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"It's something posh people do": digital distinction in young people's cross-media news engagement
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Abstract In this article, I analyse digital distinction mechanisms in young people’s cross media engagement with news. Using a combination of open online diaries and qualitative interviews with young Danes aged 15 to 18 who differ in social background and education, and with Bourdieu's field theory as an ana... view more
In this article, I analyse digital distinction mechanisms in young people’s cross media engagement with news. Using a combination of open online diaries and qualitative interviews with young Danes aged 15 to 18 who differ in social background and education, and with Bourdieu's field theory as an analytical framework, the article investigates how cultural capital (CC) operates in specific tastes and distastes for news genres, platforms and providers. The article argues that distinction mechanism not only works on the level of news providers and news genres but also on the level of engagement practices - the ways in which people enact and describe their own news engagement practices. Among those rich in CC, physical, analogue objects in the form of newspapers and physical conversations about news are seen as "better" that digital ones, resulting in a feeling of guilt when they mostly engage with news on social media. Secondly, young people with lower CC discard legacy news, which they see as elitist and irrelevant. Thirdly, those rich in CC are media and news genre savvy in the sense that it makes them able to critically evaluate the news they engage with across platforms and sites.... view less
Keywords
youth; involvement; social media; media; field theory; digitalization; utilization; effect; news; information; level of education; comparison
Classification
Impact Research, Recipient Research
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 46-55
Journal
Media and Communication, 6 (2018) 2
Issue topic
Rethinking media and social space
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i2.1322
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed