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referring to people of approximately the same age, living through the same period of their life course and belonging to a particular social and cultural
setting. This, incidentally, may not necessarily be applicable to some other social group, since their habituses are different, as Bourdieu would argue. Em‑
pirically, the paper derives from a representative national study of Estonian population (including a proportional number of representatives of the Estonian
majority and the Russian minority) and explores the repertoires of news media that different generation groups use to obtain information and create their
everyday information space. Although the findings demonstrate remarkable differences between groups, the study also reveals that media repertoires
are not necessarily divided by particular generational patterns, but change also over the life course, being, on the other hand, more than ever shaped by
deepening individualized preferences and choices.