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    • Watching Handball Transmissions Experiences of Autonomy, Competency and Relatedness 

      Frandsen, Kirsten (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 ...
    • “Web First” to Death The Media Logic of the School Shootings in the Era of Uncertainty 

      Sumiala, Johanna; Tikka, Minttu (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)
      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 ...
    • Webportal gør det lettere at forske i historiske danske medier 

      Kjeldsen, Mogens Vestergaard (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05-28)
    • Why does the archbishop not tweet? 

      Gelfgren, Stefan (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05)
      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 ...
    • Widening or Closing the Knowledge Gap? The Role of TV and Newspapers in Changing the Distribution of Political Knowledge 

      Jenssen, Anders Todal (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-08)
      The public has gradually become more dependent on the mass media for their political information as alternative channels of political communication have been marginalized. Political knowledge is not equally distributed, ...
    • Wikipedia – Free and Reliable? Aspects of a Collaboratively Shaped Encyclopaedia 

      Mattus, Maria (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)
      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 ...
    • Women and media industries in Europe 

      Savolainen, Tarja (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05-28)
    • Women in journalism 

      Jóhannsdóttir, Valgerður (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05)
      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 ...
    • Worlds at Play Space and Player Experience in Fantasy Computer Games 

      Toft-Nielsen, Claus (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-08)
      The relationship between the fantasy genre and the medium of computer games has always been a very tight-knit one. The present article explores the close connection between fantasy and computer games through different ...
    • Worldview struggles under a new climate regime 

      Johannessen, Jill (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05)
      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 ...
    • Young people’s narratives of media and identity 

      Schofield, Daniel; Kupiainen, Reijo (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05)
      The article explores how upper secondary students use the learning activity mediagraphy to reflect on their identity and on media as constraining and enabling factors in their social practice. In mediagraphy, the ...
    • Youth and News in a Digital Media Environment Nordic-Baltic Perspectives 

      Andersson, Yvonne; Dalquist, Ulf; Ohlsson, Jonas; Nordicom (Nordicom, 2018-11)
      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 ...
    • Ytringsfriheten i det frie Norden 

      Rønning, Helge (Nordicom, 2015)