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- Castaldo Lundén, Elizabeth, 1974-
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Exploring Fashion as Communication : The search for a new fashion history against the grain
- 2020
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 18:4, s. 249-258
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This introductory essay calls for a new fashion media history informed by truly interdisciplinary scholarship, nuanced in both fashion and media studies. It reflects upon the ways in which the study of fashion as communication and fashion journalism have been addressed, arguing that fashion studies has laid out a western backbone of this history that invites and deserves to be confirmed and contested. It encourages future authors to find those fashion media discourses, voices, and practices that brought attention to fashion and dress moving past the so-called ‘fashion bibles’ to unravel discourses reaching popular audiences, underrepresented minorities, unlisted geographies, and subcultures.
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- Andersson Schwarz, Jonas, 1978-, et al.
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Introduction: Piracy and Social Change
- 2015
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 13:1, s. 1-5
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- Andersson Schwarz, Jonas, 1978-, et al.
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Piracy and Social Change : Roundtable Discussion
- 2015
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 13:1, s. 87-99
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This roundtable discussion draws together researchers with an interest of overcoming purely juridical treatment of piracy in their work. Christopher Kelty and Gabriella Coleman consider the aspects of cyberculture, which conflictually engage with intellectual property rights, through various communities of technology practice, including hackers. Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi’s work on fair use addresses the growing opportunities for creators in the United States to utilize the tradition in their creative fields. Jonas Andersson Schwarz and Patrick Burkart, co-editors of this special issue, have researched user motivations and political activism around copyright and software patent reforms, partially explaining the emergence of dozens of European Pirate Parties, beginning with the Swedish Pirates in 2006.
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- Bolin, Göran
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Digitization, Multiplatform Texts, and Audience Reception
- 2010
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 8:1, s. 72-83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reflects on the consequences of digitization for multiplatform television/media production, the ways in which it affects textual expressions, and how this might have a bearing on changing audience roles. It takes its departure empirically from two Swedish examples of multiplatform production: The Truth About Marika and Labyrint, produced by SVT and TV4, respectively. It is argued that multiplatform media texts challenge our conceptions of categories such as work, text, program, etc., and, following from that, also challenge our notions of audience activity and engagement.
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- Burkart, Patrick, 1969-, et al.
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Geopolitics and the Popular
- 2013
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 11:1, s. 3-6
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- Christensen, Christian
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@Sweden: Curating a Nation on Twitter
- 2013
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 11:1, s. 30-46
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- On December 10, 2011, the first tweet was sent out from the @Sweden Twitter account, a nation-branding project financed by the Swedish government through the Swedish Institute and VisitSweden. Trumpeted by the media both in Sweden and internationally as an exercise in “transparent” and “democratic” nation-branding via the use of Twitter, the @Sweden account is “given” to a new Swede every week, and, supposedly, these curators are given free rein to tweet what they like, when they like. The use of a popular communication channel by the Swedish government—in this case, Twitter—provides an illuminating example of the carefully planned and managed promotion and nation-branding of Sweden, presented under the guise of a “transparent” and “democratic” selection and editorial processes. The @Sweden project will be addressed in light of “liberation technology” Diamond, L. 2010. Liberation technology. Journal of Democracy, 21(3): 69–83. and “technology discourse” Fisher, E. 2010. perspectives, within which a correlation between access to, and use of, technology and proactive change is postulated. These theoretical perspectives are particularly valuable when heeding Kaneva's (Kaneva, N. 2011. Nation branding: Toward an agenda for critical research). call for a more critical, communications-based understanding of nation-branding.
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- Christensen, Christian
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The links that bind : WikiLeaks, Twitter, and the Julian Assange case
- 2016
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 14:4, s. 224-237
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the decade since the founding of WikiLeaks, no non-leak-related issue has dominated coverage of the organization more than the August 2010 allegations made by two women in Stockholm against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This case has been addressed on the WikiLeaks Twitter feed on a consistent basis over the past 6 years. The tweets from WikiLeaks to millions of followers constitute a form of popular communication where a broad-albeit somewhat prefigured-audience is targeted using an open social media platform. With this audience in mind, I analyze the use of Twitter by WikiLeaks to address the 2010 rape allegations against Assange ( and the subsequent follow-on events after those allegations), with a particular focus on two issues: (a) the framing by WikiLeaks of the allegations, Sweden, rape, and feminism; and (b) how the sources (links) used in those tweets to back up claims should be seen as part of the general framing process.
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Arctic sea-ice and the communication of climate change
- 2017
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 15:4, s. 249-268
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Media play a major role in framing key political issues such as climate change, and the melting of the Arctic snow and ice has become a bellwether of global climate change through the mediations of the region and its wildlife. While Arctic change has scientific significance for understanding global warming, it also plays a key role in the popular communication of global climate change and its impacts. This article addresses questions such as how the Arctic and its sea ice have become become powerful images of climate change, and what roles scientific activities, technologies, and networks play in relation to media and mediation. Drawing upon earlier research on the role of the media and framing in relation to climate change in general and upon Arctic climate change in particular, we explore how media framings are linked with various dynamics such as scientific practice and the institutional structure of the media system.
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- Christensen, Miyase, et al.
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Technology and the Question of Empowerment
- 2014
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 12:4, s. 202-207
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- Ekberg, Niclas, 1970-, et al.
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Evolving Bildung, technology and streaming art
- 2021
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 19:1, s. 26-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The essay outlines an alternative model of Bildung, which the authors call an evolving Bildung. Their argument for taking this perspective on Bildung builds on Heidegger’s thinking concerning technology and his notion of a step back out of metaphysics and into a thinking of what is essential in technology. Moreover, departing from both Gadamer’s and Heidegger’s thinking the authors analyze how streaming media as art as well as art within streaming media can contribute to develop the notion of an evolving Bildung. The authors, furthermore, use Spotify as an example of a streaming medium which has the possibility to change the way art is experienced, and also how an evolving Bildung can develop education into an authentic human engagement with what can be called the Other, in the broad sense of this term, and so away from instrumentalism and calculative thinking.
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- Fleischer, Rasmus
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Universal Spotification? The shifting meanings of "Spotify" as a model for the media industries
- 2021
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 19:1, s. 14-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ever since the music streaming service Spotify was launched in 2008, it has been referred to as a model for an ongoing transformation of the media industries. Dozens of other technology startups have promised to deliver a Spotify for books, a Spotify for movies, a Spotify for journalism or even a Spotify for art. Yet, most attempts to replicate the model has actually failed. Analyzing a large body of Swedish and US news articles from 2008-2018, this article demonstrates how the metaphor of Spotify has been filled with very different meaning. Not only has the early promises of relying on advertising to make consumption free but legal been discarded, in favor of subscription-based models. Another major trend in the development of streaming services, including Spotify, has been the shift toward curation and algorithmic recommendation systems, which has added new associations to the metaphor or a Spotify for x.
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- Lindström, Kati, 1977-
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Classic and cute: Framing biodiversity in Japan through rural landscapes and mascot characters
- 2019
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Japan is an active player in international biodiversity politics and has ambitious domestic biodiversity targets. The government considers environmental communication crucial for reaching these. This article analyzes two major frames that state institutions employ for communicating biodiversity: traditional agricultural landscapes called satoyama and embodied mascot characters called yurukyara. Both frames attempt to reach the public by transcending the discursive reality. Employing well-established stylistic devices (court culture, Japanese cute), prestigious metanarratives (Japanese as nature people), and established institutional systems of tourism and governance, the frames have reached huge popularity. Yet awareness surveys indicate that people continue to consider biodiversity a matter of governmental policy rather than individual lifestyle. There has been a clear positive effect on the localities singled out for satoyama campaigns. However, it can be argued that the overall effect of celebratory framing coupled with pleasing aesthetics favors complacency and does not invite new forms of civic mobilization.
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- Nilsson, Johan, 1979-
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Inculcative address, commercial worldbuilding, and transmedia economy in the children's franchise Bamse
- 2023
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Routledge. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 21:3-4, s. 171-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Capitalist enterprises continuously push consumption of commercial products on children, for instance in the form of transmedial worlds in which multiple stories can play out across media and over time. The popular Swedish children's franchise Bamse has undergone an obvious capitalist expansion over time, with more and more commodities being made available for purchase. At the same time the brand continues to be promoted as a force for spreading good values and thus provides a valuable service to its audience of Swedish children. The present article explores, through a combination of paratextual analysis and political economy, how these inculcative and commercial goals coexist in a tense but seemingly functional configuration.
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- Skågeby, Jörgen, 1972-
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The media archaeology of file sharing : broadcasting computer code to Swedish homes
- 2015
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 13:1, s. 62-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What form did file sharing take before the internet’s usage became mainstream, and what prac- 5 tices from that period remain? This article examines a Swedish radio show that broadcast listener- contributed computer code in the mid 1980s. It applies a combined theoretical framework of intermediality and sharing theory and argues that this combination is central to the analysis of piracyand social change. The results indicate an interesting paradox in terms of pushing and pulling con- tent as the practice relied on both in public broadcasting as well as with contributing media users. 10 As such, the case of Datorernas värld prefigures how peer interaction and sharing relies on more centralized and controlled channels of communication. The article historically situates themes such as intermediality, surveillance, gender representation, and piracy and provides a piece of computing history that is topical, but strangely, critically ignored.
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- Werner, Ann, 1976-
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Organizing music, organizing gender : Algorithmic culture and Spotify recommendations
- 2020
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Routledge. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 18:1, s. 78-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Spotify is self-reporting to have 232 million monthly active users in July 2019, including 108 million paying subscribers. Often naturalized by listeners as a mere window into great collections of music, Spotify is an intricate network of music recommendations governed by algorithms, displayed as a visual interface of photos, text, clickable links, and graphics. With the aim to analyze how three Spotify functions, related artists, discover, and browse, organize and represent gender while organizing and representing music Spotify is here investigated through empirical material collected in qualitative online ethnographic studies during 2013–2015. The article problematizes how music is organized in algorithmic culture and uncovers gendering that can ensue as a result of the service’s recommendation algorithms: creating closer circles for music consumption, and organizing music by similarities in genre and gender.
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- Ödmark, Sara, et al.
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The democratic roles of satirists
- 2021
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Ingår i: Popular Communication. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1540-5702 .- 1540-5710. ; 19:4, s. 281-294
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the high-choice media landscape, satire has the potential to help news and politics break through information apathy barriers and reinvigorate democratic debate. While scholarly attention to the genre of satire has increased, interest in satirists themselves has been sparse. Using a theory of non-deliberative forms of public discourse and the idea of role conceptions, this study presents an analysis of interviews with Swedish satirists working in broadcasting media. Results showed that being Eye-openers and Questioners – meaning providing alternative perspectives and problematizing societal norms – were the primary contributions of satire, according to satirists. There were differing roles to take on when it came to social bonding and solidarity: Unifier, where the aim was to be bridge-building in a polarized debate, and Divider, where the main focus was to inspire critical thinking and foster independence from consensus. The role elements Reporter, Explainer and Solver were also introduced and discussed.
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