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Children's Cultures after Childhood
Edited by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak and Macarena García-González
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 16] 2023
► pp. 88–101

Chapter 6
Enacting the tween news viewer

Supernytt and its audience

| Norwegian University of Science and Technology
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norway’s public service provider, NRK, delivers daily news for tweens through Supernytt. Employing the concepts of mutual enactment, assemblages, and multiplicity, this chapter explores the elusive interdependencies of children’s news and its viewers. Through textual analysis of Supernytt and interviews with tweens, the text and children’s utterances are pushed and pulled in and out of focus to explore enactments of “the tween news viewer”. The authors find that both the text and children themselves take part in multiple enactments of the tween news viewer and argue that the conceptual framework used aids in exploring the constantly unfolding interdependencies of children and media.
Keywords: children’s news, mutual enactment, children’s voices, sociomaterial
Article outline
  • Conceptual framework: An open-ended approach to childhood and media
  • Methodological framework: Moving actors in and out of focus
  • Enactments of the tween news viewer
  • Between text and viewers
  • Concluding discussion
  • References
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Published online: 8 August 2023
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