionally. In 2014, the figure
rises to around 55.6 million, or
79.1 percent of the over-14s in
Germany.
Some 28 million people in Germany use Facebook. An Allensbach study mentions 1 million
Germans who twitter frequently.
The leading social media site is
WhatsApp, with a good 35 million users.