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There is general agreement among media and communication scholars that a monumental shift is occurring in the media and communication habits of young people. In the present paper, this shift is discussed within the framework of a long-term study of six samples of Icelandic youths, covering a period of 35 years. A persistent decline in use of the “old” media, such as books, newspapers and radio is demonstrated, while the social role of television is shown to be undergoing a transformation comparable to what happened to book reading centuries earlier. All this is discussed in the light of the onslaught of new technologies and new media of communication.

Youth and New Media in the New Millennium

Nordicom Review

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There is general agreement among media and communication scholars that a monumental shift is occurring in the media and communication habits of young people....

Youth and New Media in the New Millennium

Publié en ligne: 14 févr. 2017

Pages: 105 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0233

Mots clés
gender, age, time, old media, new media, ambivalence

© by Thorbjörn Broddason

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Youth and New Media in the New Millennium

Publié en ligne: 14 févr. 2017

Pages: 105 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0233

Mots clésgender, age, time, old media, new media, ambivalence

© by Thorbjörn Broddason

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
gender, age, time, old media, new media, ambivalence