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The forgotten audience? A research on the role of television fiction in the identity construction of migrant youngsters: A reception analysis from a visual ethnographic perspective
Code
3F000208
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Communication sciences
    • Journalism and professional writing
    • Media studies
    • Other media and communications
Keywords
audience research identity construction television fiction and visual ethnography migrant youngsters
 
Project description
 

The purpose of this research is to elaborate on the meaning of popular fictional televisionprogrammes for migrant youngsters. We will study this by means of qualitative audience-and reception research. More specifically, we will study the impact of popular fiction contents on the identity construction of migrant teenagers. To do this, we will use a recently developed method visual ethnography.