Hi everyone,

Attached to this e-mail you can find the draft of the paper on ‘cultural mediators’ that I am currently working on together with Ike. To provide some context, the paper should be almost finished, and we plan to submit it (hopefully 😊) next week. We were considering submitting the paper to ‘Media, Culture, and Society’ which seems to cover similar paper topics (but feedback on our choice of journal is more than welcome).

The paper is part of my PhD project which is not only looking at the relationship of young media users towards cultural mediators (as presented in this paper) but also uses ‘personal curation tactics’ as a lens to analyse how media users encounter political information aiming to understand how youngsters cope with the intertwining of voices with different status (journalistic versus non-journalistic) on social media platforms.

Feedback on any aspect of the paper is more than welcome, but it would be particularly helpful to focus a bit on:

• The outline of the paper: are the research questions, the design, and the aim of the paper clear? Is the structure well-defined?
• Is the paper ‘complete’ and ready for publication, or is there something (essential) missing?
• Are the steps we made in the study logical and clear?
• Do the findings align with the theoretical framework?

Thank you in advance, I am looking forward to the discussion!

See you on Thursday,

Sarah

Met vriendelijke groeten

Kind regards

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