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- Ganetz, Hillevi, 1956-
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Jewel in the Crown : The Nobel Banquet Broadcast as Co-Construction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nordicom Review. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 39:2, s. 111-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores the aims of the Nobel Banquet broadcast, produced by the Swedish public service company SVT and the Nobel Foundation. The study suggests that the programme can be viewed as a co-construction of science and media, and that the Nobel Foundation has three primary purposes: 1) to teach the audience about science; 2) to honour the laureates; and 3) to maintain and increase the status of the Nobel prize. SVT, for their part, has two main purposes: 1) to teach their audience about science, and 2) to entertain. The aims of the Nobel Foundation and SVT may seem disparate, but they are interrelated. At the same time, the subtleties between the entities create a tension that develops through mutual negotiations. The study ends with a discussion of two unexpected findings: 1) the shared, yet essentially differently-grounded aims of both parties to inform about science, and 2) the fact that their scientific content has increased in both absolute and relative terms over the years, a finding that questions notions of a continuous mediatisation of social institutions.
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- Ganetz, Hillevi, 1956-
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The Body of the Queen and the Prize of Science
- 2018
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Ingår i: Feminist Media Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1468-0777 .- 1471-5902. ; 18:6, s. 1055-1069
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the relationship between science and nation, classand gender in the televised Nobel Banquet, held after the Nobel Prizeceremony. The representation of the body of the Swedish Queen is usedas a lens through which to view intersectional power dimensions. Drawingon cultural, media and gender studies, this article examines the mediatedpersona of the Queen in the televised Nobel Banquet via contextualisedtextual analysis.The article suggests that the purpose of the Nobel Foundation in invitingthe royals is to enhance the social status of science. But it is the Queenwho has received more TV time than anyone else – scientist or royalty –since her TV-debut in 1976. How can the camera focus on her silent bodybe interpreted in relation to science? This article suggests that the meaningof the Queen’s body also implies certain understandings of central powerdimensions. The body of the Queen signifies that gender, heterosexuality,class affiliation, nationality and race are important and normative factors inscientific discourse. At the Nobel Banquet, the representation of her bodyidentifies science as associated with the heterosexual,
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- Ganetz, Hillevi, 1956-
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The Nobel celebrity-scientist : genius and personality
- 2016
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Ingår i: Celebrity Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1939-2397 .- 1939-2400. ; 7:2, s. 234-248
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scientists are a poorly covered area of research in the field of celebrity studies. This article attempts to rectify this issue by discussing representations of science and scientists in a televised Nobel Banquet on Swedish public-service television, SVT. The televised Nobel Banquet is a genre hybrid that consists of two genres; namely, science communication and award show. Drawing on cultural, media, and gender studies, this article examines the mediated persona of the scientist in the televised Nobel Banquet via contextualised textual analysis. The main questions of this article are as follows: in what ways do the media, the genre, and the idea of geniality affect the representation of the scientist? The article suggests that the increasing celebrification' of scientists is characteristic of the past several decades, and that, among other factors, this has been due to the entry of aspects of entertainment into banquet broadcasts. Through such processes, the celebrity-scientist' has emerged within the high-status sphere of science. However, a very specific type of celebrity is represented in the Nobel context: the celebrity-scientist is commonly a white man of high education whose fame has been reached through hard work in competition with others of the same kind. This representation of a scientist and its associated quality of genius will here be examined from a gender perspective.
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- Lindgren Liljenstolpe, Erika, 1977-
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Sempronia's Song : Attitudes to Women's Music-making in Ancient Rome
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study explores attitudes towards women’s music-making in ancient Rome (c. 120 BC–130 AD), as expressed in love poetry, satire, letters, historiography, biography, rhetoric and philosophy. The texts are studied from an intersectional perspective considering gender, social status, age and ethnicity to explain various attitudes. Gender-theoretical concepts of differentiation, implementation of hierarchy and master suppression techniques explain the need for controlling the Roman gender order and women’s music-making. The study demonstrates that the traditional picture of women musicians as either prostitutes or decent, musically-talented matrons needs to be nuanced, and that the attitudes were more complex than previously assumed.Some Roman authors show a positive attitude to women’s musical talents, especially love poets, but also writers of other genres, as long as it was performed on “appropriate” instruments in accordance with the social status of the woman in question. The musical skills of a woman should not override her modesty and virtue. A young woman was encouraged to display musical talents. This enhanced her beauty and attractiveness in the eyes of a husband-to-be. Older music-making women were, on the other hand, ridiculed as unrespectable. The labelling of women musicians in Rome as “non-Roman” could be another way of differentiating non-respectable from respectable women, but such identifying could also serve to evoke “exotic” attraction, or for an artist to require a certain status or a sense of belonging.The results obtained from the ancient Roman sources are further augmented by comparison with more recent periods in musical history, displaying a long tradition of rather similar attitudes as a result of patriarchal structures: in seventeenth century Italy Pope Innocent XI in an edict tried to prohibit women from playing music, since this would be injurious to proper modesty. In the twenty-first century world-leading women musicians such as Madonna and Mariah Carey are publicly scorned for their older age in relation to their music-making.In ancient Rome both women and music needed to be controlled: Music was unpredictable and could evoke unexpected feelings and temptations, whereas women held the key to pure marital breed and the Roman family line.
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- Sveningsson, Malin, 1968, et al.
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Framing the Swedish #metoo movement
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordmedia 2019.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The #metoo movement’s aim was to create awareness of and show how widespread and systematic sexual harassment is in working life. The movement received much attention in Swedish news media, especially in the initial phase between October and December 2017 (Eklund, 2018). However, we know less of what the reports looked like. Using quantitative content analysis, this papers investigates how Swedish news media reported on the metoo-movement in its initial phase, focusing specifically on what contexts and focus dominated (individual, extra-ordinary cases, or collective petitions of ordinary women), and whether the issues were framed as episodic or thematic.
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