ABSTRACT
Ranging from travel to wellbeing and fashion to food, Lifestyle Journalism explores a wide variety of subjects within a growing field.
This edited collection examines the complex dynamics of the ever-evolving media environment of lifestyle journalism, encompassing aspects of consumerism, entertainment and cosmopolitanism, as well as traditional journalistic practices. Through detailed case studies and research, the book discusses themes of consumer culture, identity, representation, the sharing economy and branding while bringing in important new aspects such as social media and new cultural intermediaries. International and cross-disciplinary, the book is divided into four parts: emerging roles; experience and identity in lifestyle media; new players and lifestyle actors; and lifestyle consumerism and brands.
Featuring case studies from a variety of countries including Turkey, the US, Chile and the UK, this is an important resource for journalism students and academics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Emerging roles of lifestyle journalism
chapter 2|12 pages
Idealised authenticity
chapter 3|13 pages
Journalism ‘without news’
part II|2 pages
Experience, consumption and identity
chapter 5|11 pages
Travel journalists as cultural mediators
chapter 6|12 pages
The impact of social media in lifestyle journalism in Mexico
part III|2 pages
New players and lifestyle actors
chapter 7|11 pages
Communicative value chains
chapter 9|13 pages
Agents of change
part IV|2 pages
Lifestyle, consumerism and branding