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- Ots, Mats
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Sweden : Bibliographical database of Swedish journalism and media research related to risks and opportunities for deliberative communication (2000–2020)
- 2023
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Annan publikationabstract
- The dataset is produced within the framework of the HORIZON 2020 project called MEDIADELCOM (Critical Exploration of Media Related Risks and Opportunities for Deliberative Communication: Development Scenarios of the European Media Landscape) in 2021-2022. The dataset is one of the 14 single-country data sets included in the consolidated file of country data sets (with 5623 entries), all in msw.xlsx format. All tables are searchable by 20 variables: full reference, year of publication, nationall/international publication, language, country the publication deals with, time of empirical data gathering, type of publication, open access/not OA, where referenced, focus on journalism domain, focus on media-related competences domain, focus on media usage patterns domain, focus on legal and ethical regulations domain, type of the approach, original key words, main topic, comments, country. As the data has been gathered specifically about the research done in four mentioned domains concerning potential ROs emanating from the news media development for deliberative communication, this database does NOT cover ALL the academic publications in the fields of media and journalism research. Consequently, the above-mentioned conditions limit the generalizations and comparisons based on the current database.
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- Berglez, Peter, 1973-, et al.
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SWEDEN : Critical Junctures in the media transformation process
- 2022
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Ingår i: Country case studies on critical junctures in the media transformation process in Four Domains of Potential ROs (2000–2020). - Tartu : European Union (EU). ; , s. 520-540
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to discuss Swedish media developments between 2000 and 2020 in terms of critical junctures. This includes examination of media developments in relation to four defined domains (Legal and Ethical Regulation: Journalism; Media Usage Patterns, and Media User-Related Competencies). In this paper we ask how the Swedish developments within the four domains can be understood in terms of opportunities and risks connected to deliberate communication. In the Swedish case, what seems to be significative is the relative absence of clearly defined country-specific junctures. Mostly, we observe many small, incremental changes and gradual developments of risks.
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- Berglez, Peter, 1973-, et al.
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SWEDEN. Risks and Opportunities Related to Media and Journalism Studies (2000–2020) : Case Study on the National Research and Monitoring Capabilities
- 2022. - First
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Ingår i: Studies on national media research capability as a contextual domain of the sources of ROs. - Tartu : European Union (EU). ; , s. 431-461
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this report, we present available data about Swedish media development during the period 2000-2020, but also relevant context to understand the production and availability of these data, and the main monitoring actors. To be precise, in accordance with the theoretical framework of the Mediadelcom project, we focus on data about legal and ethical legislation, journalistic production, media usage, and media competencies. The overall conclusion is that, in the Swedish case, there is in most instances no lack of reliable data about media development, which also means that there are good prospects for mapping such development. Instead, the challenge in this context is often how to select data, and a combination of different data, to give an objective overview of the media development in relation to topics such as deliberative communication and deliberative democracy.
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- Berglez, Peter, 1973-, et al.
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What is journalism's contribution to deliberative communication and democracy?
- 2024
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Ingår i: European media systems for deliberative communication. - New York : Routledge. - 9781032760001 - 9781032760025 - 9781003476597 ; , s. 64-81
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this contribution is to examine more precisely how professional journalism can contribute to deliberative communication and democracy in the European context. Which structural conditions and which factors are essential? We begin with theorizing what will be referred to as the journalism domain, i.e. the various aspects of journalism considered. We do this through a combination of media sociological, media theoretical, and political communication-oriented thinking. Then we operationalize the role of journalism for deliberative communication/democracy into a few variables, which is then paving the way for our analysis of the condition of journalism in 14 EU countries during 2000–2020. We present some results from existing national case study reports. Finally, we provide some concluding comments on how to interpret the data with a focus on the capacity of journalism to contribute to deliberative communication and democracy in the different countries.
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- Berglez, Peter, 1973-, et al.
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What is Sustainable Journalism? : An introduction
- 2017
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Ingår i: What Is Sustainable Journalism?. - : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 9781433143816 - 9781433134418 - 9781433134401 ; , s. 11-26
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This edited volume, which elaborates on the idea and concept of sustainable journalism, is the result of a perceived lack of integral research approaches to journalism and sustainable development. Thirty years ago, in 1987, Our Common Future, the report from the UN World Commission on Environment and Development (also known as the Brundtland Report), pointed out economic growth, environmental protection and social equality as the three main pillars of a sustainable development. These pillars are intertwined, interdependent, and need to be balanced and reconciled. Economic growth is in this sense necessary for a developing world, but a one-sided focus on economy will eventually lead to a world that is both socially and environmentally poorer. Obviously, the issue of sustainability has not been absent from the field of journalism research; on the contrary, there is plenty of research focusing on journalism and environmental sustainability (e.g., climate change, fracking, renewables, etc.), social sustainability (e.g., democratic and political participation, poverty, inequality), and economic sustainability (e.g., ownership, commercialization, business models). However, where journalism studies traditionally treat these three aspects of sustainability disjointedly, this book attempts to pull them closer together and integrally approach sustainable development in its environmental, social and economic sense.The book departs from the premise that journalism has a role to play in global sustainable development—to inform, investigate and to educate in ways that reconcile the three pillars. It also raises questions about the internal sustainability of journalism itself, asking how its rampant need for economically sustainable business models can possibly be negotiated with its social and environmental obligations and impacts. In this way, the concept of sustainable journalism interlinks two current sustainability challenges that are of great theoretical relevance and in urgent need of empirical research.
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- Ots, Mart, 1973-, et al.
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Sustainable news media : Organizational reconciliation of economic, democratic, and environmental challenges in media firms
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper we explore the role of media industries in the realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development. Based on prior research on media industries, the paper starts by outlining the established view of this complex business context and its contradictory objectives. We then systematize this in a tentative framework of media business objectives in relation to the Agenda 2030 goals, and finally propose a research agenda. In future versions of this paper we will complement this framework with case study data on Sustainable Management Practices at the largest Nordic media houses. This entails how managers understand and interpret the meaning of sustainability in the media context and media’s role for agenda 2030, but also how they operationalize and organize this in business practices.
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- Ots, Mart, 1973-, et al.
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Who Watches the Watchdog? Understanding Media Systems as Information Regimes
- 2024
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Ingår i: Media and Communication. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-2439. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores institutions that monitor news media performance. It opens up critical inquiry into how knowledge about media systems is shaped, shared, and bounded in society. Using Sweden as an illustrative and data-rich case, we first map the overall media monitoring structure in Sweden. Second, we examine the kind of knowledge and data about media that monitoring institutions produce, including their motives and the underlying values they support. Third, we extrapolate questions about implicit and explicit motives to participate in an “information regime.” Fourth, by means of media system theory, we discuss the international relevance of the Swedish case to understand media monitoring systems in other parts of the world.
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What is sustainable journalism? Integrating the environmental, social, and economic challenges of journalism
- 2017
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edited volume, which elaborates on the idea and concept of sustainable journalism, is the result of a perceived lack of integral research approaches to journalism and sustainable development. Thirty years ago, in 1987, the Brundtland Report pointed out economic growth, social equality and environmental protection as the three main pillars of a sustainable development. These pillars are intertwined, interdependent, and need to be reconciled. However, usually, scholars interested in the business crisis of the media industry tend to leave the social and environmental dimensions of journalism aside, and vice versa. What Is Sustainable Journalism? is the first book that discusses and examines the economic, social and environmental challenges of professional journalism simultaneously. This unique book and fresh contribution to the discussion of the future of journalism assembles international expertise in all three fields, arguing for the necessity of integral research perspectives and for sustainable journalism as the key to long-term survival of professional journalism. The book is relevant for scholars and master’s students in media economy, media and communication, and environmental communication.
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- Abidin, Crystal, et al.
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Consumer-led innovation in social media advertising formats
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- On Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and weblogs, consumer activity is increasingly institutionalized, guarded by rules and norms. Consumers take on tasks previously performed by trained media workers, but they also create new activities, emerging as a new breed of media workers, institutionalizing new fields of the media and advertising industries and their associated practices (Dolbec and Fischer 2015). It has been described how amateur workers develop new ethical norms and rules for publishing, by taking journalistic/editorial decisions on what content to publish and how, within their new institutional domain (Abidin & Ots, 2015). This paper is focused on a specific group of stakeholders – everyday Internet users who manufacture themselves into a new form of social media microcelebrity known as the ‘Influencer’ (Abidin 2015). Since 2005, many young women have taken to social media to craft ‘microcelebrity personas’ as a career – “a new style of online performance that involves people ‘amping up’ their popularity over the Web using technologies like video, blogs and social networking sites” (Senft 2008: 25). In their most basic capacity, Influencers produce advertorials on blogs and social media platforms in exchange for payment or sponsored products and services (Abidin 2015). Owing to their power to shape purchase decisions, their clients have progressed from small home businesses to bluechip companies including Canon, Gucci, and KLM. Until recently, the most effective advertorials are those that are seamlessly woven into the daily narratives Influencers publish on their blogs and social media, such that readers are unable to tell apart ‘paid opinions’ from ‘unpaid’ sentiments (Abidin 2014). However, along with the maturity of the field, there is a gradual standardization of new advertising formats. The conducted study explores how semi-professional microcelebrity Influencers create advertising market innovations. Researchers have previously described how consumer fans help firms innovate (e.g. Füller et al 2008), and how fan cultures celebrate their favourite brands by creating their own advertisements (Muniz & Schau 2005; for overview see Ots & Hartmann 2015). This paper takes a slightly different approach – rather than seeing consumers as co-creators, it demonstrates how new actors outside the traditional media and advertising industries, make innovations that compete with the incumbents. We focus on these vernacular advertising innovations in the age of social media, and seek to understand how Influencers orientate towards a youth market in the saturated, visually dominated attention economy of Instagram. The findings include a typology of innovative advertising formats emerging outside the traditional media companies, along with their associated publishing rules as defined by the semi-professional Influencers. The data draws on a larger study of social media Influencers in Singapore since mid-2010, including over a year of intensive participant observation conducted with these Influencers in the flesh in the capacity of various roles. These interactions and observations were archived in extensively detailed field diaries. 120 personal interviews were conducted with Influencers, Influencer management agencies, (prospective) clients, readers, and friends and family of Influencers between December 2011 and July 2013. Social media content from blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, AskFM, and popular public forums was archived until December 2015. Fieldwork entailed continued interaction with other actors involved in the Influencers’ social milieu, including their peers, backend production management, sponsors and advertisers, and readers. As such, although the data is drawn mainly from the textual and visual content of publically accessed blogs and associated social media platforms including Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, the analysis is highly contextualised and shaped by long-term ethnographic work among these Influencers.
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- Abidin, Crystal, et al.
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The Influencer’s dilemma : The shaping of new brand professions between credibility and commerce
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The new "liquid" media environment involves a range of new professions, practices and practitioners (Deuze 2011). Based on a rich ethnographic study containing personal interviews and participant observation, this paper looks at semi-professional Influencers in the social media marketing industry and asks how these new branding professions and their practices emerge and institutionalize. Specifically, the material draws on data collected between 2011 and 2015 among women Influencers in the ‘lifestyle’ genre in Singapore who advertise products and services in the industry verticals of Fashion, Beauty, and Electronic goods on blogs, Twitter, and Instagram.
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- Achtenhagen, Leona, 1969-, et al.
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Upholding the 4th estate—exploring the corporate governance of the media ownership form of business foundations
- 2018
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Ingår i: JMM - The International Journal on Media Management. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1424-1277 .- 1424-1250. ; 20:2, s. 129-150
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Whereas media ownership issues have interested scholars for decades, research has largely ignored the implications of specific ownership forms on the corporate governance of media companies, that is, how these companies are directed and controlled. This article attempts to address this gap by exploring the corporate governance of the ownership form of business foundations—a type of ownership that is increasing in different countries around the world. We analyze the corporate governance of three business foundations in the Swedish newspaper sector that together hold 26% of the market and outperform their industry peers. The control function, which is at the heart of corporate governance, is typically performed by companies’ owners. However, foundations do not have a physical person as owner; thus, this control function is replaced by the foundation’s charter, which stipulates the aim of the foundation’s business activities. When steered by professional top management, the charter’s long-term orientation facilitates the careful implementation of strategic directions without short-term performance pressures. We conclude the article by outlining several advantages and disadvantages of this ownership form for the media industry.
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- Berglez, Peter, 1973-, et al.
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Cross-border dynamic in comparative studies of media systems : Towards a new model
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In globalized and digitalized economies, how could we compare the role of media in politics in different countries? The growth of transnational social media platforms; the new borderless patterns of media distribution and consumption, and the consequential need for transnational and harmonized digital media policies have caused challenges for scholars in the field of comparative studies (Siebert & Schram 1956; Hallin & Mancini 2004). A problem is that traditional conceptualizations of media systems still dominate (cf. Humprecht et al. 2022; Marques & Vos 2023). Therefore, the purpose is to theorize emerging media systems constituted by combinations of domestic/cross-border institutionalized/de-institutionalized relations. Through a literature review and results from the EU-funded project Mediadelcom, we argue as follows:(1) The power of de-institutionalizing digital communication (Mancini 2020), and its challenging of legacy media organizations, requires that the polarized pluralist/corporatist/liberal classifications of Hallin & Mancini (2004) become more changeable and dynamically combined dimensions within and across nation-states, and updated with theory about global politics and communication (Hellmueller & Berglez 2022). For example, this enables understandings of the, often transnationally interconnected, expansion of polarized politics across countries’ digital public spheres.(2) Nation-states should be grouped along categories of domestic-cross-border conditions and relations (prel. the multipolar media system, global pluralist media system, and de-globalizing media system). Here, different types and levels of institutionalized/de-institutionalized movement across borders thus becomes an important unit of comparison. (3) Thereby we propose a framework for comparative studies of cross-border dynamic (CBD) media systems; their role within political systems, and vice versa.ReferencesHallin, D., Mancini, P. (2004) Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hellmueller, L., Berglez, P. (2022) “Future Conceptual Challenges of Cross-Border Journalism”, Journalism, 1-22. Humprecht, E. et al. (2022) “Media Systems in the Digital Age: An Empirical Comparison of 30 Countries”, Journal of Communication 72: 145-164. Mancini, P. (2020) “Comparing Media Systems and the Digital Age”, International Journal of Communication 14: 5761-5774.
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- Berndt, Adele, 1966-, et al.
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Mobilapplikationer inom dagligvaruhandeln Konsumtionens medialisering genom nya digitala tjänster
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Projektet “Medialiserad shopping” utforskar den växande andelen digitala element inom detaljhandeln, samt hur nya tekniska verktyg förändrar shopping som vardagsrutin och kundupplevelse. Materialet belyser hur kunderna upplever den nya teknikens roll och visar samtidigt på de driv krafter som ligger bakom digital innovation bland detaljhandlare. Rapporten sammanfattar det arbete som utförts inom projektet och tar upp frågor kring utvecklingen och användningen av digitala medier inom omnikanalhandeln. Under 2015–2016 genomförde forskare vid Jönköping University och Göteborgs universitet en serie studier av matvarubutikernas omnikanalmiljö i vilka kunder och andra intressenter deltog. En rad olika metoder för datainsamling användes, till exempel enkäter som besvarades av cirka 500 kunder, djupintervjuer och deltagande observationer av konsumenter, kunddagböcker och fler än 150 videoobservationer. • Kvantitativa data visar på ett växande antal användare av shoppingappar, men att användningsgraden ökar långsammare än förväntat. • Appanvändning och besöksfrekvens går hand i hand, vilket kan tolkas som att appanvändarna är mer butikslojala än genomsnittskunden. • Vidare ser inte kunderna appen som ett sammanhållet teknologiskt servicepaket, utan väljer ut de funktioner som motsvarar deras specifika behov och struntar i resten. • Än så länge har introduktionen av den nya tekniken inte förändrat beteendemönstren i någon större utsträckning. Funktionerna är normalt sett utformade så att de härmar redan existerande verktyg och kundvanor. I den mån kunderna använder mobila enheter i butiken handlar detta enbart om att ersätta gammal teknik, som till exempel papper och penna för att hålla reda på inköpslistan eller handenheten vid självskanning. • Kvalitativa data insamlade genom intervjuer med, observationer av och dagböcker skrivna av konsumenter visar att mobiltelefonen uppfyller en rad emotionella och praktiska funktioner under shoppingen, men att detaljhandlarna inte alls har tagit fasta på de emotionella aspekterna. • När det gäller detaljhandlarna beskriver rapporten tre huvudsakliga drivkrafter som påverkar apputvecklingen: i) handlarnas uppfattning av konkurrensmiljön, ii) utvecklingen av kunders köpbeteenden, samt iii) organisatoriska begränsningar, det vill säga i vilken utsträckning organisationens försörjningskedjor och distributions- strukturer tillåter att handlaren skapar nya tjänster baserat på mobil teknik.
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- Cestino-Castilla, Joaquín, et al.
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External enablers in existing organizations : Emergence, novelty, and persistence of entrepreneurial initiatives
- 2023
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Ingår i: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1932-4391 .- 1932-443X. ; 17:2, s. 335-371
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research Summary: There is growing consensus that exogenous environmental changes can affect entrepreneurship. The external enabler framework, which provides the structures and terminology to analyze these enabling effects, has typically focused on new venture creation. In an attempt to extend the external enabler framework to corporate entrepreneurship and innovation, our longitudinal multiple-case study explores how environmental changes enable entrepreneurial initiatives in existing organizations. Our findings contribute to the external enabler framework, corporate entrepreneurship, and innovation literature by identifying new conceptual tools to understand the enabling effect of environmental change for the emergence, novelty, and persistence of entrepreneurial initiatives in existing organizations.Managerial Summary: We studied how the Covid-19 pandemic enabled the initiation and continuation of entrepreneurial activities. Our study of eight small US-based news companies shows that some entrepreneurial initiatives emerged as these organizations redirected their course of action toward new initiatives enabled by the changes in the external environment. Notably, the entrepreneurial initiatives that were new-to-the-industry originated from ideas that were already available in some form within the organization but were not in use until the pandemic gave them a second life. Furthermore, the continuation of these initiatives depended on the persistence of the changes in the environment and on the low maintenance requirements of these initiatives in terms of time, effort, and resources.
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- Cestino, Joaquín
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Written news at the crossroads : Entrepreneurial processes of reproduction and novelty in an institutional field in crisis
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation explores entrepreneurial processes in an institutional field incrisis. It is based on the inductive reinterpretation of four original papers that, combined, study activities of individuals searching for solutions to organizational problems in incumbent and startup newspapers. Building on an integrative framework of compatible concepts in entrepreneurship and institutional theory, and foregrounding the role of Bourdieu’s notion of capital, this thesis provides answers to how actors’ capitals mediate mechanisms of reproduction and novelty. Based on the analysis of multiple cases situated in a macro-level shift characterized by the transformation of the material environment, this work finds how—despite the aleatory and materialistic origins of written news norms and concepts, and their failing economic traction—entrepreneurial processes in all types of newspapers reproduce structural templates. In relatively affluent incumbents, reproduction happens because, in their search for solutions to losses of capital, actors interpret imported ideas within the meaning structure provided by existing norms and concepts, and day-to-day activities—“decoupled from innovation”—do not change significantly. Also, at the moment that these new activities generate short-term (albeit small) relative capital gains, as problems seem to wane, individuals unravel their search for solutions, reinforcing reproduction. In particularly deprived newcomers, the importation of innovative ideas can even be averted upfront by the organization of unrelated-to-the-venture supportive activities that generate unrelated-to-the-venture economic capital—a condition that shields these ventures from market demands and avoids exit scenarios. The “sheltered conformity” of daily activities in these organizations also results in reproduction. Yet, not all the entrepreneurial processes this thesis identifies contribute to the reproduction of existing institutional arrangements. Instances of significant difference in organizational structures can be forged in a distinct experience of constraints resulting from severe capital scarcity. A combination of absence of economic capital and moderate-to-low levels of cultural and social capital, as they are defined by the field, inhibits common solutions to problems. When actors find that freely available inputs accumulated in their personal biographies work, these inputs become “situated new forms of capital”. As they work, significantly different activities, partly decoupled from templates in the field, are incorporated in the structure of these organizations. Because it is existing ideals in the field that fuel resource-deprived entrepreneurs to sustain efforts, institutional arrangements do play a role in their own change.By offering empirical support to the central role of the personal experience of capital constraints and situated redefinitions of capital in processes of institutional reproduction and divergence, this thesis complements interpretations of institutional contradictions: Rather than starting from the coexistence of different templates that actors can alternatively employ at intersections of structures, this study explores early endogenous processes by which new norms and concepts enter existing fields, reinterpreting resources in them. These findings provide additional insights into questions related to the origin of ideas, emergent processes of decoupling and to definitions of an institutionalized field in crisis and organizational novelty. This research also contributes to entrepreneurship within sights into how alertness and discovery transpire. When focusing on institutional templates and problem-solving activities of ordinary actors, entrepreneurial action—even in an institutional field in crisis—can contribute to the reproduction of the status quo. And when significant differences happen, because they can result from a distinct experience of resource constraints, they may appear in humble beginnings that contrast those chronicled in later stages of change by institutional entrepreneurship theory. Additionally, this thesis adds to entrepreneurial resourcefulness by unbundling the process by which bricolage produces outcomes that depart from its institutional environment. In my findings, bricoleurs do not blatantly violate norms and concepts, and yet they can bring divergent organizational novelty to their working solutions. In fact, the efforts of entrepreneurial bricoleurs are largely sustained by the predetermined meaning of inputs and institutionally conforming ideals in ways that, I suggest, bring the concept of bricolage closer to its original definition by Lévi-Strauss.
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- Dumont, Guillaume, et al.
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Social dynamics and stakeholder relationships in personal branding
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Research. - : Elsevier. - 0148-2963 .- 1873-7978. ; 106, s. 118-128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Personal branding is a rapidly growing phenomenon taking place in multistakeholder ecosystems. This article builds on ethnographic fieldwork from the rock-climbing industry in the US and Europe to show how stakeholders enable and shape the personal branding practices of professional climbers. Findings demonstrate that personal branding is a highly social practice wherein stakeholders provide three types of resources to elaborate personal brands: material resources, informational resources, and symbolic resources. In addition, six main conventions guiding stakeholders' relationships and enabling resource transfer are then identified and theorized. Finally, these findings are built upon to suggest a framework to analyze stakeholder cooperation in personal branding.
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- Feng, Songming
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Craft production in the Kingdom of Crystal (Glasriket) and its visual representation : Constructing authenticity in cultural/marketing production
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Authenticity is a core concept and phenomenon in contemporary marketing, as both marketers and consumers seek the authentic. Individuals, companies, and industries all work to establish and accomplish authenticity for themselves and related stakeholders. As a marketing point for creating differentiation and singularity, authenticity has the potential to augment the value of a product above and beyond its promising functional, esthetic, or experiential significance. However, authenticity is a concept with heavily debated characteristics, and it is not well understood in its market manifestations. Academic work on authenticity remains vague in terms of both its definition and its marketing relevance. There has been limited empirical understanding of and theorizing about what is meant by authenticity and how it is manifested in production and consumption in the marketplace. In practice, the nature and use of authenticity in the field of marketing is still full of ambiguity and confusion. For marketers, brand authenticity is easy to recognize but hard to manufacture. How producers and marketers manage the development, positioning, and communication of authentic offerings and how they engineer, fabricate, or construct authenticity remain unanswered questions.This dissertation answers the call of Jones, Anand, and Alvarez (2005, p. 894) to determine which strategies are used for creating and defining authenticity and how these strategies shape our understanding of what is authentic and the call of Beverland (2005a) to find out how brands and marketers create and develop images of authenticity. The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate how authenticity of market offerings is constructed in two cultural/marketing production sites—the craft production of glass objects and commercial photographers’ image production as visual representation of the former—to understand the mechanisms behind the authentication of market offerings and the paradoxes within the construction work.This purpose was fulfilled by pairing the two theoretical domains of cultural/marketing production and authenticity for the investigation of an empirical site—the Kingdom of Crystal (“Glasriket” in Swedish)—located in southern Sweden. As a traditional craft-producing industrial region and a tourist destination, the site has been dedicated to making consumer glass products, maintaining its production mode and ethos as a handmade craft, for more than one hundred years. Being producer focused, the craft sector and craft production offer a strong empirical instantiation of authenticity and can serve as a fertile field to explore and problematize the issue of authenticity at the intersection with cultural/marketing production. The research was conducted over a three-year period with an interpretive and ethnographic approach tapping into multiple sources of data.This dissertation finds that the glass producers in Glasriket substantively construct five categories of authenticity (technique, material, geographical, temporal, and original) of market offerings via craft production and that commercial photographers communicate and authenticate the craft production world via their image-making practices, which are dimensionalized into a typology consisting of five categories of practice: reproducing, documenting, participating, estheticizing, and indexing. Illuminating the two-step micro process of cultural/marketing production—the concurrent practices of the product makers and the promoters, this dissertation theorizes about how authenticity operates vis-à-vis two types of production (substantive product making and communicative image making), yielding a number of contributions to authenticity scholarship and the literature on cultural/marketing production. It provides managerial implications for marketers/producers in Glasriket regarding how they can leverage cultural resources to conduct retro marketing as well as suggestions for marketers beyond this context about visual marketing and authenticity-based marketing.
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- Feng, Songming, et al.
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Residents and the place branding process : socio-spatial construction of a locked-down city's brand identity
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Place Management and Development. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1753-8335 .- 1753-8343. ; 16:3, s. 440-462
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PurposeBuilding on Kavaratzis and Hatch's (2013) identity-based place branding model, this paper aims to explore the spatial and social dimensions of the place brand identity formation process and how residents used social media to participate in the process of shaping a city brand during a crisis. Design/methodology/approachAdopting an interpretive and social constructionist approach, this study analyses a sample of 187 short videos created and posted by Wuhan residents on the social media app Douyin during a COVID-19 lockdown. The authors read the videos as cultural texts and analysed underlying social processes in the construction of place brand identity by residents. FindingsThis study develops an adapted conceptual model of place identity formation unfolding in four sub-processes: expressing, impressing, mirroring and reflecting, and each sub-process subsumes two dimensions: the social and the spatial. In addition, this study empirically describes how residents participated in place branding processes in two ways, namely, their construction of city brand identity via communicative practice and their exertion of changes to a city brand during a crisis. The model reveals how place brands emerge and can be transformed. Originality/valueThis paper amplifies Kavaratzis and Hatch's (2013) identity-based place branding model by testing it in an empirical study and highlighting the social and spatial dimensions. This paper contributes to research about participatory place branding by exploring how residents participated in the place branding process. This study analysed short videos on social media, a new communication format, rather than textual narratives dominating past studies.
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- Feng, Songming, et al.
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Residents' videographic practices on TikTok (Douyin) : Enacting and communicating social sustainability during a COVID-19 lockdown
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Media Business Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1652-2354.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the intersection between sustainability and social media activity by studying how user-generated content (UGC) creation enacted and communicated social sustainability in times of restricted social interaction. The context is Wuhan in China, a city that implemented a 76-day lockdown in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a sample of 187 short videos created and posted by Wuhan residents on Douyin (TikTok) during the lockdown, this paper answers this question - how did UGC creators produce short videos on social media to facilitate social connections with others? UGC creators' video-making practices are conceptualised in the typology of Evoking, Performing, Collaborating, and Narrating, and each practice enabled creators to connect and socialise virtually with others, thus contributing to all participants' social sustainability in a pandemic. This study contributes to media management scholarship by adding knowledge to the understanding of two areas: the productive role of media audiences, especially their content production practices and logics; the nature of short videos as media products.
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- Feng, Songming, et al.
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Seeing Native Advertising Production via the Business Model Lens : The Case of Forbes’s BrandVoice Unit
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Interactive Advertising. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1525-2019. ; 18:2, s. 148-161
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Whereas the production-side of advertising has interested scholars for decades, research has focused primarily on isolated agency practices and interactions with clients. There has been limited discussion of how an ad agency coordinates and connects multiple activities and relationships, and how the agency setup has evolved over time. This question has become particularly interesting in the age of digitization, in which new forms of advertising require new ways of organizing production. In a case study of Forbes’s BrandVoice unit, this paper specifically examines native advertising production via the business model lens, illustrating how BrandVoice consciously borrows production logics from journalism and distribution practices of platform economies. This study contributes to the understanding of the morphing of advertising production and agency work in the digital economy.
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- Feng, Songming, et al.
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Striving for a sustainable and resilient life amidst Covid-19 pandemic : An analysis of Wuhan citizens’ short video production on social media app Douyin during the lockdown
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the context of Wuhan, a Chinese city that implemented a 76-day Covid-19 lockdown and became closely associated with the pandemic, this paper examines how citizens used social media production to compensate the loss of physical meetings and enable social connection. Based on qualitative analysis of short videos on the Douyin app created by Wuhan citizens, the paper outlines (1) how interpersonal relations were embedded in videographic content, and (2) how videographic techniques were used to reproduce stay-at-home experiences of socializing virtually with others. The paper contributes to research about consumers’ responses to threats, videographic consumer research, and media management scholarship.
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- Garz, Marcel, et al.
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Political Viewpoint Diversity in the News : Market and Ownership Conditions for a Pluralistic Media System
- 2023
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Press/Politics. - : Sage Publications. - 1940-1612 .- 1940-1620.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The assumption that ownership has an effect on the diversity of news is based on the forms of control that ownership allows and the market conditions in which ownership is exercised. In this study, we perform a large-scale analysis of the Swedish newspaper market, surveying 130 newspapers and parliamentary speeches over a period of six years (2014-2019), to substantiate to what extent market and for-profit ownership forms impact political viewpoint diversity. Our analysis shows that newspapers with market leadership and chain ownership offer more political viewpoint diversity than number two and single-owned papers. In contrast, the ownership forms surveyed here (private, foundation, and publicly traded ownerships) display little effect on newspapers' internal diversity. We also find that a greater number of papers in a local market does not imply more external diversity in that market. The analysis thus offers some nuance to the notion that ownership form and market pluralism are prerequisites for viewpoint diversity, highlighting instead the importance of scale effects for pluralistic media systems.
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- Johnson, Prince Chacko, et al.
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Digital innovation and the effects of artificial intelligence on firms’ research and development – Automation or augmentation, exploration or exploitation?
- 2022
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Ingår i: Technological forecasting & social change. - : Elsevier. - 0040-1625 .- 1873-5509. ; 179
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digitalization has altered many assumptions underpinning research on innovation management. At the early innings of exploring how digital innovation management stands out, there is a need for further studies in this area. Previous research on how firms use artificial intelligence has distinguished between automation and augmentation of human activities. In this paper, we explore how firms implement artificial intelligence within research and development. Utilizing an international news database spanning 956 articles from 122 newspapers published in 2020, we find that artificial intelligence is primarily adopted to augment human activities (55%) within research and development, rather than to automate matters (11%). We observe differences across sectors where automation is more common in government, information and communication technology (ICT), and technology and software. Our systematic coding shows that artificial intelligence is primarily adopted for exploration research and development (64%), rather than exploitation (5%). Based on these findings, we conclude that research and development from artificial intelligence primarily focuses on novel markets and areas of operations, rather than enhancing existing product markets and activities. Moreover, it augments human labor rather than replaces it; hence, job losses related to artificial intelligence do not seem to be taking place within research and development.
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- Krumsvik, Arne H., et al.
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What is Nordic Media Business Research?
- 2016
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Ingår i: Nordicom Information. - : Nordicom. - 0349-5949. ; 38:1, s. 8-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Media business research has been growing rapidly in the Nordic region. In a highly internationalised field of research, is there a line of enquiry that is distinctively Nordic? Through an analysis of papers and articles presented at NordMedia or published in the two major journals, we summarize the main methodological, theoretical, and empirical characteristics of the Nordic contribution to the field.
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- Lopez-Vega, Henry, et al.
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How do digital capabilities change institutionalised professionalpractices? A response from Swedish media companies
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- For over two centuries, technology has reshaped professional work. In most cases, these changes were positive as they have created new areas of work for professions and destroyed relatively few. Recently, however, technological change i.e. digitalization has also negatively impacted professionals with numerous professions, such as journalist, doctors, accountants. While research has extensively focused on digital technologies, per se, research has ignored its effect on the agents implementing technologies i.e. professionals. We suggest that organizing digitalization involves not only recombining physical and digital technologies but also reconstructing institutional professions. We use a comparative case study of two of the oldest Swedish newspaper companies to present: 1) two paths to build digital capabilities i.e. building digital capabilities or acquiring digital capabilities and 2) detail a change in the professional practices. Our results portray how digitalization changed professionals from doing occupational tasks to build collaborative relations with other professions.
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- Lucchi, Nicola, 1971-, et al.
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Market Structure and Innovation Policies in Sweden
- 2017
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Ingår i: Innovation Policies in the European News and Media Industry. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319452043 - 9783319452029 ; , s. 191-205
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter explores the regulatory framework and the types of media innovation policies formulated and implemented in Sweden. In particular, the country's analysis illustrates the evolution and structure of news media markets and media cross-ownership policies in recent years and evaluates how innovation policies stimulate innovative activities in journalism and news media.
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Media Brands and Branding
- 2008
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Strong brands are necessary in media because technology has increased thenumber of content providers and made it possible for many more competitors toseek the attention and loyalty of audiences and advertisers. Brands are crucialin separating media companies and their products from those of competitors,in creating continuity of quality and service across extended product lines, andin helping develop strong bonds with consumers. This book discusses communicative tactics and the building of media brandequity, focuses on strategic aspects and brands as vehicles for business expansion,and investigates issues of media brands on advertising markets. The book contributes to the wider understanding of brand-related issues facingboth practitioners and academics. Brand management has become an importantmanagerial task and researchers are challenged to uncover the implications ofthis for media firms, consumers, and society at large.
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- Nord, Lars, et al.
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Deliberative communication : From normative theory to empirical operationalization and measurement
- 2024
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Ingår i: European media systems for deliberative communication. - New York : Routledge. - 9781032760001 - 9781032760025 - 9781003476597 ; , s. 13-28
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- The basic idea behind this chapter is to partly bridge the gap in previous deliberation studies by offering a sustainable model for operationalizing deliberation empirically in a comparative context. The chapter introduces the key concept of deliberation and its associated basic ideals in social science studies and overviews empirical applications of news media's deliberative performance in journalism and political communication studies. Basic principles behind the operationalization of the concept as an outcome variable of a fuzzy-set analysis are discussed and motivated. A deliberative communication index is calculated based on macro/meso level and micro-level data. Among the 14 analysed cases in the comparison, Sweden, Estonia, Germany, Austria, and Greece belong to the set of high deliberative communication, while Italy, Latvia, Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, and Hungary are out of the set of countries with high deliberative communication.
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- Nord, Lars, 1958-, et al.
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Politiken och journalistiken
- 2019. - 6
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Ingår i: På väg mot medievärlden 2030. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144125060 ; , s. 53-74
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- Ots, Mart, 1973-
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2013 - betalväggarnas år
- 2013
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Ingår i: Dagspressens ekonomi 2012. - Stockholm : Presstödsnämnden. ; , s. 4-6
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- Ots, Mart, 1973-
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Analys: Tvåtidningsorterna
- 2011
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Ingår i: Dagspressens ekonomi 2010. - Stockholm : Presstödsnämnden (Swedish Press Subsidies Council). ; , s. 6-9
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- Ots, Mart, 1973-
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Betalmodeller
- 2014
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Ingår i: MedieSverige 2014. - Göteborg : Nordicom. ; , s. 65-68
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- Ots, Mart, 1973-
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Beyond audience segmentation : Are large retailers better suited than traditional media to serve advertisers' needs?
- 2009
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Media firms create value by attracting and aggregating audiences that are relevant and actionable for advertisers. Traditionally, these mass audiences are measured and sold in demographic chunks. Such measurement practices and standards support comparability between media but remain on the other hand largely unsuitable for explaining the patterns of behavior that advertisers ultimately want to influence. From this perspective traditional media do surprisingly little to refine, repackage and enhance the value, flexibility and versatility of their audiences. An important challenge for audience measurement researchers and professionals has therefore been to build a connection between what media we consume and what products we purchase that is more reliable than purely demographic segmenting. Through a case study of Sweden’s largest retailer ICA this paper illustrates how proprietary channels of communication are apt to seamlessly translate marketing target groups to communication target group. Commercialization of this capability puts retail firm ICA in direct competition with traditional mass media for suppliers’ advertising budgets.
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- Ots, Mart, 1973-, et al.
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Commercialism, audience intimacy and brand credibility in fashion blogging
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The new "liquid" media environment involves a range of new professions, practices and practitioners. Based on a rich ethnographic study containing personal interviews and participant observation, this paper looks at semi-professional Influencers in the social media marketing industry and asks how these new branding professions and their practices emerge and institutionalize. Specifically, the material draws on data collected between 2011 and 2015 among women Influencers in the ‘lifestyle’ genre in Singapore who advertise products and services in the industry verticals of Fashion, Beauty, and Electronic goods on blogs, Twitter, and Instagram.
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- Ots, Mart, 1973-
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Competition, collaboration and cooperation : Swedish provincial newspaper markets in transition
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Media Business Studies. - 1652-2354. ; 9:2, s. 43-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A wave of mergers has reshaped the Swedish newspaper market over the past decade. Competition has been gradually replaced with collaboration, block-building and alliances. In 11 out of 15 cities with more than one daily newspaper, a single owner controls the entire market. Based a mail survey and a short case study, this paper asks how newspapers on these markets balance professional areas of competition and collaboration, without compromising strategic differentiation, customer confidence and journalistic independence.
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