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From an Echo of the West to a Voice of Its Own? Sub-Saharan African Research under the Loophole
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)
Media and the Global Divide A Bottom-up and Citizen Perspective
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)
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 ...
Dead Ground Fallacies of Understanding Global Divides, Policy-Making and Communication
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Transitional Times. ‘New Media’ – Novel Histories and Trajectories
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)
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 ...
Television Textuality. Textual Forms in Live Television Programming
(Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)
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 ...