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High Risk, Strong Belief Images of the Future in the Media Industry
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)When planning for the future, media managers must balance realism with the need to foresee unexpected changes. This article investigates images of the future in the Norwe- gian media industry in the early years of the ... -
Organizational Communication and Conflict Management Systems A Social Complexity Approach
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)The purpose of the present article is to examine the prevailing model of systematic organizational conflict management from an organizational communicative perspective and to suggest directions for improvement. Particularly ... -
Tensions of Consumer Individualism. Norwegian Identity in the Context of Globalization
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)Globalizing poses particular challenges to likhet – Norwegian conceptualizations of alike ness – and with it the Norwegian conceptualization of individualism, because globalizing advances a different conceptualization ... -
Time and Space in Early Norwegian Radio. Technology, Textuality, and Discursive Roles and Relations
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)The present article takes its points of departure in medium and modernity theory (Meyrowitz 1985), as well as in the research on the special meaning patterns in developed broadcasting referred to as “para-social interaction” ... -
Ubiquitous Absence. Character Engagement in the Contemporary War Film
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)The present article provides an analysis of the narrative and technical devices through which contemporary war films frame audience engagement with characters. It compiles and sys - tematizes a wide set of empirical ... -
Challenges in Covering Innovation Topics. Experiences of Journalists in the US, Japan and Finland
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)Journalists face plenty of challenges when covering innovation topics. Because innovation stories combine elements from several traditional beats, they are often left “homeless” in the media. The general lack of resources ... -
The Featurization of Journalism
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)Feature journalism has developed from being an insignificant supplement to news journalism to a family of genres that today dominates newspapers. The present article explores the growing importance of feature journalism ... -
Public Service Broadcasting as an Object for Cultural Policy in Norway and Sweden. A Policy Tool and an End in Itself
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)The future of public service broadcasting (PSB), and its role for democracy and culture in an age of globalization and digitalization, is a disputed issue among communication scholars, journalists, the general public and ... -
Sports Broadcasting. An Accelerator of Business Integration in the Media Industry
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)The present article analyses how various forms of business integrations, combined with technology innovation, have affected the sports broadcasting market in Norway. Interviews with representatives of Norwegian TV ... -
The Television Industry as a Market of Attention
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)In this article, I present an economist’s perspective on the TV industry and view it as a so-called two-sided market, with advertisers on the one side benefiting from the presence of TV viewers and TV viewers on the other ... -
Put a Tiger in Your Text Metalepsis and Media Discourse
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)The subject of this article is the extensive use of metalepsis as an argumentative and rhe- torical device in media discourse, and in particular in advertising. Metalepsis, a form of metonymy, sets up an inverted relation ... -
Defining Crisis News Events
(2010-06)Research on news organizations’ handling of ‘what-a-story’s proposes that journalists find routines for handling these events based on their previous experiences of similar situations. Still, conceptual discussions on ... -
Social Representations Theory. A New Theory for Media Research
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)This article argues that the theory of social representations can give valuable contributions to media research. It offers a new theory-based approach for studying how the media and citizens socially represent societal ... -
Visions of Finland in the Age of Globalization Competition State or a Fair and Responsible Nation?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)It seems that in the current era of globalization, the national discourse has not lost its appeal in Finnish public discussion. Somewhat paradoxically, it is as strong as ever when the challenge of globalization is being ... -
Opening Remarks to the Sessions of the UNESCO
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Watching Handball Transmissions Experiences of Autonomy, Competency and Relatedness
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)The current article presents a qualitative study of Danish television viewer’s reception of Danish handball transmissions. The overall aim of the study has been to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of televised ... -
Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio News
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)The present article documents a diachronic decline in syntactic complexity in manuscript- based radio news on the primary Danish public service channel, DR, from 1946 to 2006. This decline corresponds to a general shift ... -
Media Use and Misperceptions Does TV Viewing Improve our Knowledge about Immigration?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)There is considerable evidence that many people generally misperceive the size of the immigrant population in their country, and that this may have essential political implications. In studies of political knowledge, the ... -
Narration of Lives and Nations. National Stereotypes in the Coverage of World Cup Football in the Norwegian Channel TV2
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)Iran was one of the participants in the 2006 football World Cup (WC) in Germany. A special WC programme on TV2, one of two primary Norwegian TV channels, entitled World Cup Studio (Norwegian: VM-studio), offered various ... -
Imagine Paradise in Ads Imagination and Visual Matrices in Tourism and Consumer Culture
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)Paradise has been a significant concept in tourism as well in consumer culture. The present article demonstrates how paradise is presented as visual, spatial and ideal concepts in ads, and how they illustrate imagination ...