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    Iranian-Norwegian Media Consumption. Identity and Positioning
    (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05) Alghasi, Sharam; Carlsson, Ulla; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo
    This study examines 20 Iranian-Norwegians and their diverse media consumption. The claim is that the dynamics between media’s hegemonic quality, expressed in their discursive representation of realities, and Iranian-Norwegians’ subjective positions seem to have a vital impact on the processes of meaning construction and positioning that Iranian-Norwegians experience in Norwegian society. Analysis of the respondents’ media preferences indica - tes that they are most often attracted by three characteristics linked to their status: being Iranian, immigrant and Muslim. These elements emerge as identity markers that Iranian- Norwegians focus on in their relationship to the media, and furthermore employ in their negotiation of identity and position in Norwegian society. They often express an anomaly between their understanding of themselves, who they are and where they belong, and the discursive representation of them in the media. This results in an attitude of resistance, in the shape of the subjective constructions of the respondents, and which seems to propel them in different directions
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    Narration of Lives and Nations. National Stereotypes in the Coverage of World Cup Football in the Norwegian Channel TV2
    (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06) Alghasi, Sharam; Carlsson, Ulla; Department of Social Anthropology, Univer - sity of Oslo
    Iran was one of the participants in the 2006 football World Cup (WC) in Germany. A special WC programme on TV2, one of two primary Norwegian TV channels, entitled World Cup Studio (Norwegian: VM-studio), offered various reports for a Norwegian audience and was sent before and after each match along with a short segment of reportage from the countries involved. The present article focuses on one of the World Cup Studio programmes broadcast during the WC games between Iran and Mexico. The purpose of the article is to investigate how Iran and Mexico, as two national and cultural entities, are presented in relation to a Norwegian socio-cultural context. Additionally, the particular geopolitical condition at the time before the World Cup, as represented in these programmes, is identified and classified.