Media are constantly changing and driven by continuous innovation. This makes it easy to overlook the fact that many experiences of change are part of long-term transformation processes – which, alongside current dynamics, also exhibit historical continuities. How media – technologies, formats, cultures, and practices – change over time and the consequences of their emergence, transformation, and eventual disappearance are being studied by Christian Schwarzenegger and his ZeMKI Lab "Media Change and Long-Term Transformation Processes." One area of focus is media change and participation in socially shared realities, values, and knowledge systems. After working in Vienna, Aachen, and Augsburg, the Austrian is delighted to now be based atZeMKI.