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Introverted Locals or World Citizens? A Quantitative Study of Interest in Local and Foreign News in Traditional Media and on the Internet
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)Claiming that interest in local vs. foreign news is one way of measuring orientation towards local and greater society, this paper utilizes a Norwegian survey with questions about interest in news to identify groups with ... -
“Teenagers Get Undressed on the Internet”. Young People’s Exposure of Bodies in a Swedish Internet Community
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)During recent years, Swedish media have paid attention to young people’s presentations of self in Internet communities, claiming that these presentations are often sexually provocative. The present study aims at investigating ... -
Children’s Electronic Gaming Content Preferences and Psychosocial Factors. Is there a Connection?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)The gaming industry has dramatically increased the range of choices for different game genres and content. Despite this, research on psychosocial factors in children and electronic gaming has primarily focused on time ... -
Playful Persuasion. The Rhetorical Potential of Advergames
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)The use of video games for advertising purposes is persuasive communication which directly involves the recipient in the construction of an argument. This form is becoming increasingly common, and the present article ... -
Targeting the Player. Computer Games as Propaganda for the Military-Industrial Complex
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)The historical roots of the technology and design of computer games can be found in Pentagon-supported research in 1960s. Many computer games had their origin as simulators and training equipment for the armed forces. ... -
Media in Post-Communist Mongolia. Challenges and Opportunities in the Democratization Process
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)The introduction of a liberal media model built on freedom of expression, non-regulation, and free market in Post-Communist Mongolia has lead to a plethora of new media outlets. In a context of external pluralism, the ... -
Normative Media Research. Moving from the Ivory Tower to the Control Tower
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)The article enquires about the role of researchers in an era of increasingly competitive innovation in the media industry. I argue that research-driven change in the mass media is possible, and that there should be more ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Nice to Have – or Need to Have? The Professional Challenges of the Communication Sector
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)The present article argues that despite the considerable development and expansion of strategic communication as both an academic field and professional practice during the 20 th century, strategic communication continues ... -
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 ... -
Tomorrow’s Journalists Trends in the Development of the Journalistic Profession as Seen by Swedish and Russian Students
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)The present article describes trends in the development of the journalistic profession as seen by Swedish and Russian students in journalism. The study focuses on the results of a survey carried out among students at ... -
More Cold Case Than Hot Spot A Study of Public Opinion on Political Advertising in Swedish Television
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)How does the public perceive televised political advertising when it is introduced as a completely new element of campaign communications? The European Parliamentary Elections in 2009 may be characterized as the first ... -
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’ ... -
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 ... -
The World on Television Market-driven, Public Service News
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)How does television cover foreign news? What is covered and how? The present article reports on a comparative study of a license-financed public broadcaster and an advertising- financed channel in Norway – the NRK and TV2 , ... -
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 ... -
“Web First” to Death The Media Logic of the School Shootings in the Era of Uncertainty
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)The article discusses the most recent Finnish school shootings in Jokela (2007) and in Kau - hajoki (2008) as communicative events, proclaimed to be media disasters. These events are described as media disasters following ... -
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. ... -
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 ...