Nordicom: Recent submissions
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Access to Information in the Nordic Countries. A comparison of the laws of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland and international rules
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-11)Freedom of information, openness and transparency are words that are freely used in public discourse. Public bodies and politicians are referred to as ‘open’ if they give information and are willing to enter into dialogue ... -
Conversations with my Robot
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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 ... -
The Poverty of Journalism and the Politics of Reporting Poverty Statistics in South Africa
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From an Echo of the West to a Voice of Its Own? Sub-Saharan African Research under the Loophole
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Media and the Global Divide A Bottom-up and Citizen Perspective
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)When addressing media and global divides, the focus of the problem is often on the overall global trends in media and cultural production – identifying current developments in different regions of the worlds, and illustrating ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Dead Ground Fallacies of Understanding Global Divides, Policy-Making and Communication
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)This chapter addresses cultural production and global divides from a media geographer’s point of view by introducing ‘dead ground’ as its central concept. This concept is borrowed from strategic thinking, originally a ... -
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 ... -
Telescopic Philanthropy, Emancipation and Development Communication Theory
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)Development communication theory can be framed as the rescue mission of the global north to save the global south from itself. It is in view of this that this paper asks: what does it mean to found the emancipation of ... -
Bridging the Divide between the Press and Civic Society Civic Media Advocacy as “Media Movement” in Latin America
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)The gap between the press and civic society has been a paramount concern for media research on Latin America. Press systems in the region have been historically dominated by states and markets. During the past decades, ... -
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 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 ... -
Sweetening the Deal To what Extent can Public Funding Attract Private Film Investors?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)Various forms of public funding are used to encourage national film production, and one important quality of such funding is its ability to attract complementary private financing and thus maximize the resources available ... -
Self-Reflection. Beyond Conventional Fiction Film Engagement
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)Idiosyncratic responses are more strictly personal responses to fiction film that vary across individual spectators. In philosophy of film, idiosyncratic responses are often deemed inappropriate, unwarranted and unintended ... -
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 ... -
New Narrative Depths? Spectacle and Narrative in Blockbuster Cinema Revisited
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)The article aims to tease out an implicit, possibly even instinctive, assumption about why big-budget blockbuster storylines come up short compared to other kinds of culturally sanctioned narratives. Briefly, the assumption ... -
Mega-Sporting Events and the Media in Attention Economies. National and International Press Coverage of the IAAF World Championships in Helsinki 2005
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)The present article examines the IAAF World Championships as a commercialized mega- sporting event and an expression of the contemporary experience industry. The focus of the empirical analysis is on the national and ... -
Maps and Mandalas, Division and Multiplication Media and Global Divides
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)In this plenary talk delivered to the IAMCR conference on “Global Divides” in Stockholm, July 2008, I explore a range of issues triggered by the very phrase “global divides”. I ask whether the world is divided and, if ...