A Processual Concept of Media Generation: The Media-Generational Positioning of Elderly People
With a focus on elderly people this article puts forward a concept of media generation as a thickening of one or more age groups of people who in their media appropriation share a specific experience space of mediatization and subsequently, based on their personal media biographies, develop a shared...
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| description | With a focus on elderly people this article puts forward a concept of media generation as a thickening of one or more age groups of people who in their media appropriation share a specific experience space of mediatization and subsequently, based on their personal media biographies, develop a shared self-image as a media generation. Such a conceptualisation grasps media generation as a process. It operates with the central aspects of media relatedness, media-generational specifics of appropriation, and self-positioning. This offers an understanding of elderly people after retirement as members of a mass-media media generation. As the qualitative empirical analysis presented in this article demonstrates, members of this mass-media media generation define themselves in contrast to younger media generations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4183223e2c664a9c99f15674cda9ff6a2023-09-02T22:16:20ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192017-06-0138s110912210.1515/nor-2017-0395A Processual Concept of Media Generation: The Media-Generational Positioning of Elderly PeopleHepp AndreasBerg MatthiasRoitsch CindyWith a focus on elderly people this article puts forward a concept of media generation as a thickening of one or more age groups of people who in their media appropriation share a specific experience space of mediatization and subsequently, based on their personal media biographies, develop a shared self-image as a media generation. Such a conceptualisation grasps media generation as a process. It operates with the central aspects of media relatedness, media-generational specifics of appropriation, and self-positioning. This offers an understanding of elderly people after retirement as members of a mass-media media generation. As the qualitative empirical analysis presented in this article demonstrates, members of this mass-media media generation define themselves in contrast to younger media generations.https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0395media generationmedia biographiesmediatizationgenerational self-positioningelderly people |
| spellingShingle | Hepp Andreas Berg Matthias Roitsch Cindy A Processual Concept of Media Generation: The Media-Generational Positioning of Elderly People Nordicom Review media generation media biographies mediatization generational self-positioning elderly people |
| title | A Processual Concept of Media Generation: The Media-Generational Positioning of Elderly People |
| title_full | A Processual Concept of Media Generation: The Media-Generational Positioning of Elderly People |
| title_fullStr | A Processual Concept of Media Generation: The Media-Generational Positioning of Elderly People |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Processual Concept of Media Generation: The Media-Generational Positioning of Elderly People |
| title_short | A Processual Concept of Media Generation: The Media-Generational Positioning of Elderly People |
| title_sort | processual concept of media generation the media generational positioning of elderly people |
| topic | media generation media biographies mediatization generational self-positioning elderly people |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0395 |
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