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Heinz Bonfadelli | Media Use of Ethnic Minority Youth
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stressed aspects like “active media use”, “self-socialization” or the dissolution
of traditional identity concepts.
An important methodological objective of the project was to develop an
instrument to gather quantitative as well as qualitative data concerning the role
and functions of traditional media (print and electronic) and new media
(computer and internet) for children and youths of immigrant backgrounds. In
addition, a special focus of the qualitative research was the involvement of
visual data in the research process.
Furthermore, the project’s aim was to accumulate knowledge based on
empirical data for the first time in Switzerland about the complex relationship
between identity-formation processes and media use in the lives of young
people of migrant background. The research findings demonstrate differences
in media habits between young people of Swiss background and those from a
migrant background. But besides ethnicity, we observed even greater
differences in various areas of media consumption concerning factors like
personal level of education, social status of the family, or gender. As a
consequence, a complex multifactor model is needed to fully understand the use
and effects of media in the lives of young people. Based on empirical data, the
project attempts to sensitize social science research in Switzerland for the issue
of ‘migration and media’ and to establish a network of experts for media and
migration in the context of our two international workshops.
In particular, the results of the quantitative study stress differences
between migrant and Swiss young people and should give school teachers a
better understanding of the media behavior of their pupils in order to prepare
the ground for developing specific courses of action in schools or for
measures directed towards families to provide better equal opportunities to
both groups. Together with the results of the qualitative investigation, the ways
media use and consumption are related to the identity-formation processes of
youths from an immigrant background have become manifest.
The project demonstrates manifold influences of the media on migrants
who live in a state between integration into a new socio-cultural environment,
bonding relations to their old diaspora communities, and the conflicting
demands of bridging these different cultures. Under these circumstances, it is
necessary to find new perspectives for successful integration. The concept of
hybrid identity, which integrates “here” and “there” in the construction of
identities, provides new impulses for the politics of immigrant integration. It
accepts that integration is not a process of fundamental change of identity –
which, in fact, would be a process of alienation. In contrast to conservative
approaches, hybrid identities should be interpreted as positive resources for
the development of a particular position or attitude in a multicultural society.
Media – Migration – Integration
European and North American Perspectives
- Titel
- Media – Migration – Integration
- Untertitel
- European and North American Perspectives
- Autoren
- Rainer Geissler
- Horst Pöttker
- Verlag
- transcript Verlag
- Datum
- 2009
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-8376-1032-1
- Abmessungen
- 15.0 x 22.4 cm
- Seiten
- 250
- Schlagwörter
- Integration, Media, Migration, Europe, North America, Sociology of Media, Sociology
- Kategorie
- Medien