| dc.description.abstract | This research assesses the pattern of media use of Syrian nationals in their daily lives and the issues of construction of their identity and integration through their media choices. The theoretical framework for the research is based on notions of cultural identity and diasporic communication. An in-depth semi-structured face-to-face interview model is used to explore the experiences of the informants of this research. The sample of the study is mainly the immigrants and refugees from Syria who migrated to Norway significantly after 2011. Snowball or chain-referral sampling method is used to access the informants. The fieldwork was conducted in Oslo between February and May 2019. The research exhibits the on-going process of constructing identities of Syrian people in the multinational environment of Oslo. It explores their diasporic, hybrid and invisible identities caused by political, cultural and religious differences in the host society. The silence of media in acute need and the exaggeration of news contents in sensitive stories are frustrating to them. So they prefer social media like Facebook, YouTube, blogs, and WhatsApp as the significant sources of news and communications. They extensively use the internet and social media for self-expression and self-representation. Most of the informants have come to the point of negating the news hearing of Syria due to the repetition of similar kinds of stories and often fake accounts. | en_US |
