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    • Patterns of Media Use and Reflections 

      Gunder Strøm Krogager, Stinne; Klitgaard Povlsen, Karen; Degn, Hans-Peter (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)
      The present article examines cross-media use among 10- to 16-year-old Danish children and adolescents. Our research interest is in identifying and affirming patterns among media use, gender and age. Using a methodological ...

    • Perceptions of Social Media 

      Bock Segaard, Signe (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)
      While observers have focused on the political use of social media when exploring their democratic potential, we know little about users’ perceptions of these media. These perceptions could well be important to understanding ...

    • Personal and Popular. The Case of Young Swedish Female Top-bloggers 

      Lövheim, Mia (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-06)
      While early blogging research focused on top-ranked blogs commenting on public events, recent research confirms that most blogs today concern the personal life of the blogger. The present article focuses on a particular ...

    • Playful Persuasion. The Rhetorical Potential of Advergames 

      Jonas Heide, Smith (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 ...

    • Political Scandal Tests Trust in Politicians The Case of the Finnish Minister Who Resigned Because of His Text Messages 

      Isotalus, Pekka (Nordic Counil of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-11-25)
      Political scandals have been observed to be increasingly common everywhere. In April 2008, the Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ilkka Kanerva, was compelled to resign because of the sensation arising from the ...

    • Polymedia Distinctions: The Sociocultural Stratification of Interpersonal Media 

      Jansson, André (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)
      “Polymedia”, a concept introduced by Madianou and Miller (2012), refers to the everyday conditions of abundant media resources. Whereas such conditions imply that the classificatory processes concerning media as cultural ...

    • Popularizing the Internet:Traveling Companions Supporting the Good News 

      Hetland, Per (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 ...

    • Power, Communication, and Politics in the Nordic Countries 

      Skogerbø, Eli; Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard; Nord, Lars; Ihlen, Øyvind; Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway; Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Media and Communication Science, Mid Sweden University; Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway (Nordicom, 2021-01)
      The Nordic countries are stable democracies with solid infrastructures for political dialogue and negotiations. However, both the “Nordic model” and Nordic media systems are under pressure as the conditions for political ...

    • PR and the Media. A Collaborative Relationship? 

      Larsson, Larsåke (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05)
      What do the relations between the PR industry and the media look like? Are they traditional media-source or pressure group relations from the PR side? What is the outcome of these relations and how do they affect journalism ...

    • Professional autonomy 

      Nygren, Gunnar; Dobek-Ostrowska, Boguslawa; Anikina, Maria (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-10-21)
      Degree of autonomy is one of the key dimensions of professionalization in journalism. However, the strive for autonomy looks different in different media systems, where pressure on autonomy can come from both political ...

    • Public or Secret 

      Jørgensen, Oluf (Nordicom, 2015)
      Freedom of information, openness and transparency are words that are freely used in public discourse. Public bodies and politicians are referred to as ‘open’ if they give information and are willing to enter into dialogue ...

    • Public Service Broadcasting as an Object for Cultural Policy in Norway and Sweden. A Policy Tool and an End in Itself 

      Larsen, Håkon (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2011-11)
      The future of public service broadcasting (PSB), and its role for democracy and culture in an age of globalization and digitalization, is a disputed issue among communication scholars, journalists, the general public and ...

    • Put a Tiger in Your Text Metalepsis and Media Discourse 

      Dahlberg, Leif (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2010-06)
      The subject of this article is the extensive use of metalepsis as an argumentative and rhe- torical device in media discourse, and in particular in advertising. Metalepsis, a form of metonymy, sets up an inverted relation ...

    • Radical Media Ethics Responding to a Revolution 

      Ward, Stephen J.A. (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-08)

    • Recension 

      Wilberg, Erik (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05-28)

    • Recensioner 

      Sandvik, Kjetil (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2015-05-28)

    • Den religiösa betydelsen av Flåklypa Grand Prix 

      Dahlén, Peter (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-12-15)
      I denna artikel analyseras Norges genom tiderna mest populära film, Flåklypa Grand Prix (1975), ur ett mytologiskt perspektiv. Teorier hämtas främst från religionshistorikern och religionsfenomenologen Mircea Eliade, ...

    • Renegotiating Online News Journalism in the Classroom 

      Frey, Elsebeth (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2013-06)
      Online journalism is negotiated and renegotiated in the newsroom of Journalen , the training website for students in journalism at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Using quantitative and qualitative ...

    • Representing the Rise of the Rest as Threat Media and Global Divides 

      Pieterse, Jan Nederveen (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-06)
      Like a giant oil tanker, the world is turning. New growth poles of the world economy have been emerging in the south and east. Globalization once belonged to the west and now the tables are turning. We have entered the ...

    • Rethinking Mass Communications in Norway The Neglected Power of the Centre-Left Alliance in the Early 20 th Century and its Importance until the Present 

      Bastiansen, Henrik G (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2014-11-25)
      The present article discusses the importance of the early years of mass communications in order to understand the shaping of them – the power of creating mass media for whole nations. It begins with references to scholars ...