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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.
List of contents
Introduction
Lucía Vodanovic
Part I - Emerging roles of lifestyle journalism
- Unpacking lifestyle journalism via service journalism and constructive journalism
Unni From and Nete Nørgaard Kristensen
- Idealised authenticity: analysing Jean Baudrillard's Theory of Simulation and its applicability to food coverage in city magazines
Joy Jenkins and Amanda Hinnant
- Journalism without news: the beauty journalist private/professional self in The Guardian's 'below the line' comments
Lucía Vodanovic
Part II - Experience, consumption and identity
- Reconciling religion and consumerism: Islamic lifestyle media in Turkey
Feyda Sayan-Cengiz
- Travel journalists as cultural mediators: a qualitative discourse analysis on the 'othering' of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown
Aaron McKinnon
- The impact of social media in lifestyle journalism in Mexico: serving citizens versus creating consumers
Sergio Rodríguez-Blanco and Dalia Cárdenas-Hernández
Part III - New players and lifestyle actors
- Communicative value chains: fashion bloggers and branding agencies as cultural intermediaries
Arturo Arriagada and Francisco Ibañez
- Are food bloggers a new kind of influencer?
Sidonie Naulin
- Agents of change: the parallel roles of trend forecaster and lifestyle journalists as mediators and tastemakers in consumer culture
Sabrina Faramarzi
Part IV - Lifestyle, consumerism and branding
- Food and journalism: storytelling about gastronomy in newspapers from the U.S. and Spain
Francesc Fusté-Forné and Pere Masip
- Travel journalism and the sharing economy: Airbnbmag and sourcing
Bryan Pirolli
- Lifestyle journalism as brand practice: the cases of Uniqlo and Abercrombie & Fitch
Myles Ethan Lascity
About the author
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).
Summary
Ranging from travel to wellbeing and fashion to food, Lifestyle Journalism explores a wide variety of subjects within a growing field.
