Navigating the News: Young People, Digital Culture and Everyday Life
Stina Bengtsson · Sofia Johansson
Nov 2024 · De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences Book 46 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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About this ebook
News today is a genre "in flux". New kinds of news producers and novel means of distributing, sharing and using news align with alternative ways of understanding what news is. Based on an extensive ethnography of news practices and perceptions among a broad range of young adults in Sweden, this book discusses how the rapid digitisation of news has shaped young people’s understanding of it, as well as how news is made relevant, trusted and used in the temporalities and spatialities of everyday life. This cutting-edge volume analyses the blurring boundaries between news and social media, facts and stories, highlighting how new media categories such as influencers and memes can take on the status of news for young audiences and shape their understanding of themselves and the world.
About the author
Stina Bengtsson is professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. She has conducted a broad range of research projects and published several books and articles in the fields of youth studies, media and everyday life, media audience studies and digital culture.
Sofia Johansson is associate professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. Her research interests cover media audiences, popular journalism, celebrity culture and audiences and digital culture. She has authored and contributed to several books and anthologies, as well as published articles in various international journals.
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