ABSTRACT Previous research has revealed a connection between news consumption and class, both in terms of how much and what kind of news is consumed. By deploying a cultural sociological perspective on how young people from different class positions make sense of their differences, this study breaks new ground in the study of news use and inequality. Focus group interviews with young working-class and middle-class people show how social groups mobilize differences in news consumption to draw symbolic boundaries between each other. The moral economy surrounding “productive” or “unproductive” approaches towards news and journalism is a venue that allows social groups to construct an other, over whom a sense of social, cultural, and moral superiority can be maintained. The study takes the understanding of news consumption inequalities beyond the standard concern with gaps in knowledge and participation by locating news consumption inequalities in relation to symbolic struggles between social groups.

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阶级之战：新闻消费不平等和象征性边界工作

摘要 先前的研究已经揭示了新闻消费和阶级之间的联系，无论是消费多少和什么样的新闻。本研究从文化社会学的角度探讨不同阶级地位的年轻人如何理解他们的差异，从而在新闻使用和不平等的研究中开辟了新天地。对年轻工人阶级和中产阶级的焦点小组访谈展示了社会群体如何调动新闻消费的差异以在彼此之间划定象征性的界限。围绕着对新闻和新闻业的“生产性”或“非生产性”方法的道德经济是一个允许社会群体构建他人的场所，在他们身上可以保持社会、文化和道德优越感。