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Across all Borders : An Investigation into Radio Activities and the Scandinavian Media Model in 1959
- 2014
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- “Across all borders”: An investigation into media activities and the Scandinavian Media Model in 1959In this case study we are going to investigate two different radio productions that in interesting ways were crossing the geographical borders between the countries Sweden and Norway and between Sweden and Denmark in the year of 1959. Through the concepts of border (see Hurd et al. 2006) showing how identities are defined; and liminality disclosing how they are suspended to make room for negotiations (Turner 1969/1995), we are given the possibility to highlight how radio productions across borders presented a challenge to existing politics and culture. This study will open up new insights in what has been called the Scandinavian Media Model.The year of 1959 saw the advent of cooperation between Swedish and Norwegian radio-monopolies. In a place called Morokulien on the very border, a fictive, mock-kingdom was constructed by the radio-program “Across All Borders”. Morokulien soon became acknowledged also by authorities with it’s elected king, post-office, passports and national emblems. Both the program and the place caught on popularity and lives on even today, although in another form. The location has an interesting prehistory as a site where peace between the two nations was manifested by another type of media – a huge monument from 1914. Here Hannah Arendt’s theory of Space of Appearance (1958) and the influence of Pierre Bourdieu’s Symbolic Violence (1979) can combine media-studies with historical and ethnographic approaches to the phenomenon of place (Frykman 2013). What made the radio show and the place so seamlessly fit into a national discourse?Not far away, at another geographical border, Radio Mercur, the first commercial radio station ever, appeared on international waters in Öresund. The radio station was called pirate radio in the media as it was considered a lawless attack on the monopoly of the Danish National Broadcasting Corporation. It was transmitted from the ship Cheeta Mercur, and was soon to be followed by Radio Syd. The authorities did not know what to do and had, initially, no weapons to stop the "radio pirates", and with the station’s rising popularity in 1959 the offshore-radio was considered a genuine threat to the state-owned radio. Challenging the national broadcasting monopolies (Paulu 1967: 21-25) it was fiercely opposed by first the Danish and later on the Swedish and Norwegian governments. Soon after, in 1962, a “Pirate-Radio”-law - Lex Mercur - was passed trying safeguard against similar enterprises; in the end it failed miserably. Social Democrats with a firm support of the monopoly were in power in all countries at the time. Why was the provocation seen as so politically severe and how was the popular response?The difference between the two cases present excellent opportunities to investigate the role of media in relation to politics and national identities at a particual moment – to say nothing about the Scandinavian Media Model. Still it is possible to reach actors being active in 1959. Theories and methods to be applied in the two cases will draw from media-studies as well as from contemporary ethnographic approaches, in which the team-members are trained and internationally acknowledged.Jonas Frykman, Professor Emeritus in Ethnology with a special competence in Scandinavian culture, national identity and monument research, Lund University.Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Ph.D in Ethnology, Assistant Professor in Journalism, Lund University, and radio- and tv-journalist (10 years of experience at the Swedish Public Service Radio and Television).
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Att leva som utbränd - En etnologisk studie av långtidssjukskrivna
- 2008
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- THIS STUDY IS CONCERNED with burnout and long-term sick leave, although instead of looking for several explanatory models and trying to answer the question as to why people are affected by this syndrome, the study is instead based on the idea of illness as experience. The methodology is traditionally ethnological, but with a phenomenological slant. The author makes use of an empirical material consisting largely of participant observations and field diaries in an attempt to get closer to the people, things and places being studied. The public image of burnout is also analysed by way of the establishment of the phenomenon in the Swedish press. You could say that illness occurs and takes place in everyday life. For the person affected, illness is something that they both adjust to and constantly relate to. It not only impacts the relationship to one’s own identity and to other people, but also to places and things. The aim of the thesis is to study burnout and long-term sick leave in an attempt to understand how these combined phenomena affect life and how they can serve as places for gaining new insights. The central question relates to how the experience of mental ill-health and long-term sick leave affects a person’s life, or, perhaps more to the point, what the person does with this experience. Not only is the in-built exclusion and isolation of burnout and long-term sick leave analysed in detail, but also the hidden potential that a new kind of freedom can mean during recovery. For some, being on sick leave seems to imply some kind of transcendence. Burnout and the resulting long-term sick leave force those affected to reflect, rediscover their slumbering powers and their forgotten dreams and finally discover new pathways. The person climbing out of sick leave is not the same as the one who stepped into it.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie, et al.
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Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy : A mixed methods investigation of matters of life and death
- 2023
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In: Journal of Digital Social Research. - 2003-1998. ; 5:4, s. 31-61
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccinations is investigated as a phenomenon touching upon existential questions. We argue that it encompasses ideas of illness and health, and also of dying and fear of suffering. Building on a specific strand within anti-vaccination studies, we conjecture that vaccine hesitancy is, to some extent, reasonable, and that this scepticism should be studied with compassion. Through a mixed methods approach, vaccine hesitancy, as it is being expressed in a Swedish digital open forum, is investigated and understood as, on the one hand, a perceived need of protecting one’s body from techno-scientific experiments, and thus the risk of becoming a victim of medicine itself. On the other hand, the community members express what we call a tacit belief in modern medicine by demonstrating their own “expert” pandemic knowledge. The analysis also shows how the COVID-19 pandemic triggers memories of another pandemic, namely the swine flu in 2009–2010, and what we term a medical crisis that occurred then, due to a vaccine that caused a rare but severe side effect in Sweden and elsewhere.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie
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De utbrändas och långtidssjukskrivnas vardag
- 2017
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In: En sjukförsäkring att lita på? : Rapport från forskarseminariet i Umeå 14-15 januari 2015 - Rapport från forskarseminariet i Umeå 14-15 januari 2015. - 1654-8574. ; , s. 69-80
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Den utbrända kvinnokroppen
- 2009
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In: Kvinnors hälsa: fakta och myter. - 9789144056135
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Digital (o)moral
- 2017
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In: Sociala medier : Vetenskapliga perspektiv - Vetenskapliga perspektiv. - 9789140694805 ; , s. 55-66
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie
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Exposed : Living with scandal, rumour, and gossip
- 2019
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It contributes new perspectives to the field, where both moral and media transgressions are exposed. By using ethnological and phenomenological perspectives upon an extensive empirical material, from a Swedish context, the existential level of this phenomenon can be highlighted. How does such an experience affect a person’s everyday life? What happens to routines, trust and self-confidence? How does it change the initial settings of his or her life-world? The analysis also contributes with new perspectives upon the fusion between interpersonal communication that takes place face-to-face, such as gossip and rumours, and traditional news media when a scandal is at stake. A scandal gets its momentum through the audiences. Their engagement in the moral story determines the spreading and length of it; for how long it will survive in the public and also how it will affect the protagonist. Mainly, people show their participation through traditional oral communication, which finds its ways, and also strength, through activities in digital, social forums. The author argues that gossip and rumour must be included in the idea of the media system to be able to understand the formation and power of a media scandal, which ends up in a critique of earlier research. Oral interpersonal communication does not disappear when new communication possibilities arise. Rather it may be invigorated by it. The term news legend is introduced, to capture the entanglement between traditional news media storytelling and oral narrative.
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Fearing mRNA: A Mixed Methods Study of Vaccine Rumours
- 2023
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In: NordMedia23: "Technological Takeover? Social and Cultural Implications – Promises and Pitfalls". - Bergen, Norway.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The first mass-distributed vaccines based on mRNA technology were launched in 2021 to protect against COVID-19, sparking rumours among vaccine critical individuals that these “new” vaccines might be more dangerous to the health than other, “traditional” vaccines. Drawing on rumour theories and social cognitive perspectives, the aim of this chapter is to account for the purpose and the spreading of medical rumours that encircle mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. We ask: How are rumours concerning mRNA expressed and established? In terms of trust and distrust, what function do the rumours have? We take as our empirical case the fast spreading of a medical journal article written by a group of infectious medicine researchers at Lund University, Sweden, that spawned an already established vaccine rumour, and analyse Swedish-language tweets discussing mRNA vaccines posted between February 10, 2022 and November 10, 2022. Our study follows a mixed methods sequential explanatory design consisting of an initial computational distant reading analysis based on structural topic modeling, followed by a close qualitative reading and thematic analysis of the results. Our analysis shows how mRNA rumours are not primarily based on ignorance, but rather on distrust regarding the officially sanctioned, positive narrative of new vaccine technologies, expressed through what we term counter-scientific argumentation.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie, et al.
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Fearing mRNA : A Mixed Methods Study of Vaccine Rumours
- 2024
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The first mass-distributed vaccines based on mRNA technology were launched in 2021 to protect against COVID-19, sparking rumours among vaccine critical individuals that these “new” vaccines might be more dangerous to the health than other, “traditional” vaccines. Drawing on rumour theories and social cognitive perspectives, the aim of this chapter is to account for the purpose and the spreading of medical rumours that encircle mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. We ask: How are rumours concerning mRNA expressed and established? In terms of trust and distrust, what function do the rumours have? We take as our empirical case the fast spreading of a medical journal article written by a group of infectious medicine researchers at Lund University, Sweden, that spawned an already established vaccine rumour, and analyse Swedish-language tweets discussing mRNA vaccines posted between February 10, 2022 and November 10, 2022. Our study follows a mixed methods sequential explanatory design consisting of an initial computational distant reading analysis based on structural topic modeling, followed by a close qualitative reading and thematic analysis of the results. Our analysis shows how mRNA rumours are not primarily based on ignorance, but rather on distrust regarding the officially sanctioned, positive narrative of new vaccine technologies, expressed through what we term counter-scientific argumentation.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie, et al.
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Fearing mRNA - A mixed methods study of vaccine rumours
- 2024
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In: Vaccine Hesitancy in the Nordic Countries - Trust and Distrust During the COVID-19 Pandemic / edited By Lars Borin, Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Fredrik Miegel. - New York : Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group. - 9781032305998 ; , s. 157-184
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- There are well-spread ideas among vaccine-critical individuals around the world that “new” vaccines might be more dangerous to health than other, “traditional” vaccines, which can lead to vaccine hesitancy; the “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite availability of vaccination services”. For example, a recurring remark made in social media is that mRNA technology resembles a chip that alters the human DNA, which might permanently and irreparably damage the immune system. These ideas sometimes take the shape of rumours and conspiracy theories. Drawing on rumour theories and social cognitive perspectives, the aim of this chapter is to account for the purpose and the spreading of medical rumours that encircle mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Our research questions are: How are rumours concerning mRNA expressed and established? In terms of trust and distrust, what function do the rumours have?
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie, et al.
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Gossip as Journalism and Journalism as Gossip : A Cultural History Investigation of Two Royal Sex Scandals in Sweden 1890 and 2010
- 2021
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In: Sacandalogy 3 : Scandals in New Media - Scandals in New Media. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783030850128 - 9783030850142 - 9783030850135 ; , s. 61-80
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- This chapter contributes with new knowledge about the cultural history of media scandals. It focusses two Swedish sex related scandals; the first took place in the 1890’s and the other in 2010-11, both with kings at their center. The aim of the chapter is to understand how oral, folkloristic media as gossip and rumor, are intertwined with traditional, established journalism when scandals evolve. A method with the goal to hear talk in text is developed, i.e., how researchers can use their hearing while reading to detect traces of rumor and gossip in printed text. A mixture of material is used such as press material, libels, chapbooks, satirical pictures, novels and so-called threads at an internet forum. Changes in the Swedish media system, the monarchy’s power and the view upon sexuality are highlighted. The results show that rumor and gossip should be considered as media genres in their own right both now and then, that come into play when a scandal is at stake, through complex communication circuits.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie
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I stormens öga
- 2015
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie
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Independent and Wistful
- 2015
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Panel 20 - Collaboration in New Configurations: Ethnologists’ Teaching and Research in Multidisciplinary SettingsIn this presentation I would like to talk about the feelings that multidisciplinary work may evoke. When an ethnologist leaves the mothership, the department of Ethnology, and seeks new ways, a feeling of homesickness is likely to emerge, notwithstanding the free choice. In a new interdisciplinary context basic theoretical concepts are suddenly questioned, research methods are scrutinized, and research ideas are openly dismissed by colleagues. It can be challenging – but also rewarding. Gradually, the identity as an ethnologist may grow stronger, or appear as no longer crucial. My own academic journey brought me to the department of Communication and Media at Lund University where I work as a researcher and assistant professor since 2009. Back then, I suffered from severe homesickness and felt like an academic satellite; alone, misplaced, and misunderstood. I cannot pinpoint exactly when or why things started to change, but now I feel confident and satisfied in the role as one of two ethnologists at my department. I would like to scrutinize these ambivalent feelings as they are phenomena that have something important to say about culture and social life.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie
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Media Scandals and Emotional Expression
- 2013
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Media scandals is one of the areas within the media field with high passion potential. The emotions within politics, that otherwise may be covered by rational arguments and cultural codes, are often in full bloom when a scandal takes place on the political scene (which as we know is a mediated scene). However, after a few decades of media scandal-research, a scientific convention seems to have arisen around how the phenomenon is studied. The focus has largely been on measuring and defining what a media scandal is, e.g. by evaluating the diverse terms assigned to the phenomenon, determining its time-based events, creating media-scandal typologies, and launching new names for it. Understandably, this has led to quite anonymous, if not anemic results. My point is that a media scandal is a highly emotional event and should be analysed on basis of this premise.This paper is therefore based on the results of qualitative, in-depth interviews using open-ended questions with twelve respondents (Swedish): nine had been personally subjected to a media drive (four men and five women) and three were close relatives of people who had been exposed to such a drive (one man and two women). It contributes new perspectives to media scandals by illuminating the personal experience of being at the centre of such an event. It focuses on how the scandal is experienced by the protagonist of the media hype through an analysis of the emotions the interviewees express. Additionally, the journalists start to use their repertoire of metaphors and allegories when a scandal breaks out. Strong emotions are flowing in the papers, and one of the main questions that I want to answer – through text analysis – is whether, or perhaps how, these strong emotions correlate with the emotions expressed by the ”victims”.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie
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Media Scandals and Moral Transgressions in the Digital Era
- 2016
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This presentation contributes new perspectives to media scandals – a field where both moral and media transgressions are exposed – and illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of such an event. By using phenomenological and anthropological perspectives upon an extensive empirical material to focus on how the scandal is experienced by the person at the centre of the scandal, the existential level of this phenomenon can be highlighted. How does such an experience affect a person’s everyday life? What happens to routines, trust and self-confidence? How does it change the initial settings of his or her life-world? The paper also contributes with new perspectives upon the fusion between interpersonal communication that takes place face-to-face, such as gossip and rumours, and traditional news media when a scandal is at stake. A scandal gets its momentum through the audiences, as researchers have shown (Bird 1997; Wästerfors 2005, 2008; Hammarlin 2015). Their engagement in the moral story determines the spreading and length of it; for how long it will survive in the public and also how it will affect the protagonist. Mainly, people show their participation through traditional oral communication, which finds its ways, and also strength, through activities in digital, social forums. I argue that gossip and rumours must be included in the idea of the media system (Haarvad & Lundell 2010) to be able to understand the formation and power of a media scandal, which ends up in a critique of John B Thompsons (2008) division between so called “local scandals” and “media scandals”. With these categories Thompson wishes to pinpoint a clear transition from an oral culture to a more text oriented one, where a scandal is not only transmitted but also created through traditional and new media. But oral communication does not disappear when new communication possibilities arise. Rather it may be invigorated by it.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie
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Media scandals, rumour and gossip : A study with an ear close to the ground
- 2019
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In: International Journal of Cultural Studies. - 1367-8779.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The abiding interest of researchers in the nature of mediated scandals continues to provoke discussions of what this phenomenon actually is, and how it is best researched empirically. This article argues that despite the claims that a modern scandal is manifested mainly through traditional and digital media, a careful analysis of the lived experience of this phenomenon—using in-depth qualitative interviews with the subjects of scandal¬—demonstrates that to fully understand it, we must take into account other forms of direct human communication, such as gossip and rumours, which flourish among the audiences as a response to the transgressional acts that started the scandal.The results of this study challenge the idea of ‘mediated scandals’ as a typically modern conjuncture that can be separated from ‘localized scandals’ or ‘classic scandals’. Instead, I consider the mediated scandal to be above all a cultural phenomenon, which audiences use to debate and negotiate transgressional acts and norms. They also reflect the historical staying power of this phenomenon, and the urgent need to analytically transgress the alleged border between the ‘mediated’ dimension of communication with the mouth-to-mouth-dimension, which may very well be one of the most influential news medium in every society.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie
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Mediated Scandals
- 2015
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie, et al.
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Medieetikens filosofiska grunder
- 2015
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In: Handbok i journalistikforskning. - 9789144100777 ; , s. 97-114
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie, et al.
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Migrating slandering : Tracking Royal Sex Scandals (1880–2010)
- 2018
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper presents two cases from royal media scandals, journalism, rumours and street slandering. The investigation comprices the late 19th century to the early 21st. Our chosen scandals have Swedish kings and presumed and forbidden sexuality in centre of focus. The first scandal took place in the late 19th century, the second in the early 21st century.Via the concept of media system we track the spoken word through archived texts such as social media forums, novels, newspaper articles, singing chapbooks, poetry and documentary books. Through such a set of different sources we open a methodological discussion on how to track down talk, in our cases popular rumours and street slandering. Methodologically we connect to Carlo Ginzburg’s clues concept and affirm the Ginzburgian faiblesse for small and seemingly insignificant phenomena in search for bigger pictures and totalities. We are also inspired by Robert Darnton’s way of ‘listening’ to texts and his claim that no history of communication and massmedia can be executed without taking the oral word into account.
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie, et al.
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Prat i text : Om skvaller som journalistisk metod
- 2017
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In: Celebritetsskapande : Från Strindberg till Asllani - Från Strindberg till Asllani. - 9789198196177 - 9789198196795 ; 35, s. 93-93
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie, et al.
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Vaccine hesitancy – trust and distrust in medical expertise and authorities
- 2021
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In: 8th European Communication Conference (ECREA).
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The increase of vaccine hesitancy is singled out by WHO as one of the ten most important and urgent threats to global health (https://www.who.int/emergencies/ten-threats-to-global-health-in-2019). Diseases like measles are returning in different parts of Europe, partly as a result of the activities of the anti-vaccination movement. The herd immunity in most Western countries is high but even a small decrease in vaccination would have immediate negative effects for the population. Sweden offers a perfect site for future anti-vaccination studies due to its high vaccination covering. A decline in the numbers of children vaccinated has had immediate effects. For example, the incident rate in the country of pertussis rose from 700 cases to 3,200 cases per 100,000 children in 4 years due to a rather small decrease in vaccinations. This constitutes a strong argument for the civic importance of the case. The aim of this presentation is to introduce a new 4-year research project (2020–2023), independently financed by the Bank of Sweden Foundation (Riksbankens jubileumsfond), with the goal to investigate the role and importance of rumouring for the vaccination skepticism growing on the internet, and how it can be understood as an expression of civic engagement in the present digital times entailing crucial transformations for everyday civic culture. Theoretically, the project builds upon, and develop, media researcher Dahlgren’s work on civic culture and Kitta’s studies of the anti-vaccination movement. The overarching research question is: How have the everyday practice and experience of, and the conditions for, rumours been shaped and reshaped in the digital age, and what do these processes mean for civic engagement and participation? The project will offer an understanding of how everyday interaction on the internet has a powerful impact on the spreading of false information, which in the long run may challenge democracy. On a more concrete level the project will answer the following questions in relation to the case of vaccine skepticism: How are rumours about alleged risks and dangers of vaccination propagated and established on the internet? Are there specific patterns and correlations connecting topics, assumptions, myths, argumentation schemes, popularity and time? What do everyday practices, on- and offline, of rumouring mean for its adherents’ civic engagement in the anti-vaccination movement? Which are the civic implications of the spreading and circulation of vaccination hostile rumours on individual citizens and society at large?
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- Hammarlin, Mia-Marie
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Who Am I Now? : Existential Dilemmas in the Wake of Media Scandals
- 2011
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the modern age of mediated visibility, media scandal is an immense risk that threatens to destroy the lives of people who have become the focus of public attention. The paper is concerned with the question of how the individual is affected by the attention when the media hype a story. Empirically, it is based upon in-depth interviews with Swedish persons who have been in the epicenter of scandals, causing headline news, day after day, week after week. In their stories we find answers on seldom posed questions within this particular field of interest, as how it feels to publicly and repeatedly be called a liar, an imposter, or a thief, and be confronted with pictures of oneself underneath these headlines. That the personal consequences of media scandals are severe may not be to any surprise, but the paper explores the relatively unknown dimensions of damage for the individual and puts new light on the eternal scientific question of media power. The interviewees had a hard time (to put it mildly) during the weeks when the scandal was revealed in multiple media channels all over the country, but when the journalists put the story aside, in favour of other stories, and when we –as regular media consumers– have forgotten about the whole issue, a new painful phase begins for the victim. They bear witness of a prolonged suffering that ends approximately three years after the first outbreak. Through phenomenological, existential and anthropological theories, the paper analyses how a media scandal can shatter the lifeworld into fragments, difficult to interpret. Because, who am I, if I am not the one I thought I was, and that everyone else seems to be convinced I never was?
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- Kokkinakis, Dimitrios, 1965, et al.
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Analysis of mRNA-vaccine posts on Swedish Twitter data
- 2023
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In: 14th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, Athens, Greece. - 2529-1092.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The aim of this study was to use Swedish social media data to capture public perspectives and sentiments regarding the abovementioned study on possible effect of the novel mRNA vaccines that became massively available to the public during late 2021. The intention is to understand the key issues (topics/themes) that have captured public attention in Sweden, as well as the barriers and facilitators to successful or not mRNA vaccines.
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- Kokkinakis, Dimitrios, 1965, et al.
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Investigating the Effects of MWE Identification in Structural Topic Modelling
- 2023
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In: 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, MWE 2023 - Proceedings. - : ACL. ; , s. 36-44
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- Multiword expressions (MWEs) are common word combinations which exhibit idiosyncrasies in various linguistic levels. For various downstream natural language processing applications and tasks, the identification and discovery of MWEs has been proven to be potentially practical and useful, but still challenging to codify. In this paper we investigate various, relevant to MWE, resources and tools for Swedish, and, within a specific application scenario, we apply structural topic modelling to investigate whether there are any interpretative advantages of identifying MWEs.
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- Kokkinakis, Dimitrios, 1965, et al.
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Negative vaccine voices in Swedish social media
- 2022
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In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics. - 2529-1092.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Vaccinations are one of the most significant interventions to public health, but vaccine hesitancy creates concerns for a portion of the population in many countries, including Sweden. Since discussions on vaccine hesitancy are often taken on social networking sites, data from Swedish social media are used to study and quantify the sentiment among the discussants on the vaccination-or-not topic during phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Out of all the posts analyzed a majority showed a stronger negative sentiment, prevailing throughout the whole of the examined period, with some spikes or jumps due to the occurrence of certain vaccine-related events distinguishable in the results. Sentiment analysis can be a valuable tool to track public opinions regarding the use, efficacy, safety, and importance of vaccination.
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- Kokkinakis, Dimitrios, 1965, et al.
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Scaling-up the Resources for a Freely Available Swedish VADER (svVADER)
- 2023
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In: Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa).
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- With widespread commercial applications in various domains, sentiment analysis has become a success story for Natural Language Processing (NLP). Still, although sentiment analysis has rapidly progressed during the last years, mainly due to the application of modern AI technologies, many approaches apply knowledge-based strategies, such as lexicon-based, to the task. This is particularly true for analyzing short social media content, e.g., tweets. Moreover, lexicon-based sentiment analysis approaches are usually preferred over learning-based methods when training data is unavailable or insufficient. Therefore, our main goal is to scale-up and apply a lexicon-based approach which can be used as a baseline to Swedish sentiment analysis. All scaled-up resources are made available, while the performance of this enhanced tool is evaluated on two short datasets, achieving adequate results.
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