During 2023, Nordicom published a total of five books – four anthologies and one monograph – all which are peer reviewed. They covered topics such as digital communication systems in the Nordic welfare states, media consumption by young audiences, public service media and their contribution to societies, the complexity of surveillance culture, and how the Covid-19 pandemic was communicated in the Nordic countries. Grab one (or why not several) as Open Access on our website, or buy a print copy, and sit back and enjoy some insightful and inspiring reads.
Make sure you get to these soon, as Nordicom already has three upcoming books to be published early next year.
Gateways: Comparing Digital Communication Systems in Nordic Welfare States
Signe Sophus Lai, Sofie Flensburg
The Internet is a critical part of the societal infrastructure in the Nordic region – giving rise to increasing concerns about the growing power of global tech corporations that supply the foundation for the region’s evermore digitalised welfare states. Yet, we lack empirical evidence for understanding, discussing, and ultimately regulating the changing power structures surrounding Internet-based communication. Presenting a novel framework for analysing and comparing the four largest Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden – this book provides nuanced insights into what we think we know about digital power and control.
Audiovisual Content for Children and Adolescents in Scandinavia: Production, Distribution, and Reception in a Multiplatform Era
Pia Majbritt Jensen, Eva Novrup Redvall, & Christa Lykke Christensen (Eds.)
Scandinavian children and adolescents’ media consumption has changed dramatically in the past decade. Films, series, and social media content on global platforms like Netflix, Disney+, and YouTube are now a major part of young people’s media diet, while encounters with domestic films, series, and platforms are in decline, severely challenging the ways domestic players think about young audiences. The contributions in this book explore these recent developments in the production, distribution, as well as reception of fictional content for children and adolescent audiences in the thoroughly digitalised and transnationalised Scandinavian countries.
Public Service Media's Contribution to Society: RIPE@2021
Manuel Puppis & Christopher Ali (Eds.)
Public Service Media (PSM) across Europe and beyond are increasingly under pressure, with both their role in a digital environment and their funding widely scrutinised. As a result, PSM organisations are constantly in a defensive position. Following attempts to demonstrate their “public value”, discussion is now turning towards PSM’s “contribution to society”, a concept pushed by the European Broadcasting Union. Yet, to be meaningful for society and to influence PSM organisations, the concept must be more than just an instrument of legitimacy management.
Everyday Life in the Culture of Surveillance
Lars Samuelsson, Coppélie Cocq, Stefan Gelfgren, & Jesper Enbom (Eds.)
Over the recent decades, the possibilities to surveil people have increased and been refined with the ongoing digital transformation of society. Surveillance can now go in any direction, and various forms of online surveillance saturate most people’s lives, which are increasingly lived in digital environments.
Communicating a Pandemic: Crisis Management and Covid-19 in the Nordic Countries
Bengt Johansson, Øyvind Ihlen, Jenny Lindholm, & Mark Blach-Ørsten (Eds.)
This edited volume compares experiences of how the Covid-19 pandemic was communicated in the Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The Nordic countries are often discussed in terms of similarities concerning an extensive welfare system, economic policies, media systems, and high levels of trust in societal actors. However, in the wake of a global pandemic, the countries’ coping strategies varied, creating certain question marks on the existence of a “Nordic model”.
Mia Jonsson Lindell