SAGE Journal Articles

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Journal Article 1: Yates, S., & Lockley, E. (2018). Social media and social class. American Behavioral Scientist, 23.

Abstract: This article explores the relationship between social class and social media use and draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu in examining class in terms of social, economic, and cultural capital. The article starts from a prior finding that those who predominantly only use social media formed a higher proportion of Internet users from lower socioeconomic groups. Data: The article draws on data from two nationally representative U.K. surveys, the OfCom (Office of Communications) Media Literacy Survey (n ≈ 1,800 per annum) and the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Taking Part Survey (n ≈ 10,000 per annum). Methods: Following Yates, Kirby, and Lockley, five types of Internet behavior and eight types of Internet user are identified utilizing principal components analysis and k-means clustering. These Internet user types are then examined against measures of social, economic, and cultural capital. Data on forms of cultural consumption and digital media use are examined using multiple correspondence analysis. Findings: The article concludes that forms of digital media use are in correspondence with other social, cultural, and economic aspects of social class status and contemporary social systems of distinction.

 

Journal Article 2: Creedon, P (2014). Women, social media, and sport: global digital communication weaves a web. Television & New Media, 15, 711.

Abstract: Globally, the digital media has played a key role in generating attention, creating controversy and showcasing changes in media coverage of women’s sports. Social media have made sports coverage an interpersonal, intercultural and international public domain. For the news media, however, the values used to cover and construct representation women athletes and women’s sports have not changed. An historic overview of media coverage of women’s sports is compared with today’s digitized, diversified and globalized sports coverage. The Olympics provide a media microcosm to explore gender equity in sports reporting.

 

Journal Article 3: Duits, L. (2010). The importance of popular media in everyday girl culture. European Journal of Communication, 25, 257.

Abstract: This article investigates the importance of popular media in everyday life, more specifically in everyday girl culture. Based on eight months of ethnographic research with a group of 8th graders (ages 11–12), it explores the role of media in an everyday setting: the classroom. The study is informed by two central research questions: how do girls use media in the classroom and how important are media to their everyday life? It aims to provide an empirical, theoretical and methodological contribution to existing literature. First, it empirically contributes to our knowledge of everyday media use in general and in the school context specifically. Second, it adds to theory about audiences, more precisely about the media’s role in identity practices. Third, it shows how different methods produce different results about the importance of media.