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Talking Suicide. Online Conversations about a Taboo Subject
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-11)The present article discusses intimate conversations about suicide that are pursued on the Internet. Computer-mediated communication has made it possible for participants to remain anonymous and, simultaneously, enter ... -
Talking Tacitly Activities and Experiences in Higly Interactive Media
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-08)Some media forms we primarily take in with our senses, like movies, music or text. Other media forms are more like activities that we have to carry out with our body such as digital games on the PC, console, smart phone ... -
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. ... -
“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 ... -
Telescopic Philanthropy, Emancipation and Development Communication Theory
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)Development communication theory can be framed as the rescue mission of the global north to save the global south from itself. It is in view of this that this paper asks: what does it mean to found the emancipation of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Tensions, Challenges and Issues in Evaluating Communication for Development
(Nordicom, 2015-04)The complexity of development and social change and growing tensions between dominant results-based and emerging learning and improvement-based approaches to evaluating de velopment interventions have created major ... -
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Textual Poaching, Gamekeeping and the Counter-stereotype US and Norwegian Online Fans’ Perceptions of Positive Portrayals of Muslims in ‘24’
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-06)In the analogue era, fan studies explored localized resistance within fan communities’ cul - tural practices, examining how this might lead to new understandings of gender, sexuality, and race. However, there has been ... -
The Americanization of Danish Journalism
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-06)This article provides two examples of the Americanization of Danish journalism through an examination of Danish journalists’ adaptation of New Journalism and investigative journalism as seen through the pages of the Danish ... -
The Anyone-Can-Edit Syndrome Intercreation Stories of Three Featured Articles on Wikipedia
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-08)The user-generated wiki encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Wikipedia has become the world’s largest wiki encyclopedia, and behind many of its entries are interesting ... -
The Autonomy of Scandinavian Public Service Broadcasters During Election Campaign Periods Principles and Practices
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-06)This comparative case study explores the formal and informal principles governing election formats produced by the public service broadcasters in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The focus is on external regulation vs. ... -
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 ... -
The complexity of public relations work
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05)Research on the PR-function is extensive, especially in the US and the UK. The manager- technician dichotomy is well known, but has been challenged by recent research where more nuanced perspectives on PR-managerial ... -
The Emergence of Metropolitan News: Shifting Concepts of Localism
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)This article presents a quantitative and comparative content analysis of four Norwegian regional newspapers owned by the Schibsted Media Group. The aim of the analysis is to establish levels of localism in the online and ... -
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 ... -
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 Gender Dimension in Research and Innovation
(Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, 2021)This report investigates how research funding organisations (RFOs) globally work to promote the inclusion of the gender dimension in research and innovation. Methods of sex and gender analysis in research serve to enhance ... -
The gender divisions and hierarchies of the Finnish news organisations
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05)The article gives an overview on gender and the news media in Finland. The main source of the article is the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media which is based on a global study in 59 countries. The ...