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Heinz Bonfadelli | Media Use of Ethnic Minority Youth
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In the public debate on the digital divide, one can find hypotheses assuming a
lack of access to the internet on the part of migrants.A closer look at access to
the internet in Switzerland (Table 9) demonstrates that there is not only a gap
concerning ethnical background, but also concerning gender, age, the
socioeconomic status, and educational background of the family. Taken
together, boys, older adolescents, and those coming from more affluent
families have better access to the internet, at least within the family.
4.6 Media Use
Not surprisingly in light of similar studies in other countries (d’Haenens 2003;
Weiß/Trebbe 2001), Swiss adolescents listen to the radio more frequently and
for more hours per week than adolescents from an immigrant background.
Young people of immigrant background spend more hours watching TV,
whereas the frequency of watching TV does not differ from the TV habits of
their Swiss peers. The segment of those who do not use the internet at all is
higher among the immigrants, but, on the average, young people of immigrant
background spend more time online than their Swiss counterparts. Whereas
there are no differences between Swiss youth and others concerning the use of
magazines and newspapers, students of immigrant background read books
significantly less frequently and fewer hours per week than Swiss adolescents.
in % Swiss Migrants Italy Turkey Ex-Yugoslavia
Newspaper 47 7 44 11 36 12 38 15 46 13
Books 43 5 33 11 31 13 34 7 33 13
Magazines 41 5 30 13 27 15 22 16 30 13
TV 89 3 96 0 99 0 94 2 95 0
Video 25 11 35 8 36 9 27 10 41 3
DVD 28 10 41 8 39 8 37 7 47 8
Computer 53 4 60 7 48 10 60 7 63 9
Internet 67 7 71 11 61 19 72 14 73 8
Radio 70 5 50 14 55 10 35 19 49 17
Music (CD) 89 1 90 1 89 1 96 1 91 1
Playstation 31 30 34 27 33 22 40 19 30 30
Table 10: Frequency of Media Use (“At Least Several Times per Week” vs. “Never”)
Media – Migration – Integration
European and North American Perspectives
- Title
- Media – Migration – Integration
- Subtitle
- European and North American Perspectives
- Authors
- Rainer Geissler
- Horst Pöttker
- 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