Explaining Global Media: A Discourse Approach

Olausson, Ulrika

doi:10.5772/17557

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“…Nonetheless, as argued by Olausson (2011), young people's national orientation is not necessarily a contradiction to their orientation toward what is global. Olausson sees their reliance on the national context when using the Internet as a possible means for getting in touch with what is more distant and unknown.…”

Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Learning about distant places through the Internet: Young students as global citizens?

Rye

2013

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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The article explores how the use of the Internet in school settings influences the way young people develop as citizens in an interconnected world and the possible implications for teaching geography subject at school. First, this topic is approached theoretically through a discussion of new forms of citizenship. The issue is investigated by using interview data and observations on the use of the Internet by upper secondary school students in Norway when searching for information about distant places. During the interviews, knowledge about tropical rainforests was used as a practical example. The main finding is that although the students could access information about a large part of the world from their laptop, a distance remained between the students and the rainforests and those who live in them. The article also reveals that, although it is often argued that the national context is weakened as a frame for civic engagement, the students referred to it as a basic frame when engaging with what is distant. Thus, it may be questioned how the use of the Internet in schools contributes to the development of students as global citizens.

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Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

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Learning about distant places through the Internet: Young students as global citizens?

Rye

2013

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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“…But they also need to do so by stepping outside of an implicit methodological nationalism that delimits their critical gaze to the parameters of national definition set by the news media and their principal sources. How discourses of the transnational and global sometimes surface in and through national news now also warrants close examination (see Robertson 2010, Olausson 2011). This is not, then, following Beck, simply a question of either/or, of national or transnational, but both/and, of national and transnational (Beck, 2006: 62), of how global crises become recognized, represented and responded to in and through both old and new forms of news mediation and wider news ecology.…”

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Taking global crises in the news seriously: Notes from the dark side of globalization

Cottle

2011

Global Media and Communication

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From climate change to the war on terror, from financial meltdowns to forced migrations, from pandemics to world poverty and from humanitarian disasters to the denial of human rights, these and other global crises represent the dark side of our global age. They are spawned by it. When represented within today's world news ecology such 'global crises' can also shape processes of globalization -deepening our sense of globality and, possibly, contributing to what Ulrich Beck's discerns as a 'cosmopolitan outlook' (Beck, 2006). With too few exceptions, however, researchers have yet to theorize and examine today's endemic, interpenetrating and proliferating global crises or their complex dependencies on the world's news media and emergent forms of global journalism. This article elaborates on these claims and sets out the case for taking global crises seriously, both ontologically and epistemologically, and how they can variously become enacted within the complex flows and formations of global news.

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“…The students' basic area was national, despite being connected to the global networks. However, as argued by Olausson (2011), the national and global are not mutually exclusive, but may reinforce and reconstruct each other. The students rather use sources on the national arena for getting information from various places in the world.…”

Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Martin (2011) argues, the new media enable students to act as global citizens and to develop a cosmopolitan identity, including a global responsibility. Nonetheless, as argued by Olausson (2011), although digitalization allows for a greater extent of cross-boarder flow of news, the media do not necessarily produce global knowledge among individuals. Media news remains largely national.…”

Section: Growing Up In a Network Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this way, space and distance were not perceived to be important for the quality of the facts as such, only for their accessibility. Hence, as argued by Varnelis and Friedber (2008), although digital networks transform our sense of proximity, the national domain remains important for how we consider sources of information (Olausson 2011) …”

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Connected Youth

Rye¹

2013

Nordicom Review

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The present article investigates how young people use the Internet to gain information about distant events that can be used in their schoolwork. The aim is to better understand the process behind youngsters' construction of what is distant, which in turn may help us to understand how people construct knowledge and act in relation to such realities. Empirical sources originate from qualitative interviews and observations of Norwegian secondary school students using computers to search for information about tropical rainforests and climate change. A network approach has been used to frame this topic, in which extensibility and flow are the main analytical perspectives. The findings reveal that students tend to not connect directly to distant sources when looking for information about distant realities. Rather, they relate to the global flow of information by using national nodes of information flow that indirectly relate them to what is happening at a distance.

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Explaining Global Media: A Discourse Approach

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Learning about distant places through the Internet: Young students as global citizens?

Learning about distant places through the Internet: Young students as global citizens?

Taking global crises in the news seriously: Notes from the dark side of globalization

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