Category: Publications from Nordicom
Find new publications from Nordicom at our digital book table
- Welcome to our online book table at the NordMedia Conference 2021! This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the NordMedia Conference will be held as a virtual event, and as much as we had hoped to be able to meet and talk around our book table as always, we are happy to be able to present this online version instead!
Nordic Journal of Media Studies: Media and the Climate Crisis
A new issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies, entitled “Media and the Climate Crisis” has just been published. The issue presents a set of articles that address the intersection of media and the climate crisis from many angles and with a diversity of data, methods, and conceptual frameworks.
Media for Democracy Monitor 2021
In a two-volume edition, the Media for Democracy Monitor 2021 delivers a panorama of the news media’s performance regarding freedom, equality and control across 18 countries worldwide.Clear differences in how Nordic journalists experience their professional role and external influence
Swedish and Danish journalists describe their role as monitorial to a greater extent than journalists from other Nordic countries. Journalists from Norway and Iceland state they have the least experience of political influence and thus differ from Finnish journalists. This is shown by a new comparative study published by Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg.
New Special Issue on the relationship between media and class
A new Special Issue has just been published, entitled “Class in/and the media: On the importance of class in media and communication studies”. The eight contributions to this special issue collectively focus on the relationship between media and class.
Webinar on Covid-19 and the Nordic news media
The corona pandemic has had a major impact on the Nordic news media. At the same time as advertising revenues have fallen sharply, interest among the audience for professional news coverage has increased. This is shown by a new report that Nordicom has produced and which was presented at a webinar on 22 April.
Call for contributions to Open Access anthology about online surveillance
Preliminary title: Everyday Life in the Culture of Surveillance. Editors: Coppélie Cocq, Jesper Enbom, Stefan Gelfgren, & Lars Samuelsson (all at Umeå University)
Fewer advertisers but more subscribers to the Nordic news media during the pandemic
The corona pandemic has had a major impact on the Nordic news media. At the same time as advertising revenues have fallen drastically, interest among the audience for professional news coverage has increased, according to a new report from Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg. Several Nordic media companies have also reported record sales of digital subscriptions as a result of the pandemic.
Call for contributions to Open Access anthology about audiovisual content for children and adolescents in the Nordics
Call for anthology chapters: Audiovisual content for children and adolecents in the Nordics: Production, distribution, and reception in a multi-platform era. Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2021.