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Violence in Crime-Appeal Programming and in Crime Statistics. A Content Analysis of Finnish Poliisi-TV
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)Numerous studies have noted that media representations of violent crime do not corre - spond to actual levels and features of violence in society. The present article examines whether this is true of the Finnish ... -
Vision and Intimacy Gendered Communication Online
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)One emerging form of communication discussed in the present article is the use of visual self-representation as a tool for symbolic interaction between young people on the In -ternet. Using examples of difference and ... -
Experts in Election News Coverage. Process or Substance?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011)Previous studies have shown that experts appearing in the media are increasingly speculating about trends and developments rather than presenting their own research. With respect to political journalism, this raises the ... -
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 ... -
Media User Types among Young Children and Social Displacement
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)There is a lack of research on the role that new media play in the life of young children under the age of 13 years. Hence, the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between distinct media user types ... -
Personal and Popular. The Case of Young Swedish Female Top-bloggers
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)While early blogging research focused on top-ranked blogs commenting on public events, recent research confirms that most blogs today concern the personal life of the blogger. The present article focuses on a particular ... -
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 ... -
Moderator Bias in Television Coverage of an Election Campaign with no Political Advertising
(2010-11)TV journalists may influence election outcomes through the way in which they cover elec- tion campaigns. This is perhaps more of an issue in countries with no political advertising, where the only connection between ... -
Strategic Essentialism and Ethnification Hand in Glove?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)The present article sets out to explore certain aspects of how individuals with an ethnic minority background experience the journalistic media. It is derived from a project based on in-depth interviews aimed at mapping ... -
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 ... -
Mediated Culture and the Well-informed Global Citizen Images of Africa in the Global North
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)During recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the negative portrayal of the African continent in the media of the so-called ‘global North’. Significantly less focus has been put on how to actually represent ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Journalistic Autonomy. Between Structure, Agency and Institution
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-12)This article investigates the concept of autonomy within the journalistic institution. A review of the literature reveals that journalist autonomy is restricted at the political, economic and organisational levels of news ... -
The Shift from High to Liquid Ideals. Making Sense of Journalism and Its Change through a Multidimensional Model
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-12)By reading qualitative studies, surveys, organisational histories, and textbooks, one can claim that the ethos of journalists has undergone fundamental changes in recent decades. The “high modern” journalistic ethos of ... -
The Formation of the Genre System on Norwegian Broadcast Radio
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)This article deals with the formation and first development of the radio genre system in Nor - way in the interwar years (1925-1940). It is shown that the programmes of the 1920s were mostly imperfect reproductions of ... -
The Centrality of Culture in the 20 th Century Estonian Press A Longitudinal Study in Comparison with Finland and Russia
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)The present article highlights the importance of the comparative longitudinal study of mass- mediated content in comparing the evolution of public spheres in neighbouring countries. In order to contextualize our research ... -
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 ... -
Dynamic In-game Advertising in 3D Digital Games A Threat and a Possibility
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)Lately, digital games have developed concerning their use as a marketing medium. The present article is part of a study aimed at building a theoretical model for measuring and analyzing dynamic in-game advertising in ... -
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 ...