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This research project aims to find out what immigrant families' news and media landscape is like, and what kind of meaning-making negotiations do family members engage in relation to media use. The study focuses on the experiences, perceptions and everyday media use of parent(s) and their teenage-aged children who are still living at home.

The study aims to answer the following research questions

1) What kind of practices related to news and media use do immigrant families have in Finland in the 2020s?

2) What kind of meaning-making negotiations do immigrant families engage in related to media use, language, and culture?

The study’s target group consists of families living in Finland where one or both of the primary caretakers have been born outside of Finland, and later on in their life moved to the country. The families have one or more teenage-aged children (12–20 years old). The study includes both families where both of the caretakers (or the only caretaker) have an immigrant background, as well as families where one parent has an immigrant background and one has been born in Finland.

The data collected and analyzed in the study consists of 1) media use logs, e.g. diaries/journals detailing media use, 2) individual interviews of the children and their parents, and 3) group interviews of the families.

The information produced by the project supports immigrant families in balancing in a multilingual and multicultural media landscape. Media, NGOs and similar actors working with immigrant families can use the findings in reaching out and supporting families with an immigrant background. For the families themselves, the study offers peer support as well as tools for bringing up children in a multilingual and multicultural media environment.

The research project is funded by the  in the years 2022-2023.