From the barbecue to the sauna : a comparative account of the folding of media reception into the everyday life
Abstract
How and why do people still get print newspapers in an era dominated by mobile and social media communication? In this article, we answer this question about the permanence of traditional media in a digital media ecosystem by analyzing 488 semi-structured interviews conducted in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States. We focus on three mechanisms of media reception: access, sociality, and ritualization. Our findings show that these mechanisms are decisively shaped by patterns of everyday life that are not captured by the scholarly foci on either content- or technology-influences on media use. Thus, we argue that a non-media centric approach improves descriptive fit and adds heuristic power by bringing a wider lens into crucial mechanisms of media reception in ways that expand the conceptual toolkit that scholars can utilize to analyze the role of media in everyday life.
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Format
Articles
Research article
Published
2022
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Subjects
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Publisher
SAGE Publications
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202302231866Use this for linking
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1461-4448
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211000314
Language
English
Published in
New Media and Society
Citation
- Boczkowski, P. J., Suenzo, F., Mitchelstein, E., Kligler-Vilenchik, N., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., Hayashi, K., & Villi, M. (2022). From the barbecue to the sauna : a comparative account of the folding of media reception into the everyday life. New Media and Society, 24(12), 2725-2742. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211000314
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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation, theJSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 17H01833, and the Global Partnership Fund of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University.
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