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  • 1. Christopoulou, Nadina
    et al.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Children’s Social Relations in Peer Groups: Inclusion, exclusion and friendship2004Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [en]

    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.

  • 2.
    Cuesta, Marta
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Eklund, Monica
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Research on Education and Learning within the Department of Teacher Education (FULL).
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Witt, Ann-Katrin
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Innovative Pedagogical Methods in Higher Education2013Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    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?

  • 3.
    Cuesta, Marta
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare, Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI).
    Eklund, Monica
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Research on Education and Learning within the Department of Teacher Education (FULL).
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Witt, Ann-Katrin
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Using Facebook as a Co-learning Community in Higher Education2016In: Learning, Media & Technology, ISSN 1743-9884, E-ISSN 1743-9892, Vol. 41, no 1, p. 55-72Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    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 habituscracking 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

  • 4.
    de Block, Liesbeth
    et al.
    University of London, London, Great Britain.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Digital rapping in media productions: Intercultural communication through youth culture2006In: Digital generations: Children, young people, and new media / [ed] David Buckingham; Rebekah Willett, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006, p. 295-312Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    (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.

  • 5.
    De Leeuw, Sonja
    et al.
    University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Diasporic Mediated Spaces2007In: Transnational Lives and the Media: Re-Imagining Diaspora / [ed] Olga G. Bailey, Myria Georgiou, Ramaswami Harindranath, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, p. 175-194Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    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.

  • 6.
    De Leeuw, Sonja
    et al.
    University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Migrant children's digital stories: Identity formation and self-representation through media production2007In: European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494, E-ISSN 1460-3551, Vol. 10, no 4, p. 447-464Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    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.

  • 7.
    Eklund, Monica
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Teacher Education (LUT), Research on Education and Learning within the Department of Teacher Education (FULL).
    Högdin, Sara
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI).
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Educational Integration of Asylum-seeking and Refugee Children in Sweden2013In: Migrants and Refugees: Equitable Education for Displaced Populations / [ed] Elinor L. Brown, University of Kentucky & Anna Krasteva, New Bulgarian University, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2013, p. 73-93Chapter in book (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    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.

  • 8.
    Eklund, Monica
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Teacher Education (LUT), Research on Education and Learning within the Department of Teacher Education (FULL).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Högdin, Sara
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI).
    Good practices in the field of educational integration of refugee and asylum-seeking children: Country report : Sweden2011In: Integrating Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children in the Educational Systems of EU Member States / [ed] Andrey Nonchev and Nikolai Tagarov, Sofia, Bulgaria: Center for the Study of Democracy , 2011, , p. 35p. 182-214Chapter in book (Refereed)
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  • 9.
    Eklund, Monica
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Teacher Education (LUT), Research on Education and Learning within the Department of Teacher Education (FULL).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Högdin, Sara
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI).
    Integrating refugee and asylum-seeking children in the educational systems: Country report : Norway2011Report (Refereed)
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  • 10.
    Högdin, Sara
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare, Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI).
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Eklund, Monica
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Research on Education and Learning within the Department of Teacher Education (FULL).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Integrating refugee and asylum-seeking children in the educational systems: Country report : Denmark2011Report (Refereed)
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  • 11.
    Passani, Antonella
    et al.
    CHICAM Italy.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    School as an Arena for Education, Integration and Socialisation: Deliverables 9 and 10, February 20042004Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [en]

    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.

  • 12.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Linköpings universitet, Linköping, Sverige.
    Att lägga smaken till rätta2001In: Tvärsnitt : humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning, ISSN 0348-7997, Vol. 23, no 3, p. 2-15Article in journal (Refereed)
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  • 13.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Barnens röster: Program för barn i Sveriges radio och television 1925-19992000Book (Other academic)
  • 14.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Børns reception2010In: Medie- och kommunikationsleksikon / [ed] Søren Kolstrup, Gunhild Agger, Per Jauert & Kim Schrøder, Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur, 2010, 2, p. 70-71Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 15.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Linköping univ., Dept. Child Studies, Linköping, Sweden.
    Children and Media Psychology in Sweden: Examples from Empirical Work1995In: Psychology of Media in Europe: The State of the Art - Perspectives for the Future / [ed] WinterhoffSpurk, P, Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag , 1995, p. 151-161Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 16.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Children's Television Reception: Perspectives on Media Literacy, Identification and Gender2003In: Media Fascinations: Perspectives on Young People's Meaning Making / [ed] Ingegerd Rydin, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2003, p. 77-93Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 17.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Children's TV Programs on the Global market2000In: News from the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen, Vol. 1, p. 17-20Article in journal (Other academic)
  • 18.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Deltagarkulturer och ungas digitala berättelser2010In: 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 / [ed] Þorbjörn Broddason, Ullamaija Kivikuru, Birgitte Tufte, Lennart Weibull, Helge Østbye, Göteborg: Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation, Göteborgs universitet , 2010, p. 149-159Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 19.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Discourses on Cultural Diversity in Public Service Media in the Nordic Region: A Focus on Ethnic Minority Groups2013In: Public service media from a Nordic Horizon: Politics, markets, programming and users / [ed] Ulla Carlsson, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2013, p. 131-159Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 20.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Från 'Goddag flickor och pojkar' till ' Hej alla barn': Barnet i svensk radio och TV under 1900-talet1999In: Børn, unge og medier: Nordiske forskningsperspektiver / [ed] Christa Lykke Christensen, Göteborg: Nordiskt informationscenter för medie- och kommunikationsforskning (Nordicom) , 1999, p. 69-93Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 21.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Försvinner barndomen med Internet?: Reflektioner kring forskning och debatt om möjligheter och risker2010In: Barn och unga i den digitala mediekulturen / [ed] Ulla Carlsson, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2010, p. 19-36Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 22.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    How children make sense of TV-narratives1998In: Cultural cognition: new perspectives in audience theory / [ed] Birgitta Höijer and Anita Werner, Göteborg: Nordicom , 1998, p. 16 s.-Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 23.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    How the local meets the Global in Children's programming2000Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 24.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Hur ett fritt barn växer fram: Synen på barn i radio- och TV-dramatik. Några exempel2000In: Barn, teater, drama / [ed] Karin Helander, Stockholm: Centrum för barnkulturforskning. Stockholms universitet. , 2000, p. 153--169Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 25.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Identifikation2010In: Medie- og kommunikationsleksikon / [ed] Søren Kolstrup, Gunhild Agger, Per Jauert & Kim Schrøder, Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur, 2010, 2, p. 200-201Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 26.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Introduction2003In: Media Fascinations: Perspectives on Young People's Meaning Making / [ed] Ingegerd Rydin, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2003, p. 9-14Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 27.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Kinder im Umgang mit Märchen im Fernsehen: Ergebnisse einer schwedischen Studie2000In: Televizon. Internationales Zentralinstitut für das Jugend- und Bildungsfernsehen (IZI), ISSN 0943-4755, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 17-23Article in journal (Refereed)
  • 28.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Department of Child Studies, Linköpings university, Linköping, Sweden.
    Making Sense of TV-narratives: Children's readings of a fairy tale1996Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The present study deals with young children's reading and reception of television fiction. Theoretically, the study is inter-disciplinary, combining text-reader oriented approaches within literature theory and sociocultural approaches within psychology and sociology. A television program within the genre of fairy tales is analyzed by using both narratological and psychological theoretical frameworks. Issues of intertextuality, dialogism, narrative codes, cinematic and literary conventions are considered in the analysis.

    Empirically, the study takes a qualitative approach and the process of reception is studied by in-depth interviews of 86 six and eight years old children. The interview is regarded as a social practice or meeting-place between interviewer and informant. This approach has roots in Piaget's early work, in which he employed and developed the méthode clinique as well as in Vygotsky's sociocultural psychology. Sociocultural variation is primarily studied by focus on gender and age.

    One analysis concerns narrative coherence and how the children "hatched the plot". It appeared as if many of the younger children had difficulties in producing a coherent narrative of the program, whereas most of the older children did. The younger children often focused a particular scene or episode. Apart from age, schooling experience is assumed to explain these differences. Another analysis focuses on how children master the narrative codes of the story and the process of identification. The girls seemed to be more emotionally involved in the story and believed it was "real" to a greater degree than the boys. The analysis shows how emotional involvement and identification play a role in the interpretative processes, i.e. how emotion and cognition are interrelated in media reception.

    Methodological issues are addressed, for example, how drawings can be used in the study of media reception. The children were asked to make drawings in relation to the program, which can be seen as a "different" reading, in which children project what is of subjective importance to them.

    Cultural dispositions represent another type of sociocultural variation. The older children's literary repertoires and other cultural dispositions were studied in relation to their reconstructions of the television narrative.

    The dissertation challenges such notions as "children's understanding of television" as a unitary concept and points to a variety of readings. Finally, the dissertation has implications for media literacy and media education.

  • 29.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Media Fascinations: Perspectives on Young People's Meaning Making2003Collection (editor) (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    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.

  • 30.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Media use by immigrants2007In: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media / [ed] Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2007, p. 395-398Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 31.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Reception av en senmodern Törnrosa-saga: Hur 6- och 8-åringar ger mening åt en TV-berättelse1998In: Digital barndom / [ed] Marit Haldar och Ivar Frønes, Oslo: Ad Notam, Gyldendal , 1998, p. 89-108Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 32.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Television2004In: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood In History and Society / [ed] Paula S. Fass, New York: Macmillan Reference , 2004Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
  • 33.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    De Leeuw, Sonja
    University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
    Göcmen Cocuklarin Dijital Hikayeleri: Medya Yapimlari Aracihgiyla Kimlik Bicimlenmesi ve Kendini Ifade Etme2010In: Cankiri Karatekin Universitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitusu Dergisi, ISSN 1309-3738, Vol. 1, no 2, p. 11-32Article in journal (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    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.

  • 34.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    De Leeuw, Sonja
    Utrecht University, Netherlands.
    Self expressive media production in real and virtual space by migrant children2005Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    This paper will present different aspects of a European funded research project, CHICAM, Children in Communication about Migration. The project set up six media clubs across Europe in which refugee and migrant children made videos about aspects of their lives and exchanged them on the internet. The aim was to explore ways in which particular groups of children could use new media technologies to represent their experiences and influence policy. The project has raised several important questions about intercultural communication via the internet, about media production as a vehicle for personal expression and identity formation, about using new media technologies with excluded youth (in this case refugee and migrant children), about how children conceptualise and become an audience for peer productions and about using media production as a research tool with children. We will be showing and discussing videos made by the children in the project. The project has primarily applied ethnographic methods such as field observations and ethnographic interviewing. We have also displayed discourse analysis on the productions children have made. In this particular paper we focus on children’s production practices, by contextualizing these practices with respect to the migratory situation of the children involved, as could be observed in e.g. how they were able to conceptualize and represent their own memories and past. Also we will point to relevant intercultural communication discourses involved. We also highlight, by applying discourse analysis , the representational conventions that the children choose to work with, the visual language they used to communicate and also possible intercultural aspects of media production work. The CHICAM project has made clear the different possibilities of different formats in terms of self representation and visual communication. Examples of various productions from the project will be analyzed and discussed. The paper finally offers some conclusions and implications for further media work with children, for example useful concepts and formats.

  • 35.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Eklund, Monica
    Halmstad University, School of Teacher Education (LUT), Research on Education and Learning within the Department of Teacher Education (FULL).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Högdin, Sara
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI).
    Evaluation of implementation of the "General recommendations for education of newly arrived pupils" issued by the Swedish Agency for Education2011Report (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    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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  • 36.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM). Halmstad University, School of Teacher Education (LUT), Research on Education and Learning within the Department of Teacher Education (FULL).
    Enfants de familles immigrées: les pratiques médiatiques dans le pays d'accueil2008In: Des jeunes et des médias en Europe: Nouvelles tendances de la recherche: actes de l'École de'ete organisée a l'Université de Crete (Grèce) en septembre 2005 / [ed] Geneviève Jacquinot-Delaunay, Evangelia Kourti, Paris: L'Harmattan , 2008, p. 41-64Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 37.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Entering national ideological horizons through Swedish media2009Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    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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  • 38.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Everyday Life and the Internet in Diaspora Families: Girls tell their stories2010In: Young people, ICTs and democracy: Theories, policies, identities, and websites / [ed] Tobias Olsson & Peter Dahlgren, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2010, p. 147-169Chapter in book (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    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).

  • 39.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Everyday Mediated Practices of Citizenship: Struggling with a New Language and Culture Through Media2011In: Media in Motion: Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region / [ed] Elisabeth Eide & Kaarina Nikunen, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, p. 237-253Chapter in book (Other academic)
  • 40.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    From TV Viewing to Participatory Cultures: Reflections on Childhood in Transition2010In: Children and Youth in the Digital Media Culture: From a Nordic Horizon / [ed] Ulla Carlsson, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2010, p. 87-101Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 41.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Identität, Staatsburgerschaft, kultureller Wandel und das Generationsverhältnis2007In: Medien und Migration: Europa als multikultureller Raum? / [ed] Heinz Bonfadelli, Heinz Moser, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007, p. 273-302Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 42.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Political Communication (POL).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Internet as a communicative space for identity construction among diaspora families in Sweden2008In: Mediated Crossroads: Identity, youth culture and ethnicity : theoretical and methodological challenges / [ed] Ingegerd Rydin, Ulrika Sjöberg, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2008, p. 193-214Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 43.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Political Communication (POL).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Introduction: Establishing the Context of the Book2008In: Mediated crossroads: Identity, youth culture and ethnicity : theoretical and methodological challenges / [ed] Ingegerd Rydin, Ulrika Sjöberg, Göteborg: Nordicom, 2008, p. 9-16Chapter in book (Refereed)
  • 44.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Media Practices in the New Country: Children, Youth, Family and Ethnicity2005Conference paper (Other academic)
    Abstract [en]

    The paper has its focus on the project Media practices in the new country. Children, youth,family and ethnicity’, which is funded by the Swedish Research Council (2004-2006). Thepaper reflects upon theoretical issues, as well as empirical data from a pilot study conductedin 2004 and on new data from 2005. The overall aim of this project is to highlight mediapractices among families with immigrant background living in Sweden. One key area in thisproject is the role of the media in the process of construction, reinforcement andreconstruction of identities for families stranded between different cultures. The project alsoexamines the media as part of the discursive everyday life between children and adults andits significance within group- solidarity as well as citizenship objectives. The specific issuesstudied are for example: 1) the role of various media have in keeping oneself informed aboutthe Swedish society and ones native country, 2) the forms of relations that are created andmaintained through the use of internet and other types of mediated communication, and 3)the ways media are used in adults’ and young people’s creation and re-formation of socialand cultural identity. In the attempt to explore these issues an ethnographic approach isapplied, involving for example use of visual means of communication such as photographsand contextualized in-depth interviews in the homes of the families. Theoretically, theproject takes its departure from media studies as well as cultural studies. In such a disciplineand research genre, the appropriation of the media is seen as a product of specific socioculturalcontexts (both on macro and micro level). In other words, a process where culturalproducts and experiences impart and afford a specific significance. Within childhoodresearch, the project has its locus within social constructionism as it is formulated by theethnographically oriented approaches such as sociology of childhood.

  • 45.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    New challenges for public service when addressing young people in the blogosphere era2012Conference paper (Refereed)
  • 46.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM).
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Women and young girls tell their stories on migration and media practices: Generational order and identity positions2010Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    Migrant women is an important group in the debate about citizenship and participation as studies have shown that they (at least in some ethnic communities) seem to be more isolated from the broader society compared to men. Studies have indicated that migrant women risk marginalization as they are caught in an intersection of being immigrants and women (Gillespie, 1995; Berger, 2004). However, gender issues have so far got little attention, as compared to studies on religion and class. This paper will therefore look more specifically at gender, in this case women and their lived experiences of migration and the role of media in the migration process. Special attention is devoted to whether the Internet may be used as a means of empowerment and its significance for social, cultural and religious purposes and participation. Also, implications for exercising citizenship practices, both in the homeland and in the “new” country are highlighted. Women’s specific Internet use will be analyzed with relation to their everyday experiences (and life as a family) but also in relation to these women’s concerns about exclusion/inclusion (social, economic, political) in society. The concerns raised in this paper evoke the broader question about citizenship in the sense of participation, i.e. the more active involvement of citizens in shaping their futures. We draw upon the concept of ‘fragmented citizenship’ here (Wiener, 1997) as it acknowledges the potential distinction between the notion of belonging and the more legal aspect of nationality. For diasporic communities, the notion of fragmented citizenship is an everyday experience, as waiting for a residence permit (legal belonging) can be at odds with participation in the new society as migrants and residents at the same time. The analysis will also be framed within current discussions on civic culture (Dahlgren, 2006) and the need to rethink traditional parameters of citizenship, and its focus on the public sphere, and instead look into the terrain of the private and the experiential domain of everyday life. Such a discussion may increase our understanding of how diasporic women negotiate both a ‘diasporic gender identity’ in terms of old and new belongings as well as their capacity for participation and citizenship, that is, empowerment and recognition in the private and public spheres. Nancy Fraser (1992) argues from a gender perspective, in her well known critique of habermasian theory of the public sphere, for multiplicity of publics as a means to create spaces of participation especially for marginalized groups. And therefore the analysis has also to consider that the rise of communicative spaces is not exclusively indebted to new communication technology: there are other spaces of participation relevant in the everyday lives of migrant women that also need to be identified. The paper is based on an in-depth study with migrant families living in Sweden that was carried out during a period of three years implying interviews and observations in home-settings. The methodological approach is a phenomenological and narrative perspective in order to understand a small group of women’s perceptions and interpretations of daily life in the light of their Internet practices.

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  • 47.
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Women in diasporic communities tell their stories: A generational perspective2010Conference paper (Refereed)
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  • 48.
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Discourses about media portrayals of migrant families2009Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    If they were to provide an equal flow of information and promote communication among people, the media might be seen as ideal facilitators of a living democracy. However, in today’s media-saturated society with increased access to different media (e.g., minority, transnational, national and local media), claims are being raised that democracy is under threat and that multicultural civil society is tending towards fragmentation, encouraging exclusion rather than inclusion between cultural groups. Do specific cultural readings encourage the formation of, for example, so-called ‘media ghettos’ and/or ‘multiple public sphericules’?The present paper examines how media coverage of migrants and their home country is perceived among migrant families in Sweden. Most research thus far has focused on the media text rather than on media uses and practices. But by applying a media- ethnographic discursive approach, we have directed our attention to the migrants themselves in order to illuminate the complex relationship between different readings of certain media texts. Of importance is attaining knowledge about the role of the media in migrants’ perception of Swedish society and “Swedes”, but also about how one looks at oneself as a migrant. The study shows that there are close interconnections between specific media readings and the perception of, for example, dominating discourses in society related to immigration. Several key issues are discussed among the informants in order to confirm cultural affiliations such as the search for the ‘truth’ and media objectivity, seeking alternative portrayals of reality from transnational media (e.g., Al- Jazeera). Other topics raised are cultural imperialism, non-ethical Western journalism in terms of lifestyle, values and violence, but also the need to belong to a national mediated public sphere. The paper shows that, despite predominantly critical voices about media coverage, media use is not only a matter of minority and diasporic media displacing local and national media, but rather that the informants prefer to use a mixture of different media.

  • 49.
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Rydin, Ingegerd
    Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science, Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM).
    Discourses on media portrayals of immigrants and the homeland2008In: Proceedings of the European Communication Research and Education Association conference Barcelona, 25-28 November, 2008, ECREA , 2008, p. 26-Conference paper (Refereed)
    Abstract [en]

    If they were to provide an equal flow of information and promote communication among people, the media might be seen as ideal facilitators of a living democracy. However, in today’s media-saturated society with increased access to different media (e.g., minority, transnational, national and local media), claims are being raised that democracy is under threat and that multicultural civil society is tending towards fragmentation, encouraging exclusion rather than inclusion between cultural groups. Do specific cultural readings encourage the formation of, for example, so-called ‘media ghettos’ and/or ‘multiple public sphericules’? The present paper examines how media coverage of migrants and their home country is perceived among migrant families in Sweden. Most research thus far has focused on the media text rather than on media uses and practices. But by applying a media-ethnographic discursive approach, we have directed our attention to the migrants themselves in order to illuminate the complex relationship between different readings of certain media texts. Of importance is attaining knowledge about the role of the media in migrants’ perception of Swedish society and “Swedes”, but also about how one looks at oneself as a migrant. The study shows that there are close interconnections between specific media readings and the perception of, for example, dominating discourses in society related to immigration. Several key issues are discussed among the informants in order to confirm cultural affiliations such as the search for the ‘truth’ and media objectivity, seeking alternative portrayals of reality from transnational media (e.g., Al-Jazeera). Other topics raised are cultural imperialism, non-ethical Western journalism in terms of lifestyle, values and violence, but also the need to belong to a national mediated public sphere. The paper shows that, despite predominantly critical voices about media coverage, media use is not only a matter of minority and diasporic media displacing local and national media, but rather that the informants prefer to use a mixture of different media.

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  • 50.
    Sjöberg, Ulrika
    et al.
    Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Media and Communication Science.
    Rydin, IngegerdHalmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), Center for Social Analysis (CESAM), Centre for Studies of Political Science, Communication and Media (CPKM), Political Communication (POL).
    Mediated crossroads: Identity, youth culture and ethnicity : theoretical and methodological challenges2008Collection (editor) (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
    Abstract [en]

    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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