The research project Youths’ media repertoires: Social, political and cultural aspects of digitized everyday life is investigating how elementary school, high school, and undergraduate students growing up in a highly digitized everyday life are shaping themselves into media prosumers. Digittalization is increasing the abundance of content that can be consumed regardless of location, as well as the domestication of media and technologies, making young people no longer just consumers but also active media producers.
The patterns of their media use are observed through the concept of media repertoires, which represent an interweaving of different practices, mediated meanings, and co-creation of media phenomena. In this sense, media repertoires are also part of the process of identity formation, which for primary school children takes place primarily through family relationships, peer relationships and educational spaces, and for secondary school children and later additionally through cultural and political engagement.
The research goal of the project is to create a typology of media consumption and media preferences or media repertoires of young people. In addition, the relationship between young people’s media types and differences in cultural consumption, media and digital literacy, political participation, and structural differences in young people’s everyday digital lives will be determined.
At the same time, we examine the relationship between media use and young people’s value orientations, social position, and other demographic characteristics (class, gender, and other sociodemographic differences).
At the same time, we aim to gain insight into the ethnography of young people’s everyday practices and rituals in the context of a networked society where attention is fragmented and dispersed.
Finally, the goal of the project is to find out what young people’s attitudes are toward politics and political engagement, in terms of their core value orientations. That is, we will find out how value orientations influence the evaluation of conventional and unconventional political forms and how young people practice politics and civic styles in a highly digitalised everyday life.
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Tanja Oblak Črnič, Head of the Research Group
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All members of the research team are from the University of Ljubljana, from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Education:
- Barbara Brečko is assistant and researcher at the Center for Social Informatics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
- Dejan Jontes is associate professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
- Katja K. Ošljak is assistant and researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
- Tina Lengar Verovnik is assistant professor in the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
- Breda Luthar is full-time professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
- Polona Minarič is senior administrative officer and administrative research support to the project, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
- Meta Novak is assistant professor and research associate in the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Administration at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
- Maruša Pušnik is full-time professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
- Nika Šušterič is assistant and researcher at the Department of Basic Pedagogical Studies at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana.
- Veronika Tašner is assistant professor in the field of sociology of education at the Department of Basic Pedagogical Studies at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana.
Youth’s media repertoires research profile on ResearchGate.
Basic Research Project Youth’s media repertoires (J5-2564) is conducted under the research program of Policy Research P5-0136 and funded by ARRS.
