Lifestyle Journalism

Social Media, Consumption and Experience
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5799-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 289 g

Ranging from travel to wellbeing and fashion to food, Lifestyle Journalism explores a wide variety of subjects within a growing field.

This edited collection examines the complex dynamics of the ever-evolving media environment of lifestyle journalism, encompassing aspects of consumerism, entertainment and cosmopolitanism, as well as traditional journalistic practices. Through detailed case studies and research, the book discusses themes of consumer culture, identity, representation, the sharing economy and branding while bringing in important new aspects such as social media and new cultural intermediaries. International and cross-disciplinary, the book is divided into four parts: emerging roles; experience and identity in lifestyle media; new players and lifestyle actors; and lifestyle consumerism and brands.

Featuring case studies from a variety of countries including Turkey, the US, Chile and the UK, this is an important resource for journalism students and academics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vodanovic, Lucia

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Lucía Vodanovic

Part I – Emerging roles of lifestyle journalism

- Unpacking lifestyle journalism via service journalism and constructive journalism

Unni From and Nete Nørgaard Kristensen

- Idealised authenticity: analysing Jean Baudrillard’s Theory of Simulation and its applicability to food coverage in city magazines

Joy Jenkins and Amanda Hinnant

- Journalism without news: the beauty journalist private/professional self in The Guardian’s ‘below the line’ comments

Lucía Vodanovic

Part II – Experience, consumption and identity

- Reconciling religion and consumerism: Islamic lifestyle media in Turkey

Feyda Sayan-Cengiz

- Travel journalists as cultural mediators: a qualitative discourse analysis on the ‘othering’ of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown

Aaron McKinnon

- The impact of social media in lifestyle journalism in Mexico: serving citizens versus creating consumers

Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco and Dalia Cárdenas-Hernández

Part III – New players and lifestyle actors

- Communicative value chains: fashion bloggers and branding agencies as cultural intermediaries

Arturo Arriagada and Francisco Ibañez

- Are food bloggers a new kind of influencer?

Sidonie Naulin

- Agents of change: the parallel roles of trend forecaster and lifestyle journalists as mediators and tastemakers in consumer culture

Sabrina Faramarzi

Part IV – Lifestyle, consumerism and branding

- Food and journalism: storytelling about gastronomy in newspapers from the U.S. and Spain

Francesc Fusté-Forné and Pere Masip

- Travel journalism and the sharing economy: Airbnbmag and sourcing

Bryan Pirolli

- Lifestyle journalism as brand practice: the cases of Uniqlo and Abercrombie & Fitch

Myles Ethan Lascity

Über Autor(innen)

Lucía Vodanovic, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at London College of Communication (UAL) and Course Leader of the MA in Arts and Lifestyle Journalism at the same institution. She completed her MA and PhD in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. Her research interests focus on social aesthetics, lifestyle media, the ‘everyday’ and amateurism in its links with self-organisation and self-reliance, among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Journal of Visual Art Practice; Travesía: Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and the edited collection Materiality and Popular culture: The Popular Life of Things (Routledge, 2016).