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New publication  | 23 August 2023

Anti-gender propaganda promotes an image of a dysfunctional and decaying Scandinavia

By spreading news stories involving the corruption and harm of “innocent children”, anti-gender movements in Russia and Germany contribute to discourses about a dysfunctional and decaying Scandinavia, according to an article published in the latest issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies, entitled The Return of Propaganda.

Sources of news in the Nordic countries, in Europe and a selection of non-European countries 2023

Sources of news in the Nordic countries, in Europe and a selection of non-European countries 2023

Data are from the annual Digital News Report, published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, edition 2023. The research was conducted by YouGov, using an online questionnaire at the end of January/beginning of February 2023. Important to note is that because this survey deals with news consumption, anyone indicating they had not consumed any news during the past month was filtered out. Moreover, online samples will tend to under-represent the news consumption habits of people who are older and less affluent.

The Return of Propaganda (Vol. 5, 2023)

The Return of Propaganda (Vol. 5, 2023)

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The articles in the fifth issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies takes stock of the relevance of propaganda research. It brings together a diverse group of authors to explore the possibilities of new connections and perspectives regarding the concern of propaganda.

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News  | 1 June 2023

Nordicom launches new Nordic media policy newsletter

Nordicom launches a new newsletter. Nordic Media Policy, compiled and edited by Tobias Lindberg, researcher at Nordicom, will be published five to six times a year in complement to the European Media Policy newsletter.
The cover of the Swedish Media Barometer 2022 and photos of the speakers at the seminar.
The Media Barometer  | 16 May 2023

The Swedish Media Barometer 2022: Read the report and watch the seminar

The Swedish Media Barometer 2022 shows that the Swedish population’s media use during the last year stayed at the record-high levels measured in the pandemic years 2020 and 2021. Find the report and watch the seminar about the Swedish Media Barometer 2022 (in Swedish) here.
The cover of the Swedish Media Barometer 2022.
The Media Barometer  | 16 May 2023

Streamed TV, social media, and daily newspaper subscriptions – this is how the Swedish population used media in 2022

Nine in ten of the Swedish population watched moving images on an average day in 2022 – streamed TV was most popular. Half of the population had a daily newspaper subscription, and Instagram was the most used social networking service – except among the oldest. Read the summary of the most important results from the Swedish Media Barometer 2022.
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Press release  | 16 May 2023

Swedish media consumption record high in 2022

Preceded by two years of a pandemic, 2022 was influenced by war and economic crisis, and it also included an election in Sweden and several international sports championships. All this meant that the Swedish population’s media consumption stayed at record-high levels, not least when it came to the use of professional news media. This is shown by the Swedish Media Barometer 2022 from Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg.
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