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Distinction recapped: Digital news repertoires in the class structure
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Geography, Media and Communication (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6689-0710
2018 (English)In: New Media and Society, ISSN 1461-4448, E-ISSN 1461-7315, Vol. 20, no 8, p. 3029-3049Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article mobilizes Pierre Bourdieu’s full theory-method to study how class shapes our news orientations in a digital, high-choice media environment. An online survey (N = 3850) was used to create a statistical representation of the contemporary Swedish social space with variables measuring access to economic, cultural, social, and cosmopolitan capital. A range of digital news preferences and practices were then given co-ordinates in that space. Results highlight the importance of class habitus for the formation of digital news repertoires. Since different groups form altogether different news repertoires—and distaste the preferences of the groups most different to themselves (in terms of access to capitals)—news practices and preferences solidify the positions of groups in the social structure. The study sheds light on the relationship between social and digital inequality and challenges the psychological and individualistic bias in contemporary research on news media use.

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Sage Publications, 2018. Vol. 20, no 8, p. 3029-3049
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Bourdieu, class, social space, correspondence analysis, news repertoires, cultural capital, media repertoires, news consumption, digital inequality, media use
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Media and Communications
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Media and Communication Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65240DOI: 10.1177/1461444817739622ISI: 000439960300020OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-65240DiVA, id: diva2:1158342
Available from: 2017-11-20 Created: 2017-11-20 Last updated: 2024-02-07Bibliographically approved

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