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Bridging the Divide between the Press and Civic Society Civic Media Advocacy as “Media Movement” in Latin America
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)
The gap between the press and civic society has been a paramount concern for media
research on Latin America. Press systems in the region have been historically dominated
by states and markets. During the past decades, ...
Becoming more Like Friends. A Qualitative Study of Personal Media and Social Life
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009)
Mediated interaction plays a significant role in the social life of adolescents in Norway. The
purpose of the present article is to examine the qualities of mediated interaction and the
integration of mediated and immediate ...
Playful Persuasion. The Rhetorical Potential of Advergames
(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 ...
New War Journalism. Trends and Challenges
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)
How has war journalism changed since the end of the Cold War? After the fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was talk of
a new world order holding the promise of international ...
Iranian-Norwegian Media Consumption. Identity and Positioning
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)
This study examines 20 Iranian-Norwegians and their diverse media consumption. The
claim is that the dynamics between media’s hegemonic quality, expressed in their discursive
representation of realities, and Iranian-Norwegians’ ...
Global Divides in Transnational Media Managing the Visibility of Suffering
(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 ...
Self-Reflection. Beyond Conventional Fiction Film Engagement
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)
Idiosyncratic responses are more strictly personal responses to fiction film that vary across individual spectators. In philosophy of film, idiosyncratic responses are often deemed inappropriate, unwarranted and unintended ...
Conversations with my Robot
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)
New Narrative Depths? Spectacle and Narrative in Blockbuster Cinema Revisited
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)
The article aims to tease out an implicit, possibly even instinctive, assumption about why
big-budget blockbuster storylines come up short compared to other kinds of culturally
sanctioned narratives. Briefly, the assumption ...
Sweetening the Deal To what Extent can Public Funding Attract Private Film Investors?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)
Various forms of public funding are used to encourage national film production, and one important quality of such funding is its ability to attract complementary private financing and
thus maximize the resources available ...