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- Andersson, Linus, 1979-, et al.
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Disaster Tourists, Smartphone Bystanders, Mediated Witnesses or Citizen Journalists? Bystander Theories and Mobile Media Practices at Accident Sites
- 2016
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Ingår i: ECREA 2016 Abstact Book. - Prague : Czech-In. - 9788090665507 ; , s. 176-176
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses the phenomenon of bystanders who use their smartphones to film or take photographs at accident scenes, instead of offering their help to people in need or to assist medical units. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in Swedish news media in recent years, since it has been described as a growing problem for rescue workers, like paramedics, police and fire fighters.Some of the early literature in social psychology explained bystander inaction by indifference, but in the late 1960’s, the American researchers Darley and Latane showed that bystander inaction could be explained as an effect of the size of the bystander crowd. With an increase of the number of the bystanders, the chances of their involvement to help decreased.The past decade has seen an growing scholarly interest in “media witnessing”, both in terms of witnessing from a distance through mass media, as discussed by Peters, and “citizen camera-witnessing”, a term popularised by the works of Allan and Andrén-Papadopoulos. This literature recognizes the complexity of concepts such as active/passive and proximity/distance when it comes to media witnessing in the digital era.Drawn from previous research and theories, the aim of this paper is to discuss how bystander theory can be further developed to include the action of mobile media practices at scenes like accidents. From this perspective, the paper also draws attention to what could be a part of a mediated cultural trauma found in contemporary society and thereby connects to the theme of the conference.The paper identifies four categories in the literature that are relevant for further research into the phenomenon and to be connected to the framework of bystander theories. These categories are: “disaster tourism”, “citizen (photo) journalism”, “media witnessing”, and “digital media ethics”.The paper ends with a discussion about possible theoretical approaches to further empirical studies on contemporary bystander phenomena.
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- Andersson, Linus, 1979-, et al.
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From reality-TV to rurality-TV : Exploring the genre of idealised rural lifestyles in the Nordic public service television
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Future of the Nordic Media Model. - Göteborg : Nordicom. ; , s. 277-298
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter introduces rurality-TV as a genre, and we discuss how public service media, through this genre, contributes to symbolically resolving tensions between the rural and the urban, and we address processes of mobility and urbanisation in the Nordics. Three popular reality-TV programmes depicting rural life are analysed: Bonderøven [loosely translated as The Hillbilly], later known as Frank & Kastaniegaarden (DR), Hjälp vi har köpt en bondgård! [Help we have bought a farm!] (SVT), and Oppfinneren [The Inventor] (NRK). These are approached through three questions: What constitutes public service rurality-TV as a genre in terms of form and content? What values are negotiated in the programmes? How can we understand rurality-TV in the context of public service broadcasting in the media welfare state?
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- Andersson, Linus, 1979-, et al.
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Mobile bystanders and rubbernecks, disaster tourists, and helpers. Towards a theoretical framework for critically studying action possibilities at accident sites
- 2021
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Ingår i: Mobile Media & Communication. - London : Sage Publications. - 2050-1579 .- 2050-1587. ; 9:3, s. 531-545
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the phenomenon of mobile bystanders who use their smartphones to film or take photographs at accident scenes, instead of offering their help to people in need or to assist medical units. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in Swedish news media in recent years since it has been described as a growing problem for first responders, such as paramedics, police, and firefighters. This article aims to identify theoretical perspectives that are relevant for analyzing mobile media practices and discuss the ethical implications of these perspectives. Our purpose is twofold: we want to develop a theoretical framework for critically approaching mobile media practices, and we want to contribute to discussions concerning well-being in a time marked by mediatization and digitalization. In this pursuit, we combine theory from social psychology about how people behave at traumatic scenes with discussions about witnessing in and through media, as developed in media and communication studies. Both perspectives offer various implications for normative inquiry, and in our discussion, we argue that mobile bystanders must be considered simultaneously as transgressors of social norms and as emphatic witnesses behaving in accordance with the digital media age. The article ends with a discussion regarding the implications for further research. © The Author(s) 2021.
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- Backman, Ellen, MSc, 1981-
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Ordinary mealtimes under extraordinary circumstances : Routines and rituals of nutrition, feeding and eating in children with a gastrostomy and their families
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to explore routines and rituals related to feeding, eating, and mealtimes in families that have a child with a gastrostomy tube (G-tube), from the perspectives of healthcare professionals, the children, and their parents. The thesis is based on four empirical studies. Study I is a longitudinal, quantitative study with the aim to describe children with developmental or acquired disorders receiving a G-tube, and to compare characteristics, contacts with healthcare professionals, and longitudinal eating outcomes. Findings from Study I demonstrated that children with developmental disorders needed G-tube feeding for longer than children with acquired disorders. Children with developmental disorders were also younger at G-tube placement, and had more multidisciplinary healthcare. These findings led to the subsequent studies focused specifically on children with developmental disorders. Study II applies mixed methods and explores everyday life, health care, and intervention goals during the first year following G-tube placement through the documentation in medical records. In Studies III and IV, the experiences of family mealtimes for children with a G-tube and their parents are collected through individual interviews that are analysed qualitatively. Triangulation of methods, participants, researchers, and data across the four studies is applied to search for confirmation between findings, as well as to identify areas of discrepancy. Ecocultural theory, the WHO framework ICF, and the concept of participation form the conceptual framework of the thesis. Taken together, findings from the studies describe how the main experiences of feeding, eating, and mealtime relate to specific impairments of the child, the collective value attached to family mealtimes, and the parental responsibility to harmonise competing interests and conflicts among family members and/or healthcare professionals. This thesis extends previous research by focusing on the ecocultural context of the child in combination with a dimensional understanding of health. The findings shed light on measures taken by the families themselves to adjust to and handle their daily lives, as well as spell out areas where more support is needed. Furthermore, this thesis suggests that an expanded focus on children’s participation in everyday mealtimes, and in the healthcare follow-up of G-tube feeding, is important in enhancing intervention outcomes.
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- De Cock, Rozane, et al.
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Refugees in the news : Comparing Belgian and Swedish newspaper coverage of the European refugee situation during summer 2015
- 2018
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Ingår i: Communications. - Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter. - 0341-2059 .- 1613-4087. ; 43:3, s. 301-323
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This comparative content analysis of Belgian and Swedish newspaper coverage of the ‘refugee situation’ in 2015 (N=898) revolves around responsibility indicators, news actor characteristics, and thematic emphasis. As they are a potential influential factor in the public-opinion formation process, the studying of media portrayals is an essential first step in investigating the dynamic interplay between media discourse and societal reactions. Belgium and Sweden differ with respect to migration policy, integration indicators, and the number of incoming refugees. They also differ in terms of journalistic cultural values. As a result, they make for an excellent case study of intercultural differences and similarities in how refugees are reported on. Our analysis made clear that Belgian news coverage shows regional diversity, with Francophone Belgian journalists showing more tolerance towards migrants and thus tending to be more in line with their Swedish counterparts. Still, refugees are seldom allowed to speak for themselves. This warrants attention and action by news professionals. © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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- Joris, Willem, et al.
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IM2MEDIATE : Image of Immigrants in Media: Thought-provoking Effects: Final Report
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The topic of migration has become particularly contentious in national as well as international debates. Media have a discernable impact on overall societal attitudes towards this phenomenon. Polls show time and again that immigration is one of the main issues occupying people’s minds. IM2MEDIATE (Images of Immigrants in the Media: Thought-provoking) examines the dynamic interplay between media representations of immigrants and refugees on the one hand, and the governmental and societal (re)actions to these on the other hand. Largely focusing on Belgium and Sweden, our interdisciplinary research attempts to unravel the determinants of people’s preferences regarding migration policy, expectations towards immigrants, and economic, humanitarian and cultural concerns about immigration’s effect on the life of the majority population. Whilst immigrants and refugees remain voiceless and highly underrepresented in the legacy media, IM2MEDIATE allows their voices to be heard.
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- Joris, Willem, et al.
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Refugees in the News : Content Analysis of Belgian and Swedish Media News
- 2017
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Ingår i: Migration and Communication Flows. ; , s. 36-36
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- As previous research showed a significant effect of news coverage about the migration issue on the public opinion, it is recommended to investigate how the refugees are portrayed in the news. Our content analysis of Belgian and Swedish newspapers, television news and online news before and after a carefully selected set of key moments between 2015 and 2017 includes responsibility indicators and suggested solution items, the gender structure of news items and news actors, collective actors versus individual actors, and the religious and national identity of the actors covered. Comparisons between the representations of blame attribution, demography, geographic identities, religious identities and degrees of individuation will be compared with real world indicators (such as statistics about the population of refugees and its composition in different subgroups and the evolution of these statistics).
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- Poveda, David, et al.
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Space and practices : Engagement of children under 3 with tablets and televisions in homes in Spain, Sweden and England
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. - London : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7984 .- 1741-2919. ; 20:3, s. 500-523
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Young children’s engagements with digital technologies form part of their emergent everyday literacy practices. The study reported here derives from the pan-European study ‘A Day in the Digital Lives of Children aged 0-3’. The methodology was centred on the videoing of an entire day’s experiences of a child aged under 3, together with a reflective interview with the parents and inventories related to digital access, skills and activities of the child. In this paper, we look at three children in Spain, Sweden and England, respectively. We examine our data through three prisms. (1) Spatio-temporal: We consider the children’s engagements in terms of their appropriation of space, in relationships with others in the home and the intimate geographies of young children’s digital literacies. (2) Parental discourse: We use the tensions and contradictions for families framework to examine the selection and monitoring of digital literacies. (3) Practice: Drawing on the first two prisms, we zoom into how children engage with tablet devices and television. Our research demonstrates richness, diversity and agency in these young children’s practices with technologies. We propose the concept of living-room assemblage as an analytical metaphor to understand the macrohabitats of young children’s digital literacies and practices, which emerge as multi-layered, creative and co-occurring with other family activities.Our analysis also explores the challenges presented to parents and the ways in which they navigate tensions and contradictions in their media and digital environments, which are condensed in family practices and discourses around tablets and television.
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- Sandberg, Helena, 1969-, et al.
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Negotiating and Resisting Digital Media in Young Children's Everyday Life : An ethnographic study
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Ingår i: Understanding Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in the Digital Age. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789188212870 - 9789188212894 ; , s. 119-126
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- While the dominating societal discourse highlights the positive aspects of digitalization of childhood, families with young children may perceive things differently, even demonstrating various forms of resistance to children’s media practices and use of digital technology. It is within the domestic sphere that young children are introduced to digital media, but still policymakers and scholars have paid little attention to these issues. In this chapter, preliminary Swedish findings from a European comparative study on 0- to 3-year-olds and their digital life are presented and discussed in relation to domestication and parental mediation of media.
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- Sandberg, Helena, et al.
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Toddlers' digital media practices and everyday parental struggles Interactions and meaning-making as digital media are domesticated
- 2021
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Ingår i: Nordicom Review. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 42, s. 59-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, the Swedish findings from a European comparative study on 0–3-year-old children and their digital lives are presented and discussed in relation to domestication theory, including the concept of moral economy. More specifically, attention is paid to toddler’s appropriation of digital technology and the parents’ moral struggles: the negotia-tions between the parents concerning the introduction of digital media practices in early childhood, the selection of content, and the monitoring of children. Parents of very young children have ambivalent feelings towards digital media technologies and struggle to make the right decision for their children. The study demonstrates that the domestication of digi-tal technology in early childhood is far more multifaceted and troublesome for parents to handle than previous research has found.
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- Sandberg, Helena, et al.
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When ethnographic work turns into distant screen visits : A note on flexible inflexibility during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Ingår i: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. - London : Sage Publications. - 1463-9491. ; 23:3
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- This colloquium shares experiences from doing ethnographic fieldwork with young children and the challenges that followed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project DIGIKIDS Sweden has its focus on very young children (birth to three years) and their engagement with digital media technologies in their homes. The pandemic put the project on hold, but in the families where the fieldwork had already started, the authors decided to change the methods of data collection. Digital screen visits were introduced and, at first, this seemed to be flexible, and they adjusted to the new environment. At the same time, this flexibility also became an inflexible experience due to the use of technology. © The Author(s) 2022.
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- Sundin, Ebba, 1961-
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Action research in media studies.
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Ingår i: Media and Communication Studies Interventions and Intersections. - Tartu : ECREA/Tartu University Press. ; , s. 267-276
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- Sundin, Ebba, 1961-, et al.
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Constructive Journalism and TV Reporting on Refugees in Sweden and Belgium (2015-2017)
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The sustainability of journalism has been questioned from various directions during the last decade: individualized news instead of public interest, algorithm news, changes on the markets challenging the independence of news producers etc. In addition, Schofield Clark and Marchi (2017) show that young people are by-passing traditional news in the way they share news with each other. Audiences as minority groups and youngsters often feel misrepresented by mainstream news media, turn to alternative sources or lose their interest in news. Four years after the first dissertation on constructive journalism (McIntyre, 2015), we propose a paper aiming to discuss how constructive journalism (CJ) approaches can be operationalized in tv news studies and how they appear in daily news reporting on serious and often negatively framed topics. Precisely the focus of CJ (Gyldensted, 2011; McIntyre, 2015) on possible solutions and alternatives for the problems touched upon in the news and progress or lessons learned for the future could function as clear answers to the complaints of news avoidance. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first international comparative study focusing on tv news reporting on refugees and elements of CJ. We collected and quantitatively analyzed a sample of 1682 tv news items during eleven key moment periods between 2015-2017 stemming from Sweden (SVT as PBS and TV4 as commercial channel) and Belgium (the Dutch speaking part Flanders: VRT and VTM; and the French speaking part: RTBF and RTL). The codebook was tested beforehand by three researchers and adapted several times until good coder reliability was achieved. Although the majority of the news items (69%) in our sample does not contain CJ aspects, one third does contain at least one constructive element (31%). In the analysis we differentiated between “items that mention possible solutions, alternatives or improvements for the problems touched upon” and “items that mention progress or lessons learned concerning the topic”. Contrary to our expectations, the Belgian journalists promoted more of a solution-based reporting than their Swedish colleagues. In 27,1% of the news items, the Belgian tv reporters mentioned a CJ aspect and in 10,8% of the items they explicitly mentioned two whereas Swedish journalists did so in respectively 16,9% and 2,7% of the items on refugees (X2= 56,96; df=2; p< .001). For a heavy news topic as the refugee situation, we conclude that mentioning solution-driven elements in between 20 and 38% of the total appearing news items is a clear indication of the expanding idea of CJ in tv reporting.
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- Sundin, Ebba, 1961-, et al.
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Local Images of Health and Lifestyle : Free Newspapers, Community-construction and the “Healthy City”
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Local free newspapers and magazines have become an integrated part of urban life. They are no longer restricted to large cities and in an age of declining readership in traditional press, these publications are sometimes the only outlet that reaches the general population. This makes them interesting both in terms of media economy (the hyper-local as the only viable business model for print journalism), and in terms of the construction of community. Still, they are often an overlooked phenomenon in media and communication studies.This paper takes its departure from the project “Healthy Cities”, a movement developed by WHO with the purpose to include health-related issues in the political, economic and social agenda. In this movement, WHO acknowledges media’s role for promoting health images from a local perspective. The paper will contribute to the research field of local media’s role for their audiences in terms of shaping ideas of being part of ”the good life”. From this perspective, media have an important function in individuals’ sense of belonging and well-being.In recent years, the local media landscape in Sweden has changed. The mainstream journalism has been somewhat reduced, due to financial cutbacks. In the same time, there is a new pattern of free local newspapers and magazines, distributed within communities, and with clear ambitions to promote “the good life” within the geographical range of distribution. Since changes of mainstream media have weakened the traditional concept of media closeness, it is of importance to study the new and innovative media paths to connect individuals within communities (e.g. smaller towns) in order to understand how these work for individuals’ sense of belonging and especially related to issues of health, lifestyles and well-being.In this paper we would like to take the opportunity to share the outlines for a research project on local free-of-charge media in the Swedish town Halmstad, that is one of the 1400 European town and city members in the “Healthy City” project. We present some preliminary findings from four newspapers and magazines that are giving much attention to promote the image of “the good life” through articles about health, lifestyles and well-being. The research project is part of an initiative to chart contemporary urban town living through an interdisciplinary research program that uses a community studies approach, where the aim of the present study is to understand the role that the free newspapers (and similar media outlets) play in representing and making sense of notions such as “health”, “lifestyle” and ”well-being” in Halmstad.
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- Sundin, Ebba, 1961-
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Lokaltidningen och de unga läsarna
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Ingår i: Lokalmediestudier. - Jönköping : Media Management and Transformation Centre, Jönköping International Business School. - 9189164695 ; , s. 227-242
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- Sundin, Ebba, 1961-, et al.
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News literacy among pre-teenagers:CESEM, a Swedish pilot study
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A great part of today's research projects about children and media literacy are focused on new communication technologies but this project focus on how children make use of news stories in the traditional formats of newspapers and TV. The aim is to present a Swedish pilot study about processes in producing news. The pilot, CESEM, was set up during spring 2010 and five girls aged 9 and 12 years from to schools were given the task to select local news from one week's issues of the local newspaper and decide on six news stories to present as TV news. The process from selecting news stories to the presentation in their own news show has been analyzed in this pilot.
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