Between Al-Jazeera and CNN: Indicators of media use by Belgian ethnic minority youth
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Dave Sinardet
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Dimitri Mortelmans
Abstract
Media use by ethnic minorities is increasingly becoming a politicized matter, appearing regularly in discussions on multiculturalism and integration. In a globalizing media-landscape, the rise of ethnic and global ethnic media paradoxically enables ethnic minorities to maintain links with forms of ethnic identity. Especially interesting in this respect is media use by adolescents, often on the crossroads between different cultures. This article departs from the notion concerned with the extent to which media use of adolescents from ethnic minorities actually differs from that of their Belgian counterparts, and instead focuses on the role ethnicity plays as a determinant of media use when weighed up against other socio-economic or education-related variables. Based on a large-scale Belgian survey of 12- to 18-year-olds, this article shows, amongst other results, that the importance of ethnic-cultural background as an indicator for media use by adolescents from ethnic minorities ought to be placed into perspective.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Design effects in people-meter panel research
- Between Al-Jazeera and CNN: Indicators of media use by Belgian ethnic minority youth
- Are national communication journals still necessary? A case study and some suggestions
- Using ‘new’ data sources for ‘old’ newspaper research: Developing guidelines for data collection
- Revisiting analyses of media-war relationships in times of contingency and fluidity
- Book Reviews
- Contributors
- Contents volume 31 (2006)
