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- Figenschou, Tine Ustad, et al.
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Public bureaucracies(link is external)
- 2021
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Ingår i: Power, Communication, and Politics in the Nordic Countries. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9789188855282
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Ihlen, Øyvind, et al.
(författare)
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Lobbying in Scandinavia
- 2021
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Ingår i: Power, Communication, and Politics in the Nordic Countries. - Gothenburg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789188855282 - 9789188855299 ; , s. 305-323
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter is a tour of the Scandinavian lobbying landscape providing thestate of the art for research on a contested and necessary activity. We discuss theparticular context of the Scandinavian countries and current trends relevant forlobbying. Lobbying is often juxtaposed with the corporatist channel which impliesinstitutionalised contact patterns between politicians and organised interests. Thecorporatist channel has, however, declined in importance while a number of trendshave led to more diverse interest group systems, and new actors have assumed amore prominent role in Scandinavian lobbying. Besides discussing such trends,we also present some of the main findings about strategies and techniques usedand what similarities and dissimilarities exist between the countries.
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- Lindén, Carl-Gustav, et al.
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Local political communication in a hybrid media system
- 2021
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Ingår i: Power, Communication, and Politics in the Nordic Countries. - Gothenburg : Nordicom. - 9789188855299 - 9789188855282 ; , s. 155-176
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter analyses the local media and local political conditions in the Nordic countries from the perspective of power. The rapid changes in the local media system described in this chapter have led to a redistribution of this power in the local community in different directions. The starting point for our analysis is the four variables defined by Hallin and Mancini (2004) to describe different media systems and to identify change in power and power relations. We find that local media structures are changing, with downsized newspapers and decreasing use of local newspapers while social media is becoming more prominent. Norway and Sweden try to balance decreasing commercial conditions with state support, while there is a strong regional public service in all Nordic countries. Political parallelism in the old sense of political power and control of newspapers has gone. Professional journalists have become only one group among many different producers of local media content, duly losing power over local agendas.
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- Nord, Lars, 1958-, et al.
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Conclusion : Nordic political communication between change and continuity
- 2021
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Ingår i: Power, Communication and Politics in the Nordic countries. - Gothenburg : Nordicom. - 9789188855282 ; , s. 385-396
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The overall conclusion that can be drawn from the contributions in this anthol-ogy is that it is hardly relevant to talk about a clear-cut Nordic model of political communication that highly contrasts other democratic states and their political communication systems. Global trends such as digitalisation and commercialisa-tion of media systems and blurring lines between national and global political issues influence political communication. Still, there are many observations that confirm the existence of prevailing Nordic system peculiarities, such as compara-bly higher levels of voter turnout and political trust and relatively strong private and public news media. While these merging characteristics exist, it is relevant to look more carefully upon factors in the Nordic countries that seem to contribute to continuity and stability in political communication systems. In our view, it is particularly interesting to pay attention to relevant factors in the Nordic countries that may contribute to resilience in these societies. So far, the Nordic countries have shown considerable ability to embrace international political communication trends without jeopardising essential nation-specific distinctive features. Whether this resilience will prevail in the future remains an open question.
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- Nord, Lars, 1958-, et al.
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Media and politics in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Power, communication, and politics in the Nordic countries. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9789188855282 ; , s. 113-132
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter introduces political communication in Sweden with a particular focus on the most important developments during the last decade, and we discuss current main actors and structures and the dynamic interplay between voters, politics, and media. Important changes are taking place with regard to the party system, the media system, and voter behaviour, and the current transformations have various causes. On the supply side, no part of the Swedish society is untouched by the new opportunities offered by digitalisation and new media technology. The hybrid media system parallels news media and social media and blurs the lines between information and entertainment. Mass media companies converge to platform neutral digital media companies, and political parties navigate between traditional and digital communication channels in their efforts to reach voters. On the demand side, new media habits and media diets develop, more individual and fragmented than ever before.
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- Nørgaard Kristensen, Nete, et al.
(författare)
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Cultural Communication as Political Communication
- 2021
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Ingår i: Power, Communication, and Politics in the Nordic Countries. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9789188855282 ; , s. 177-196
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter makes the argument that issues related to the cultural public sphere should be considered part of the political communication circuit. Cultural journalism in the Nordic context is a central case in point. On the side of arts, popular culture, and lifestyle, Nordic cultural journalism at times includes reporting and debate about sociocultural and politically saturated issues such as climate change, migration, terrorism, freedom of speech, identity politics, and gender inequalities. The chapter highlights three theoretical approaches, intersecting with the field of political communication, which have been of particular importance in Nordic scholarship about cultural journalism: public sphere theory, the politics of recognition, and the sociology of (cultural) journalism. The media coverage and debates about #metoo in Danish and Swedish cultural journalism in late 2017 serve to illustrate the arguments about the political in cultural journalism and reveals its quantitative salience as well as its qualitative specificities.
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- Pollack, Ester, 1954-, et al.
(författare)
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Development trends and challenges in Nordic political journalism
- 2021
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Ingår i: Power, Communication, and Politics in the Nordic Countries. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9789188855282 ; , s. 135-154
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective of this chapter is to describe and discuss some important political journalism development trends in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The term political journalism traditionally refers to news, commentaries, and other genres related to the coverage of political processes, institutions, and policy questions. It is, however, difficult to draw a clear dividing line between political news and other types of current affairs coverage. While political logic once dominated the discourses of political journalism, the emergence of the news media as an independent institution gave journalists a substantial definitional power and an ability to define the communicative rules of the game, but professional political sources quickly learned to exploit news media logics for their own aims and objectives. During the last decade, the growth of social media networks and the relative weakening of the legacy media has created a less stable situation for the negotiation of control between journalists and their sources.
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- Skogerbö, Eli, et al.
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Introduction : A Nordic model for political communication?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Power, Communication, and Politics in ther Nordic Countries. - Gothenburg : Nordicom. - 9789188855282 ; , s. 13-28
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Nordic countries have been termed a supermodel for political and economic governance. This anthology explores how and why the political communication systems contribute to explaining and understanding why the Nordic countries stand out as stable, democratic welfare states. The state and nation-building processes of these small European countries were not at all identical, but the ensuing political systems show many similarities. Yet, there are also considerable differences. Part One of the anthology explores developments in the media structure and relation-ship between media and politics in the five Nordic countries. The chapters are co-authored by scholars from political communication, media, and journalism from each country and emphasise particular national traits. Part Two studies and compares political communication across the Nordic countries within particular domains, such as political journalism, local journalism, lobbyism, elections, and the spread of fake news, with a specific eye for similarities and differences between the Nordic countries. We conclude with the argument that Nordic political communi-cation is and should be international and comparative. Still we want to highlight the need to also continue with in-depth national or Nordic comparative studies.
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- Vigsø, Orla, 1962, et al.
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Political rhetoric in Scandinavia
- 2021
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Ingår i: Power, Communication, and Politics in the Nordic Countries. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9789188855282 ; , s. 365-383
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rhetorical research in the three Scandinavian countries has made contributions to the study of political communication, representing approaches that are not often found in research coming from the social sciences or from more systemic, theory-based orientations. Rhetoric, both as an ancient tradition and as a modern discipline, tends to emphasise close study of actual pieces of communication – verbal, visual, or otherwise. This rarely leads to quantitative, generalisable findings, but instead to observations and conceptualisations of phenomena – which may then be studied from quantitative and empirical angles. Often, rhetorical studies will have a normative tilt, based on notions of democracy, deliberation, and the public sphere – often with an eye for malfunctions and possible remedies. A growing literature of studies in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway tend to share some of these characteristics. At the same time, rhetorical scholars in Scandinavia recognise the value of empirical observation and have made contributions of their own in that regard, for example, in the field of reception studies.
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