TY - JOUR T1 - From the barbecue to the sauna: A comparative account of the folding of media reception into the everyday life JF - New Media & Society Y1 - Submitted A1 - Boczkowski, Pablo J A1 - Suenzo, Facundo A1 - Mitchelstein, Eugenia A1 - Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta A1 - Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Keren A1 - Hayashi, Kaori A1 - Villi, Mikko KW - Comparative qualitative research,media change,media persistence,media reception,journalism AB - How and why do people still get print newspapers in an era dominated by mobile and social media communication? In this article, we answer this question about the permanence of traditional media in a digital media ecosystem by analyzing 488 semi-structured interviews conducted in Argentina, Finland, Israel, Japan, and the United States. We focus on three mechanisms of media reception: access, sociality, and ritualization. Our findings show that these mechanisms are decisively shaped by patterns of everyday life that are not captured by the scholarly foci on either content- or technology-influences on media use. Thus, we argue that a non-media centric approach improves descriptive fit and adds heuristic power by bringing a wider lens into crucial mechanisms of media reception in ways that expand the conceptual toolkit that scholars can utilize to analyze the role of media in everyday life. ER -