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10 Years of Evaluation Practice in Media Assistance
(Nordicom, 2015-04)Evaluating the impact of media assistance is challenging for several reasons. Primary among them is that these kinds of initiatives operate in a complex political, social, and cultural environment. Although there has ... -
125 Nordicom Review 35Talking Green in the Public Sphere Press Releases, Corporate Voices and the Environment
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-08)In a climate of growing public concern and monitoring of business’s impact on the environ - ment, corporations and industry groups have developed increasingly sophisticated strategies to manage their environmental ... -
40 years of Nordic media research: Introduction
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53 Nordicom Review 35 (2014) Special Issue, pp. 53-63 Cosmopolitan Narratives Documentary and the Global ‘Other’
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A few parting words
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A Golden Decade. Exploring Internationalization in Nordic Communication Research
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-06)The five countries of the Nordic region have a common cultural and historical background. In the field of communication, they share institutions, conferences, publications and net works. In order to reveal how this shared ... -
A Hidden Theory
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)The present article analyses press coverage of the dramatic finance crisis and the ensuing European debt crisis in Europe, in three decisive periods. The authors conduct quantitative and qualitative content analyses of ... -
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 ... -
A Quest for Communitas Rethinking Mediated Memory Existentially
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-08)Despite the fragmentation of audience behaviour and the pluralization of platforms within the media cultures of the digital age, cultural memory practices retain an important feature: They echo a basic existential quest ... -
A Small Exclusive Circle. An Institutional Approach to Business News
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-12)This article features a comparative study of the making of business news based upon interviews (2005 to 2010) with senior business journalists in Finland and Sweden as well as communication managers at two global telecom ... -
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 ... -
AD WARS Digital Challenges for Ad-Financed News Media in the Nordic Countries
(Nordicom, 2017-05)Digitalisation has changed how we communicate with one another, how we search for information, how we use media and, not least, how media are financed. This report focuses on media financing, specifically the portion of ... -
Advertising for Europe TV Ads During the 2009 European Election Campaign in Four Countries
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)This study analyzes and compares party ads that were broadcast on television during the 2009 European Election campaign in France, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Even though electoral TV ads have never reached the same ... -
After the Performance
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)In May 2010, the Best Party won the municipal elections in Reykjavik, and the party’s leading figure, comedian Jón Gnarr, was appointed Mayor of Reykjavik. During the election campaign, the party ‘performed democracy’ ... -
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 ... -
Approaches to political commentary in Scandinavia
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05)Political commentary is a contested genre that has attracted a great deal of attention in the Scandinavian public debate, whereas the scholarly literature on it is still in an initial phase. In order to strengthen ... -
As it Happens How Live News Blogs Work and their Future
(Nordic Counil of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-12-15)The live blog is a relatively new, web-native format that has special possibilities for creating journalism. It is an example of networked journalism that puts an emphasis on aggregated material from different sources ... -
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 ... -
Battling Mainstream Media, Commentators and Organized Debaters Experiences from Citizens’ Online Opinion Writing in Sweden
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-11-25)This article presents the results of a qualitative interview study on citizen opinion writers who are active on a citizen media website in Sweden. The study explores the writers’ experi - ences of participating in the ... -
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 ...