Lifestyle journalism: social media, consumption and experience

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: lifestyle journalism: social media, consumption and experience -- Lifestyle media and lifestyle journalism -- From consumption to identity -- References -- PART I: Emerging roles of lifestyle journalism -- 1. Unpacking lifestyle journalism via service journalism and constructive journalism -- Research context -- Commercialisation as adriving force in lifestyle journalism -- Individualisation and changed audience conceptions -- Lifestyle journalism in adigitalised media landscape -- Constructive journalism and achanged mode of addressing audiences -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Idealised authenticity: analysing Jean Baudrillard's Theory of Simulation and its applicability to food coverage in city magazines -- Background and early works -- Baudrillard and simulation -- Magazines as modes of simulation -- City magazines and the hyperreal -- Food coverage and 'authentic' culture -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 3. Journalism 'without news': the beauty journalist private/ professional self in The Guardian's 'below the line' comments -- Method -- Journalism of the self -- The individual journalist -- Analysis and discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- PART II: Experience, consumption and identity -- 4. Reconciling religion and consumerism: Islamic lifestyle media in Turkey -- Method -- Lifestyle journalism: circulating meanings for consumer goods -- Consumption, identity politics and changing journalism in Turkey -- Findings -- Pious consumerism -- Tension between promoting consumerism and advising against it -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 5. Travel journalists as cultural mediators: a qualitative discourse analysis on the 'othering' of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown -- Bourdain's journalistic perspective.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.