Navigating the News: Young People, Digital Culture and Everyday Life
2024 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2024, 1. , p. 162
Series
De Gruyter Contemporary Social Science ; 46
Keywords [en]
news, young people, young adults, everyday life, digital culture, phenomenology, news audiences, media practice, digital news consumption, social media, news perceptions, news interests, news relevance, news trust, news repertoires, news literacy, news avoidance, public connection, news and democracy, audience studies, Sweden
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-55118DOI: 10.1515/9783111340654ISBN: 9783111340302 (print)ISBN: 9783111340289 (print)ISBN: 9783111340654 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-55118DiVA, id: diva2:1908250
Part of project
What is news? News perceptions and practices among young adults in times of transition, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 60/20182024-10-252024-10-252025-10-07Bibliographically approved