Media Convergence Meets Deconvergence

Peil, Corinna; Sparviero, Sergio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51289-1_1

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“…The convergence (or deconvergence) of media has greatly increased the amount of media technologies and texts that are available to users (Bjur et al, 2014: 15; Peil and Sparviero, 2017: 4). Most importantly, it has uprooted media content from the devices it was previously uniquely tied to, allowing content to be consumed on a variety of different devices and platforms (Picone, 2013).…”

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Media as the great emancipators? Exploring relations between media repertoires and cultural participation in Flanders

Vandenplas

Picone

2021

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Media convergence has afforded users an increasing amount of options regarding the media they consume, available at the click of a button. This has led some to clamor about the potential for media to bridge previously existing inequalities and decrease social stratification not just in media use, but in other realms of society as well. Skeptics have argued that while the convergence of media has given users more options in their own media repertoire, social stratification persists. Moreover, if media do increase a user’s possibilities to participate in other realms of society, the persisting stratification of media use risks enacting a Matthew effect whereby the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Using data from the Flemish participation survey, this article seeks to contribute to this discussion by exploring Flemish media use by constructing media repertoires using latent class analysis and exploring their sociodemographic profiles. Following this analysis, we compare the cultural participation patterns of the six Flemish media repertoires using negative binomial regression analysis. We find that social stratification of media use persists in Flanders, with broad and ‘highbrow’ repertoires predominantly restricted to higher status groups. Moreover, we find a structural homology between the structure of media repertoires and cultural participation, whereby broad repertoires exhibit a similar openness to cultural practices, and repertoires tailored to highbrow media exhibit a similar preference for highbrow cultural activities. As a result, we find that social stratification persists in media use and cultural participation but argues that media repertoires offer a potential entrypoint.

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Media as the great emancipators? Exploring relations between media repertoires and cultural participation in Flanders

Vandenplas

Picone

2021

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…With WhatsApp as our data collection and participant interaction tool, we started a qualitative pilot study on the use of media, their role within an individual's media repertoire, and their meaning in everyday life. The aim of the study was to understand media-related practices in a rapidly changing media environment characterized by digitization, (de)convergence (Peil & Sparviero, 2017) and deep mediatization (Couldry & Hepp, 2017). We wanted to generate data that go beyond time, duration, location, and purpose of media usage, giving us concrete ideas about the often casual acts of media consumption and their contextual complexity.…”

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The mobile instant messaging interview (MIMI): Using WhatsApp to enhance self-reporting and explore media usage in situ

Kaufmann

Peil

2019

Mobile Media & Communication

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How do people use media technologies in everyday life and how do they make sense of them? This is one of the core questions in media and communication studies, gaining even more in relevance in light of the rapidly changing, convergent media environment. Yet, rich and context-sensitive data about media and technology use are difficult to generate when media consumption is increasingly pervasive, ubiquitous, and often goes on in passing. At the same time, the full potential of smartphones in qualitative research has not yet been realized. The mobile instant messaging interview (MIMI) introduced and assessed in this paper is intended to fill this gap by exploiting some of the unique communication and multimedia features offered by mobile instant messaging apps. Drawing on diary techniques and on the tried and tested mobile experience sampling method (MESM), the MIMI uses WhatsApp for an in situ exploration of distinct settings and situations of social action (e.g., media usage). To substantiate the approach, the results of a pilot study conducted with young smartphone users are presented, discussing the advantages and drawbacks of mobile instant messaging interviews in detail, from the researcher’s as well as the participant’s point of view.

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“…The respondents stream moving images through tablets and laptops, as well as Internet connected television sets, instead of watching linear television. They use two specific potentials that online-capable technologies offer: temporally and spatially flexible media use that is experienced as comfortable (Peil and Sparviero, 2017: 9). Online-capable media allow an ideal integration of media reception into domestic time structures and different spaces in the home – especially for women.…”

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Beyond classic mass media and stand-alone technologies: Using media online in the domestic sphere

Müller

2020

European Journal of Communication

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This article discusses why households in Germany use the Internet and content distributed online instead of classic broadcasting or a printed paper for customising ideal media repertoires that match with their media-related interests in the domestic sphere. Following the domestication approach, home is understood as a relevant field for research on online-based media use because it is the place where people traditionally negotiate the meaning of media technologies and content against the background of an existing media repertoire. The article refers to empirical findings from qualitative ethnographic research on 16 German households. It was undertaken between 2015 and 2017. In summarising, the empirical research emphasises three distinct reasons why people choose the Internet for domestic media reception over classic mass media: a better integration of media use in everyday life, particular demands and interests in specific content, and the politics of identity and the moral economy of the household.

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Media Convergence Meets Deconvergence

Cited by 55 publications

References 42 publications

Media as the great emancipators? Exploring relations between media repertoires and cultural participation in Flanders

Media as the great emancipators? Exploring relations between media repertoires and cultural participation in Flanders

The mobile instant messaging interview (MIMI): Using WhatsApp to enhance self-reporting and explore media usage in situ

Beyond classic mass media and stand-alone technologies: Using media online in the domestic sphere

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