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- Christopoulou, Nadina, et al.
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Children’s Social Relations in Peer Groups : Inclusion, exclusion and friendship
- 2004
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Reports (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- We set up six media clubs for refugee and migrant children (ages 10-14) in six European countries. The clubs met weekly after school hours over a year with some extra full days during school holidays. The clubs made videos and exchanged them on the internet. In each participating country, researchers and media educators employed by the project collaborated with youth workers and teachers, already working with the children. The clubs became social centres as well as a place to learn about and make media. Using the internet we established a communications network to facilitate the sharing of children’s media productions, in order to generate dialogues between them. As a research project CHICAM addressed three major aspects of structural change in contemporary European society: the increase in global migration, the uses of new communication technologies, and the specifi c needs of children. Through the work of the clubs it focused on the social and cultural worlds of refugee and migrant children in centres across Europe; and was mainly concerned with fi rst generation refugees or migrants, for whom the experience of re-location is relatively recent. The children came from many different countries including Iraq, Sierra Leone, Angola, Somalia, Albania, Kosovo, Columbia, Turkey. We investigated how these children represent and express their experiences of migration into the different host countries, and how their use of new media might enable their perspectives to inform the development of European educational and cultural policies. In the process, we were seeking to identify how particular experiences of reception, educational practice, family re-unifi cation and community involvement may more effectively promote social inclusion and economic and cultural integration.
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- Cuesta, Marta, 1954-, et al.
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Innovative Pedagogical Methods in Higher Education
- 2013
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The objective of this paper is to critically reflect about the results from a pilot study, in which Facebook was used as a co-learning community. A communicative tool or arena for discussing educational matters in order to facilitate for students with diverse backgrounds to reach better understanding on academic culture and knowledge production. In the pilot study we worked with a “consciousness-raising” pedagogy for encouraging and supporting students to cooperate with each other, and by the use of Facebook as a platform. The development of these pedagogical view and method can be seen as providing equal opportunities, by generating better results in higher education studies. The project is supposed to contribute to knowledge concerning more profound issues associated to ideas of democracy and empowerment connected to change and development in academic cultures. The central questions to be answered are: What means by “co-learning community” by Facebook? How does this tool stimulate students to be more confident and as a consequence, reach a better understanding about the ways into “break down” obstacles, in terms of academic cultural codes? How does it is expressed by the students in terms of benefit?
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- Cuesta, Marta, 1954-, et al.
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Using Facebook as a Co-learning Community in Higher Education
- 2016
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In: Learning, Media & Technology. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 1743-9884 .- 1743-9892. ; 41:1, s. 55-72
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Students’ cultural capital plays a major role in their success in higher education. In Sweden today, many students come from diverse cultural, social and educational backgrounds. Knowledge of requirements in academic systems differs widely. Some students feel insecure about how to interpret academic codes, thus weakening these students’ opportunities for academic success. The major goal of this project was to lay the groundwork for a more equal educational system. Using social media, in this case conversations (e.g., chats) in a closed forum on Facebook monitored by a tutor, we aimed to improve student integration into academic culture. We differentiated two central themes related to student conversations on Facebook: (1) Access to academic habitus – cracking codes and (2) Emancipation by co-learning – extended academic codes. It was found that students participating in study groups created on Facebook learnt to better crack and extend the codes extant in university studies. © 2015 Taylor & Francis
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- Danielsson, Martin, 1982-
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Digitala distinktioner : Klass och kontinuitet i unga mäns vardagliga mediepraktiker
- 2014
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This dissertation explores how social class matters in young men’s everyday relationship to digital media. The aim is to contribute to the existing knowledge about how young people incorporate digital media in their everyday lives by focusing on the structural premises of this process. It also presents an empirically grounded critique of popular ideas about young people as a “digital generation”, about the internet as a socially transformative force, and about class as an increasingly redundant category.The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with 34 young men (16-19 years) from different class backgrounds, upper secondary schools and study programmes. Drawing on the conceptual tools of Pierre Bourdieu, three classes are constructed: the “cultural capital rich”, the “upwardly mobile”, and the “cultural capital poor”.The analysis shows that class, through the workings of habitus, structures the young men’s relationship to school and future aspirations. This also engenders class-distinctive ways of conceiving leisure and digital media use. Through their class habitus and taste, the young men tend to orient themselves and navigate in different ways in what they perceive as a space of digital goods and practices, endowed with different symbolic value in school and society. The “cultural capital rich” are drawn to-wards practices capable of yielding symbolic profit in the field of education and beyond, whereas the other classes gravitate towards the “illegitimate” digital culture but deal with this different ways.These findings indicate that there are social and cultural continuities at play within recent technological changes. They also expose the structural differences hidden by sweeping statements about young people as a “digital generation”. Finally, they show that class, contrary to popular beliefs about “the death of class”, still represents a pertinent analytical category.
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- de Block, Liesbeth, et al.
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Digital rapping in media productions : Intercultural communication through youth culture
- 2006
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In: Digital generations. - Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. - 9780805859805 ; , s. 295-312
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- (From the chapter) The expanding array of new media offer many different ways in which young people can actively engage in media making and exchange. Although such activities might be very localized in terms of their immediate production processes and relationships, they also have the potential to create global products, both in terms of their distribution and audiences (through the Internet) as well as in the resources on which they might draw for inspiration. Youth cultures may have local references and influences, but they are also increasingly global, allowing young people from very different parts of the world to recognize, identify with, and utilize similar styles of music, fashion, graphics, and dance. These global styles are not exclusively derived from the U.S. mainstream, but include other influences and countercultures. Contemporary popular music, for example, often incorporates a range of different styles, bringing them together to create new forms. For children who have experienced migration, separation, and new settlement and who are living their everyday lives with different cultural influences, these developments are particularly significant, and they also raise several interesting questions for educators and researchers involved with youth media work. What media do young migrants and refugees draw on when making their own productions? What role can media production play in communicating the experiences of migration? How are such productions received and interpreted by other youth? Can such productions form part of research looking into the lives and experiences of young people? What are the implications for media education, particularly in the context of intercultural exchange and learning? To examine some of these questions, we would like to discuss the production and exchange of a series of videos made by young people participating in the European project Children in Communication About Migration (CHICAM; www.chicam.net). The project comprised six European countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. CHICAM was an action research project funded by the European Commission (Framework 5 Program) and coordinated by the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, University of London. Six media clubs for refugee and migrant children ages 10 to 14 years were set up in the participating countries. The clubs met weekly after school over the course of a year, with some extra full days during school holidays. The clubs made videos and exchanged them on the internet. The research focused on particular themes (education, peer relations, family, and intercultural communication), and the videos made by the children were mainly on these topics. In this chapter, we look at a small set of productions within the genre of rap. We discuss two videos in some detail, focusing on how they were made, the ways in which they used global youth culture as their starting point, and their significance in the context of the young people's experiences of migration.
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- De Leeuw, Sonja, et al.
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Diasporic Mediated Spaces
- 2007
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In: Transnational Lives and the Media. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781349285907 - 9780230591905 ; , s. 175-194
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Within the context of migration and globalisation of media, questions concerning the transformation of culture have become manifest among communication scholars. Due to alterations in the global political and economic order, such as deregulation of the media market, the media landscape has undergone extensive transformations during last decades of the twentieth century. Moreover, processes of decolonisation and post-colonisation, the opening of borders in Europe and the outbreak of wars, have led to increased migration movements and generated a flood of people, who for different reasons are looking for new places and new homes. Cultural communities are no longer fixed in particular geographical spaces. As a result we are facing what Hall has called ‘the global post-modern’ (1996), involving the possible shifts of power relations and cultural hierarchies that in particular apply to diaspora, people connected to a cultural community, now living dispersed. What interests us here are the processes of cultural transformation that are taking place within ‘the global post-modern’ where increasing numbers of people are negotiating their identities between continuity and change, between similarity and difference. In the new place, senses of homely belonging are necessarily being constructed with references to both the new place and to what has been left behind.
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- De Leeuw, Sonja, et al.
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Migrant children's digital stories : Identity formation and self-representation through media production
- 2007
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In: European Journal of Cultural Studies. - London : Sage Publications. - 1367-5494 .- 1460-3551. ; 10:4, s. 447-464
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article starts out from the European research project Children in Communication about Migration (CHICAM). It addresses questions about intercultural communication via the internet and about media production as a vehicle for personal expression and identity formation among excluded youth groups. The article starts out from a cultural theoretical perspective linked to an empirical analysis, which is based on a series of selected productions made by 12 to 14-year-old refugees. The productions represent various programme genres and formats. The use of visual language such as representational conventions are highlighted in order to find out how identities are (re)created in the process of media production. The article touches upon these productions as they reflect not only experiences in dealing with cultural tensions between the 'old' and the 'new' world, but also their views on their future life and on the conditions that they find crucial in developing themselves.
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- Eklund, Monica, 1956-, et al.
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Educational Integration of Asylum-seeking and Refugee Children in Sweden
- 2013
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In: Migrants and Refugees. - Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing. - 9781623964665 - 9781623964672 - 9781623964689 ; , s. 73-93
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) have undergone substantial cultural and social changes due to increased migration from the 1970s onwards. While the Nordic region has become more multicultural in terms of demography, workforces and cultural practices, criticism of multicultural politics has increased. Despite different patterns of immigration in the Nordic countries, they all seem to share growing political tensions with regard to multiculturalism and migration. Many migrants have experiences of racism and discrimination (Eide & Nikunen, 2010:1). In all Nordic countries, right-wing conservative parties have strengthened their position. In Norway and Denmark, such parties have for some time been represented in the Parliament, and in Sweden, the Sweden Democrats came into the Parliament after the 2010 election. This party has on its agenda to reduce the costs for migration and dramatically change the national migration policy. They blame the government for being too permissive and generous. It is against this background the present report is written.
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Media Fascinations : Perspectives on Young People's Meaning Making
- 2003
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The media have always fascinated children and young people. The starting point for this book is to situate media research on children and young people in contemporary discourses on childhood and growing up in modern society. The authors present recent Scandinavian qualitative studies, sometimes case studies, on how children use, interpret and negotiate the meaning of popular television programs, computer games and Internet. "Media Fascinations" provides insights into such diverse issues as media literacy, the gendered nature of the media, the role of children's socio-cultural background as well as how programming content influences meaning making. It also brings up issues concerning commercial versus public service programming for children as well as specific content features such as children's interpretations of irony and parody. Throughout the book, as a subtext, the authors show their awareness of the methodological issues involved in studying children's media use.
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Mediated crossroads : Identity, youth culture and ethnicity : theoretical and methodological challenges
- 2008
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Editorial collection (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- The book Mediated Crossroads focuses on family, young people, ethnicity and the media in the context of increasing migration in contemporary Western societies. The book includes studies covering both media use and reception. It reflects on the growing interest in ethnic minorities – both on the macro and micro level – within media and cultural studies. The contributing authors present empirical work on the media and cultural practices of migrants in a wide range of countries such as Belgium, Finland, Greece, Israel, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K, and the empirical data are framed by theoretical discussions on a more general level. The collection of studies is characterized by a discursive, everyday life perspective, in which concrete cases of migrant life – with a focus on children, women, families or young people – in relation to media and popular culture are analysed. The book deals with central issues in ethnicity and media research, such as how diasporic groups negotiate their identities, cultural experiences and tradi tions in everyday life in an environment that is increasingly permeated by various media, not least the Internet.
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- Passani, Antonella, et al.
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School as an Arena for Education, Integration and Socialisation : Deliverables 9 and 10, February 2004
- 2004
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Reports (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- We set up six media clubs for refugee and migrant children (ages 10-14) in six European countries. The clubs met weekly after school hours over a year with some extra full days during school holidays. The clubs made videos and exchanged them on the internet. In each participating country, researchers and media educators employed by the project collaborated with youth workers and teachers, already working with the children. The clubs became social centres as well as a place to learn about and make media. Using the internet we established a communications network to facilitate the sharing of children’s media productions, in order to generate dialogues between them. As a research project CHICAM addressed three major aspects of structural change in contemporary European society: the increase in global migration, the uses of new communication technologies, and the specific needs of children. Through the work of the clubs it focused on the social and cultural worlds of refugee and migrant children in centres across Europe; and was mainly concerned with first generation refugees or migrants, for whom the experience of re-location is relatively recent. The children came from many different countries including Iraq, Sierra Leone, Angola, Somalia, Albania, Kosovo, Columbia, Turkey. We investigated how these children represent and express their experiences of migration into the different host countries, and how their use of new media might enable their perspectives to inform the development of European educational and cultural policies. In the process, we were seeking to identify how particular experiences of reception, educational practice, family re-unification and community involvement may more effectively promote social inclusion and economic and cultural integration.
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- Rydin, Ingegerd, 1946-
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Att lägga smaken till rätta
- 2001
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In: Tvärsnitt : humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning. - : Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga forskningsrådet (HSFR). - 0348-7997. ; 23:3, s. 2-15
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- Rydin, Ingegerd, 1946-
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Børns reception
- 2010. - 2
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In: Medie- och kommunikationsleksikon. - Frederiksberg : Samfundslitteratur. - 9788759314814 ; , s. 70-71
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Rydin, Ingegerd
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Children's TV Programs on the Global market
- 2000
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In: News from the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen. - Göteborg : Nordicom. ; 1, s. 17-20
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)
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- Rydin, Ingegerd, 1946-
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Deltagarkulturer och ungas digitala berättelser
- 2010
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In: Norden och världen : perspektiv från forskningen om medier och kommunikation : en bok tillägnad Ulla Carlsson = The nordic countries and the world : perspectives from research on media and communication : a book for Ulla Carlsson. - Göteborg : Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation, Göteborgs universitet. - 9789188212849 ; , s. 149-159
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- Rydin, Ingegerd, 1946-, et al.
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Entering national ideological horizons through Swedish media
- 2009
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The proposed paper examines how various Swedish media like television, teletext, radio and newspapers were used among migrants as a means to be informed about the Swedish society as well as a means to actually learn the Swedish language. Central concepts are national ideological horizons related to issues concerning citizenship and participation. The discussion is based on data collected in a project, in which in-depth interviews with migrant families (children and their parents) from countries in South Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia were carried out. A major finding was that the families when they were newly arrived relied heavily on mediated experiences. The media played a role of conveying knowledge about the new society and to learn the Swedish language through for example children’s programs. In families where the parents had limited knowledge of Swedish the children even sometimes got the role of translating news for their parents. Also the importance of personal networks was mentioned as a way of being informed about national as well as local matters. The chapter will frame this type of findings into a discussion on the relation between national ideological horizons of e.g. “Swedishness” and issues of identity, citizenship and participation.
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- Rydin, Ingegerd, 1946-, et al.
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Evaluation of implementation of the "General recommendations for education of newly arrived pupils" issued by the Swedish Agency for Education
- 2011
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Reports (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This evaluation is a part of the project “Integrating Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children in the Educational Systems of EU Member States: Evaluation and Promotion of Current Best Practices” (INTEGRACE). The main objective of the INTEGRACE project is to promote the educational integration of refugee and asylum-seeking children (RASC) in the EU by developing common standards and sharing best practices in policies and programmes development and evaluation, with a specific focus on the needs of vulnerable groups (e.g. children who have been victims of crime, unaccompanied children).The main purpose of this evaluation of best practices concerning refugee and asylum-seeking children (RASC) will be “[...] to analyze to what extent and under what conditions, these practices could be replicated in a different context.” The principle aim of this evaluation and of the SIA to be conducted in Slovenia and Bulgaria will be to assess the possibility of replication and the social impacts of the eventual implementation of a practice which has already been identified and evaluated as a good one in some of the old member states of EU.The aim of the conducted evaluation is to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from old to new EU member States, thereby allowing the latter to deal more effectively with the their new migration situation. Furthermore, the evaluation at hand will provide the grounds for developing a common EU framework to addressing the educational needs of RASC in the near future.In the Swedish country report a number of so-called best practices aimed for RASC were described. Based on responses and discussions with the partner in Slovenia, a case was chosen on the implementation of the “General recommendations for newly arrived pupils” in three schools in Bollnäs, a municipality, located in the middle of Sweden.This report, will therefore analyse in detail how these “General recommendations” are implemented into the Swedish school system in light of an evaluation conducted by the authority The Schools Inspectorate (SI), but also provide the reader with a short note on the reasons for the Swedish National Agency for Education to formulate these recommendations concerning education for newcomers.The concept “newly arrived” refers, according to the “General recommendations”, to compulsory, special, upper secondary or special upper secondary school children or youth who arrive in Sweden near the beginning of or during a specific school year. They are not native speakers of Swedish and are as a rule unable to speak or understand Swedish; finding themselves in Sweden on different terms and under different circumstances. Many have a permanent residence permit already upon arrival. Others have obtained a residence permit after a long wait in a refugee camp or lodging with acquaintances. Some are asylum seekers. Of the latter group, most have arrived with their parents, whereas others are unaccompanied and have no legal guardian. Some arrive based on their connections to refugees with a residence permit. Others have come after a parent has married a Swedish citizen. Still others are in hiding in the hope of revision of a previously denied asylum application. Finally, some are so-called paperless children – children or youth present in Sweden who have not applied for a residence permit and who are, thus, not registered with the Migration Board. A child or an adolescent coming to school may, thus, have arrived directly from another country or may have been present in Sweden for a shorter or longer period of time. Thus, being “newly arrived” may mean being new to the school but previously present in Sweden, in some cases having learned Swedish to some extent.4 In other words, behind the term “newly arrived” we find a vast range of children where refugee and asylumseeking children (RASC) are also included.
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- Rydin, Ingegerd, 1946-, et al.
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Everyday Life and the Internet in Diaspora Families : Girls tell their stories
- 2010
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In: Young people, ICTs and democracy. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9789189471870 ; , s. 147-169
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The concept of citizenship is normally related to disciplines such as jurisprudence, political science and political philosophy. However, media scholars have started to discuss and explore a wider definition of the concept of citizenship incorporating the subjective sides, such as identity, for example collective identity and how citizenship is exercised in everyday practices. More precisely, how individuals participate in the society in which they live, for example the role of the media for information seeking and learning. This chapter examines the role of television and internet, among immigrants (mostly families with children in the ages of 12-16) living in Sweden. It focuses specifically on issues concerning experiences of cultural change, that is on learning a new culture and language and how different media are appropriated for different citizenship purposes. Issues of relevance are: information seeking, discussion and opinion-making both concerning issues related to Sweden and to the homeland (the country of origin) or how Swedish media output is valued as compared to ‘homeland’s output, and finally how media are used for language learning. The chapter is based on tentative results gained from data collected within the project ‘Media practices in the new country’ and involves immigrant families from countries such as Greece, Kurdistan, Iran, Lebanon, Somalia, Syria, Turkey and Vietnam. The project has an ethnographic approach, implying extended in-depths interviews in the homes of the families as well as to some extent visual methods, such as disposable cameras (with the children).
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