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- Bechmann Pedersen, Sune, et al.
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Foreign correspondents in the Cold War : The politics and practices of East German television journalists in the West
- 2019
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-9729 .- 1368-8804. ; 26:1, s. 75-90
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the transnational production processes of foreign correspondence in the Cold War. It examines the double role of foreign correspondents as reporters and Cold War political agents. Recent scholarship has explored the activities of Western correspondents reporting from the Communist world. Little is known, however, about Eastern bloc correspondents in the West. Drawing on the rarely studied files on East German foreign correspondents held by the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, the article problematizes the image of GDR journalists as obedient intelligence officers and highlights the dilemmas of journalists deployed to defend national interests. Focusing on the Nordic countries in the mid1970s, the article provides detailed insights into the politics and practices of East German foreign correspondence before the digital revolution. The article thus shows the benefits of going beyond the traditional focus on media content to analyse the daily practices as well as the political and symbolic significance of journalism. It contributes to the growing historical research on foreign correspondents and the media in East Germany and beyond
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- Cronqvist, Marie, et al.
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Entangled media histories : The value of Transnational and Transmedial Approaches in Media Historiography
- 2017
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-9729 .- 1368-8804. ; 23, s. 130-141
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The transnational and transmedial dimensions of media and communication throughout history have not always been adequately recognised. In this research report we propose the concept of entanglement as a means of better understanding the dynamic interconnectedness of media across semiotic, technological, institutional and political boundaries in history. Entanglement is a concept that can be employed in order to problematize the presumed points of departure and the linear understandings of development, production and reception that often characterize media-history scholarship. Moreover, an entangled media histories perspective throws light on social and communicative action in general and can thus enrich any historical study. The report outlines, and invites discussion of, the theoretical and methodological framework of the transnational network ‘Entangled Media Histories’, which since 2013 has been a forum for co-operation in research and teaching between media historians in Sweden, Germany and Great Britain.
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- Hultén, Gunilla
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Victims and Intruders : Swedish press coverage on Anti-Jewish violence in Russia and on Jewish immigration 1881–1921
- 2018
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 24:3-4, s. 477-492
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article sets out to investigate how the Swedish regional press framed anti-Jewish violence in Russia and Jewish immigration to Sweden between 1881 and 1921. Furthermore, it analyses how the Swedish newspapers framed differences between the Jewish minority and the Swedish majority, and between the newly arrived Jews and the already established Jewish community in Sweden. The study, which combines quantitative and qualitative methods, is based on articles gathered from the National Library of Sweden’s digital database Digitized Swedish Newspapers. An analysis of some 400 articles suggests that sympathy towards the Jews in Russia dominates the reports on violence in the tsarist empire. In these texts, the Jews are mainly framed as innocent victims of brutal violence. In the articles concerning the eastern European Jewish immigration to Sweden, however, hostile attitudes are the most prominent. The Jewish immigrants are framed as menacing intruders, threatening law and order and the general welfare of Sweden.
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- Hyvönen, Mats, 1973-, et al.
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The Formation of Swedish Media Studies, 1960–1980
- 2018
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 24:1, s. 86-98
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Around 1960, the politics of the emerging media society in Sweden tended to fixate the formative functions of mass communication. The monopoly of public service broadcast media, press subsidies and new tendencies in film policy were some of the issues around which uncertainty prevailed. New methods to provide reliable data were sought by politicians, since empirical facts were required as arguments for an updated media policy. This article examines the different ways that the field of media studies was introduced in Sweden between 1960 and 1980. We argue that Swedish academic media studies departed from, and emerged within, a rather diffuse borderland between industry, politics and academia. The formation of national media research in Sweden can partly be seen as an effect of politicians and the media industry wanting to be better informed on issues such as media influence, media ownership and the habits and composition of the media audience.
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- Jarlbrink, Johan, 1978-
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Mobile/sedentary : News work behind and beyond the desk
- 2015
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 21:3, s. 280-293
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the changing journalistic norms and roles in terms of mobile and sedentary news work at the end of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The analysis draws on the research into the small everyday tools of bureaucracy and science. The focus is on the quill, the scissors and paste pot, the body of the reporter and the computer. Journalistic neutrality and truth seem at any given time to be defined in line with the practices made possible by the available tools. A change in tools makes new practices possible, meaning that the norms have to be redefined. Journalism was once synonymous with mobile reporters reporting on events they themselves witnessed. Journalism today, however, is often sedentary copy-and-paste work, much resembling the scissors-and-paste journalism of the nineteenth century. Comparison reveals that such transmission of texts and images produced by someone else always runs the risk of reproducing the voices of the elites.
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- Jülich, Solveig, 1966-
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In the light of media : Mass miniature radiography surveys for tuberculosis in Sweden, c. 1940–1970
- 2016
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 22:2, s. 201-216
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to highlight the medical and medial relationships that were established and negotiated through the mass X-ray surveys for tuberculosis in Sweden from the early 1940s to 1970. In particular it focuses on three interrelated aspects. Firstly, it shows how mass miniature radiography was developed through the pairing of old X-ray technology with new photographic technology. Secondly, it demonstrates how the survey campaigns enabled connections between medical and media institutions and professional groups. Thirdly, it discusses how the mass surveys helped to create and mediate relations between doctors and patients, experts and lay people, sick and healthy people, participants and objectors. In conclusion, it argues that these three aspects together are crucial if we wish to understand the mediatisation of the medical sphere as well as the medicalisation of everyday life during the twentieth century.
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- Lundell, Patrik, 1969-
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The Rationality of the Benevolent Ones : A Swedish case of far right-wing objectivity ideal and media criticism around the Second World War
- 2017
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 23:1, s. 100-114
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- By examinating the National Society Sweden-Germany (Riksföreningen Sverige-Tyskland) 1938–1958, this article highlights a key aspect of far right-wing opinion building, namely its media criticism and objectivity ideal. Far right-wing opinion building is too often depicted as easily comprehensible and appealing to strong emotions. If its objectivity-oriented and neutrality-footed media criticism with scholarly and non-political overtones is taken into consideration a more nunaced understanding can be reached. The article relates this criticism to the Swedish Government’s information policy, to notions of the historic role of the press as a propaganda channel, to ideals in contemporary journalism, and to a tradition of conservative media criticism. By uncovering the rationality that supported them, the purpose is ultimately to understand the attraction these standpoints could exercise. Since these ways to argue hardly died with the war a deeper historical understanding appears the more imperative.
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- Lundgren, Lars, 1973-
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The Forerunners of a New Era : Television history and ruins of the future
- 2015
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Ingår i: Media History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1368-8804 .- 1469-9729. ; 21:2, s. 178-191
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the relationship between historicality and historiography, with particular focus on the tension between claims of the historicality of broadcast events and later absences in broadcast historiography. It analyses two types of claims of historicality: first as a provider of images of history in the making; and second, as a kind of prototype, a forerunner of a new era in which television has a central position in a global society. Looking at the production and organization of the broadcast of Yuri Gagarin's return to Moscow in April 1961, the article argues that historiography is often too bound up in the present and remains blind to perspectives falling outside the dominant narratives of the current. The claims of being forerunners, on behalf of the agents involved in producing the broadcast, fit poorly with later historical events and are perhaps nothing more than the ruins of an anticipated future. But as such it may teach us just as much about the forgotten aspects of television history as it does about our practices of writing it.
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