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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 ... -
Transatlantic Perspectives on the U.S. 2004 Election. The Case of Norway
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)The U.S. Presidential election of 2004 was an exciting reprise of the 2000 election and was closely watched by numerous observers across the world. The election held significant ramifications for world issues such as the ... -
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 ... -
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’ ... -
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 ... -
PR and the Media. A Collaborative Relationship?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)What do the relations between the PR industry and the media look like? Are they traditional media-source or pressure group relations from the PR side? What is the outcome of these relations and how do they affect journalism ... -
New War Journalism. Trends and Challenges
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)How has war journalism changed since the end of the Cold War? After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was talk of a new world order holding the promise of international ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
The Nordic Journalists of Tomorrow. An Exploration of First Year Journalism Students in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)The present article summarizes the findings of a survey among first-year journalism students in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The survey covers a wide array of subjects including social recruitment, motivation for ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Global Divides and Transnational Media Literacy
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)The present article explores the challenges of global divides for media researchers through the example of a foreign reporter’s blog from an area of intense conflict in Pakistan, where he was threatened by religious ... -
Representing the Rise of the Rest as Threat Media and Global Divides
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)Like a giant oil tanker, the world is turning. New growth poles of the world economy have been emerging in the south and east. Globalization once belonged to the west and now the tables are turning. We have entered the ... -
Unpacking Cultural Divides
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This text is based on an introductory Keynote delivered by the author for a Plenary panel of Nordic researchers that took place during the 2008 ‘Media and Global Divides’ conference. Designed to provide an international ... -
The Poverty of Journalism and the Politics of Reporting Poverty Statistics in South Africa
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Communication, the Nexus of Class and Nation, and Global Divides Reflections on China’s Post-Revolutionary Experiences
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This paper locates the problematic of communication and global divide in the nexus of class and nation in the context of post-revolutionary China’s twisted developmental path and its world historical economic ascent in the ... -
Global Divides in Cosmographic Genres Charity, Solidarity and Different Explanations of Difference
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This chapter sets out to explore charity and solidarity approaches in three cosmographic genres: aid galas, foreign news, and documentaries about foreign nations. I argue that their nation-based ratio together with the ... -
Building an Agenda for Media and Communication Research in Africa
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This article lays down a number of points that need to be reflected upon in building a research agenda for media and communication research in Africa. It resurrects some old questions about the identity of the field. It ... -
Global Divides in Transnational Media Managing the Visibility of Suffering
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)By empirically exploring variations in satellite news on human suffering, inlcuding the 2004 tsunami footage and the 2007 Burma demonstrations, this chapter argues that the symbolic power of trans-national broadcasting ...