Media Poverty: media use and citizenship in conditions of deprivation

• Lindtner, Synnøve Skarsbø & Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2024). News Avoidance and Poverty: Intersectional Marginalization in the Norwegian “Media Welfare State”. Journalism Studies. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2024.2326075.
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2023). Toward a Sociologically Enriched Understanding of Anti-Media Populism:The Case of Enough is Enough! International Journal of Communication. 17, p. 3091–3109.
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2023). Toward a Sociologically Enriched Understanding of Anti-Media Populism: The Case of Enough is Enough! International Journal of Communication. 17, p. 3091–3109.
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg & Dahl, John Magnus Ragnhildson (2022). Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment. Poetics. 92. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101687. Show summary

  Entertainment programming is an important means for public service media (PSM) to address minority audiences, and to fulfill their social mission vis-à-vis these groups. We argue that these efforts are plagued by a thin normative grounding, stopping short at vague notions of representation. In this article, we argue that a capabilities approach invites a much-needed reconsideration of the fundamental objectives of such entertainment-based representations. The article offers a first operationalization of the capabilities approach in the context of televised entertainment. First, we identify and qualify a set of basic capabilities that we propose PSM should promote to minority audiences through entertainment content. Second, through a case study from Norway involving focus group interviews of young immigrants, we demonstrate how entertainment can facilitate the promotion of such capabilities. On this ground, we discuss the implications of a capabilities perspective for PSM efforts to accommodate marginalized audiences.

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• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Søholt, Rune & Lindtner, Synnøve Skarsbø (2023). Exploring poverty-incited barriers for mediated public connection: the case of Norway  .
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2023). Media poverty: a conceptual framework for studying public connection in conditions of deprivation .
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Søholt, Rune & Lindtner, Synnøve Skarsbø (2023). Exploring poverty-incited barriers for mediated public connection: the case of Norway .
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2023). Exploring media use and public (dis)connection in conditions of poverty: a non-news centric approach .
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Lindtner, Synnøve Skarsbø & Søholt, Rune (2023). Exploring poverty-incited barriers for mediated public connection: the case of Norway.
• Søholt, Rune (2023). Beyond the material: exploring experiential dimensions of access to political content on social media.
• Søholt, Rune (2023). Social media poverty - presentation for ECREA Doctoral Summer School.
• Søholt, Rune (2023). Beyond the material - position paper for the New Frontiers in Global Digital Inequalities Research Workshop.
• Søholt, Rune (2022). Social media practices and public connection in conditions of deprivation: Towards a typology of social media practice.
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2022). Media poverty: A conceptual framework .
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2022). Towards a sociologically enriched understanding of anti-media populism.
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg & Dahl, John Magnus Ragnhildson (2022). Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment.

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