Multiplicity of Media Choices and Privatised Mobility in Quarantine
Multiplicity of Media Choices and Privatised Mobility in Quarantine

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with specific ‘polymedia repertoires’ of young people with the characteristics of their changing, adaptive and often parallel/simultaneous movement across different platforms and legacy media within their daily interactions during quarantine. Audiencing practices where it is especially important to examine relationships with technologies in contemporary media manifold were approached through the analysis of the media diaries of young people, aged between 21 and 25 years. The conclusions of the analysis point to a technological/media transformation, a transformation of practices in everyday life and a radical mediatisation which plays an important part in the changing generational structure of feeling. This paper argues that a generation-specific relationship with technologies forms a generation-specific structure of feeling or specific subject cultures that develop as by-products of deep mediatisation, in which digital media, especially during quarantine, expanded into all spheres of their social life.

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