Youth and New Media in the New Millennium

Thorbjörn Broddason

doi:10.1515/nor-2017-0233

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Youth and New Media in the New Millennium

Nordicom Review

Volume 27 (2006): Issue 2 (November 2006)

By: Thorbjörn Broddason

Open Access

|Feb 2017

Abstract

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.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0233 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108

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Language: English

Page range: 105 - 118

Published on: Feb 14, 2017

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Keywords:

gender,

age,

time,

Related subjects:

Communication science,

Mass communication,

Public and political communication

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