Browsing by Author "Carlsson, Ulla"
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Crisis Communication in a New World. Reaching Multicultural Publics through Old and New Media
Falkheimer, Jesper; Heide, Mats (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 ... -
Criticism of the Police in the News : Discourses and Frames in the News Media’s Coverage of the Norwegian Bureau for the Investigation of Police Affairs
Pollack, Ester; Allern, Sigurd (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-06)Mediated descriptions of reality are tremendously important to the way the public – and policymakers – perceive the police. The present article analyses how leading news outlets reported and commented on complaints against ... -
Dead Ground Fallacies of Understanding Global Divides, Policy-Making and Communication
Salovaara-Moring, Inka (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 ... -
Defending Nordic Children Against Disney PBS Children’s Channels in the Age of Globalization
Enli, Gunn Sara (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-06)This article analyses the key strategies for serving children that were developed in Nordic public broadcasting during the first decade of 2000s, with reference to US and European parallels. The main goal is to investigate ... -
Defining Crisis News Events
Olsson, Eva-Karin (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 ... -
Deliberation, Competition, or Practice? The Online Debate as an Arena for Political Participation
Winsvold, Marte (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-06)Several studies have found that political online debates do not to live up to deliberative standards of discussion. Even so, these debates may have democratic value. In the present article, the analytic focus is extended ... -
Digital Challenges on the Norwegian Media Scene
Ottosen, Rune; Krumsvik, Arne H (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12)This article summarises findings from a research project on the digitisation of Norwegian newsrooms, analysing trends in the industry and changes in user-habits. Findings suggest that most journalists are positive about ... -
DOES MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION RESEARCH MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Reflections from a Nordic Horizon
Carlsson, Ulla (2014-06-04)HONORARY DOCTORATE LECTURE, SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION, MEDIA AND THEATRE, TAMPERE UNIVERSITY, 4 JUNE 2014 -
Dynamic In-game Advertising in 3D Digital Games A Threat and a Possibility
Raatikainen, Olli (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 ... -
Education in the News and in the Mind PISA, News Media and Public Opinion in Norway, Sweden and Finland
Fladmoe, Audun (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has gained popularity in educational debates, and scholars argue that the tests influence national educational govern - ance. It has further been claimed that ... -
Energy Transition in and by the Local Media. The Public Emergence of an ‘Energy Town’
Horsbøl, Anders (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-11)Climate change mitigation and the transition to environmentally sustainable forms of life have become central public issues, and a number of studies have investigated the role of the media in constructing and distributing ... -
Experts in Election News Coverage. Process or Substance?
Albæk, Erik; Elmelund-Præstekær, Christian; David, Nicolas Hopmann; Robert, Klemmensen (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 ... -
Forensic Fiction and the Normalization of Surveillance
Hausken, Liv (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-06) -
Frågan om en ny internationell informationsordning. En studie i internationell mediepolitik
Carlsson, Ulla (1998) -
Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and reflections in the digital age
Carlsson, Ulla (Nordicom, 2016-05-04)The current publication, published by the UNESCO Chair at the University of Gothenburg in collaboration with Nordicom, may be seen as a follow-up to these earlier titles. It is based on research in the Nordic countries, ... -
Freelance Journalists’ Ethical Boundary Settings in Information Work
Ladendorf, Martina (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)The borders between the media genres journalism and information or PR are blurring, and this development is especially noticeable among freelance journalists. How does this affect freelance journalists, particularly their ... -
From Public Relations to Strategic Communication in Sweden The Emergence of a Transboundary Field of Knowledge
Falkheimer, Jesper; Mats, Heide (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-11-25)In this conceptual article, we argue that strategic communication is a transboundary concept that captures, better than public relations does, the complex phenomenon of an organiza- tion’s targeted communication processes ... -
Global Divides and Transnational Media Literacy
Eide, Elisabeth (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 ... -
Global Divides in Cosmographic Genres Charity, Solidarity and Different Explanations of Difference
Roosvall, Anna (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 in Transnational Media Managing the Visibility of Suffering
Chouliaraki, Lilie (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 ...