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The Featurization of Journalism
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)Feature journalism has developed from being an insignificant supplement to news journalism to a family of genres that today dominates newspapers. The present article explores the growing importance of feature journalism ... -
Public Service Broadcasting as an Object for Cultural Policy in Norway and Sweden. A Policy Tool and an End in Itself
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)The future of public service broadcasting (PSB), and its role for democracy and culture in an age of globalization and digitalization, is a disputed issue among communication scholars, journalists, the general public and ... -
Sports Broadcasting. An Accelerator of Business Integration in the Media Industry
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)The present article analyses how various forms of business integrations, combined with technology innovation, have affected the sports broadcasting market in Norway. Interviews with representatives of Norwegian TV ... -
The Television Industry as a Market of Attention
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)In this article, I present an economist’s perspective on the TV industry and view it as a so-called two-sided market, with advertisers on the one side benefiting from the presence of TV viewers and TV viewers on the other ... -
Put a Tiger in Your Text Metalepsis and Media Discourse
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)The subject of this article is the extensive use of metalepsis as an argumentative and rhe- torical device in media discourse, and in particular in advertising. Metalepsis, a form of metonymy, sets up an inverted relation ... -
Defining Crisis News Events
(2010-06)Research on news organizations’ handling of ‘what-a-story’s proposes that journalists find routines for handling these events based on their previous experiences of similar situations. Still, conceptual discussions on ... -
Social Representations Theory. A New Theory for Media Research
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)This article argues that the theory of social representations can give valuable contributions to media research. It offers a new theory-based approach for studying how the media and citizens socially represent societal ... -
Visions of Finland in the Age of Globalization Competition State or a Fair and Responsible Nation?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)It seems that in the current era of globalization, the national discourse has not lost its appeal in Finnish public discussion. Somewhat paradoxically, it is as strong as ever when the challenge of globalization is being ... -
Opening Remarks to the Sessions of the UNESCO
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Watching Handball Transmissions Experiences of Autonomy, Competency and Relatedness
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)The current article presents a qualitative study of Danish television viewer’s reception of Danish handball transmissions. The overall aim of the study has been to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of televised ... -
Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio News
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)The present article documents a diachronic decline in syntactic complexity in manuscript- based radio news on the primary Danish public service channel, DR, from 1946 to 2006. This decline corresponds to a general shift ... -
Media Use and Misperceptions Does TV Viewing Improve our Knowledge about Immigration?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)There is considerable evidence that many people generally misperceive the size of the immigrant population in their country, and that this may have essential political implications. In studies of political knowledge, the ... -
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)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 ... -
Imagine Paradise in Ads Imagination and Visual Matrices in Tourism and Consumer Culture
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)Paradise has been a significant concept in tourism as well in consumer culture. The present article demonstrates how paradise is presented as visual, spatial and ideal concepts in ads, and how they illustrate imagination ... -
Violence in Crime-Appeal Programming and in Crime Statistics. A Content Analysis of Finnish Poliisi-TV
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)Numerous studies have noted that media representations of violent crime do not corre - spond to actual levels and features of violence in society. The present article examines whether this is true of the Finnish ... -
Vision and Intimacy Gendered Communication Online
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)One emerging form of communication discussed in the present article is the use of visual self-representation as a tool for symbolic interaction between young people on the In -ternet. Using examples of difference and ... -
Experts in Election News Coverage. Process or Substance?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011)Previous studies have shown that experts appearing in the media are increasingly speculating about trends and developments rather than presenting their own research. With respect to political journalism, this raises the ... -
Analyzing Presidential Debates Functional Theory and Finnish Political Communication Culture
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)One of the most used theories in the research of political debates is the functional theory of campaign discourse. However, the theory has been criticized for being too culturally limited. In the present article, a Finnish ... -
Media User Types among Young Children and Social Displacement
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)There is a lack of research on the role that new media play in the life of young children under the age of 13 years. Hence, the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between distinct media user types ... -
Personal and Popular. The Case of Young Swedish Female Top-bloggers
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)While early blogging research focused on top-ranked blogs commenting on public events, recent research confirms that most blogs today concern the personal life of the blogger. The present article focuses on a particular ...