Television News and the Nation: The End?

Blondheim, Menahem; Liebes, Tamar

doi:10.1177/0002716209338574

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“…It is claimed that other media too have a transitional function for the user, as in the case of watching television in general (Silverstone, 1994) and news broadcasts in particular (Blondheim & Liebes, 2009). Yet it seems that in these contexts, the transitional dimension is less relevant.…”

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The “flashpacker” and the “unplugger”: Cell phone (dis)connection and the backpacking experience

Rosenberg

2018

Mobile Media & Communication

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The cellular phone’s unique characteristics—its mobility, its portability, and the constant availability that it enables—challenge the feasibility of solitary spaces in individuals’ lives. These spaces—for example, cultural “timeouts,” leisure, and backpacking travel—necessitate a certain degree of cutting oneself off from one’s daily routine, which is threatened by the constant presence of one’s cell phone. This study examines the role of cell phones in young adults’ backpacking experience. Using questionnaires ( n = 105) and in-depth interviews ( n = 14) with “cellular backpackers” and “cell-free backpackers,” the study shows how an attempt is made to reduce availability and attain maximum control over the scope and timing of communication, using a variety of avoidance practices. Those practices derived from the personal narrative structure of the backpacking experience as an escapist, “dropping-off-the-radar” one, and as an attempt to preserve the trek as a space that is cut off and isolated from a technology-saturated environment. In addition, it was found that backpackers care a great deal about their parents’ position when making their decisions whether to take their phones with them and when to use them. In this regard, the article continues the discussion on the metaphor of the cell phone as a transitional object, applying this concept from childhood and adolescence to the twenties and thirties, the ages of most backpackers. On another level, the article addresses the mobile phone’s unique function as an antistatus symbol, in a way that contradicts its function in an ordinary context.

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The “flashpacker” and the “unplugger”: Cell phone (dis)connection and the backpacking experience

Rosenberg

2018

Mobile Media & Communication

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“…If that were the case in the heyday of broadcasting, when television's news shows were designed for universal reach and appeal, today that function is even more important (Blondheim and Liebes, 2009). Given the likes of Huffington, FOX, or Rush Limbaugh -let alone Facebook groups and Twitter choices -exercising selectivity is hardly necessary: what one gets is one side, almost exclusively.…”

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Can the Media Serve Democracy?

Coleman¹,

Moss²,

Parry³

2015

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“…The tradition of the anthropology-inspired methodological approach which started in Europe and North America is popular among media anthropologists and reception researchers in non-Western countries. For example, they adopt this approach to study television consumption and identity politics (Abu-Lughod, 1995;Mankekar, 1999;Scrase, 2002;Shetty, 2008), media and nation building (Postill, 2008;Blondheim & Liebes, 2009), and soap opera reception and modernity (Thompson, 2000;Machado-Borges, 2007).…”

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