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Boardroom Empires? A Study of Ownership Inflence in the Swedish Press
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-12)
The question of how ownership impacts on the performance of the press is a perennial one.
Despite the extensive attention devoted to the perceived consequences of ownership, information about what newspaper owners actually ...
Children’s Electronic Gaming Content Preferences and Psychosocial Factors. Is there a Connection?
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)
The gaming industry has dramatically increased the range of choices for different game
genres and content. Despite this, research on psychosocial factors in children and electronic
gaming has primarily focused on time ...
Maps and Mandalas, Division and Multiplication Media and Global Divides
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)
In this plenary talk delivered to the IAMCR conference on “Global Divides” in Stockholm,
July 2008, I explore a range of issues triggered by the very phrase “global divides”. I ask
whether the world is divided and, if ...
Tomorrow’s Journalists Trends in the Development of the Journalistic Profession as Seen by Swedish and Russian Students
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-11)
The present article describes trends in the development of the journalistic profession as
seen by Swedish and Russian students in journalism. The study focuses on the results of
a survey carried out among students at ...
"They Say One Thing and Mean Another”. How differences in in-group understandings of key goals shape political knowledge
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05)
Journalists and politicians play different roles in the functional structure of the Habermasian public sphere; as such, they might be expected to have different understandings of what knowledge production and transmission ...
Use of Development Dialogues in Learning and Changing Journalism Practice
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-11)
The present article analyses a case study in which the author experimented with use of
the interventionist development dialogue method in journalism practice. Journalistic work is conceptualized as a network of multivoiced, ...
Defending Nordic Children Against Disney PBS Children’s Channels in the Age of Globalization
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-06)
This article analyses the key strategies for serving children that were developed in Nordic
public broadcasting during the first decade of 2000s, with reference to US and European
parallels. The main goal is to investigate ...
Normative Media Research. Moving from the Ivory Tower to the Control Tower
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-11)
The article enquires about the role of researchers in an era of increasingly competitive
innovation in the media industry. I argue that research-driven change in the mass media is
possible, and that there should be more ...
Popularizing the Internet:Traveling Companions Supporting the Good News
(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 ...
Wikipedia – Free and Reliable? Aspects of a Collaboratively Shaped Encyclopaedia
(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
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periences of Wikipedia ...