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- Allern, Sigurd, et al.
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Mediated Scandals
- 2012
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In: Scandalou! The mediated construction of political scandals in four nordic countries. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9789186523275 ; , s. 9-28
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- Allern, Sigurd, et al.
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The Marketplace of Scandals
- 2012
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In: Scandalous. - Göteborg : Nordicom. - 9789186523275 ; , s. 181-190
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Ester, Pollack
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Sandy blåste liv i fejkade fotografier : Under Strecket
- 2012
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In: Svenska Dagbladet. - Stockholm. - 1101-2412. ; :8 november
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Journal article (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- På sociala medier fick spektakulära men ofta manipulerade fotografier av stormen Sandy hösten 2012 snabbt stor spridning. De plockades upp av nyhetsmedierna som vittnesbilder, en del autentiska, andra manipulerade. Att bevara en skepsis mot den glada amatörismen är en viktig utmaning för journalistiken i det digitala informationsflödet.
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- Pollack, Ester, 1954-, et al.
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Criticism of the Police in the News : Discourses and Frames in the News Media’s Coverage of the Norwegian Bureau for the Investigation of Police Affairs
- 2014
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In: Nordicom Review. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 35:1, s. 33-50
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Mediated descriptions of reality are tremendously important to the way the public - and policymakers - perceive the police. The present article analyses how leading news outlets reported and commented on complaints against the Norwegian police during the period 2005-2008. The study is based on content analyses of press and television coverage, with special emphasis on a publicly debated police action in which a student of African origins lost his life. In most cases, news coverage of the police and the investigators of the police is event-driven, and the picture of the police seldom points to institutional or organizational problems. The story is too often one about individual wrongdoings alone. Unfortunately, such media pictures matter and influence policy decisions, especially when they become the point of departure for political debate
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- Pollack, Ester, 1954-, et al.
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Revolving doors and democratic challenges
- 2014
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Public relations consultants perform a range of roles. One of these roles is to be an advisor in lobbying – or ‘public affairs’ as it is called in the branch lingo. In the Nordic countries consultancies mainly see their role as advisors, in some contrast to professional lobbying firms in the US. However, this does not exclude more direct back stage lobbying on behalf of clients. The business idea is to sell their staffs knowledge of how political decisions best can be influenced. The clients, the principals who pay the bills, are most typically corporations and branch organisations, but also include interest groups and even municipalities who want to influence government decisions. In this political marketplace, former politicians, journalists and officials have found new career opportunities as well-paid lobbying consultants. Based on experiences from Norway and Sweden this paper investigates, analysis and discusses the relations and interactions between influential actors engaged in lobbying and mediated agenda setting.
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- Pollack, Ester, 1954-
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Swedish Media and the Holocaust
- 2014
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- How could it happen – and why did the surrounding world not react? These have been two of the recurrent questions concerning the Holocaust and the persecution of the Jews between 1941 and 1945. A common answer during the first decades after WW II, was “we did not know”. There is no support for this thesis today; information about the Nazi atrocities was not the problem. We know that the German population to a large extent were witnesses and we also know that testimonies about the persecution of Jews and others were spread through international newspaper reports. But to what extend did this reach the Swedish citizens? Sweden, a so-called neutral nation, took a bystander’s position during the Second World War. However, state regulation and censorship of the media was introduced to avoid Germany’s disapproval. What kind of information about the escalating victimization of the Jews did Swedish press provide their readers with?Previous research has presented different hypothesis about Swedish news reporting and the Holocaust. Koblik (1987) maintains the idea that the media in principally were indifferent to the fate of the Jews, Levine (1987) that the information was fragmented, without analysis and therefore without consistency. Svanberg and Tydén (1997) notice a rich documentation about the persecution of Jews in pre-war time, but less interest at the outbreak of the war. According to their study, the destiny of the Norwegian and Danish Jews had a dramatic impact on the Swedish press with increased publications. They also observe a greater outspokenness about the persecutions from the year 1943 – when Germany’s fortune of war turned.None of the studies above represent a systematic analysis of wartime reporting; they build on qualitative case studies of selected periods. The purpose of my study is to fill the gap and give a better-informed answer about Swedish news reporting and the Holocaust, in the historical context of Swedish politics at the time. I follow four different dailies, all being important opinion-papers, from 1930 to 1946: Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholms-Tidningen and Aftonbladet with different political affiliations and different attitudes, from protest to appreciation, toward Nazi-Germany. Quantitative content analyses are combined with qualitative case studies.The result shows an interest for “Jewish questions” throughout the thirties with a culmination in 1938 (“the night of broken glasses”), a decreased attention thereafter with nearly no reporting at all in the years of 1940 and 1941. Here, the anti-nazi paper makes an exception. In 1942 the deportations of the Norwegian Jews, and in 1943 the rescue of the Danish Jews, get a great deal of attention. When Germany seems to loose the war, the reporting about the persecution of Jews increases. The German friendly papers adapt to the situation. The results of the study are discussed with an institutional approach to media and political organisations and in relation to new Swedish historical research about Sweden’s relationship to Nazi Germany (Åmark 2011).
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- Pollack, Ester
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Så skapade psykiatri, rättsväsende och medier en svensk seriemördare : Hannes Råstam, Fallet Thomas Quick: Att skapa en seriemördare
- 2012
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In: Respons : recensionstidskrift för humaniora & samhällsvetenskap. - 2001-2292. ; :5
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Review (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Hannes Råstams bok är en svidande vidräkning med svenskt rättssytem, psykiatriksa behandlingsideologier och inställsamma medier. Thomas Quick gav medierna ett oöverträffat stoff om sadism, pedofili och kannibalism och de utnyttjade beredvilligt den dramatiska potentialen. Utrymme för källkritiskt ifrågasättande fanns inte. Råstams bok övertygar men är inte invändningsfri. Källhänvisningar saknas och ibland gestaltar Råstam sitt stoff på ett sätt som gör att texten liknar en novell. Man hade också gärna sett att han dröjt vid de motsägelsefulla bilder av Quick som växer fram. Ena dagen är han en intelligent manipulatör, andra dagen en missbrukare som inte vet vem eller var han är.
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- Pollack, Ester, 1954-
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The Making of Kalle Blomkvist : Crime Journalism in Postwar Sweden
- 2011
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In: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy. - Hoboken New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons. - 9780470947586 ; , s. 75-90
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As hero-figure in the Millennium Trilogy, Mikael Blomkvist is the embodiment of the investigative journalist, exposing power and corruption; an honest, hard-working watchdog with high ideals, extraordinary intuition, and a nose for what lies hidden beneath the surface. He is obstinacy personified, following wherever the scent leads him, often in the face of powerful opposition. Aiming at rectifying the justice system, he challenges society’s institutions, including his own (more cowardly) colleagues in various sectors of the media industry. Our journalist hero is capable of drawing aside the veil, revealing the criminal perpetrators, the men who abuse women—and democracy.In real life, Swedish journalists have not always acted as watchdogs; this is a role that has emerged over time. I present a picture of how perspectives in journalism and criminal justice have shifted throughout a number of post-war decades, and then return to Mikael Blomkvist as the personification of an idealized hero, and to our current appetite for crime, both in real life and in the world of entertainment.
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- Pollack, Ester, 1954-
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Tv-profilerna dansar på slak lina
- 2010
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In: Älskade Hatade. - Stockholm : TV4-Gruppen. - 9789197928809 ; , s. 77-89
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- När etermediemonopolet bröts och Tv4 etablerades 1990 spelade de s k tv-profilerna stor roll genom att ge kanalen ett ansikte, en identitet, förläna status och legitimitet. Leif "Loket" Olsson kunde samla stora delar av befolkningen framför Bingolotto. 20 år senare samlar tv inte längre den breda, nationella publiken. Tv-profilerna lever i symbios med kvällspressen, är en sorts märkesvaror och ingår i den pseudovärld som kändiskulturen utgör. De har roller som nyhetsankare, gästspelare, överlöpare och underhållare och utgör i högre utsträckning en egen marknad med devalverat kanalvärde. Mycket tyder på att de blir nischprofiler med apell till olika åldrar och olika kön, något som motsvaras av den fragmenterade publiken med olika medievanor.
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Scandalous! The Mediated Construction of Political Scandals in Four Nordic Countries
- 2012
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Editorial collection (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The purpose of this book is to spotlight the way in which political scandals in four Nordic countries have been launched, directed, dramatized and interpreted through different genres of journalism – in an interactive tug-of-war between editors and various political actors. News institutions help to build political careers – and to tear them down. A mediated scandalization process can make the path from power to powerlessness, from a top position to exclusion, very short. A number of questions are discussed: How important are the norm violations that have led to political scandals? Have the types of scandals changed over time? How may rivals and political opponents use mediated scandals? Are character assassination and demonization typical traits of a scandalization process? Are male and female politicians treated differently? Scandalous! is based on case studies and content analyses of mediated political scandals in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, including an analysis of the frequencies, types, characteristics and consequences of national political scandals during the period 1980–2010. CONTENT: Preface Sigurd Allern, Ester Pollack Mediated Scandals Sigurd Allern, Anu Kantola, Ester Pollack, Mark Blach-Ørsten Increased Scandalization. Nordic Political Scandals 1980-2010 Anders Todal Jensen, Audun Fladmoe Ten Commandments for the Scandalization of Political Opponents Anu Kantola Warriors for Democracy. Scandal as a Strategic Ritual of Journalism Lars Nord, Gunn Enli, Elisabeth Stúr Pundits and Political Scandals. A Study of Political Commentators in Norway and Sweden Mark Blach-Ørsten, Anker Brink Lund Security Scandals in the Age of Mediated War Mia-Marie Hammarlin, Gunilla Jarlbro From Tiara to Toblerone. The Rise and Fall of Mona Sahlin Elin Strand Hornnes When Women Have to Apologize. Female Apologia and Political Scandals Tor Midtbø Do Mediated Political Scandals Affect Party Popularity in Norway? Paul Bjerke Media Victims and Media Morals Sigurd Allern, Ester Pollack The Marketplace of Scandals Literature Index The Contributors
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- Westerlund, Michael, 1962-
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Självmord och Internet : Kommunikation om ett livsfarligt ämne
- 2010
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- With suicide still a taboo subject in contemporary society, websites and discussion forums on the Internet have become an important and controversial source of information. Through the Internet, the distinction between personal, intimate communication and public communication has blurred, which also has consequences for how the question of suicide is addressed in society. The aim of this dissertation is to examine how the subject of suicide is communicated, represented and addressed in the global and increasingly dominant communication platform of the Internet. Central to this purpose is the analysis and investigation of the discourses about suicide which are constructed and reconstructed by actors on the Internet, and how these discourses relate to each other and to the overarching social and socio-cultural context. The dissertation’s analyses are based on three Internet materials: (1) Google searches of the terms självmord and suicide; (2) Websites with a pronounced pro-suicide or suicide prevention content; (3) Discussion on Internet forums where suicide is the main topic. One of the central aspects that this dissertation points to is the struggle that plays out on the Internet between two distinct approaches to suicide, which feed into completely incompatible understandings and valuations of humanity and society. The dominant suicide preventative discourse takes the position that suicide is such a threatening and destructive act for society as a whole that it cannot solely be handled by the individual. Representatives of the pro-suicide discourse support the opposite view, in which suicide is considered an acceptable way for the individual to ‘solve’ major problems in their lives. Through the Internet’s expansion, actors supporting both views have found new ways of formulating their messages and reaching out to different audiences.
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