Digital Media as Classified and Classifying : The Case of Young Men in Sweden

摘要: Digital media are widely talked about as a democratising force. As internet access proliferates, it is implied, structural constraints will dissolve and bring greater equality - if not instantly, but gradually today's youth, the digital generation, come of age agents old, non-digital order pass away. Thus, alleged boundlessness thought somehow having unbound young people from larger social structure power relations. Drawing on ideas Pierre Bourdieu, present article examines significance class for ways in which Swedish men perceive, interpret make use their everyday lives. The results suggest that class, through workings habitus, shapes men's approaches to education, leisure future, which, turn, tend generate divergent readings media. Those who privileged terms cultural economic capital think compliance with perceived moral goods practices instituted imposed by educational system, example, whereas those disprivileged this respect, although recognising dominant scheme classification valuation such practices, them at odds it, thereby contributing symbolic violence, i.e. own subordination.