Category: Global

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Digital surveillance in everyday life is seen as a necessary evil

We live today in a digital society where surveillance is constantly increasing. States and private companies surveil us, and we surveil ourselves and each other through social media, apps, and other new technologies. We handle this through both opposition and a pragmatic approach, according to a new research anthology, published by Nordicom.
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Success and Failure in News Media Performance

Increasing consumption gaps, persisting gender inequalities, and an increasingly relevant role of investigative journalism. These are some of the key results presented in the third volume of The Media for Democracy Monitor 2021, published by Nordicom.
Book cover: Wizards of the Web.
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New book: Wizards of the Web

What is it that unites the ideals of hippies with those of start-up entrepreneurs? In a new book, Jakob Svensson studies the people behind algorithms and automated systems: the people that create them, the wizards of the web.
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Nordic Journal of Media Studies: Media and the Climate Crisis

A new issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies, entitled “Media and the Climate Crisis” has just been published. The issue presents a set of articles that address the intersection of media and the climate crisis from many angles and with a diversity of data, methods, and conceptual frameworks.
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Digital News Report 2021: Nordic news outlets highly trusted and lead in paying subscribers

Finland has the highest overall trust in the news, and Norway has the most paying news subscribers. The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in fleeing advertisers and limited physical distribution, resulting in an economic crunch for many publishers and the acceleration of subscription and membership models. Nordic public service websites saw increasing usage. These are some of the findings from the Nordics in the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2021.
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Media for Democracy Monitor 2021

In a two-volume edition, the Media for Democracy Monitor 2021 delivers a panorama of the news media’s performance regarding freedom, equality and control across 18 countries worldwide.
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Webinar about gender equality in the media

On 28 April 2021, Nordicom and the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg held a webinar about the project Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe (GEM). Watch the recorded version of the webinar here.
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A tough year for global press freedom – but Nordics keep top position

Once again four Nordic countries top the global list of press freedom. But in seven of ten countries in the world, free journalism is blocked, a situation worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Interview with a woman
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The news media won’t reach gender equality for another 70 years

Women are underrepresented in the news media in almost every country in the world. If progress does not accelerate, it will be several decades before the news media reaches gender equality. These are results from a study published by Nordicom, in which a group of researchers have developed a new index, measuring gender equality in the news media.
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The news media in the world will reach gender equality in 70 years

The media world is less gender equal than the “real world”. That is one of the conclusions from a research project at University of Gothenburg. A group of international scholars has analysed data from countries all over the world between 1995 and 2015 to explain the causes and consequences of women’s underrepresentation in the media.