'Dailiness' in The Multimedia Environment: Youth Media Practices and The Temporal Structure of The Life-World

The paper explores the ways 'media savvy' youth use multimedia environment in different everyday practices and the process of 'dailiness' construction through their interaction with different communication media. Theoretical framework which is applied combines theory of media practice and the media phenomenology (Scannell 1996), with the concept of media use genres as the interpretative conceptual tool (Bakardjieva 2005, Ito et al. 2013). Findings are based on the qualitative interpretative analysis of the diaries and autobiographical reflections on media use written by students (N=64) of the first year of the graduate study of journalism on the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb (intensity sample). The results show how the construction of 'dailiness' in multimedia environment takes place through the complex interarticulations between different communication media wherein it is necessary to take into account full available media matrix and the interactional context.