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- Bolin, Göran, 1959-, et al.
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Age, Generation and the Media
- 2013
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Ingår i: Northern Lights. - : Intellect. - 1601-829X .- 2040-0586. ; 11:1, s. 3-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Bolin, Göran, 1959-, et al.
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Surveillance through media, by media, in media
- 2018
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Ingår i: Northern Lights. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1601-829X .- 2040-0586. ; 16:1, s. 3-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Following the spread of digital media, the interdisciplinary field of surveillance studies has gained prominence, engaging scholars from the humanities and the social sciences alike. This introductory article aims to map out the main terrain of surveillance through, by and in the media. First, we discuss the phenomenon of, and the scholarly work on, surveillance through and by media, taking into consideration both state and corporate surveillance and how these activities have grown with the new digital and personal media of today. We then discuss surveillance as the phenomenon is represented in the media and how representations relate to surveillance practices. We conclude by presenting the articles of this special issue.
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- Carlsson, Eric, 1972-, et al.
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All-seeing eyes : metaphors of surveillance in the media monitoring industry
- 2018
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Ingår i: Northern Lights. - : Intellect. - 1601-829X .- 2040-0586. ; 16:1, s. 23-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to analyse and compare how technologies of media monitoring have been imagined as seeing devices at two turning points in media history – around 1900 and in the 2000s. The press-cutting agencies that were established during the late nineteenth century, depending on human eyes and scissors, were said to deliver customized news updates, business data and information on public opinion. As seeing devices, they took names such as Argus, Observer and Atlas. These agencies made it possible to see the world on paper. Today, media monitoring depends on automatic processes rather than human eyes. Yet, digital technologies are usually represented by images of old media devices such as magnifying glasses, binoculars, telescopes and watchtowers. These well-known and transparent technologies make the black boxes of digital media seem less strange, but they might also mask the assumptions and complexities that are built into them.
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-, et al.
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Political communication in an age of visual connectivity : Exploring Instagram practices among Swedish politicians
- 2017
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Ingår i: Northern Lights. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1601-829X .- 2040-0586. ; 15:1, s. 15-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the specific features of Instagram as a platform for visual political communication. Drawing on theories of mediatization and celebrity politics, it analyses how various forms of symbolic connectivity are expressed and performed by sixteen leading politicians in Sweden, and moreover how their social media use relates to news media. The study leans on a content analysis (n=800) and results show that journalism still holds a strong symbolic value, even when politicians are in charge of the political discourse. In addition, it reveals how the platform logic of Instagram contributes to the formation of digital lifestyle politics, where symbolic connections between politicians and a variety of actors are staged through new mediatized relations. Visual political communication does inherit a democratic and interactive potential. However, according to the analysed data, most politicians avoid public interaction. Instead, they are preoccupied with the branding of their public persona.
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- Jernudd, Åsa, 1964-
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Cinema memory : National identity as expressed by Swedish elders in an oral history project
- 2013
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Ingår i: Northern Lights. - : Intellect Ltd.. ; , s. 109-122
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a contribution to the ‘new cinema history’ vein of media studies concerning the experience of American films in foreign, local contexts. It explores the cinema memory discourse of senior citizens living in a post-industrial mining region in central Sweden. The informants offer a variety of narrative strategies of cinema memory that can be related to social differences within the group based on class, membership in social societies and local geopolitics. The informants also take care to mention Swedish films and actors in more or less equal proportion and with similar enthusiasm compared to American ones, yet Swedish film has only had a limited amount of screen time throughout the age of cinema. The elderly informants’ cinema memories are constructed in dual terms: on the one hand acknowledging traits of cinema culture in terms of glamour, sincerity and novelty tied to the dominant Hollywood fare and on the other hand taking care to anchor the experience of cinema-going in a strong sense of national community. The contention is that the informants are evoking a cinema-going culture that caters to a deeply felt human need of belonging, and this belonging is identified with the prosperous Swedish post-war nation state.
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- Kroon Lundell, Åsa, 1967-
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Cross-platform television : superliveness, metadiscourse and complex audience orientation in a sports journalism production on the web
- 2014
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Ingår i: Northern Lights. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1601-829X .- 2040-0586. ; 12:1, s. 11-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents a close analysis of interactions in cross-media formats with a specific focus on how television ‘is done’ on the web by established sports broadcasters who are used to producing traditional sports television. It will be argued that the web platform promotes significantly altered audience-oriented behaviours compared to traditional television, and that the web ultimately both calls for and produces a new kind of sociability in relation to audiences. It will be proposed in the discussion that this new kind of sociability will have an increasing impact also on how traditional television ‘is done’. The article makes use of data from the sports genre that is normally associated with ‘lighter entertainment’. Therefore the results may not be immediately applicable to how other types of journalistic genres tackle the communicative challenges of new media. However, it will be argued that sports journalism may well be thought of as a frontrunner when it comes to adapting to increasingly ‘sociable’ communicative modes of address. The analysis of web interactions focuses around three overarching audience orientations that are promoted in the web context: superliveness, metadiscourse and complex audience orientation(s). Taken together, these orientations constitute ‘a new kind of sociability’.
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- Leckner, Sara
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Sceptics and supporters of corporate use of behavioural data : Attitudes towards informational privacy and Internet surveillance in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Northern Lights. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1601-829X .- 2040-0586. ; 1:16, s. 113-132
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With the growing use of the Internet, companies are increasingly collecting and using personal data for commodifying purposes, resulting in both benefits and privacy risks for users and raising the issue of corporate surveillance. The present article investigates people’s attitudes towards corporate collection of personal data, discusses possible reasons for attitude results in relation to self-regulation, trust and media context, and compares these findings with results from the previous year. The study is based on a survey using a large-n probability sample of the Swedish population. The results are in accordance with the suggested privacy paradox: the majority of the population, as in the previous year, have negative attitudes towards corporate collection of their data, largely independent of context. Nonetheless, they continue to share their data without making any great effort to secure their privacy. Whether this depends on inexperience, ignorance or resignation, everyday corporate surveillance does not meet expectations regarding the just governing of informational privacy. As the results showed that the more positive people were towards sharing their data in various contexts, the more positively this affected their attitudes towards the fact that the data were being used by the collecting companies for various purposes, balancing out the power differences online would benefit not only users but also companies to a great extent.
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- Leckner, Sara
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The (be)coming of the book : the transformation of a text medium in the late age of print
- 2015
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Ingår i: Northern Lights. - : Intellect Ltd.. - 1601-829X .- 2040-0586. ; 1:13, s. 105-119
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digitalization has changed the preconditions for most media in recent decades, offering a rare opportunity to develop and change traditional media and the media market. The book medium is no exception. What is to be considered a book is being challenged, or, for some, threatened. As the e-book market grows there is, as with other media, still ambiguity in the direction of the development and the normalization of the e-book concept. This article discusses the extent to which physical form, genre and utilization are important when defining the book medium in the late age of print, contributing to the debate regarding the future of the book. The article is based on interviews with four prominent scholars in the research area of the digitization of text media. The findings show that, despite good arguments for how the e-book should be defined, its definition is highly context-dependent. However, as the e-book moves towards more enhanced digital versions and away from digitized ones, genre will grow increasingly important for the definition of a ‘book’ in the digital environment. This means that, in moving towards a more converging understanding of the future of the book, its definitions will diverge.
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- Nilsson, Skans Kersti, et al.
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The tensions of e-book creation and distribution in a small-language culture
- 2015
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Ingår i: Northern Lights. - University of Copenhagen : Intellect Journals. - 1601-829X .- 2040-0586. ; 13:1, s. 29-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report on research in progress on the e-book phenomenon in Sweden, the aim of which is to explore the impact of the e-book at every stage, from authorship, through publishing, library lending and bookselling to readership. Here two aspects of the research are covered, the attitudes of authors and publishers towards e-books, to demonstrate the ‘early adoption’ stage of the e-book in the Swedish market. Interviews with authors reveal that most regard e-books favourably, although most of those who have a contract with publishers see it as a by-product of print publishing. Most authors do not have much experience in e-book publishing or self-publishing. The survey of publishers reveals ambivalence towards e-books and in their relationships with libraries and booksellers. The main ‘drivers’ in the uptake of e-books are consumers’ demands for portable, convenient formats and the search for more economic solutions to the provision of textbooks.
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