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DENIZ NERIMAN DURU (ED.) Excellent MSc Dissertations 2019 Excellent MSc Dissertations 2019 This edited volume, Excellent MSc Dissertations 2019, is the forth in the Excellent MSc Dissertations 2019 series that brings a selection of five postgraduate dissertations, written Media and Communication Studies, Lund University by the students who undertook the MSc degree in Media and Com- munication at Lund University, in Sweden and graduated in June 2019. DENIZ NERIMAN DURU (ED.) WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM All five texts published in this edited volume were originally presented MICHAL GIEDA, LINA LOCKEAN, RANIA SAVITRI MAFIROH, GIULIA MASCIAVÈ, and evaluated as part of the final thesis exams in May 2019, in which they were awarded top grades. During the autumn of 2019, they were & DANIEL SVENSSON revised and edited for publication in the publication series Förtjänstfulla examensarbeten i medie och kommunikationsvetenskap (FEA), which was launched in 2008 to bring attention to and reward student work of a particularly high quality. Media andCommunication Studies, Lund University With this publication, we hope to inspire future students writing dis- sertations, and contribute to debates inside and outside of academia on media, communication and cultural studies. In particular, the work in this book asks us to critically reflect on media’s role in challenging patriarchy and gender inequalities, as well as people’s civic engagement and concern over democracy, political and environmental crises; and human’s relationships with media, technology and AI. All of the issues brought up in this book make us think, question and understand our- selves within the socio-cultural, and mediated environment we live in. LUND UNIVERSITY Faculty of Social Sciences 161458 Department of Communication and Media 2019 Förtjänstfulla examensarbeten i MKV 2019:1 ISBN 978-91-981614-5-8 789198 9 Excellent MSc Dissertations 2019 1 2 Excellent MSc Dissertations 2019 Lund University Ed. Deniz Neriman Duru Authors: Michal Gieda, Lina Lockean, Rania Savitri Mafiroh, Giulia Masciave', Daniel Svensson 3 Cover photo by Can Duru Faculty of Social Sciences | Department of Communication and Media ISBN: 978-91-981614-5-8 MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES • LUND UNIVERSITY Förtjänstfulla examensarbeten i MKV 2019:1 Printed in Sweden by Media-Tryck, Lund University Lund 2020 4 Table of Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................... 7 Deniz Neriman Duru Digital wellbeing, according to Google ........................................................... 13 Daniel Svensson Can cosmopolitanism fix the EU? ................................................................... 57 Michal Gieda Conceiving a Talk Show and Civic Talk through Young Women’s Eyes ....... 105 Rania Savitri Mafiroh Cultivating Cultural Citizenship ................................................................... 153 Lina Lockean ‘Til Death Do Us part .................................................................................. 203 Giulia Masciave' Author Biographies ....................................................................................... 249 5 6 Introduction Deniz Neriman Duru This edited volume, Excellent MSc Dissertations 2019, is the forth in the series that brings a selection of five postgraduate dissertations, written by the students who undertook the MSc degree in Media and Communication at Lund University, in Sweden and graduated in June 2019. During the Masters Programme in Lund, students develop their curiosity for issues that concern us all and are trained theoretically and methodologically for two years to ask critical questions and explore the place, the role and the use of media in people’s lives. This volume seeks to inspire future students and media scholars with its originality of research design, the use of multi-methods in qualitative media research as well as critical and analytical thinking in investigating contemporary issues that challenges the world we live in. The studies in this volume draw our attention to the role of media in people’s everyday life and people’s engagement with it: to question and challenge patriarchy, gender inequalities, democratic deficiency and environmental issues. They investigate a range of different mediums and genres: crime reporting in newspapers, digital technology and digital media, television talk shows and art museum exhibitions. The authors explore a wide spectrum of political, environmental, technological and gender issues. They investigate media production and audience engagement in expressions of political views, concern over patriarchy, democracy and climate change, media ethics in representation and the role of technology in people’s lives. Daniel Svensson explores the ambivalent relationship between humans and technology as proposed by Google’s Digital wellbeing initiative. Michal Gieda uses Volt Europa as a case study to explore the ways in which digital media facilitates a space for cosmopolitan democratic dialogue in the European Union. Rania Savitri Mafiroh examines the civic agency of young Indonesian women audiences and the ways in which they engage with a public discussion talk show, Mata Najwa, in Indonesia. Lina Lockean explores the ways in which the Acclimatize exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm opens up creative spaces for citizens to articulate their civic engagement with concerns over climate change. Last but not least, Giulia 7 Masciavé analyses how mainstream press represents men responsible for femicide in Italy, by combining theories from radical feminism, critical masculinity studies and journalism ethics. The book starts off with Daniel Svensson’s piece, which explores the ambivalent relationship between humans and technology by investigating Google’s Digital wellbeing initiative. The philosophy permeating Digital wellbeing argues for improving people’s relationship with technology, providing tools to gain control over how one’s time is spent. However, the overall situation brought by Google suggests digital technology as omniscient, where users might end up with even less control over their digital activity. In this first chapter, Svensson uses a Science and Technology Studies approach, to better understand what role Google ascribes to technology in everyday life. This is done by analysing the keynote presentation of Google I/O 2018, drawing from theories on the social shaping of technology and critical modernity theory, bringing a contextualized understanding of the visions presented on stage and their relation to the products and services that are shown. The findings show that on the one hand, the Digital wellbeing initiative presents digital technology as something one can step in and out of, a distinct domain of the everyday life, put in contrast to “the real world”. We can measure and limit our time spent with technology, and the applications provided by the Digital wellbeing initiative are presented as means for gaining control over our devices as well as ourselves. Wellbeing in this sense is an autonomous subject, able to use technological devices to increase efficiency, with the power to disconnect whenever needed. On the other hand, the overall vision brought by Google suggests a situation where digital technology is fully integrated into daily life, no longer bound to particular devices and always available by voice. It is envisioned as an omnipresent servant that covers more tasks and domains with every software update. The ideals of efficiency and time-saving that permeates Google’s vision of technology encourages users to give away control to Google, in order to gain control over their time. The lack of control over time spent with technology that users report is turned into an argument for potentially giving up further control. Chapters Two, Three and Four shift our attention to people’s media engagement in articulating their political views and civic engagement with issues of democracy, women’s agency and climate change. In Chapter Two, Michal Gieda employs a case study on Volt Europa in order to gain a holistic understanding of this growing political movement as a European expression of cosmopolitanism. He highlights 8 that the study of Volt Europa, a political movement and party aiming to reform the European Union through a pan-European platform, reveals significant findings about the current deficiencies of European democracy and how they can be resolved. Gieda argues that this approach is grounded in a cosmopolitan democratic and communicative framework, which reveals evident expressions of this phenomenon. The chapter aims to describe this expression in the larger context of the EU, while simultaneously aiming to prescribe how a cosmopolitan approach may be a solution to the deficiencies of European democracy. The findings reveal that this fix may very much be grounded in an emerging cross- cultural communicative framework for EU citizens, and a growing public sphere based on digital democratic participation. In Chapter Three, Rania Savitri Mafiroh examines the civic agency of young Indonesian women audiences promoted by a public discussion talk show, Mata Najwa, in Indonesia. While existing studies in Indonesia pay more attention to the subordination of women as the product of media, this chapter analyses how female audiences interpret their engagement with the social and political issues on the show, and in what way this engagement becomes their resource for civic talk in the private sphere. The

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