Media Generations

While the analysis of generations has been central in the sociological understanding of social change, the role of the media in this process has only been acknowledged as an important feature during the last couple of decades. Building on quantitative and qualitative comparative research, Media Generations analyses the role of the media in the formation of generational experience, identity and habitus, and how mediated nostalgia is an important part in the social formation of generations. This book will be of special interest to those studying social change, collective memory, cultural identity and the role of the media in social experience.

Autorentext

Göran Bolin is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.　He is the author of Value and the Media: Cultural Production and Consumption in Digital Markets (2011), and editor of Cultural Technologies: The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society (2012).

Inhalt

Introduction

1 The problem of media and generations

2 Age, cohort, life-course and generation

3 Generation as location: Media landscapes and generation

4 Generation as actuality: Subjective landscapes of media generations

5 Nostalgia and the process of generationing

6 Generation, mediatisation and the rhythm of ages