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Migration and community in an age of digital connectivity: A survey of media use and integration amongst migrants in Iceland Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Lara Hoffmann,Þorlákur Axel Jónsson,Markus Meckl
Abstract Information and communication technologies enable migrants to maintain bonds with multiple communities. Little is known about the association between migrants’ connections to their country of origin and different integration practices in online and offline communities in the receiving society. We draw on a survey conducted amongst migrants in Iceland (N = 2,139) and conduct three regression
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“How is he entitled to say this?”: Constructing the identities of experts, ordinary people, and presenters in Swedish television series on climate change Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Kirill Filimonov,Nico Carpentier
Abstract In this article, we analyse mediated representations of elite and non-elite voices about climate change, by juxtaposing two Swedish non-fiction television series: one narrates the work of environmental scientists, the other discusses climate change with diverse citizens in a vox pop format. We argue that the discursive practices of these programmes reproduce the antagonistic subject positions
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“Not quite the struggle of normatives”: Belonging and entitlement in Swedish “body activism” Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Malin Sveningsson,Alva Vestberg,Johanna Hedström
Abstract A “body activism” movement, with roots in fat activism and body positivity, has developed in Sweden during the last decade. As new forms of activism emerge, boundaries and approaches are being negotiated. Who is the movement for? Who can engage in it, and how? Through semi-structured interviews, we seek to understand how young Swedes who follow and engage in “body activism” on social media
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Podcasting about yourself and challenging norms: An investigation of independent women podcasters in Denmark Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Freja Sørine Adler Berg
Abstract This article investigates why and how women use independent podcasting and social media platforms to challenge norms afflicting their own personal lives. Extending previous studies of independent podcasting as a tool of empowerment, this article analyses semi-structured interviews with the hosts of two podcasts: the mental health and personal journals podcast A Seat at The Table and the parenting
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Television documentaries as spearheads in public service television: Comparing scheduling practices on the linear channels and video-on-demand services of Danish TV 2 and DR Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Hanne Bruun,Benedicte Krogh Bille
Abstract This article presents findings from a study of how the public service television (PSTV) companies DR and TV 2 in Denmark are changing their scheduling practices to address the competition from transnational streaming services. We focus on a comparative analysis of how television documentaries are scheduled and argue that the documentary genre is part of an editorial prioritisation of productions
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Media narratives, agonistic deliberation, and Skam: An analysis of how young people communicate in digital spaces Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Harald Hornmoen,Yngve Benestad Hågvar,Nathalie Hyde-Clarke,Birgitte Kjos Fonn,Dagny Stuedahl
Abstract Increasingly, the means of engaging young people in constructive public debate and democratic society has shifted to online digital media platforms. This assumes that participants have the necessary media literacy skills to engage in a meaningful way. We discuss how and to what extent responses in an online blog elicited by two different scenes from the popular youth television series Skam
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Public AI imaginaries: How the debate on artificial intelligence was covered in Danish newspapers and magazines 1956–2021 Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Sne Scott Hansen
Abstract This article investigates the media's construction of public perceptions of future human–machine relationships related to artificial intelligence (AI) development and reflects on how such perceptions play a role in shaping strategies for the use of AI in Denmark. Through a critical discourse analysis of 253 newspaper and magazine articles published from 1956 to 2021, it shows how conflicting
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Hybrid presence: Integrating interprofessional interactions with digital consultations Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Line Maria Simonsen
Abstract Healthcare practitioners struggle to adapt to the changes that new digital media entail for social interactions, but what does the struggle look like, and how is it embedded in these professionals’ everyday experiences? I investigate these questions in this study of how digitalisation conditions social interactions in the context of the Danish medical setting by drawing on ethnographic work
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Contesting digital leisure time: Parental struggles in relation to young children's play with tablets at home Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Thomas Enemark Lundtofte
Abstract Young children's practices with tablet computers has been a topic in parenting discourses for several years, drawing on earlier debates over technologies and media in children's lives. In this article, I analyse data from a video observation–based media ethnography of seven Danish children (aged 4–6) and engage with the research tradition attributed to parental mediation. The analysis suggests
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An organisational cultivation of digital resignation?: Enterprise social media, privacy, and autonomy Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Christoffer Bagger
Abstract Enterprise social media (ESM) have largely gone ignored in discussions of the datafication practices of social media platforms. This article presents an initial step towards filling this research gap. My research question in this article regards how employees of companies using the ESM Workplace from Facebook feel that the implementation of this particular platform relates to their potential
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Toddlers’ digital media practices and everyday parental struggles: Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticated Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Helena Sandberg,Ulrika Sjöberg,Ebba Sundin
Abstract In this article, the Swedish findings from a European comparative study on 0–3-year-old children and their digital lives are presented and discussed in relation to domestication theory, including the concept of moral economy. More specifically, attention is paid to toddler's appropriation of digital technology and the parents’ moral struggles: the negotiations between the parents concerning
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Struggling with technology: Perspectives on everyday life Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Maja Sonne Damkjær,Ane Kathrine Gammelby,Stine Liv Johansen,Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke
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Struggling with and mastering e-mail consultations: A study of access, interaction, and participation in a digital health care system Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Anette Grønning
Abstract In Denmark, medical consultations and the institutional practice of going to the doctor have been expanded upon over the past decade, with e-mail consultations (e-consultations) now supplementing conventional consultations. As a form of communication with different constraints than face-to-face and telephonic communication, e-consultations are likely to both afford some benefits and present
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The ambiguities of surveillance as care and control: Struggles in the domestication of location-tracking applications by Danish parents Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Sarah Widmer,Anders Albrechtslund
Abstract The implicit ambiguity of surveillance as both care and control has been a key theoretical issue in social science research on surveillance practices and technologies. This article addresses this ambiguity empirically by examining how parents using – or not using – location-tracking apps to monitor their children negotiate this tension. Drawing on 17 semistructured interviews conducted with
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Existential vulnerability and transition: Struggling with involuntary childlessness on Instagram Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Kristina Stenström,Teresa Cerratto Pargman
Abstract In their efforts to find others who share their experiential reality and existential struggle, many involuntarily childless women turn to Instagram to engage and participate in the practice of trying-to-conceive (TTC) communication. Through the conceptual lens of digital existence, where the digital and online are regarded as constitutive of existential transition, we draw on ten interviews
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The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Kristine Ask,Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen,Stine Thordarson Moltubakk
Abstract Gaming is a frequent source of conflict for families. Research on parents and gaming has identified a lack of gaming-related expertise, a general devaluation or fear of play, and authoritative and restrictive parenting styles as key sources of conflict. What happens when these deficits are addressed? What does mediation look like when parents are expert gamers, enjoy play, and encourage play
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eHealth platforms as user–data communication: Examining patients’ struggles with digital health data Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke,Mikka Nielsen
Abstract Sundhed.dk is Denmark's national eHealth platform allowing citizens to access their personal health data. Based on 16 qualitative interviews with patients, our aim in this article is to examine how patients engage with their health data. First, we illustrate how patients struggle in different ways to make sense of numerical measurements and written notes. Second, we examine the platform as
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The ambiguity of technology in ASMR experiences: Four types of intimacies and struggles in the user comments on YouTube Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Helle Breth Klausen
Abstract Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling, static-like sensation in response to specific triggering audio and visual stimuli. Within recent years, ASMR has mostly been associated with videos on YouTube (technologically mediated ASMR) dedicated to make the users “tingle”, relax, and feel at ease. In this article, I explore the ambiguity of technology in relation to the ASMR
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Going cold turkey!: An autoethnographic exploration of digital disengagement Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Cristina Ghita,Claes Thorén
Abstract As the dust of society-wide digitalisation settles, the search for meaningful technological encounters is becoming more urgent. While the Nordic countries embrace digitalisation, recent concerns regarding technology overuse have been gaining increased attention. This tendency is exemplified in practices of limiting digital use, called digital disengagement – an apparent paradox in Nordic societies
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Move, eat, sleep, repeat: Living by rhythm with proactive self-tracking technologies Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Minna Vigren,Harley Bergroth
Abstract Proactive self-tracking is a proliferating digital media practice that involves gathering data about the body and the self outside a clinical healthcare setting. Various studies have noted that self-tracking technologies affect people's everyday modes of thought and action and stick to their lifeworlds because these technologies seek to promote “improved” modes of behaviour. We investigate
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The genre repertoires of Norwegian beauty and lifestyle influencers on YouTube Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Aleksander Torjesen
Abstract YouTube represents an increasingly popular cultural phenomenon in the contemporary Norwegian media landscape. Since the inception of the digital video platform over 15 years ago, personal videoblogging has emerged as one of its dominant types of user-generated content. In this article, I draw from New Rhetoric genre theory and netnographic approaches to explore the beauty and lifestyle sphere
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Indigenous journalism, media innovation, and social change: A review of previous research and call for more critical approaches Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Niamh Ní Bhroin,Stine Sand,Torkel Rasmussen
Abstract Indigenous journalism can facilitate the inclusion of Indigenous voices in the public sphere, thereby contributing to social change. Contemporary Indigenous journalism is in part facilitated by the introduction and diffusion of paradigmatic media innovations, including the Internet, mobile technology, and social media. Based on a literature review, we investigate how media innovations are
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Fostering the data welfare state: A Nordic perspective on datafication Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Rikke Andreassen,Anne Kaun,Kaarina Nikunen
Abstract Digital tools facilitating everything from health to education have been introduced at a rapid pace to replace physical meetings and allow for social distancing measures as the Covid-19 pandemic has sped up the drive to large-scale digitalisation. This rapid digitalisation enhances the already ongoing process of datafication, namely turning ever-increasing aspects of our identities, practices
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Introduction: Class in/and the media: On the importance of class in media and communication studies Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Peter Jakobsson,Johan Lindell,Fredrik Stiernstedt
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Investigations of a journalistic blind spot: Class, constructors, and carers in Norwegian media Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Tine Ustad Figenschou,Elisabeth Eide,Ruth Einervoll Nilsen
Abstract Recent studies argue that the contemporary working class has largely disappeared from the news media. Another strand of literature demonstrates that the traditional labour beat has lost newsroom prestige due to changes in the established news media and crisis in the labour movement. Analysing how traditional working-class sectors are covered in mainstream newspapers and trade union magazines
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Interpolations of class, “race”, and politics: Denmark's Jyllands-Posten and its coverage of Greek national elections during the “Greek crisis” Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Yiannis Mylonas,Matina Noutsou
Abstract This article focuses on the ways in which the Danish liberal mainstream press covered events related to the so-called Greek crisis. In particular, we examine the coverage of the different Greek national elections that took place during the Greek crisis years (2010–2019) by Jyllands-Posten (JP), a popular Danish daily newspaper. Qualitative content analysis is deployed to study a corpus of
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All in a day's work: Working-class heroes as videogame protagonists Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Michael Iantorno,Courtney Blamey,Lyne Dwyer,Mia Consalvo
Abstract Class depictions in videogames are prevalent, yet understudied. In this article, we analyse how the working class – particularly working-class men – have been depicted in videogames over the past 30 years. In doing so, we bring together a class- and gender-based analysis to study how narratives, representations, gameplay, and game systems construct the “working-class hero” as a central protagonist
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Dismissing class: Media representations of workers’ conditions in the Global South Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Vladimir Cotal San Martin
Abstract Neoliberal globalisation has expanded transnational corporations’ (TNCs) boundaries of operation and sphere of exploitation, particularly in the Global South where much of the production of traditional TNC manufacturing now occurs. In this article, using a longitudinal approach, I conduct a detailed critical discourse analysis of a large Swedish press corpus reporting on TNC activities in
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Class and everyday media use: A case study from Norway Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Jan Fredrik Hovden,Lennart Rosenlund
Abstract In this article, we consider how contemporary media use is structured by social class, following the theoretical and methodical framework derived from Bourdieu's book Distinction, published in 1984, with a detailed study of everyday use of media platforms, brands, and content among Norwegian citizens (N = 2,064). First, we analyse how such media use varies in the overall social space using
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Class conditioning and class positioning in young people's everyday life with digital media: Exploring new forms of class-making in the Swedish media welfare state Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Martin Danielsson
Abstract In this article, I explore how social class shapes the conditions and configurations of digital media practice in the everyday life of young people in Sweden. Drawing on Bourdieusian theory and qualitative interview data from two research projects, I complicate the notion of Sweden as a universally wired media welfare state by showing how economic and cultural forces are structuring Internet
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The space of media usage in Finland, 2007 and 2018: The impact of online activities on its structure and its association with sociopolitical divisions Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Semi Purhonen,Adrian Leguina,Riie Heikkilä
Abstract In Nordic countries and beyond, there exists a lack of longitudinal, population-level research focused on sociopolitical polarisation and the proliferation of new online activities in the context of changing media usage. In this article, we examine media usage in Finland in 2007 and 2018. We use two nationally representative surveys (N = 1,388 in 2007 and N = 1,425 in 2018) to make comparisons
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Class struggle in the era of post-politics: Representing the Swedish port conflict in the news media Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Ernesto Abalo,Diana Jacobsson
Abstract This article addresses how class as a category of conflict and struggle is understood and shaped discursively in mainstream media today. We utilise a case study of how Swedish news media represents the long-lasting conflict in the Swedish labour market between the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union and the employer organisation, Sweden's Ports. Using critical discourse analysis, we show two ways in
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Åland – a peculiar media system Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Carl-Gustav Lindén
Abstract This article captures the dynamics of a special case when it comes to media systems, namely the Åland Islands, or Åland, with 6,700 islands and 30,000 inhabitants. Åland is one of three self-governed areas in the Nordic region (the others being the Faroe Islands and Greenland) and is an officially monolingual Swedish-speaking part of Finland, where the majority speak Finnish. In this article
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Superficial, shallow and reactive: How a small state news media covers politics Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Jón Gunnar Ólafsson
Abstract This article illustrates how the crisis of the news media is impacting political coverage in Iceland. Perceptions of routine political coverage in the Icelandic media have not been studied before, and this article fills this research gap and situates the Icelandic case within the wider news media crisis literature. My exploration is guided by two research questions. The first focuses on how
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Unpacking uncivil society: Incivility and intolerance in the 2018 Irish abortion referendum discussions on Twitter Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Dayei Oh,Suzanne Elayan,Martin Sykora,John Downey
Abstract In the era of rising populist sentiment, deep social and political polarisations, and a growing crisis of online harms, numerous scholars share concern about the impact of such uncivil populist forces on the health of liberal democracy. This article argues that we should first normatively distinguish between incivility and intolerance. We contend that the core problem of uncivil society is
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Recontextualising the news: How antisemitic discourses are constructed in extreme far-right alternative media Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Birgitte P. Haanshuus,Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk
Abstract This study explores how an extreme far-right alternative media site uses content from professional media to convey uncivil news with an antisemitic message. Analytically, it rests on a critical discourse analysis of 231 news items, originating from established national and international news sources, published on Frihetskamp from 2011–2018. In the study, we explore how news items are recontextualised
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Uncivility, racism, and populism: Discourses and interactive practices in anti- & post-democratic communication Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Michał Krzyżanowski,Mattias Ekman,Per-Erik Nilsson,Mattias Gardell,Christian Christensen
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A populist turn?: News editorials and the recent discursive shift on immigration in Sweden Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Mattias Ekman,Michał Krzyżanowski
Abstract This article undertakes a critical discourse analysis of Swedish quality newspaper editorials and their evolving framing of immigration since the 2015 peak of the recent European “refugee crisis”. Positioned within the ongoing discursive shifts in the Swedish public sphere and the growth of discursive uncivility in its mainstream areas, the analysis highlights how xenophobic and racist discourses
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“The new extreme right”: Uncivility, irony, and displacement in the French re-information sphere Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Per-Erik Nilsson
Abstract Contemporary France is a prolific arena for post-fascist actors, parties, and movements. Self-proclaimed alternative news outlets and publishing houses serve as forums for information and mobilisation, through various strategies, to resist an alleged onslaught by the enemies of the nation and its people: multiculturalism, feminism, political correctness, political corruption, and civilisational
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Particularities of media systems in the West Nordic countries Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Signe Ravn-Højgaard,Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir,Ragnar Karlsson,Rógvi Olavson,Heini í Skorini
Abstract This study compares the media systems of the West Nordic countries, namely the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. All three countries are democratic welfare states with considerable institutional transfer from the larger Nordic countries. It is argued that the West Nordic media systems fit into the “Nordic model” when it comes to the perception of media as cultural institutions as well
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The institutionalisation of populist political discourse and conservative uncivil society in the European Union: From the margins to the mainstream? Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Carlo Ruzza
Abstract This article analyses the ideational features of conservative civil society groups at EU level and compares them to progressive groups. Through a frame analysis of the textual materials of these two types of organisations, I examine their reactions to the success of populist formations in several European member states and at EU level. I argue that the long-established EU ethos of fostering
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News consumption patterns in Iceland Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Valgerður Jóhannsdóttir
Abstract News consumption has changed dramatically in the digital age, becoming increasingly complicated and fragmented. In this study, I analyse news consumption patterns in Iceland, drawing on data from a survey conducted in 2017, and compare it with news consumption in other Nordic countries. It is the first such study in Iceland in the digital age. The findings demonstrate that news are widely
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Political parallelism in Iceland: Perceived media-politics relations Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Birgir Guðmundsson
Abstract My main objective in this article is to examine the importance of political parallelism in Iceland through establishing the extent to which political parallelism is perceived to char-acterise political communication in Iceland by politicians and voters. Political parallelism is one of the defining elements of Hallin and Mancini's typology of media systems. Based on candidate surveys from five
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Media systems in “the other” Nordic countries and autonomous regions: Studies of news media and journalism in the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Sápmi, and Åland Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Ida Willig,Lars Nord
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Who are you, the people?: Constructing the people in MV-lehti's refugee coverage Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Salla Tuomola
Abstract One of the cornerstones of right-wing populist websites is their challenge to traditional mainstream media to give voice to “the people”. In Finland, one of the best known of these websites is MV-lehti [WTF-Magazine], which claims to exist for this reason. In this article, I investigate how MV-lehti constructs the people, in particular in texts about refugees. I approach the research data
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Co-constitutive complexityUnpacking Google’s privacy policy and terms of service post-GDPR Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Bjarki Valtysson,Rikke Frank Jørgensen,Johan Lau Munkholm
Abstract Google is the gateway to the Internet for billions of people. However, to use Google’s multiple platforms and services, users must accept Google’s terms. With the advent of the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), Google made significant changes to these terms. In this article, we scrutinise the intertextual relations between Google’s privacy policies and terms of service (ToS)
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Nordic journalists’ conceptual roles and perceived influencesA European and inter-Nordic comparison Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jan Fredrik Hovden,Jari Väliverronen
Abstract In this article, we comparatively explore Nordic journalists’ perceived roles and influences on their work using survey data from the Worlds of Journalism project (2012–2016). In a European context, a principal component analysis of 18 Western and Southern European countries (N = 10,254) finds that Nordic journalists generally resemble journalists in other democratic corporatist countries
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Towards streaming as a dominant mode of media use?A user typology approach to music and television streaming Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Marika Lüders,Vilde Schanke Sundet,Terje Colbjørnsen
Abstract Music and television streaming services present users with abundant catalogues of content available on demand. We investigate whether users respond by narrowing or widening the diversity of content they consume. Further, we examine how the different logics characterising music and television streaming are mirrored in the number of streaming services people use. To do so, we compare non-, sporadic
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Renegotiating quality TV in the Swedish pressAmerican serial television and Sweden's post-monopoly television landscape Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Joel Frykholm
Abstract In this article, I explore the reception of American “quality” serial television in Sweden from 1999 to the mid-2010s. My analysis includes how cultural critics and journalists writing for Sweden's leading newspapers conceptualised American serial television as “quality TV” and as legitimate “art”, and it charts the ways in which these discourses relate to the reconfiguration of Swedish television
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A critical review of filter bubbles and a comparison with selective exposure Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Peter M. Dahlgren
Abstract The new high-choice media environment has raised concerns that users of social networking sites primarily select political information that supports their political opinions and avoid information that challenges them. This behaviour is reinforced by personalisation algorithms that create filter bubbles and both narrow the available content and exclude challenging information over time. These
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Fostering the truthful individualCommunicating media literacy in the comic Bamse Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Ernesto Abalo,Johan Nilsson
Abstract This study examines the construction of media literacy in a special issue on source criticism of the Swedish children's comic Bamse – Världens Starkaste Björn [Bamse – The World's Strongest Bear]. This is done with the purpose of understanding what values, perspectives, and practices are promoted when media literacy is communicated via children's edutainment media. Using narrative and discourse
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Over-the-top and under the radarAn analysis of Internet distribution and its structural consequences in Denmark Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sofie Flensburg
Abstract The article traces the evolution of over-the-top (OTT) services in order to analyse how the growing use of Internet distribution influences the structural conditions and institutional arrangements in Denmark. This story is told in four parts: first, I outline how the shift from postal services to e-mail restructured the conditions for asynchronous one-to-one communication; second, I examine
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The non-substitutability of local news?Advertising and the decline of journalism's umbrella market model Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Helle Sjøvaag,Thomas Owren
Abstract This article addresses the challenges facing local newspapers as the digital economy transitions to artificial intelligence (AI). We interview five CEOs of Scandinavian newspaper corporations, representing small, mid-sized, and large newspaper chains. The analysis focuses on three main factors emerging from the interviews – technological transformations, digital advertising markets, and corporate
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Perceptions of age in contemporary tech Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Andrea Rosales,Jakob Svensson
Abstract This article attends to age stereotypes and ageism in contemporary tech. In academia, little attention has been devoted to this topic. Therefore, we intend to initiate a discussion around ageism in tech by studying perceptions of age in the tech industry. Our study is based on interviews with 18 tech workers around the world of varying age. According to our interviewees, tech workers over
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Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Kim Toft Hansen
Abstract In this article, I show how a vision for the Nordic region exists as a banal Nordism, based on years of content exchange, Nordic co-production models, and public funding opportunities. I document how new commercial players have been able to gain a very large market share in only a few years, significantly disrupting the reach of public service broadcasters in the Nordic region. The three largest
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Landscape, Geopolitics, and National Identity in the Norwegian Thrillers Occupied and Nobel Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Robert A. Saunders
Abstract Focusing on the use of landscape in the Norwegian series Occupied (2015–2020) and Nobel (2016), this article examines the ways in which cityscapes and panoramas of the natural environment are employed as affective, as well as aesthetic tools for storytelling within a geopolitically inflected framework. Drawing on literature from popular geopolitics, geocriticism, and visual politics, my analysis
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Wallander's Dark Geopolitics Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Abstract A current fault line in the study of crime fiction as a transnational genre is to what extent crime novels offer readers genuine cosmopolitan windows onto other worlds and cultures or whether it simply is bound to reproduce trite imagologies and national stereotypes. The overarching premise for this article is to explore the extent to which Henning Mankell's crime novels and their adaptations
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Norway Reimagined Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Saara Ratilainen
Abstract In this article, I discuss the geopolitical underpinnings of Russophone fans’ response to the Norwegian hit teen series Skam [Shame]. Starting from the wide-spread distribution of Skam through informal horizontal networks, my article highlights the context specificity of fan participation in meaning-making around global television. Employing multimodal discourse analysis to the social media
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Geopolitical Television Drama Within and Beyond the Nordic Region Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Pei-Sze Chow, Anne Marit Waade, Robert A. Saunders
Abstract This article presents a framework for thinking about the intersections between geopolitics and Northern European television drama by examining the contemporary Nordic Noir genre of crime drama. Nordic Noir features not only the double plot that combines sociopolitical critique with crime drama, but also a third “gaze” that engages aesthetics and territorial features that further individual
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Transformations of the Evil Forest in the Swedish Television Series Jordskott Nordicom Review (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Irina Souch
Abstract This article is an ecocritical reading of the Swedish television series Jordskott. I discuss the effects in the series produced by the combination of the Nordic Noir's style and narrative techniques with elements of other genres, especially Gothic horror. I argue that through the contemporary reworking of the centuries-old Nordic mythology, Jordskott demonstrates how the aggressive powers