Media convergence has afforded users an increasing amount of options regarding the media they consume, available at the click of a button. This has led some to clamor about the potential for media to bridge previously existing inequalities and decrease social stratification not just in media use, but in other realms of society as well. Skeptics have argued that while the convergence of media has given users more options in their own media repertoire, social stratification persists. Moreover, if media do increase a user’s possibilities to participate in other realms of society, the persisting stratification of media use risks enacting a Matthew effect whereby the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Using data from the Flemish participation survey, this article seeks to contribute to this discussion by exploring Flemish media use by constructing media repertoires using latent class analysis and exploring their sociodemographic profiles. Following this analysis, we compare the cultural participation patterns of the six Flemish media repertoires using negative binomial regression analysis. We find that social stratification of media use persists in Flanders, with broad and ‘highbrow’ repertoires predominantly restricted to higher status groups. Moreover, we find a structural homology between the structure of media repertoires and cultural participation, whereby broad repertoires exhibit a similar openness to cultural practices, and repertoires tailored to highbrow media exhibit a similar preference for highbrow cultural activities. As a result, we find that social stratification persists in media use and cultural participation but argues that media repertoires offer a potential entrypoint.

媒体融合为用户提供了有关他们所消费媒体的越来越多的选择，这些选择可通过单击按钮获得。这使一些人大声疾呼，媒体有可能弥合以前存在的不平等现象，并不仅在媒体使用方面而且在社会的其他领域减少社会分层。怀疑论者认为，尽管媒体的融合为用户提供了更多的媒体选择余地，但社会分层仍然存在。此外，如果媒体确实增加了用户参与社会其他领域的可能性，则媒体使用的持续分层有可能产生马太效应，使富人变得更富裕而穷人变得更穷。利用佛兰德参与调查的数据，本文旨在通过使用潜在类别分析构建媒体库并探索其社会人口统计资料，从而探索佛兰德语的媒体使用，从而为这一讨论做出贡献。经过此分析，我们使用负二项式回归分析比较了佛兰德语六个媒体库的文化参与模式。我们发现在法兰德斯，媒体使用的社会分层仍然存在，广泛且“高调”的曲目主要限于地位较高的人群。此外，我们发现媒体剧目结构与文化参与之间存在结构上的同源性，即广泛的剧目对文化习俗表现出相似的开放性，针对高端媒体量身定制的剧目对高端文化活动表现出相似的偏好。因此，