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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The present article summarizes the findings of a survey among first-year journalism students in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The survey covers a wide array of subjects including social recruitment, motivation for ...

When addressing media and global divides, the focus of the problem is often on the overall global trends in media and cultural production – identifying current developments in different regions of the worlds, and illustrating ...

This chapter addresses cultural production and global divides from a media geographer’s point of view by introducing ‘dead ground’ as its central concept. This concept is borrowed from strategic thinking, originally a ...

The alluring traits of ‘new media’ have spurred new research interests. This article discusses the discourse of ‘new media’ from the vantage point of critically reviewing three emissions from MIT Press during the years ...

The article discusses the production of live television formats, as they have developed in Europe during the past decade. The analytical examples are taken from entertainment as well as factual television, and from public ...