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Call for papers: Class in/and the media
Deadline for full paper submissions: 19 April 2020
The Swedish Media Barometer: 40 years
The Media Barometer (Mediebarometern) is an annual survey focusing on how the Swedish population aged 9 to 79 uses media on traditional and digital platforms on an average day. The survey was first conducted in 1979, and has since been conducted every year; this makes the Media Barometer the oldest study of its kind in the world.
Nordicom launches a new digital research platform
Nordicom will launch a new digital research platform at the NordMedia conference in August 2019. The platform will serve as an online resource for connecting Nordic media researchers and making Nordic media research more accessible.Call for papers: Media Systems in the other Nordic countries
Deadline for submission of full abstracts: 25 September 2019Swedish-Norwegian rivalry behind different media images of Johaug's doping scandal
Swedish and Norwegian media gave different images of the Norwegian ski star Therese Johaug's doping scandal, according to a new study published in the journal Nordicom Review. While the Norwegian media downplayed what happened, the Swedish reporting focused on the rivalry between the countries when it comes to cross-country skiing.Calling for articles on media studies in a Nordic context
In a call for articles for the 2020 issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies the editors Anne Jerslev and Göran Bolin invites researchers to reflect on the Nordic context in media studies.Call for papers: Un-Civility, Racism and Populism
Title: ‘Un-Civility, Racism and Populism: Interactive Practices of Anti- and Post-Democratic Communication’. Deadline for submission of full abstracts: April 25, 2019.The Media Barometer: First Results 2018
The Swedish Media Barometer is an annual survey that analyses daily media use on different platforms among the Swedish population. Here are the first results from the 2018 survey.MedieSverige 2019 – a comprehensive overview of today’s media landscape in Sweden.
Since the millennium, digitalisation has been a major game-changer for the media industry as well as for its audiences. The publication MedieSverige 2019 [MediaSweden 2019] gives the reader an up-to-date and broad overview of today's Swedish media landscape.
New book explores digital media inequalities
Digital technologies are currently changing the way we talk to one another and the way organisations and politics communicates with citizens. But digital does not necessarily mean better understanding. In a new Nordicom anthology, researchers from across Europe explores new inequalities created by the digital transformation.