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- Svensson, Göran, 1958-
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The Turn towards New Criticalities in the Study of Media, Communication and Journalism
- 2023
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Ingår i: Media Theory. - : MTJ. - 2557-826X. ; 7:1, s. 233-256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using Boltanski’s (2011) idea that critique is the contestation of social and cultural orders, different ways of such contestations in the social sciences and the humanities and in media, communication and journalism research are mapped. Four overarching orientations towards doing critique are identified – open, reforming, resonant and emerging. The critical is seen to reside in a wide landscape covering many forms of critique articulating different criticalities. It is argued that these developments in different research fields, together with new ways of looking at and relating these fields, shows a turn towards new criticalities. A communicative critique is also advocated as an instrument for more dialogue across divides of ontology and epistemology, theories and methods, in the mapping of how the critical is articulated in the social sciences and the humanities as well as in the studies of media, communication and journalism. Thereby, the article is an invitation to consider the relevance of critique and criticality, also for the post-critical movement and scholars not labelling themselves critical.
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- Castelló, Enric, et al.
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The narratives of geographical indications as commons : a study on Catalan and Swedish cases
- 2022
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Ingår i: Food, Culture, and Society. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1552-8014 .- 1751-7443. ; , s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a growing research that considers the geographical indications (GIs) of agricultural products and foodstuffs as commons. However, narrative approaches exploring this relationship are scarce. This research analyzed stories attached to twelve Catalan and Swedish products within the European Union’s Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), and Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) schemes to map out how narratives of commons are articulated. The analysis raised four key aspects of the narratives of GIs as commons: i) historical constitution; ii) collective effortsas a driving force behind their value; iii) co-responsibilityof the community of producers and related actors; and iv) intangible outputs and focus on heritage. The results show that the narratives of GIs as commons have a stronger presence in Catalonia and more clearly address issues of social engagement and cultural heritage than in Sweden. Internal differences were noted in the two countries and some GIs are more commercially oriented and cater for world markets while others are noncommercial and only regionally consumed. The article contributes to the research on GIs, better connecting their complexities throughout their communicative and narrative constitution and articulation as commons.
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- Svensson, Göran, 1958-
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A new era for critique: Towards a criticality turn in studies of media, communication and journalism in the social sciences and the humanities
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contrary to the idea of post-critique this presentation argues that a new era of criticality is present and still emerging in studies of media, communication and journalism - and more generally in the social sciences and the humanities. Critical practices and analytics are regaining steam and expanding their productive limits – both in academia and in everyday life.The presentation want to move the study and use of critique in academic work from prescribed and closed forms to multiple and open forms, focusing on the variability of critical expressions, here called criticalities. The shortcomings of critical approaches are presented and discussed through the well-known lenses of Bruno Latour (2004) and Rita Felski (2015), but the presentation draw the conclusion that a compositionist approach (Latour 2010) or new vocabularies, affects and moods (Anker and Felski 2017) can fruitfully be seen within a conceptualisation of critique as variability and spectrum of criticality. The presentation is an invitation to consider the relevance of criticality also for the post-critical movement. The notion of critical institutionalism is finally presented (Svensson 2015). Institutions and critique are closely connected (Boltanski 2011) and the role of critique in and for institutional change of media, communication and journalism is touched upon. A call for more studies of how they relate is made, especially in the present situation of impending controversy at many levels of mediated social interaction – from the geopolitical level to the everyday use of social media platforms.References Anker, E. S. and Felski, R. (2017). Introduction in Anker, E. S. and Felski, R. (eds.) Critique and Postcritique, Durham: Duke University Press.Boltanski, L. (2011). On critique: a sociology of emancipation. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.Felski, R. (2015). The limits of critique. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.Latour, B. (2004). “Why has critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matters of concern”. Critical Inquiry, 30, 225–248.Latour, B. (2010). ‘An attempt at an “Compositionist Manifesto”’. New Literary History, 41, no 3, 471-490.Svensson, G. (2015). Att förstå mediekritik. Begreppsliga, empiriska och teoretiska studier av svensk mediekritik 1998-2013. [Understanding media criticism. Conceptual, empirical and theoretical studies of media criticism in Sweden 1998-2013] Uppsala Studies in Media and Communication 8. Uppsala: Uppsala universitet. [Diss.]
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- Svensson, Göran, 1958-
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Göran Marby - ICANN
- 2022
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Ingår i: Makten över information. - Uppsala : Uppsala universitet.
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Bokkapitel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- von Krogh, Torbjörn, et al.
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Sweden : Old wine in new bottles
- 2022
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Ingår i: The global handbook of media acountability. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 9780429326943 - 9781032156156 ; , s. 111-119
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Svensson, Göran, 1958-
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Finding the way to the reader : Local news and the challenge to connect with the readers
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Local news journalism and newspapers are struggling to update ways to connect to and engage with readers and interested publics that are effective in the digital media environment. Such ways are tested out in the production of the news, in how the news is made accessible to readers and how it comes to be interpreted and used.This project studies an attempt at two Swedish regional newspapers, both part of newspaper groups, to connect to their readers as paying subscribers. The attempt focus on how the newspapers develop the access aspect of the relation to the readers and where news content/services are bundled with a tablet. In the study this attempt is analyzed in its organizational setting and in relation to other projects/attempts to develop connections and engagement with readers and publics – in production, in accessing the news and in use/impact.Studies of newspaper subscriptions (American Press Institute 2018), pay models for digital news (Reuters 2017, 2019), bundling of news products and direct/indirect forms of reader access (print, web, app, social media, subscription platforms, libraries, news aggregators) are briefly surveyed in the extended abstrct. As a theoretical lens network media logic (Klinger and Svensson 2015, 2016, 2018) will be used. Interviews with key persons at the newspapers and in the newspaper groups is the empirical ground together with company documents and business media reports outlining the digital transformation of the newspapers and their relations to subscribers and readers.
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- Chen, Yiming
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The Construction of the Professional Identity of the TV News Presenter in Two Chinese News Programmes : A Discourse-Theoretical Analysis
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This PhD research project investigates how the professional identity of the Chinese TV news presenter is constructed in two news programmes, Guangdong News and TVS News, both based at Guangdong TV. The overarching theoretical framework of the project takes its inspiration from Laclau and Mouffe's (1985) post-structuralist discourse theory (DT). Drawing upon the DT ontological perspective in particular, the professional identity of the TV news presenter – labelled the subject position in DT – is seen to be discursively constructed, obtaining its meaning through the articulatory practice of nodal points.The study is set within the dual contexts of societal transformations of China, and its changing media industry. This research argues that the TV news presenter's professional identity is a discourse, constructed through the articulation of four particular nodal points, in the discursive field of Chinese news production. These nodal points are: 1) mastering professional knowledge; 2) holding journalistic values; 3) being a storyteller; and 4) being a Party’s ideologist. After analysing these four nodal points, the research then addresses their specificity, contingency, and complexity, and provides a normative evaluation of these four nodal points and their articulations into a discourse.Methodologically, the research adopts a qualitative approach through discourse-theoretical analysis (DTA, Carpentier and De Cleen, 2007). This approach is implemented through the empirical case study of the two TV news programmes (Guangdong News and TVS News) in a southern Chinese news centre, Guangdong TV. The collection and analysis of the research corpus involves two parts: The first part of the corpus consists of a one-year systematic sample of 50 news episodes from the two news programmes. The second part of the corpus results from ethnographic fieldwork (participant observations and in-depth interviews) in the Guangdong TV newsroom. The entire data analysis is driven by the use of DTA, which is supported by the procedures of qualitative content analysis and ethnographic analysis. The case study on the articulatory practice of the presenter’s subject position provides insights into the complexities of identity construction, but also allows reflection on the bigger picture of the societal positioning of the news industry in contemporary China.
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- Nygren, Thomas, 1972-, et al.
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Diversity and credibility in young people’s news feeds : A foundation for teaching and learning citizenship in a digital era
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Social Science Education. - 1618-5293. ; 18:2, s. 87-109
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Key points: – Citizen science approach to map young people’s digital news feeds.− Students predominately read hard news.− Digital news comes primarily from established news media sites deemed credible by students.− On social media, students mostly share news they find credible.− Students' authentic news feeds as potentials and challenges in education and democracy.Purpose: The credibility of digital news is presently a topic of debate, and curricula underline the importance of media literacy. However, the content and credibility of young people’s news feeds have not been investigated in detail in any large-scale studies. Here we explore the nature of news featured in Swedish upper secondary school students’ news feeds, how news is shared, and how credible the news is according to the students.Approach: Using citizen science and a mixed methods approach we review 2617 news from authentic news feeds.Findings: The students’ news feeds primarily contain hard news from established news media. News is predominately found on news domains, not through social media. Soft news is less common and is perceived as less credible. Boys find more sports while girls identify more entertainment and lifestyle news. The news feeds also contain some highly biased political information.Research limitations: The study was carried out in Sweden, and further international research on authentic news feeds is needed to view results in relation to society and educational practices.Research and practical implications: In education, students’ news feeds can be used to scrutinize credibility and help students navigate towards credible news domains to support democratic engagement.
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