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Heinz Bonfadelli | Media Use of Ethnic Minority Youth
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3.1 Research Issues
The research project referred to above was funded by the Swiss National
Science Foundation (NRP 52: Childhood, Youth and Intergenerational
Relationships) and examined the relationship between culture-specific
characteristics (in addition to other socio-demographic factors) and the
function and role the media and ICT play in identity-formation processes for
children and adolescents living in a multicultural setting. In particular, our
study specifically addressed the following questions:
- What role do mass media and ICT (access, usage, functions, favourite
programmes etc.) play in the lives of Swiss youth in comparison to
young people from an immigrant background?
- To what extent is media use determined by characteristics of cultural
background (country of origin, religion) in comparison to socio-
demographic factors (gender, education or social background of family)?
- What role do media and ICT play in the formation of identity for the
inter-generational setting of immigrant life?
3.2 Methods
The project approaches the issue βmedia, migration and youthβ from an
interdisciplinary perspective and is divided into two closely linked studies consisting
of:
- A quantitative study (Heinz Bonfadelli & Priska Bucher, University of
Zurich), which analyzes the use of both old and new media, cultural
identity and attitudes toward other cultures among immigrant youths by
comparing them with a similar sample of indigenous youths (both
parents born and raised in Switzerland). Eighty-eight classes in the
greater Zurich metropolitan area with a high rate (>25%) of children of
immigrant background were visited during the summer of 2004. The
sample of 1486 students is composed of 49% female and 51% male
students and is also well balanced regarding age (12-16 years). About a
third of the students are indigenous Swiss; two thirds are students of
immigrant background.
- A qualitative study (Heinz Moser & Thomas Hermann & Christa
Hanetseder, School of Education, Zurich) was based on different
strategies of ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with
members of 8 Turkish/Kurdish families. The methodological approach
Media β Migration β Integration
European and North American Perspectives
- Title
- Media β Migration β Integration
- Subtitle
- European and North American Perspectives
- Authors
- Rainer Geissler
- Horst PΓΆttker
- Publisher
- transcript Verlag
- Date
- 2009
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-8376-1032-1
- Size
- 15.0 x 22.4 cm
- Pages
- 250
- Keywords
- Integration, Media, Migration, Europe, North America, Sociology of Media, Sociology
- Category
- Medien