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- Bechmann Pedersen, Sune, et al.
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Foreign correspondents in the Cold War : The politics and practices of East German television journalists in the West
- 2019
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-9729 .- 1368-8804. ; 26:1, s. 75-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the transnational production processes of foreign correspondence in the Cold War. It examines the double role of foreign correspondents as reporters and Cold War political agents. Recent scholarship has explored the activities of Western correspondents reporting from the Communist world. Little is known, however, about Eastern bloc correspondents in the West. Drawing on the rarely studied files on East German foreign correspondents held by the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, the article problematizes the image of GDR journalists as obedient intelligence officers and highlights the dilemmas of journalists deployed to defend national interests. Focusing on the Nordic countries in the mid1970s, the article provides detailed insights into the politics and practices of East German foreign correspondence before the digital revolution. The article thus shows the benefits of going beyond the traditional focus on media content to analyse the daily practices as well as the political and symbolic significance of journalism. It contributes to the growing historical research on foreign correspondents and the media in East Germany and beyond
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- Bennesved, Peter, et al.
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Urban Catastrophe and Sheltered Salvation : The media system of Swedish civil defence, 1937–1960
- 2020
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 26:2, s. 167-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish civil defence organizations have a long tradition of balancing their messages to the public through diverse media use. Over the course of the early Cold War, however, the political and technical circumstances of the civil defence organizations changed, rendering old methods from the 1930s obsolete. To keep their relevance, the narratives of the civil defence organizations had to be carefully remodelled in accordance with the current situation, obscuring some facts while stressing others more clearly. By operationalizing the concept of media system, this article examines how the Swedish civil defence organizations used the media, broadly defined, to deal with the two main narratives that their practical work was based upon: urban destruction as war unfolds, and the safety of air-raid shelters. The article shows how these narratives were constructed and connected between various media, but also their changing and dynamic character over time. Over the course of the 1940s and 1950s, the narrative of urban destruction changed from a concrete to an abstract mediation, while the narrative of sheltered salvation took an opposite direction.
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- Cronqvist, Marie, et al.
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Entangled media histories : The value of Transnational and Transmedial Approaches in Media Historiography
- 2017
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-9729 .- 1368-8804. ; 23, s. 130-141
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The transnational and transmedial dimensions of media and communication throughout history have not always been adequately recognised. In this research report we propose the concept of entanglement as a means of better understanding the dynamic interconnectedness of media across semiotic, technological, institutional and political boundaries in history. Entanglement is a concept that can be employed in order to problematize the presumed points of departure and the linear understandings of development, production and reception that often characterize media-history scholarship. Moreover, an entangled media histories perspective throws light on social and communicative action in general and can thus enrich any historical study. The report outlines, and invites discussion of, the theoretical and methodological framework of the transnational network ‘Entangled Media Histories’, which since 2013 has been a forum for co-operation in research and teaching between media historians in Sweden, Germany and Great Britain.
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- Hultén, Gunilla
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Victims and Intruders : Swedish press coverage on Anti-Jewish violence in Russia and on Jewish immigration 1881–1921
- 2018
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 24:3-4, s. 477-492
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article sets out to investigate how the Swedish regional press framed anti-Jewish violence in Russia and Jewish immigration to Sweden between 1881 and 1921. Furthermore, it analyses how the Swedish newspapers framed differences between the Jewish minority and the Swedish majority, and between the newly arrived Jews and the already established Jewish community in Sweden. The study, which combines quantitative and qualitative methods, is based on articles gathered from the National Library of Sweden’s digital database Digitized Swedish Newspapers. An analysis of some 400 articles suggests that sympathy towards the Jews in Russia dominates the reports on violence in the tsarist empire. In these texts, the Jews are mainly framed as innocent victims of brutal violence. In the articles concerning the eastern European Jewish immigration to Sweden, however, hostile attitudes are the most prominent. The Jewish immigrants are framed as menacing intruders, threatening law and order and the general welfare of Sweden.
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- Hyvönen, Mats, 1973-, et al.
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The Formation of Swedish Media Studies, 1960–1980
- 2018
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 24:1, s. 86-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Around 1960, the politics of the emerging media society in Sweden tended to fixate the formative functions of mass communication. The monopoly of public service broadcast media, press subsidies and new tendencies in film policy were some of the issues around which uncertainty prevailed. New methods to provide reliable data were sought by politicians, since empirical facts were required as arguments for an updated media policy. This article examines the different ways that the field of media studies was introduced in Sweden between 1960 and 1980. We argue that Swedish academic media studies departed from, and emerged within, a rather diffuse borderland between industry, politics and academia. The formation of national media research in Sweden can partly be seen as an effect of politicians and the media industry wanting to be better informed on issues such as media influence, media ownership and the habits and composition of the media audience.
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- Jarlbrink, Johan, 1978-
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Mobile/sedentary : News work behind and beyond the desk
- 2015
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 21:3, s. 280-293
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the changing journalistic norms and roles in terms of mobile and sedentary news work at the end of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The analysis draws on the research into the small everyday tools of bureaucracy and science. The focus is on the quill, the scissors and paste pot, the body of the reporter and the computer. Journalistic neutrality and truth seem at any given time to be defined in line with the practices made possible by the available tools. A change in tools makes new practices possible, meaning that the norms have to be redefined. Journalism was once synonymous with mobile reporters reporting on events they themselves witnessed. Journalism today, however, is often sedentary copy-and-paste work, much resembling the scissors-and-paste journalism of the nineteenth century. Comparison reveals that such transmission of texts and images produced by someone else always runs the risk of reproducing the voices of the elites.
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- Jülich, Solveig, 1966-
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In the light of media : Mass miniature radiography surveys for tuberculosis in Sweden, c. 1940–1970
- 2016
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 22:2, s. 201-216
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to highlight the medical and medial relationships that were established and negotiated through the mass X-ray surveys for tuberculosis in Sweden from the early 1940s to 1970. In particular it focuses on three interrelated aspects. Firstly, it shows how mass miniature radiography was developed through the pairing of old X-ray technology with new photographic technology. Secondly, it demonstrates how the survey campaigns enabled connections between medical and media institutions and professional groups. Thirdly, it discusses how the mass surveys helped to create and mediate relations between doctors and patients, experts and lay people, sick and healthy people, participants and objectors. In conclusion, it argues that these three aspects together are crucial if we wish to understand the mediatisation of the medical sphere as well as the medicalisation of everyday life during the twentieth century.
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- Larsson, Åsa Bharathi, 1980-
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Colonial Fantasies Exotic and Oriental Motifs in the Swedish Illustrated Press in the Late Nineteenth Century
- 2023
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Routledge. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 29:4, s. 458-475
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores exotic and orientalized motifs in the Swedish illustrated press at the end of the nineteenth century. I argue that one way to be part of the European colonial project was to engage in colonial practices, and among these were the mass production of exotic and Oriental motifs through the illustrated press that became prevalent throughout Scandinavia. Furthermore, I describe how illustrations were part of a broader media landscape in late nineteenth-century Sweden than previously perceived. To understand its relevance today I discuss briefly how Swedish artists have been engaged with colonial and exotic motifs. The article concludes that the various colonial visual media cultures have a long tradition in Swedish media culture which still engage questions of race and representation.
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- Lundberg, Björn
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Running on Air : Radio and the Experience of Drama in the Swedish ‘Gunder Hägg mania’ of 1941–45
- 2021
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-9729 .- 1368-8804. ; 27:4, s. 510-524
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During World War II, middle-distance runner Gunder Hägg set 15 world records and became a media sport star of unprecedented magnitude in Sweden. This article turns attention to the role of radio broadcasts in the formation of Swedish “Hägg mania” 1941–45. When analyzed in terms of blindness, liveness and co-presence, radio broadcasts from this era reveal that radio announcers actively engaged with audiences to solidify a sense of liveness and co-presence that established moments of suspense and ritualized drama. The concept of dimensional listening is used to explain how radio as a ‘blind’ medium could evoke forceful imagery, while the audiences’ use of stop-watches to time running events provides an example of how broadcasters encouraged audience interactivity, reinforcing the experience of simultaneity and national community.
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