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- Bolin, Göran, 1959-, et al.
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Disruption and transformation in media events theory : The case of the Euromaidan Revolution in Ukraine
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - : Nordicom. - 2003-184X. ; 4:1, s. 99-117
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Media events, Dayan and Katz argue, compose a narrative genre that follows specific structural principles and narrative tropes and that works toward societal integration. However, a specific subset of media events is labelled transformative, and these work towards societal change. In this article, we point to an unresolved tension between transformative events and what has subsequently been introduced as disruptive events. Our discussion builds on research on the developments in post-Soviet Ukraine, and we analyse, firstly, the transformative and disruptive relations related to the so-called Euromaidan Revolution, and secondly, how these events can be placed in a wider narrative of three Ukrainian revolutions. Our analysis concludes that narrative analysis can help explain the ways in which these events are understood by broader international audiences.
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- Bolin, Göran, 1959-, et al.
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Introduction
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - : Nordicom. - 2003-184X. ; 2:1, s. 1-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bolin, Göran, 1959-, et al.
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The return of propaganda : Historical legacies and contemporary conceptualisations
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - : Nordicom. - 2003-184X. ; 5:1, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this introductory article, we discuss the rise of the “classical” theories of propaganda, starting with an historical exposé of the concept, which traces its roots and trajectory through the field of academic analysis. Propaganda is then discussed in relation to other adjacent concepts such as soft power, public diplomacy, nation branding, fake news, and so on. In a third section, the concept of propaganda is discussed in relation to the present datafied world, marked by various forms of crises – of democracy and of the environment, for example. In the last section, the articles included in this themed issue are presented and related to the preceding historical and conceptual discussion.
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- Brock, Maria, et al.
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Raping turtles and kidnapping children : Fantasmatic logics of Scandinavia in Russian and German anti-gender discourse
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 2003-184X. ; 5:1, s. 95-114
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines the social, political, and fantasmatic logics involved in the production of contemporary discourses about Scandinavia as a symbolic site and imagined place of sexual and moral decay and as a gender dysphoric dystopia by actors in the global anti-gender movement. Empirically, we draw on a rich digital archive of multi-modal media texts from an ongoing research project on anti-gender movements in Russia and Germany – two countries which provide particularly poignant examples of sites in which this mode of anti-gender propaganda is currently on the rise. In the analysis, we explore the discursive workings of a particularly prominent node in the material – that of the vulnerable child – and show how this figure is construed and instrumentalised to add urgency and fuel outrage among domestic audiences in Russia and Germany.
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- Dahlberg, Leif, Professor, 1962-
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The Language of Late Fossil Capital
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 2003-184X. ; 5:1, s. 172-193
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay studies the propaganda language of contemporary – or late – fossil capital. Whereas the traditional understanding of propaganda focuses on the dissemination of information (or disinformation) in order to promote a political cause or ideology, I argue that the main form and vehicle of propaganda for late fossil capital is the massive use of terms and tropes, together with particular rhetorical devices, for example, the interpellation of the individual consumer as responsible for mitigating climate change. The essay studies the language of fossil capital based primarily on marketing material by fossil fuel companies, in the US and other Western countries, such as advertising and advertorials, current and archived websites, social media, corporate sustainability reports, as well as material produced by industry organisation such as the American Petroleum Institute and the Heartland Institute. A large part of the material is taken from two North American legal complaints, Connecticut v. Exxon Mobil Corporation (2020) and City of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corp. et al. (2021).
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- Egan Sjölander, Annika, FD Docent, 1971-
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Agents of sustainable transition or place branding promotor? : Local journalism and climate change in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet. - 2003-184X. ; 3:1, s. 20-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The climate crisis concerns all fabrics of society. Local journalism can play a key role when cities are handling the problems. This paper analyses local media discourses on climate change in four Swedish cities that aim to be role-models in the transition towards carbon-neutrality. A discourse analysis of news articles and op-eds about the climate, combined with semi-structured interviews with journalists working at four different local newspapers shows that the climate crisis is covered in all newspapers, even if the amount and ambitions varies, including the ability to fill key roles as watchdog and educator. The newsrooms’ climate focus also had to give way when the covid-19 pandemic struck. Local decisions about transportation, food and urban development are common topics and often debated in the local press. However, the price-winning cities ambitious green plans to become climate neutral already by 2030 remain vague for the journalists and probably their readers.
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-, et al.
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Media criticism as a propaganda strategy in political communication
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - 2003-184X. ; 5:1, s. 115-133
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last decade, strategic attacks on news media institutions and journalists have become an increasingly common feature of populist political communication. The purpose of this article is to identify various strategies that politicians use to criticise the news media and illuminate how the use and circulation of these strategies vary between party types. The article builds on a content analysis of the Twitter feeds of all members of parliament with an active account during the 2018 Swedish election campaign. Results show that political media criticism in Sweden is strongly associated with political personalisation, and it is almost exclusively a right-wing phenomenon, though not restricted specifically to populist parties. Public service media rather than newspapers or commercial broadcasters constitute the prime target for political media criticism in Sweden, illustrating the need to take media systemic aspects in to account when analysing media criticism as a propaganda strategy in political communication.
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- Forsman, Michael, Docent, 1959-
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Media Literacy and the Emerging Media Citizen in the Nordic Media Welfare State
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - : Nordicom. - 2003-184X. ; 2:1, s. 59-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the 1960s, there has been a thriving Nordic tradition of media literacy research, pedagogics, and policy on how to best prepare the emerging media citizen for an increas-ingly mediatised society. Although the Nordic model of media literacy has previously been characterised by connections to Bildung, critical theory, cultural studies, and progressive pedagogics, much of today’s understanding of media literacy is associated with a more instrumental understanding of education, with connections to the commercialisation and digitalisation of compulsory education. By suggesting a historisation of the Nordic media literacy tradition, in connection to the Nordic media welfare state, this article opens a debate about the future directions of Nordic media literacy.
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- Hansson, Karin, et al.
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Legitimising a Feminist Agenda : The #metoo petitions in Sweden 2017–2018
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Media Studies. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 2003-184X. ; 2:1, s. 121-132
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During 2017 and 2018, the #metoo hashtag united a global movement against sexual abuse and harassment. In Sweden, a large portion of the attention was given to the voices of working women, who organised and wrote petitions that were published in news media. Previous research has found that media reports of sexual abuse often focus on singular stories, rather than describing the underlying structural problems, and that the problem is often framed as an individual rather than structural problem. This article accounts for a qualitative content analysis of the first 28 published #metoo petitions in Sweden, with the goal of understanding how these framed the issue. In contrast to previous research, this study shows how the petitions established a coherent feminist explanatory framework that placed the problems on a structural level by focusing on work environments and framing demands in terms of general and perfectly reasonable human rights.
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