Being a Young Citizen in Estonia: An Exploration of Young People’s Civic and Media Experiences

Kaun, Anne

doi:10.26530/oapen_474311

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“…Here, the analytical concept of public connection is a means to grasp beyond the predefined political and allow for an exploration of how different groups of citizens direct their attention to issues of shared concern (Couldry et al, 2007). As Kaun (2012: 39) stresses in a critical discussion of the merits of the public connection concept, we need to keep in mind that what exactly constitutes issues of shared concern is the subject of constant struggle and negotiation. Public connection invites analysis not only of use across media but of other kinds of connections, whether based on civil society organizations or through everyday life practices.…”

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A sociocultural approach to study public connection across and beyond media

Hovden

Moe

2017

Convergence

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This article presents an approach to cross-media use analysis suited to answering the question of how citizens from different sociocultural groups experience their freedom of information. The approach is based on normative democratic theory, is attentive to the dimensions of culture and media that lie beyond a predefined political dimension and is designed to analyse, from a citizen's perspective, how people experience a public world in which shared problems are addressed. To illustrate the approach, the article draws on the analysis of two empirical examples: one of a representative sample of the Norwegian citizenry (N ¼ 3660) and one of Norwegian students (N ¼ 1223). We conduct latent class analysis as well as multiple correspondence analysis to help improve our understanding of the consequences of fragmented and personalized media use by shedding light on the implications of changing patterns of public connection.

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Section: The Public Sphere Cross-media Use and Public Connectionmentioning

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A sociocultural approach to study public connection across and beyond media

Hovden

Moe

2017

Convergence

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“…The dimension of engagement pertains to the question of which forms of accessing and interacting with news people perceive as “engaging” or “disengaging.” The group of the neighbors considered reading and liking each other’s contributions in the Facebook group to be ways of being engaged within their local community. Likewise, the IT staff used their WhatsApp debates about public issues as a means to become integrated in the team and get to know each other better through “playful connection” (Kaun, 2012). For the fraternity and soccer team groups, however, engaging with news or public information was perceived as an individual practice completely detached from their groups’ main communicative purpose for using social media.…”

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“…Traditionally, news has functioned as an important avenue for public connection (Couldry et al, 2010; Kaun, 2012; McCollough et al, 2017) with news organizations presenting themselves as almost obligatory points of passage to find out what is happening outside people’s private worlds. Social media are not that different, in that respect.…”

Section: Public Connection News and Social Mediamentioning

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“…For example, they may share a language (cultural frameworks), vote for the same party (political), volunteer at the same organization (civic), or enjoy leisure activities together (social). Public connection is about the general orientation that individuals share toward one or multiple of those public frameworks, which oftentimes overlap (Kaun, 2012; Ong and Cabañes, 2011). 1 Previous literature on public connection has highlighted such shared frames of reference as necessary starting points for public engagement and participation (Couldry et al, 2010; Dahlgren, 2000).…”

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Shedding light on the dark social: The connective role of news and journalism in social media communities

Swart

Peters

Broersma³

2018

New Media & Society

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Messaging apps and Facebook groups are increasingly significant in everyday life, shaping not only interpersonal communication but also how people orient themselves to public life. These "dark social media" are important spaces for "public connection," a means for bridging people's private worlds and everything beyond. This article analyzes how people perceive news on such platforms, focusing on the different roles it plays in key social networks that rely on dark social media for communication. Arguing that the use of these platforms is foremost a social practice, the study employs focus groups with local, work, and leisure-related communities to investigate questions of inclusiveness, engagement, relevance, and constructiveness associated with sharing and discussing news. We find the perceived value of news on dark social media hinges on the control and privacy it provides. Community type was less significant than communicative aims of the group for shaping the uptake of news and journalism.

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“…In this article, I mobilize and develop the public connection perspective to illuminate how audience’s engagement with fictional entertainment can forge democratically desirable and manifest orientations to the sphere of politics. The public connection perspective has so far proved valuable in the study of how the use of news and factual media connect people to public and political life (Couldry et al, 2010; Hovden and Moe, 2017; Kaun, 2012; Markham and Couldry, 2007; Ong and Cabañes, 2011; Swart et al, 2017). Couldry et al (2010) conceptualize public connection as ‘an orientation towards a public world where matters of common concern are addressed’.…”

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From pleasure to politics: Five functions of watching TV-series for public connection

Nærland

2019

European Journal of Communication

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This article addresses the question of how engagement with fictional entertainment can enable audiences to function as citizens. It argues that existing theoretical perspectives assume spurious links between the use of fictional entertainment and politics. This article mobilizes the theoretical perspective of public connection to show how audience’s engagement with fictional entertainment can forge manifest links to the sphere of politics. The article presents five functions that capture the main varieties of how the engagement with TV series enables public connection. These functions are conceptualized as ‘Charging’, ‘Deepening’, ‘Affinitive motivation’, ‘Introduction/Extension’ and ‘Solidification’. These functions are theoretically qualified and empirically grounded in extensive qualitative research into people’s use of TV series in Norway. The article argues that these functions also apply to the engagement with other forms of fictional entertainment, including film and fiction literature.

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Being a Young Citizen in Estonia: An Exploration of Young People’s Civic and Media Experiences

Cited by 6 publications

References 99 publications

A sociocultural approach to study public connection across and beyond media

A sociocultural approach to study public connection across and beyond media

Shedding light on the dark social: The connective role of news and journalism in social media communities

From pleasure to politics: Five functions of watching TV-series for public connection

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