Folker Hanusch - Lifestyle Journalism

Lifestyle Journalism

Lifestyle journalism has experienced enormous growth in the media over the past two decades, but scholars in the fields of journalism and communication studies have so far paid relatively little attention to a field that is still sometimes seen as not real journalism. There is now an urgent need for in-depth exploration and contextualisation of this field, with its increasing relevance for 21st century consumer cultures.

For the first time, this book presents a wide range of studies which have engaged with the field of lifestyle journalism in order to outline the various political, economic, social and cultural tensions within it. Taking a comparative view, the collection includes studies covering four continents, including countries such as Australia, China, Norway, Denmark, Singapore, the UK and the USA. While keeping the broader lifestyle field in mind, the chapters focus on a variety of sub-fields such as travel, music, food, health, fashion and personal technology journalism. This volume provides a fascinating account of the different facets of lifestyle journalism, and charts the way forward for a more sustained analysis of the field.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Practice.

Folker Hanusch is a former journalist and now Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He has published widely on topics such as lifestyle, particularly travel, journalism, journalists professional views, comparative journalism studies, indigenous journalism and news media representations of death and dying.

Journalism Studies: Theory and Practice
Series editor: Bob Franklin, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK

The journal Journalism Studies was established at the turn of the new millennium by Bob Franklin. It was launched in the context of a burgeoning interest in the scholarly study of journalism and an expansive global community of journalism scholars and researchers. The ambition was to provide a forum for the critical discussion and study of journalism as a subject of intellectual inquiry but also an arena of professional practice. Previously, the study of journalism in the UK and much of Europe was a fairly marginal branch of the larger disciplines of media, communication and cultural studies; only a handful of Universities offered degree programmes in the subject. Journalism Studies has flourished and succeeded in providing the intended public space for discussion of research on key issues within the field, to the point where in 2007 a sister journal, Journalism Practice, was launched to enable an enhanced focus on practice-based issues, as well as foregrounding studies of journalism education, training and professional concerns. Both journals are among the leading ranked journals within the field and publish six issues annually, in electronic and print formats. More recently, 2013 witnessed the launch of a further companion journal Digital Journalism to provide a site for scholarly discussion, analysis and responses to the wide ranging implications of digital technologies for the practice and study of journalism. From the outset, the publication of themed issues has been a commitment for all journals. Their purpose is first, to focus on highly significant or neglected areas of the field; second, to facilitate discussion and analysis of important and topical policy issues; and third, to offer readers an especially high quality and closely focused set of essays, analyses and discussions.

The Journalism Studies: Theory and Practice book series draws on a wide range of these themed issues from all journals and thereby extends the critical and public forum provided by them. The Editor of the journals works closely with guest editors to ensure that the books achieve relevance for readers and the highest standards of research rigour and academic excellence. The series makes a significant contribution to the field of journalism studies by inviting distinguished scholars, academics and journalism practitioners to discuss and debate the central concerns within the field. It also reaches a wider readership of scholars, students and practitioners across the social sciences, humanities and communication arts, encouraging them to engage critically with, but also to interrogate, the specialist scholarly studies of journalism which this series provides.

Available titles in the series:

Mapping the Magazine: Comparative Studies in Magazine Journalism

Edited by Tim Holmes

The Future of Newspapers

Edited by Bob Franklin

Language and Journalism

Edited by John Richardson

The Future of Journalism

Edited by Bob Franklin

Exploration in Global Media Ethics

Edited by Muhammad Ayish and Shakuntala Rao

Foreign Correspondence

Edited by John Maxwell Hamilton and Regina G. Lawrence

How Journalism Uses History

Edited by Martin Conboy

Lifestyle Journalism

Edited by Folker Hanusch

Environmental Journalism

Edited by Henrik Bdker and Irene Neverla

Online Reporting of Elections

Edited by Einar Thorsen

The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates

Edited by Bob Franklin

Lifestyle Journalism

Edited by

Folker Hanusch

First published 2013

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Contents

Bob Franklin

Folker Hanusch

Elfriede Frsich

Nete Nrgaard Kristensen and Unni From

Lyn McGaurr

Andrew Duffy and Yang Yuhong Ashley

Roel Puijk

Agns Rocamora

Nikki Usher

Shuang Li