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    • Offentlighetsprincipen på en landsortstidning i Sverige 

      Eklund, Stefan (Nordicom, 2015)
      Vad betyder offentlighetsprincipen för en chefredaktör på en landsortstidning i Sverige? Om man tänkte bort möjligheten att ta del av kommunala handlingar i vårt spridningsområde skulle vi bara kunna göra hälften så stor ...
    • Opening Remarks to the Sessions of the UNESCO 

      Helge, Rønning (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)
    • Organizational Communication and Conflict Management Systems A Social Complexity Approach 

      Aula, Pekka; Siira, Kalle (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 ...
    • Patterns of Media Use and Reflections 

      Gunder Strøm Krogager, Stinne; Klitgaard Povlsen, Karen; Degn, Hans-Peter (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)
      The present article examines cross-media use among 10- to 16-year-old Danish children and adolescents. Our research interest is in identifying and affirming patterns among media use, gender and age. Using a methodological ...
    • Perceptions of Social Media 

      Bock Segaard, Signe (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)
      While observers have focused on the political use of social media when exploring their democratic potential, we know little about users’ perceptions of these media. These perceptions could well be important to understanding ...
    • Personal and Popular. The Case of Young Swedish Female Top-bloggers 

      Lövheim, Mia (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)
      While early blogging research focused on top-ranked blogs commenting on public events, recent research confirms that most blogs today concern the personal life of the blogger. The present article focuses on a particular ...
    • Playful Persuasion. The Rhetorical Potential of Advergames 

      Jonas Heide, Smith (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 ...
    • Political Scandal Tests Trust in Politicians The Case of the Finnish Minister Who Resigned Because of His Text Messages 

      Isotalus, Pekka (Nordic Counil of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-11-25)
      Political scandals have been observed to be increasingly common everywhere. In April 2008, the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ilkka Kanerva, was compelled to resign because of the sensation arising from the ...
    • Polymedia Distinctions: The Sociocultural Stratification of Interpersonal Media 

      Jansson, André (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)
      “Polymedia”, a concept introduced by Madianou and Miller (2012), refers to the everyday conditions of abundant media resources. Whereas such conditions imply that the classificatory processes concerning media as cultural ...
    • Popularizing the Internet:Traveling Companions Supporting the Good News 

      Hetland, Per (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)
      In popular science and technology writing, “boosterism” is prominent. Writers overwhelmingly describe science and technology in enthusiastic terms, thereby promoting the deficit or Public Appreciation of Science and ...
    • Postdoc-anställningar. Utvärdering av 2007 års strategiska stasning på postdoc-anställningar. 

      Bokenstrand, Cecilia; Sidiropoulos, Jennie; Johansson, Johan (Göteborgs universitet, 2010-03)
    • Power, Communication, and Politics in the Nordic Countries 

      Skogerbø, Eli; Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard; Nord, Lars; Ihlen, Øyvind; Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway; Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Media and Communication Science, Mid Sweden University; Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway (Nordicom, 2021-01)
      The Nordic countries are stable democracies with solid infrastructures for political dialogue and negotiations. However, both the “Nordic model” and Nordic media systems are under pressure as the conditions for political ...
    • PR and the Media. A Collaborative Relationship? 

      Larsson, Larsåke (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)
      What do the relations between the PR industry and the media look like? Are they traditional media-source or pressure group relations from the PR side? What is the outcome of these relations and how do they affect journalism ...
    • Preventive work against sexual harassment in Swedish and Nordic working life - a summary 

      Simonsson, Angelica (Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, 2020)
      This research overview is a summary of a Swedish report. It summarizes and analyses research on preventive work against sexual harassment in the workplace, in Sweden and the other Nordic countries. The full report in Swedish ...
    • Professional autonomy 

      Nygren, Gunnar; Dobek-Ostrowska, Boguslawa; Anikina, Maria (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)
      Degree of autonomy is one of the key dimensions of professionalization in journalism. However, the strive for autonomy looks different in different media systems, where pressure on autonomy can come from both political ...
    • Public or Secret 

      Jørgensen, Oluf (Nordicom, 2015)
      Freedom of information, openness and transparency are words that are freely used in public discourse. Public bodies and politicians are referred to as ‘open’ if they give information and are willing to enter into dialogue ...
    • Public Service Broadcasting as an Object for Cultural Policy in Norway and Sweden. A Policy Tool and an End in Itself 

      Larsen, Håkon (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 ...
    • Put a Tiger in Your Text Metalepsis and Media Discourse 

      Dahlberg, Leif (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 ...
    • QS World University Rankings 

      Gunnarsson, Magnus (Göteborgs universitet, 2011-09)
      I ett PM diskuteras QS-rankinglista som från och med 2010 är självständig från Times Higher Education. Göteborgs universitet avstod från att leverera underlag till QS-rankingen (vilket gjorts tidigare år), men finns ändå ...
    • Radical Media Ethics Responding to a Revolution 

      Ward, Stephen J.A. (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-08)