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Soon, the first invitations to the Media Barometer survey 2025 will be sent out!
Every year, Nordicom conducts the Media Barometer survey to understand Swedes' media habits. Invitations will soon be sent to randomly selected individuals from the Swedish population register. As a participant in the survey, you are contributing to the continuing research on Swedes' media use.
Digital hangover? How technology affects family, school and work
On January 28, Nordicom is hosting a seminar at Goto10 in Malmö, based on the book The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection. The seminar will address digital disconnection in the context of schools and education, as well as other aspects of how digitalisation has impacted our daily lives, work, and health.
Morning newspaper subscribers in focus in new report
A new report from Nordicom maps out which groups in Sweden have access to digital morning newspapers and identifies significant differences based on socioeconomic and demographic factors.
Media market concentration increases in Sweden
Over the past decade, the number of owners of Swedish news media has declined. This is highlighted in the new report, Koncentrerad mångfald i global konkurrens [Concentrated Diversity in Global Competition], written by Tobias Lindberg, media researcher at Nordicom, University of Gothenburg. The trend toward fewer owners has been driven by various deregulations, economic downturns, and new market dynamics.
Pioneering and polarizing: New book gives insight to Mittmedia’s digital transformation
During the 2010s, Mittmedia underwent an extensive digital transformation. In the book Mittmedias vägval: Radikal innovationskultur möter traditionstyngd koncern [Mittmedia's Choices: Radical Innovation Culture Meets Tradition-Bound Corporation], published by Nordicom, the challenges the company faced in trying to replace printed newspapers with digital products are explored. The authors highlight how the centralisation of operations, among other initiatives, impacted both the quality of journalism and the working conditions for employees.
Trust and transparency in pandemic communication
Trust in public health authorities is crucial during a pandemic. A new book explores the rhetorical strategies used by Norway’s public health authorities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with transparency emerging as the most prominent approach, consistently applied across all phases of the crisis.
Call for papers: Media and the past: Mediating the past
Nordic Journal of Media Studies invites contributions to the 2026 issue exploring the relationship between media, communication, and the past, focusing on international as well as Nordic perspectives.
The media industry's revenue is decreasing, according to a new report
Last year, the Swedish media industry's revenue from advertising decreased. Additionally, households tightened their spending during the recession. This meant that sales revenues declined for many radio, newspaper, and TV companies. This is shown in the new report Media Economy 2024 [Medieekonomi 2024], written by Nordicom on behalf of the Swedish Agency for the Media.
From hype to scepticism: New book examines turning point of digitalisation
The digital revolution has had a massive influence on all aspects of society over the past few decades. A new book, featuring a collection of empirical and theoretical analyses, highlights a historical moment when the hype of digitalisation is being replaced by skepticism, as well as by adaptation to all things digital.
Call for papers: Extremism on social media: Nordic perspectives
The SMIDGE research project (HorizonEurope), Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at University of Copenhagen, and Nordicom invite scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit extended abstracts for a special issue of Nordicom Review. The issue will focus on contemporary trends in extremism on social media in the Nordic countries, including mainstreaming processes, hybrid threats, conspiracy theories, and social media practices and phenomena, which enable shifts toward the extremes of the Nordic public cultures.
Nordic insights into the intersection of media and gender
Following the #metoo movement, discussions on gender inequality in the Nordics have evolved. The latest issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies explores the intersection of media and gender, highlighting new trends and challenges.