1st Edition
Lifestyle Journalism Social Media, Consumption and Experience
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.
Introduction
Lucía Vodanovic
Part I – Emerging roles of lifestyle journalism
- Unpacking lifestyle journalism via service journalism and constructive journalism
- Idealised authenticity: analysing Jean Baudrillard’s Theory of Simulation and its applicability to food coverage in city magazines
- Journalism without news: the beauty journalist private/professional self in The Guardian’s ‘below the line’ comments
- Reconciling religion and consumerism: Islamic lifestyle media in Turkey
- Travel journalists as cultural mediators: a qualitative discourse analysis on the ‘othering’ of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown
- The impact of social media in lifestyle journalism in Mexico: serving citizens versus creating consumers
- Communicative value chains: fashion bloggers and branding agencies as cultural intermediaries
- Are food bloggers a new kind of influencer?
- Agents of change: the parallel roles of trend forecaster and lifestyle journalists as mediators and tastemakers in consumer culture
- Food and journalism: storytelling about gastronomy in newspapers from the U.S. and Spain
- Travel journalism and the sharing economy: Airbnbmag and sourcing
- Lifestyle journalism as brand practice: the cases of Uniqlo and Abercrombie & Fitch
Unni From and Nete Nørgaard Kristensen
Joy Jenkins and Amanda Hinnant
Lucía Vodanovic
Part II – Experience, consumption and identity
Feyda Sayan-Cengiz
Aaron McKinnon
Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco and Dalia Cárdenas-Hernández
Part III – New players and lifestyle actors
Arturo Arriagada and Francisco Ibañez
Sidonie Naulin
Sabrina Faramarzi
Part IV – Lifestyle, consumerism and branding
Francesc Fusté-Forné and Pere Masip
Bryan Pirolli
Myles Ethan Lascity
Biography
Lucía Vodanovic, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at London College of Communication (UAL) and Course Leader of the MA in Arts and Lifestyle Journalism at the same institution. She completed her MA and PhD in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College. Her research interests focus on social aesthetics, lifestyle media, the ‘everyday’ and amateurism in its links with self-organisation and self-reliance, among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Journal of Visual Art Practice; Travesía: Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and the edited collection Materiality and Popular culture: The Popular Life of Things (Routledge, 2016).