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Civic Experiences and Public Connection Media and Young People in Estonia

av Anne Kaun

Akademisk avhandling

Avhandling för filosofie doktorsexamen i Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap,

som enligt beslut av rektor kommer att försvaras offentligt fredag den 01 juni 2012 kl. 13.00,

MB 505, Södertörns högskola Opponent: Professor Peter Lunt

University of Leicester United Kingdom

Örebro universitet

Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

701Ԝ82 ÖREBRO

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Abstract

Anne Kaun (2012): Civic Experiences and Public Connection. Media and Young People in Estonia. Örebro Studies in Media and Communication 14, Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations 67, 209 pp.

How do young people in Estonia experience the political, politics and citizenship? How are these civic experiences connected to young peoples’

experiences with the media? Anne Kaun’s thesis Civic Experiences and Public Connection presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of how civic experiences, particularly public connection, emerge in the con- text of contemporary Estonia. Employing open-ended online diaries and in-depth interviews, she aims to develop an in-depth understanding of how young people experience democracy today, and how they express themselves as citizens; expression not only through the physical perform- ance of citizenship, but also through orientation, interest in, and reflection about issues that are of common concern or should be seen as such. The empirical investigation of public connection as critical media connection, playful public connection and historical public connection, is based on narrative analysis and embedded in a theoretical exploration of key con- cepts in the context of civic culture studies, namely the political, politics and citizenship.

Combining Chantal Mouffe’s conflict theory with Paul Ricoeur’s narra- tive identity, Kaun aims to shed light on contemporary democracy from the citizens’ perspective. The author proposes a holistic approach to both civic experiences and the role that media might play in relation to them.

Following a non-media-centric approach, she shows that media, despite their ubiquity, are an important but not exclusive source of the civic ex- periences of young adults in Estonia.

Keywords: Civic Culture, Mediated Citizenship, Decentred Media Studies, Mediatisation, Mediation, Conflict Theory, Narrative Analysis, Young People, Estonia.

Anne Kaun, School of Culture and Communication

Södertörn University, SE-141 89 Huddinge, Sweden, anne.kaun@sh.se

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