Norske nyhetsredaksjoner har en lavere andel kvinnelige medarbeidere enn svenske og finske. Blant reportene utgjør kvinner en drøy tredel og knappe en av fem redaksjonelle ledere (redaktører) er en kvinne. Enkelte ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In summer 2012, the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden appeared on Twitter. There was only one problem – it was not the Archbishop himself who was tweeting, but an anonymous person. A discussion then ensued on Twitter ...

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 ...

More and more women have entered journalism in the last 20-30 years and they outnumber men in journalism education by far. Women are though still under 40% of members of the two Icelandic union of journalists and few ...

Climate change poses a fundamental challenge that exerts pressure to pursue change – politically, economically and in daily life (e.g., Giddens 2009 and Hulme 2010). It has also become an era of struggle and contestation ...

Ongoing digitalization has fundamentally transformed the entire media landscape, not least the domain of news. The blurring of previously sharp distinctions between production, distribution and consumption have challenged ...