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A talking matter: Discursive enactments of norms and tensions in a public participation process
(2024-10-01)This thesis is about public participation as a social practice and its discursive construction. Generally, previous research has depicted public participation as a tensional practice that is both praised and criticized. ... -
Ett självmatande maskineri. En etnografisk studie av kommunikationsverksamheten i en svensk myndighet.
(2024-05-14)I denna avhandling undersöks kommunikation som ett samtida fenomen i offentlig förvaltning. Studien har en etnografisk ansats och det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom observationer av kommunikationsverksamheten ... -
News Publishers’ Innovation of Practices Amid Platform Dominance
(2023-08-30)To news publishers, digital platform companies (or “platforms”) such as Google and Meta present both benefits and risks. Platforms offer publishers certain functionalities and services that may be beneficial, but they have ... -
Voices in the arena: A Participation-Centred Study of Multivocal Risk and Crisis Communication
(2023-06-12)Contemporary risk and crisis communication take place in a complex multiplatform and multivocal environment, where numerous social media foster and facilitate online participation. Lay social media users are thus able to ... -
Us Versus Them and the Role of the Media. The Influence of Media on Attitudes Toward Migration in Europe
(2021-11-02)During the last decade, migration has become one of the most salient and politicized issues in Europe, and even more so during and after the sharp rise in immigration in 2015. This issue appears to have consolidated a ... -
Under the influence? Understanding media’s coverage of opinion polls and their effects on citizens and politicians
(2021-01-14)News media’s use of horse race polls is a defining feature of contemporary political reporting. This thesis investigates how the news media use these opinion polls and how this coverage can influence two of the most central ... -
Media Echo Chambers: Selective Exposure and Confirmation Bias in Media Use, and its Consequences for Political Polarization
(2020-12-17)The new digital media landscape has created a high-choice media environment that has made it easier for people to find news and information that support their political beliefs and attitudes, and avoid news and information ... -
Being political in the media – Political identities in journalistic and Twitter discourse
(2019-08-30)This thesis is about the role of media discourse in shaping the political identities of those who want to be heard in public. The ways in which people are able to speak, know, and feel in political situations have important ... -
#InFlux. Journalists’ adoption of social media and journalists’ social roles
(2019-08-16)#InFlux investigates journalists’ adoption of social media and social network sites (SNS) from the theoretical perspective of journalistic roles. It shows how the social roles of journalists are situated along the axes of ... -
The private life of a nation in crisis: A study on the politics in / of Greek television fiction
(2018-10-24)The private life of a nation in crisis offers in-depth studies of the fictional reconstruction and negotiation of moments of heightened societal tension that take place throughout the life of a nation. Its constituent ... -
FASHIONABLE POLITICS The discursive construction of ethical consumerism in corporate communications, news media, and social media
(2018-09-14)This thesis investigates the discursive construction of ethical consumerism – a notion that encompasses both ‘conscious’ consumption choices and responsible’ corporate activities – in mediated discourses about fashion and ... -
Battling the 'Invisible Nets'. Gender in the fields of journalism in sub-Saharan Africa
(2017-05-04)Battling the ‘invisible nets’ studies journalism as a gendered practice in sub-Saharan Africa. This thesis analyses the gender logic in the field of journalism by examining how structures of gender, class and race interact ... -
Bruised by the Invisible Hand. A critical examination of journalistic representations and the naturalization of neoliberal ideology in times of Industrial crisis.
(2016-09-12)Abstract This dissertation revolves around questions that are central to the field of media and journalism research, questions about journalism and ideology, about journalistic agency and autonomy, and the room for maneuver ... -
What’s the Use of a Free Media? The Role of Media in Curbing Corruption and Promoting Quality of Government.
(2013-11-15)Free media have traditionally been seen as vital to democratization and economic development. International actors, such as UN, the World Bank, the EU, Transparency International, the OECD and the research field in its ... -
The Personalisation of Swedish Politics. Party Leaders in the Election Coverage 1979-2010.
(2012-11-22)In The Personalisation of Swedish Politics: Party Leaders in the Election Coverage 1979-2010, the question of whether Swedish news media focus increasingly on the party leaders is thoroughly examined. All in all, five ... -
The Practice of Newspaper Ownership: Fifty Years of Control and Influence in the Swedish Local Press
(2012-05-28)This dissertation deals with a perennial theme in both public and academic debate: how ownership is exercised in the news media. It does so by exploring the main agency through which ownership control is expected to be ... -
Cross-media News Work - Sensemaking of the Mobile Media (R)evolution
(2011-12-22)This dissertation makes a longitudinal study of transforming tensions in media production processes. It focuses on the thoughts and actions of new and mobile media in the interplay between staff from editorial-, business ... -
Bilden av psykiatriområdet. Nyhetsrapporteringen i Rapport 1980-2006
(2010-02-19)In Sweden, as in many other countries in the Western world, care and support to people with mental illness have undergone major organizational changes. The aim of the thesis is to describe and analyse the image of the ... -
Journalism in Transition. The professional Identity of Swedish Journalists
(2010-02-12)Is journalism going through ‘de-professionalization’ or is it just entering a new phase – taking a different shape? And what is the meaning of professional ideals such as scrutiny and autonomy in these processes? In my ... -
Otrygghetens landskap. En kartläggning av otryggheten i stadsrummet och en analys av bakomliggande orsaker, med fokus på mediernas roll
(2010-01-08)The aims of the dissertation are to explore and map the fear and insecurity in urban public spaces and to analyse the underlying causes behind the sensations of fear and insecurity in these spaces, with focus on the role ...
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