Contents

        List of figures

        List of tables

        List of contributors

        Acknowledgements

Part I    Introduction

   1 Culture, media and society: agency and structure, continuity and
      change
      Karl Erik Rosengren

   2 Sweden and its media scene, 1945–90: a bird's–eye view
      Karl Erik Rosengren

   3 The Media Panel Program (MPP) and related research
       Karl Erik Rosengren

Part II    Media use: differentiation, change and stability

    4 Media use under structural change
       Karl Erik Rosengren

   5 Looking for patterns in lifestyle behaviours
      Suzanne Pingree and Robert P. Hawkins

   6 Models of change and stability in adolescents' media use
      Ulla Johnsson-Smaragdi

Part III    Young people and media use: individual, class and
socialization

   7 For better and for worse: effects studies and beyond
      Karl Erik Rosengren. Vila lohnsson-Smaragdi and Inga Sonesson

   8 Self-evaluation in an ecological perspective: neighbourhood, family and peers, schooling and media use
      Ulla Johnsson-Smaragdi and Annelis Jönsson

   9 Media use and social mobility
      Keith Roe

Part IV    Lifestyle and the use of media

   10 Values, lifestyles and family communication
      Fredrik Miegel

   11 Seven lifestyles1
      Fredrik Miegel

   12 Late modernity, consumer culture and lifestyles: toward a
        cognitive-affective theory
      Thomas Johansson

Part V    Conclusion

   13 Starting up
      Karl Erik Rosengren

Indices