Formål
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The ‘Beyond the Here and Now of News’ project was conceived of during a period when journalism, often proclaimed to be the ‘lifeblood of democracy’, was increasingly said to be in crisis. The decade leading up to the project witnessed the appearance of worrisome symptoms–ongoing financial distress in the news industry, decreasing public trust, the growth of ‘fake news’ and ‘post-truth’ politics–indicative of an ‘unhealthy’ media system that potentially put democratic society at risk. In such a rapidly changing media environment, with such high societal stakes, the project aimed to understand the ongoing significance of news for contemporary audiences. It proposed doing this by investigating the social and spatiotemporal integration of news and information within the flow of everyday life. The core argument underlining the project rationale was that to understand what makes news (continue to) matter to citizens, innovative research was needed that took its conceptual and empirical point of departure from the emergence, maintenance, and (re)formation of people’s media repertoires.
Indhold
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Excel spreadsheet, young Danish adults (aged 18-24), quota sampled based on location, gender, educational status.