Battle of the classes: news consumption inequalities and symbolic boundary work.
Previous research has revealed a connection between news consumption and class, both in terms of how much and what kind of news is consumed. By deploying a cultural sociological perspective on how young people from different class positions make sense of their differences, this study breaks new grou...
| Publicado en: | Critical Studies in Media Communication Vol. 37; no. 5; pp. 480 - 497 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2020
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