Media use by ethnic minorities is increasingly becoming a politicized matter, appearing regularly in discussions on multiculturalism and integration. In a globalizing media-landscape, the rise of ethnic and global ethnic media paradoxically enables ethnic minorities to maintain links with forms of ethnic identity. Especially interesting in this respect is media use by adolescents, often on the crossroads between different cultures. This article departs from the notion concerned with the extent to which media use of adolescents from ethnic minorities actually differs (...) from that of their Belgian counterparts, and instead focuses on the role ethnicity plays as a determinant of media use when weighed up against other socio-economic or education-related variables. Based on a large-scale Belgian survey of 12- to 18-year-olds, this article shows, amongst other results, that the importance of ethnic-cultural background as an indicator for media use by adolescents from ethnic minorities ought to be placed into perspective. (shrink)

Bien que le paysage institutionnel de la Belgique reflète une gestion politique assez complexe des identités linguistiques, la logique et la dynamique sous-jacente est celle d'une institutionnalisation des identités linguistiques, basée sur deux principes récurrents: la territorialité et la bipolarité. En introduction, est présentée une esquisse de la construction des identités linguistiques en Belgique au cours du XIX siècle. Ensuite sont exposés quatre principes fondamentaux qui furent instaurés dans la législation belge durant le XX siècle. Ceux-ci visaient à régler le (...) contentieux linguistique en Belgique et ont contribué à façonner le visage actuel du modèle belge: principe de territorialité et plus précisément unilinguisme régional; fixation d'une frontière linguistique; mécanismes de protection parlementaire pour la minorité linguistique au niveau national et bruxellois; décentralisation culturelle et socio-économique.Although the institutional landscape of Belgium reflects a political management rather complex linguistic, logic and dynamics underlying the institutionalization of linguistic identities, based on two principles recurring: territoriality and bipolarity. In the introduction, is presented a sketch of the construction of linguistic identities in Belgium during the nineteenth century. Then exposed four fundamental principles that were established in the Belgian legislation during the twentieth century. These were designed to address the contentious language in Belgium and helped shape the current face of the Belgian model: territoriality principle and more specifically unilingualism regional setting of a linguistic border, protection mechanisms for parliamentary minority language at the national level and Brussels, decentralization cultural and socio-economic development. (shrink)