| dc.description.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. | nb_NO |
