Nordicom: Recent submissions
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Audience Participation in the Production of Online News. Towards a Typology
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-12)The potential of audience participation constitutes a most important characteristic of digital journalism. This article presents an inductive study of audience participation in the production of online news in a Danish ... -
A Journalistic Cosmology A Sketch of Some Social and Mental Structures of the Norwegian Journalistic Field
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)Can Norwegian journalism be meaningfully understood as constituting a social field in Pierre Bourdieu ́s sense? And if so, how did this field emerge historically, and what is its fundamental structure? Following a ... -
Innovation of New Revenue Streams in Digital Media. Journalism as Customer Relationship
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-12)Recent digital transformations of the media landscape have altered media economics. Media outlets are experiencing a decline in newspaper circulation and are struggling to develop new revenue streams within digital media. ... -
Digital Challenges on the Norwegian Media Scene
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)This article summarises findings from a research project on the digitisation of Norwegian newsrooms, analysing trends in the industry and changes in user-habits. Findings suggest that most journalists are positive about ... -
Labelling Journalism The Discourse of Sectional Paratexts in Print and Online Newspapers
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)The present article explains why it is important to consider newspapers’ formats and content sections in discourse analyses. It performs a comparative analysis of the choice and naming of content sections in the print ... -
Diversity through Dualism. The Balancing Principle as an Organizational Strategy in Culture Departments of Newspapers
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-12)This article examines the changes in cultural journalism in newspapers with regard to its dual field structure. The influence of media organizations’ policies on professionalist dualism is discussed based on the results ... -
The Self and the Institution The Transformation of a Narrative Genre
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)Media researchers have not been much preoccupied with a genre named Digital Storytell - ing. Since its origin in the early 90s, it has spread from California to the rest of the United States and has been evolving for ... -
Internet Between Utopia and Dystopia The Narratives of Control
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)The Internet has often been envisioned as a technological utopia, framed by the rhetoric of hope. However, after studying the popular discourse, three meta-narratives are identified : utopian narratives containing ... -
Methodological and Ethical Challenges Associated with Large-scale Analyses of Online Political Communication
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Mapping Online Journalism in Transition Exploring. An Analytical Model
(2013-12)By operationalising Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of field, capital and positions of autonomy and heteronomy, and applying a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to data gathered from a large content analysis, the article ... -
Education in the News and in the Mind PISA, News Media and Public Opinion in Norway, Sweden and Finland
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has gained popularity in educational debates, and scholars argue that the tests influence national educational govern - ance. It has further been claimed that ... -
Freelance Journalists’ Ethical Boundary Settings in Information Work
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)The borders between the media genres journalism and information or PR are blurring, and this development is especially noticeable among freelance journalists. How does this affect freelance journalists, particularly their ... -
Introduction. New Nordic Journalism Research
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Rolling News as Disruptive Change A Managerial Perspective on TV 2 and VG in Norway
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)In the present article, we compare the models that the management in two leading com- mercial Norwegian media organizations, one with a foothold in the written press, Verdens Gang (VG), and one in television, TV 2, ... -
Revenue and Branding Strategy in the Norwegian News Market The Case of TV 2 News Channel
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)Future revenue streams for journalism are said not to lie in breaking news, but in spe - cialist journalism that can engender income to sustain news production. A case study of the Norwegian TV 2 News Channel, however, ... -
News Behind the Wall. An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Implementation of a Paywall and News Values
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-12)This article explores the relationship between the implementation of a paywall and the editorial content profile in a local newspaper. The premise of the article is that the content published behind the wall is the content ... -
Negotiating Boundaries between Us and Them Ethnic Norwegians and Norwegian Muslims Speak out about the ‘Next Door Neighbour Terrorist’ in 24
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)Interpretive communities can read a media text in different ways. The present article examines how various interpretive communities of young adults in Norway perceive the action serial 24’s portrayal of a Muslim family. ... -
Widening or Closing the Knowledge Gap? The Role of TV and Newspapers in Changing the Distribution of Political Knowledge
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)The public has gradually become more dependent on the mass media for their political information as alternative channels of political communication have been marginalized. Political knowledge is not equally distributed, ... -
Boardroom Empires? A Study of Ownership Inflence in the Swedish Press
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-12)The question of how ownership impacts on the performance of the press is a perennial one. Despite the extensive attention devoted to the perceived consequences of ownership, information about what newspaper owners actually ... -
Children’s Perspectives through the Camera Lens Reflections on Meaning-making Processes and Participatory Research
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)In relation to any claims about “child-centred” research, the present article stresses the need to reflect on what is actually at stake in terms of participation and the meaning-making pro - cesses that evolve in a ...