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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Mediatised local government: Social media activity and media strategies among local government officials 1989–2010
- 2016
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Ingår i: Policy and politics. - 0305-5736 .- 1470-8442. ; 44:1, s. 59-77
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article examines how local government officials in Sweden use social media and to what extent the emergence of social media has altered the relationship to conventional news media. The article examines the development of local government-media relations across time on the basis of a unique survey-based data set comparing the local political and administrative leadership’s media strategies in 1989 and 2010. The 2010 survey also included questions on how local officials in Sweden use social media in their work, that is, Facebook, Twitter and blogs. The results show that local officials have appropriated social media in their work, but only to a moderate extent. Local officials engage in social media if and when the local government becomes the target of social media scrutiny. Our study also demonstrates that social media have not replaced conventional media as a means of communication with constituencies. Indeed, officials who are active social media users have more contacts with conventional media compared to less active officials. Social media thus contribute to an intensification of the mediatisation of local governance rather than replacing conventional media in local political communication.
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- Anderson, Deb, et al.
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After the Fires: The Role of Journalism in Post-Crisis Recovery
- 2016
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Ingår i: Paper presented at the 6th European Communication Conference, Ecrea, in Prague 9-12 November 2016..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper draws from an investigation into the dynamics of the media-policy nexus in the aftermath of a major environmental disaster, and in the context of politicised debate over global climate crisis. Through an examination of media coverage, the paper explores how fierce debate over bushfire protection policy was framed and made culturally meaningful, and thereby politically consequential, in the wake of the worst bushfire in modern Australian history. On February 7, 2009, bushfires of extreme ferocity swept through the hinterland near Melbourne in southeast Australia, resulting in the deaths of 173 people. This led to a Royal Commission amid intense debate over the use of prescribed burning to reduce bushfire hazard. Longitudinal analysis of local, state and national mainstream media coverage (2009-16) reveals blame games that targeted environmentalists and the government for allegedly opposing pre-emptive burning, and that near-silenced meaningful discussion of evidence of the impact of anthropogenic climate change on extreme weather events. This investigation into the Australian media’s constitutive and performative role in crisis response raises fundamental questions of claims-making, power and the democratic function of post-crisis journalism in holding power to account.
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- Anderson, Deb, et al.
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Fanning the Blame: Media Accountability, Climate and Crisis on the Australian “Fire Continent”
- 2018
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 12:7, s. 928-941
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper raises questions of media coverage of “compounded crises” related to extreme weather disaster, in the context of urgent calls to address the implications of a changing climate. Through media analysis, it examines the ways debate over bushfire protection policy was framed and made culturally meaningful, thereby politically consequential, in the wake of the worst bushfires in modern Australian history, Black Saturday (2009). The fires, in which 173 people died, led to a Royal Commission and fierce debate over the use of prescribed burning to reduce bushfire hazard. Longitudinal analysis of local, state and national mainstream media coverage (2009–2016) reveals blame games that targeted environmentalists and the government, which near-silenced meaningful discussion of the complexity of fire science, impacts of climate change on weather conditions, and calls for adaptation. By exploring the media’s constitutive role in crisis response, the paper highlights the legacy and potency of ideological conflict that shapes the media-policy nexus in Australia.
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- Andersson Odén, Tomas, 1952, et al.
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Kriskommunikation 2.0. Allmänhet, medier och myndigheter i det digitala medielandskapet
- 2016
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hur uppfattar allmänheten nyhetsmediernas rapportering och myndigheternas kriskommunikation? Och hur kriskommunicerar allmänheten själv i de sociala mediernas tidevarv? Det är frågor som ställt i denna bok, där kriskommunikationen i samband med fem dramatiska svenska händelser jämförs och analyseras, med medborgarnas kommunikationsbehov som utgångspunkt. Boken vänder sig till kommunikatörer i offentlig tjänst, till mediemedarbetare, samt till forskare och andra med intresse av kriskommunikation. Boken utgör slutrapport från projektet Kriskommunikation 2.0, som finansierats av Myndighten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB)
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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Appropriating social media: The changing uses of social media among journalists across time
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Ingår i: Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff 10-11 september, 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The hype over social media and the rapid expansion of social networking and micro-blogging in recent years can easily lead us to believe that all journalists are online, chatting and tweeting, all the time. Previous research, however, indicates that the spread of social media differs between groups of journalists and that social media usage is related to the journalist’s age, gender, type of work and workplace. This paper advances our understanding of how journalists appropriate social media in their professional lives by examining the changes in social media use across time. Has the group of enthusiastic activists who have fully embraced a life online, being connected and twittering or blogging continuously, become larger across time, and are the social media avoiders gradually disappearing? We examine if and how the perceived usefulness of social media for various professional purposes changes over time, and if different categories of journalists change their usage in different ways. The theoretical perspective draws from theories on the appropriation and adoption of technologies. The empirical material consists of two sets of web survey data collected in 2012 and 2014, targeting representative samples of Swedish journalists. Our findings show that the use of social media increased slightly between the two surveys but the expansion was levelling off in 2014. Some early adopters were abandoning social media, and there was a noticeable decline in the journalists’ valuation of social media affordances.
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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Appropriating Social Media. The changing uses of social media among journalists across time
- 2016
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Ingår i: Digital journalism. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2167-0811 .- 2167-082X. ; 4:7, s. 849-860
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The hype over social media and the rapid expansion of social networking and micro-blogging in recent years can easily lead us to believe that all journalists are online, chatting and tweeting, all the time. Previous research, however, indicates that the spread of social media differs between groups of journalists and that social media usage is related to the journalist’s age, gender, type of work and workplace. This paper advances our understanding of how journalists appropriate social media in their professional lives by examining the changes in social media use across time. We examine if and how the perceived usefulness of social media for various professional purposes changes over time, and if different categories of journalists change their usage in different ways. The theoretical perspective draws from theories on the appropriation and adoption of technologies. The empirical material consists of Web survey data collected in 2012 and 2014, targeting representative samples of Swedish journalists. Our findings show that the use of social media increased slightly between the two surveys but the expansion was levelling off in 2014. Some early adopters were abandoning social media, and there was a noticeable decline in the journalists’ valuation of social media affordances.
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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Framing Renewable Energy: A Comparative Study of Newspapers in Australia and Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1752-4032 .- 1752-4040. ; 10:5, s. 634-655
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Australia and Sweden display very different institutional settings and contexts for the production of environmental journalism. This empirical study examined how two major quality newspapers in Sweden and Australia have framed renewable energy as an environmental, political, scientific, economic and civil society issue. A deductive, quantitative methodological approach was used to identify dominant frames and actors in articles in The Australian (Australia) and Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) between October 2010 and June 2011 2010/2011. The findings suggest that the attention given to different types of renewable energy in the two newspapers and how issues were framed was contingent on the domestication of the discussion of renewable energy in the two countries. Reporting on renewable energy in both newspapers was characterized by a focus on “elite” actors and economic frames, the absence of civil society frames and negative (The Australian) or ambiguous (Dagens Nyheter) environmental frames. The study extends our understanding of the contextual conditions that enable and limit journalists when reporting environmental issues.
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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Gender and Sociotropic Anxiety: Explaining Gender Differences in Anxiety to Social Risks and Threats
- 2016
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Ingår i: International journal of public opinion research. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0954-2892 .- 1471-6909. ; 28:2, s. 217-240
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach to explore the causal links between gender and sociotropic anxiety, this article studies the characteristics and magnitude of gender differences in anxiety to a range of social risks and threats. Specifically, it tests whether gender differences with regard to perceived vulnerability, personality traits, ideology and values, and awareness (political interest and news media exposure) mediate the effect of gender by means of mediational regression analyses. The analysis also includes a test for acquiescence bias. Gender is found to be a significant predictor of an individual’s sociotropic anxiety. Vulnerability, personality traits, ideology and values, and awareness all mediate the effect of gender. A significant effect of gender remains even when all other mediating factors were taken into consideration.
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