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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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A phenomenology of news : Understanding news in digital culture
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. - : Sage Publications. - 1464-8849 .- 1741-3001. ; 22:11, s. 2873-2889
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital media transform news. First, we see this in changing use patterns. Young people today show a decline in interest in traditional news formats and practices, such as watching the evening news on TV or reading a daily newspaper. But digital media also transform production and distribution of news, leading to new ways to conceptualise and understand news. In the light of these profound transformations in audience behaviour many have started to question the concept of news in news research. In the light of such altered production and distribution contexts which are likely to fundamentally impact on audiences’ definitions and perceptions, this article sets out to explore alternative ways to understand and conceptualise news, beyond traditional news research. What is news today, and how can we study it from the perspective of news audiences, without resorting to preconceived notions? We propose a theoretical approach based in classic phenomenology which, we argue, will open up for further reconsideration of the concept as well as providing a potentially fruitful basis for research on digital news consumption. Phenomenology takes human existence as its vantage point and explores how human subjects exist and create meaning in their everyday lives in relation to basic categories such as time, space and (sociocultural) relevance. We argue phenomenology to be particularly relevant for exploring new meanings of news as the basic dimensions of phenomenology not only coincide with the basic dimensions of news consumption, but also of those of news values; time, space, and (sociocultural) relevance.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Avatar as Second Suit : Power and Participation in Virtual Work
- 2019
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Ingår i: Games and Culture. - : Sage Publications. - 1555-4120 .- 1555-4139. ; 14:5, s. 560-578
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article provides an analysis of the experiences of user–avatar relations and interaction of people who work in a virtual world. Earlier research often claims that relationships between users and their avatars are, by nature, strong and intense. By analyzing individuals who conducted paid labor in a number of public institutions in a virtual world, this article argues that the frame of work heavily influenced the professional users’ experiences of using an avatar. The user–avatar relationship was mainly related to how and why the user entered the virtual world, their position in their off-line and online workplaces and, as a result, related to aspects of power and control over the framing of the online arena. Because of these factors, many of the professional users regarded their avatar more as a second suit than, as has often been argued, a second self.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Digital distinctions : Mechanisms of difference in digital media use
- 2015
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Ingår i: MedieKultur. - : Statsbiblioteket. - 0900-9671 .- 1901-9726. ; 31:58, s. 30-48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to understand the distinctive mechanisms of digital media use, seen in relation to cultural practices at large. The empirical material is a survey study of university students at the Business Administration, Media and Communication Stud-ies, Political Science and Philosophy departments at Södertörn University, Sweden. The empirical analysis deals with the students’ digital media use and preferences, and how these are related to their broader cultural practices and preferences. Spe-cific attention is paid to the webpages the students mention in the survey, and how these are distributed among the groups. By showing detailed information on these areas, the mechanisms of difference of digital media use are revealed.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Disputationen som akademisk ritual
- 2008
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Ingår i: JMG årsbok. - Göteborg : Institutionen för journalistik och masskomminikation (JMG) vid Göteborgs universitet.
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Ethics and morality beyond the Actor-Network : Doing the right thing in an algorithmic culture
- 2018
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The growing governance and authority of algorithms and the rapid emergence of the ‘Internet of Things’, has intensified attention to the relationship between humans and machines, and to the ethics of everyday life with technologies. This raises a lot of questions: How should we live with technologies? Can humans make decisions? The question on the authority of humans is clearly debatable. In this paper I discuss the underlying premises for the ethical standpoint of Actor Network Theory (ANT) and explore other existing alternatives. I begin by looking into the basic premises of ANT, and the assumptions of ‘the human’ and of ethics it comprises. I then explore the notion of a ‘disclosive’ ethics and continue by penetrating the relation between agency and ethics in ANT. Following from this I discuss various different approaches to ethics, and how we can still keep a human notion of ethics in an algorithmic culture.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Ethics Exists in Communication : Human‐machine ethics beyond the Actor‐Network
- 2018
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The growing governance of algorithms and the rapid emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the ‘Internet of Things’, has intensified discussions about the relationship between humans and machines, and the ethics of everyday life with technologies. It raises questions such as: How should we live with technologies? Can humans still make decisions? The earlier taken for granted authority of humans is clearly debatable, and sometimes also dismissed, particularly within Actor Network Theory (ANT). In this paper, I look into the basic premises of the ethics of ANT, explore suggested ethical perspectives within ANT such as ‘disclosive’ ethics, and continue by penetrating the relation between agency and ethics, as well as between morality and ethics in ANT. ANT is further discussed as on the one hand a sociological perspective and on the other hand an ethical approach. Based on this analysis I propose the anthropological perspective of an ‘ethics of the ordinary’ as a possible way to learn from the basic premises of ANT while maintaining a human notion of ethics in a technology‐conflated culture.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Faraway, so close! : Proximity and distance in ethnography online
- 2014
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Ingår i: Media Culture and Society. - : Sage Publications. - 0163-4437 .- 1460-3675. ; 36:6, s. 862-877
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article argues for a revised importance of distance, besides the much emphasized closeness, in the debate on and use of ethnographic methods in online environments. When returning to the founding fathers of ethnographic methods, distance is often put forward as a core aspect of ethnographic methods, something widely forgotten, or even rejected, in the current debate in the field. Space has been restructured by digital media technologies, and the spatial and temporal proximity of digital media cultures present new challenges for research methodologies. Based on the author’s own experiences of ethnographic fieldwork in digital cultures, and with Henri Lefebvre’s theory of everyday life as a rhythm as vantage point, it is here argued that distance, dialectically interlinked with closeness and proximity, should be given further attention in current research and debate on ethnographic methods used online.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Imagined used modes : Media morality in everyday life
- 2012
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Ingår i: International journal of cultural studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1367-8779 .- 1460-356X. ; 15:2, s. 181-196
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article deals with the moral dimensions of everyday media use. It discusses the values, strategies and norms of the moral economy of media use in everyday life. First, it identifies three different kinds of values connected with media texts and technologies. Second, it discusses different strategies to create a morally correct balance in everyday life. Third, it puts forward the concept of imagined user modes to deepen our understanding of the moral dimensions of everyday media use. Imagined user modes are preconceptions of different technologies and texts and relate to our ideas of how the media affect those who are using them. They are considered when negotiating with ourselves on proper behaviours in specific situations, and therefore they can be different, depending on individual value systems and ideas of a morally correct behaviour.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Inledning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Medier och deras roll i våra liv. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144140889 ; , s. 13-22
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2024
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Ingår i: Classics in Media Theory. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 9781003432272 ; , s. 1-8
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the editors of this book was once a participant in a seminar with a famous French sociologist. The professor gave advice about projects and research ideas to the researchers and doctoral students that were participating. Then, someone asked the question of how best to understand one’s contemporaries and contemporary society. Perhaps the person asking the question had expected an answer about innovative research methods or about which social phenomena could say the most about the times we live in. But the sociologist had other advice. He said: stop following the noise of the news, turn off your feeds, and use the time you earn to re-read sociology’s classic texts. There was silence in the room. Would the way to understand the society of the 21st century go via texts written at the end of the 19th century, by people like Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel?.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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Introduktion
- 2020
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Ingår i: Medievetenskapens idétraditioner. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144130712 ; , s. 13-20
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Janice Radway (1984) Reading the Romance
- 2024
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Ingår i: Classics in Media Theory. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 9781040026519 - 9781032557960 ; , s. 310-321
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Janice Radway’s Reading the Romance (RTR) is a book that was published at the University of Pennsylvania, United States, in 1984 and soon after republished as a second edition (1987). RTR combines a text analysis with a reception study and an ethnographic study of mass-produced romance literature. The book revolves around a circle of female romance readers in a small American town and the bookseller who merchandises, recommends, and discusses the literature with the readers. The books themselves are also discussed as texts. Radway conducts narrative analyses and a psychoanalytic interpretation of the texts, uses questionnaires, and interviews readers, producers, and distributors. The book is considered a classic within Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Feminist Studies, and Comparative Literature.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Janice Radway: Reading the Romance (1984)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Medievetenskapens idétraditioner. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144130712 ; , s. 305-318
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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Media and Basic Desires : An Approach to Measuring the Mediatization of Daily Life
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The extended indispensability of media can be seen as a key indicator of mediatization, whereby our lives become adapted to media. But even though we can assume that the pervasive character of digital media essentially changes everyday life and the way people experience it, we cannot take consequences of technological transformation for granted. Following from this we argue there is a need for quantitative analyses that can verify mediatization processes in time and space. Here we present a tool that measures the extent to which media reach into the deeper layers of daily human life, used in an empirical study conducted in Sweden in 2017. The results show that perceived media indispensability is played out along three dimensions of daily human life; (1) (re)production; (2) recognition, and (3) civic life, and appears as a socially structured and structuring process, although not in a very strong way. We argue this tool, in diachronic analyses, works as a measurement of mediatization.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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Media and basic desires : An approach to measuring the mediatization of daily human life
- 2021
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Ingår i: Communications. - : Mouton de Gruyter. - 0341-2059 .- 1613-4087. ; 46:2, s. 275-296
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The extended reliance on media can be seen as one indicator of mediatization. But even though we can assume that the pervasive character of digital media essentially changes the way people experience everyday life, we cannot take these experiences for granted. There has recently been a formulation of three tasks for mediatization research; historicity, specificity and measurability, needed to empirically verify mediatization processes across time and space. In this article, we present a tool designed to handle these tasks, by measuring the extent to which people experience that media reach into the deeper layers of daily human life. The tool was tested in an empirical study conducted in Sweden in 2017. The results show that perceived media reliance is played out in relation to three types of basic desires: (1) (re)productive desires, (2) recognition desires, and (3) civic desires, and is socially structured and structuring. We argue this tool, in diachronic analyses, can measure one important aspect of mediatization.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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Media Micro-Generations : How New Technologies Change Our Media Morality
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordicom Review. - : Nordicom. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 39:2, s. 95-110
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article proposes and explores the notion of “media micro-generations”. Based on a survey of values and norms in relation to media-related behaviour in Sweden, we identify statistically significant media micro-generations. Through an analysis of the technologies that were introduced during the formative years of different media micro-generations, we propose that media micro-generations are formed with the introduction of new media technologies. Thus, the existence of media micro-generations illustrates how rapid trans- formations of media technologies can shape the moral notions of narrow age groups. It also explains why many earlier studies have detected a rather large span of years (1970-1985, in between the TV generation and the internet generation) during which no generational identity seems to have been formed.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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Mediemoral i en digital värld
- 2015. - 1
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Ingår i: Fragment. - Göteborg : SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet. - 9789189673328 ; , s. 551-559
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Sensorial Organization as an Ethics of Space : Digital Media in Everyday Life
- 2018
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Ingår i: Media and Communication. - : Cogitatio Press. - 2183-2439. ; 6:2, s. 39-45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article outlines an analysis of the ethical organization of digital media and social and individual space in everyday life. This is made from a perspective of an ‘ethics of the ordinary’, highlighting the mundane negotiations and practices conducted to maintain a ‘good life’ with the media. The analysis shows a sensorial organization of space is conducted in relation to social space, as well as individually. The interviewees use facilities provided by media technologies in order to organize space, as well as organize their media devices spatially in order to construct space for specific purposes, and maintain a good life. These results call for a deepened analysis of the sensorial dimensions of everyday space, in order to understand the ethical struggles of a life with digital media. It is important to include the full spectrum of sensorial experiences in our approach to everyday life and to take the sensorial experiences of ordinary media users into account in our analysis of space as part of an everyday ethics.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Språken förenar (ännu) på nordisk konferens
- 2005
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Ingår i: JMG årsbok. - Göteborg : Institutionen för journalistik och masskomminikation (JMG) vid Göteborgs universitet.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Stadsdelarna - dit många vände sig
- 2000
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Ingår i: Göteborgsbranden 1998. - Stockholm : Styrelsen för psykologiskt försvar. ; , s. 75-97
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Symbolic spaces of everyday life : work and leisure at home
- 2006
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Ingår i: Nordicom Review. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 27:2, s. 119-132
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents an analysis of the role of the media in the symbolic construction of work and leisure at home. Dealing with individuals who represent a post-industrial and cultural labour market and who work mainly at home, the analysis focuses upon the ritual transformations of everyday life and the role of the media within it. Leaning on social interactionist Erwin Goffman and his concepts of regions and frames, as well as a dimension of the materiality of culture, this analysis combines a perspective on media use as ritual, transformations in everyday life and the organization of material space. From this perspective, the discussion penetrates the symbolic dimension of media use in defining borders of behaviour and activities in relations to work and leisure at home.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Temporalt limbo : ESC 2002 och tiden
- 2002. - 1 uppl.
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Ingår i: Hello Europe! Tallinn calling!. - Huddinge : Södertörns högskola. ; , s. 81-95
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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The Don Quixote of youth culture : media use and cultural preferences among students in Estonia and Sweden
- 2005
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How should youth culture be understood in the globalised world of today? How do patterns of cultural taste develop in societies undergoing fundamental change? This book presents a comparative analysis of media use and cultural preferences among students at the University of Tartu in Estonia and at Södertörn University College in Sweden. In some respects, the patterns found in the two countries converge, in others they diverge. Explanations for this are to be found both in the present living conditions and in social norms from the past.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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The Meanings of Social Media Use in Everyday Life : Filling Empty Slots, Everyday Transformations, and Mood Management
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Media + Society. - : Sage Publications. - 2056-3051. ; 8:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since their emergence in the early 2000s, social media have continued to increase in popularity, particularly among adolescents and young adults. Even though they have been studied in relation to a wide range of topics, including their role in politics, social relationships, activism, identity construction, and youth cultures, the rise of social media is also connected to a number of less dramatic, yet pervasive, shifts relating to their integration into the mundane practices of day-to-day life. In this article, we explore the uses of social media as part of everyday life, a perspective that has gained less attention in research about social media. We take an interest in how young adults create meaning around their daily practices, involving many different social media platforms. Doing so, we draw on in-depth individual and small group interviews with 67 young adults, aged 18–26, conducted in Sweden during 2019–2021. We approach social media as a joint environment, consisting of a wide range of different platforms traversed by the user. The empirical analysis identifies three significant meanings of social media: filling empty slots, everyday transformations, and mood management. These three different meanings are shaped by different temporal, spatial, and technological characteristics and emphasize the importance of social media use in the lives of the young adults.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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The Relevance of Digital News : Themes, Scales and Temporalities
- 2023
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Ingår i: Digital Journalism. - : Routledge. - 2167-0811 .- 2167-082X. ; , s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In news research, news relevance was for long synonymous with how journalists constructed it. But recently, scholars have questioned the assumption that journalists’ preferences correspond with their audiences’. Several studies have approached news relevance from the audience point of view, showing audiences’ news relevance is constructed as an everyday practice, through assessments of topics and brands, and at the backdrop of users’ earlier experiences. News relevance from the audience perspective however still remains undertheorized and builds on traditional understandings of news journalism. This article aims to contribute to this debate with (1) a matrix of four types of news relevance, constructed from an analysis of how young Swedish adults construct news relevance in the contemporary digital media landscape, (2) the identification of three dimensions that distinguish different kinds of news relevance from each other, and (3) a theoretical definition of news relevance from the audience’s perspective grounded in phenomenological theory and empirical analysis. This papers hence provides a deeper theoretical and empirical understanding of the ways news, understood as something broader than news journalism, is considered relevant by young audiences.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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The Right to the Citi(zen) : Urban Spaces in Commercial Media Environments
- 2016
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Ingår i: Space and Culture. - : SAGE Publications. - 1206-3312 .- 1552-8308. ; 19:4, s. 478-489
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following the publication of Henri Lefebvre’s book Le Droit à la ville (1968), a debate has emerged regarding the neoliberal takeover of urban spaces and activism. Nonetheless, in the past 10 years, we have seen the continuous expansion of public space via social networking media and, today, most public institutions in Western states use social networking sites to communicate with their “citizens.” Although there are many serious problems associated with this takeover, little has been said about them so far. In this article, I address the contribution of The right to the city to this debate by analyzing a public institution which tried to establish communication with its “citizens” in an urban space in a virtual world. My analysis concludes that the users of this new media platform did not regard themselves as citizens when they were dwelling in this urban space online, but instead saw themselves as the consumers they were addressed as in this environment.
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Ungdomskulturens don Quijote-dimension : medier och kulturell smak i Estland och Sverige
- 2006
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Ingår i: Locus. - 1100-3197. ; :1, s. 19-31
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- På samma sätt som skillnaden mellan hur don Quijote såg på världen och hur den verkligen var beskaffad, finns en skillnad i ungdomskulturen mellan föreställningar om verkligheten och verkligheten som den faktiskt ser ut. Artikelförfattaren tar avstamp i Pierre Bourdieus tankar om hur smak för viss slags kultur kan dröja kvar trots att samhället förändras radikalt. En sådan förändring kan dagens ungdomar i Estland sägas ha varit med om. De var barn när helt andra förutsättningar rådde för medier och kultur i deras land. Vad tycker då ungdomar i Estland är bra film och litteratur? Och hur förhåller sig deras smak till svenska ungdomars preferenser?
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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Vi vantrivs i det kommersiella (ett litet tag till)
- 2016
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Ingår i: Människorna, medierna och marknaden. - Stockholm : Wolters Kluwer. - 9789138244333 ; , s. 189-208
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- Bengtsson, Stina, 1971-
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Virtual nation branding : The Swedish embassy in Second Life
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. - : Virtual worlds institute. - 1941-8477. ; 4:2, s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article I will present and discuss the Swedish virtual embassy as a new example of nation branding. By exploring the development of the Swedish embassy in Second Life, activities arranged by and involving the virtual embassy as well as the surrounding discourse of international mainstream media and people engaged in the development of Second Life, I will analyse the significance of the virtual environment in this virtual nation-branding project. I argue that the most important achievement of the Swedish virtual embassy was reached through the connection with the virtual environment in the coverage of traditional international mass media and that the key dimension, although not the only one, of the virtual world in branding Sweden was to serve as a fresh and influential brand signifier within the marketing project.
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