Category: The Nordic region

The bridge between Sverige och Danmark
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New special issue explores the geopolitics of Nordic television drama

A new Special Issue of Nordicom Review has just been published, titled “Dark Screens: The geopolitics of Nordic television drama”. Robert A. Saunders, one of the Special Issue editors, answered a few questions about the findings.
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Call for papers: Action Research for Media Development: Intersections and boundaries of social change, innovation, and entrepreneurship

Call for papers: Nordicom Review Special Issue. Title: Action Research for Media Development: Intersections and boundaries of social change, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Deadline for abstract submissions:1 November 2020.
Books published by Nordicom
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Nordicom joins peer-review cooperation to strengthen the status of Nordic academic books

Nordicom has initiated cooperation with Kriterium, a Swedish platform for quality control and peer review of scientific Open Access books. Monographs and anthologies under consideration by Nordicom may now be sent to Kriterium for expert peer review, increased readership and a clear stamp of approval. The collaboration is a natural step for two organisations seeking to stimulate and support Swedish and Nordic research and researchers.
Martine Leknes, medienorge, framför Nordicoms och medienorges bokbord på Nordiske Mediedager 2018
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I corona-tider: Nu blir vårt bokbord digitalt!

Välkommen till vårt digitala bokbord! På grund av viruspandemin flyttar Nordiske Mediedager i år sitt program till nätet – och vi förvandlar vårt årliga bokbord till en digital presentation av senaste nytt från Nordicom och medienorge. Allt finns gratis online, även konferensen!
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Call for papers: Nordic Journal of Media Studies 2021

As a complex and systemic problem of collective action (in the Anthropocene), the climate crisis poses challenges on a new scale. They range from translating scientific knowledge to sustainable policy, from debating radical changes in energy supply and infrastructures to discussions of everyday consumer choices, from dialogues about identity and historical justice to the risks and scenarios of the future (which has gained ever more immediacy).
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Nordicom Review in the news

In 2019, almost a third (6 of 17) of Nordicom Review's articles appeared in the news. Here are all of them listed in chronological order. One of the most visible articles from 2019 was ”Framing Gender Justice: A comparative analysis of the media coverage of ‘metoo’ in Denmark and Sweden” by Tina Askanius and Jannie Møller Hartley. It appeared in 75 news articles and clips in Nordic media.
Cover of Nordicom Review
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Nordicom Review shifts to digital-only publishing

In 2020, Nordicom Review will shift to digital-only publishing to further develop the quality of the digital edition.
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Nordicom Seeks Assistant Director

Nordicom is now looking for a full-time assistant director. The assistant director will work with Nordicom's director and participate in the strategic and day-to-day management of Nordicom's operations.
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Today Nordicom Launches NordMedia Network

NordMedia Network is a new digital platform devoted to the community of researchers that for the past four decades has grown out of the NordMedia conference.
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Making sense of small and big data as onlife traces

This special issue of Nordicom Review discusses how we create meaning in, and make sense of, big and small data as traces of intrinsically interwoven offline and online lives, also known as onlife traces.