Project description
Examining journalistic practices and the portrayal of ethnic diversity on youth radio
In times of increased mobility, urbanisation, and sociocultural tensions, the way professional media present diversity has implications for social cohesion and for how young people perceive identity and society. The MSCA-funded CIDoRa project will provide exclusive insight into radio content production to investigate how journalists working at youth radio stations respond to the challenges of social difference. Through ethnographic fieldwork at a youth radio station in Germany, CIDoRa will examine how radio stations as multimedia outlets construct and negotiate a collective urban youth identity with their increasingly diverse audience, thereby striving to create a sense of community. The project will produce new knowledge about radio's contribution to social change and work towards promoting diversity among the pool of journalists.
Objective
In times of increased mobility, urbanisation and sociocultural tensions, the way professional media as information providers and public watchdog present diversity has implications for social cohesion and for how young people perceive identity and society. Against this background, youth radio stations, which have become increasingly interactive and collaborative in the digital age, are an important point of orientation for many young people living in ethnically and linguistically diverse spaces, often struggling to fit in, and looking for reliable information and guidance. Despite German broadcasters' statutory and moral obligations to promote social cohesion and to contribute to building a non-discriminatory society in Germany, the media's representations of ethnic diversity have frequently been criticised. Little is known, however, about what a meaningful engagement with diversity means for journalists and how they try to create social cohesion through their work. Through linguistic ethnography at a German youth radio station and a critical discourse analysis of media messages, CIDoRa will provide new insights into the linguistic and semiotic practices of radio content production to explore how journalists construct and negotiate a collective urban youth identity with their diverse audience and thereby try to create a sense of community. In this context, my project will shed light on possible issues that can lead to an unbalanced and negative portrayal of ethnic and linguistic diversity on youth radio to foster a more meaningful engagement of journalists with diversity. By developing approaches for diversity-oriented communication, CIDoRa responds to timely social concerns around difference and voice in a mobile world fraught with deepening division. The results of my project will be disseminated through academic publications and outreach activities for journalists organised in collaboration with media stakeholders.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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