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Normative Media Research. Moving from the Ivory Tower to the Control Tower
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)The article enquires about the role of researchers in an era of increasingly competitive innovation in the media industry. I argue that research-driven change in the mass media is possible, and that there should be more ... -
Becoming more Like Friends. A Qualitative Study of Personal Media and Social Life
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009)Mediated interaction plays a significant role in the social life of adolescents in Norway. The purpose of the present article is to examine the qualities of mediated interaction and the integration of mediated and immediate ... -
Wikipedia – Free and Reliable? Aspects of a Collaboratively Shaped Encyclopaedia
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)Wikipedia is a multilingual, Internet-based, free, wiki-encyclopaedia that is created by its own users. The aim of the present article is to let users’ descriptions of their impressions and ex - periences of Wikipedia ... -
Nice to Have – or Need to Have? The Professional Challenges of the Communication Sector
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)The present article argues that despite the considerable development and expansion of strategic communication as both an academic field and professional practice during the 20 th century, strategic communication continues ... -
The International Freedom of Information Index. A Watchdog of Transparency in Practice
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)During the past two decades, the number of countries that have enacted Freedom of Information (FOI) laws has increased dramatically. In many respects, FOI laws have become a democratic ‘right of passage’. No FOI, no ... -
Tomorrow’s Journalists Trends in the Development of the Journalistic Profession as Seen by Swedish and Russian Students
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)The present article describes trends in the development of the journalistic profession as seen by Swedish and Russian students in journalism. The study focuses on the results of a survey carried out among students at ... -
More Cold Case Than Hot Spot A Study of Public Opinion on Political Advertising in Swedish Television
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)How does the public perceive televised political advertising when it is introduced as a completely new element of campaign communications? The European Parliamentary Elections in 2009 may be characterized as the first ... -
Iranian-Norwegian Media Consumption. Identity and Positioning
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)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’ ... -
Crisis Communication in a New World. Reaching Multicultural Publics through Old and New Media
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)Crisis communication is a growing field of research and practice. A weakness in the traditional research field is the lack of theoretical development and the isolated sender and mass communication focus. In the present ... -
The World on Television Market-driven, Public Service News
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)How does television cover foreign news? What is covered and how? The present article reports on a comparative study of a license-financed public broadcaster and an advertising- financed channel in Norway – the NRK and TV2 , ... -
Television Textuality. Textual Forms in Live Television Programming
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)The article discusses the production of live television formats, as they have developed in Europe during the past decade. The analytical examples are taken from entertainment as well as factual television, and from public ... -
“Web First” to Death The Media Logic of the School Shootings in the Era of Uncertainty
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)The article discusses the most recent Finnish school shootings in Jokela (2007) and in Kau - hajoki (2008) as communicative events, proclaimed to be media disasters. These events are described as media disasters following ... -
Non-professional Activity on Television in a Time of Digitalisation. More Fun for the Elite or New Opportunities for Ordinary People?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)This article presents an empirically based examination of how the Norwegian television industry incorporates audience activity and audience-generated material, and of how audiences respond to the opportunities presented. ... -
Transitional Times. ‘New Media’ – Novel Histories and Trajectories
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)The alluring traits of ‘new media’ have spurred new research interests. This article discusses the discourse of ‘new media’ from the vantage point of critically reviewing three emissions from MIT Press during the years ... -
High Risk, Strong Belief Images of the Future in the Media Industry
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)When planning for the future, media managers must balance realism with the need to foresee unexpected changes. This article investigates images of the future in the Norwe- gian media industry in the early years of the ... -
Organizational Communication and Conflict Management Systems A Social Complexity Approach
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)The purpose of the present article is to examine the prevailing model of systematic organizational conflict management from an organizational communicative perspective and to suggest directions for improvement. Particularly ... -
Tensions of Consumer Individualism. Norwegian Identity in the Context of Globalization
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)Globalizing poses particular challenges to likhet – Norwegian conceptualizations of alike ness – and with it the Norwegian conceptualization of individualism, because globalizing advances a different conceptualization ... -
Time and Space in Early Norwegian Radio. Technology, Textuality, and Discursive Roles and Relations
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)The present article takes its points of departure in medium and modernity theory (Meyrowitz 1985), as well as in the research on the special meaning patterns in developed broadcasting referred to as “para-social interaction” ... -
Ubiquitous Absence. Character Engagement in the Contemporary War Film
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)The present article provides an analysis of the narrative and technical devices through which contemporary war films frame audience engagement with characters. It compiles and sys - tematizes a wide set of empirical ... -
Challenges in Covering Innovation Topics. Experiences of Journalists in the US, Japan and Finland
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)Journalists face plenty of challenges when covering innovation topics. Because innovation stories combine elements from several traditional beats, they are often left “homeless” in the media. The general lack of resources ...