Global kulturell kapital : nyhetsmediebruk i utviklingen av lokalt orienterte og kosmopolitiske identiteter
Abstract
This thesis has focused on how news media use amongst exchange students can
contribute in the creation of local and cosmopolite identities. The analysis shows that
there is a difference in use of homeland and host-country media in terms of function
for the user. Language barriers keeps the news media from being a useful integration
tool and time effects both media use and the ability to create bonds in the hostcountry.
There is also a difference in the news media users, and the ones who prefer
hard news can easier create cosmopolite identities. When Merton (1949, 1968)
divides cultural capital in local and cosmopolite, I claim there can be no cosmopolite
identity in the form of cultural capital without local grounding. The bases of what I
will call glocal cultural capital is therefore multiple local identities and the ability of
a global reflection like the one Beck (2006) call the global vision.