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Young & Creative: Digital Technologies Empowering Children in Everyday Life
This book aims to catch different examples where children and youth have been active and creative by their own initiative, driven by intrinsic motivation, personal interests and peer relations.
Beyond the Stereotypes?: Images of Boys and Girls, and their Consequences
Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and their Consequences is the Clearinghouse Yearbook of 2017. The book explores the influence and consequences of exposure to gender representations on children and youth.
Books on Screens: Players in the Swedish e-book market
In this book a group of researchers follow the actors involved in the Swedish e-book market, from authors and publishers to libraries, booksellers and readers during 2012-2016. While the main focus in on Sweden as a small language country, several international comparisons are made.
Negotiating Journalism: Core Values and Cultural Diversities
Journalism’s values and working methods, as well as journalists themselves, are challenged, pressured and threatened. This research anthology examines journalistic core values and how they are perceived and renegotiated in Bangladesh, Norway and Tunisia – and one chapter includes Colombia.
Marknadsmässig kurragömmalek?: Barn, unga och dold reklam
Barn och unga befinner sig online en stor del av sin vakna tid. En del av innehållet de konsumerar väljer de inte själva – till exempel marknadsföring. I den här antologin diskuteras dold reklam utifrån flera olika perspektiv: forskarens, journalistens och branschens - och inte minst barnens.
Boken ges ut i ett samarbete mellan Nordicom och Statens medieråd.
The Legacy of Peter Forsskål: 250 Years of Freedom of Expression
In 2016, the world commemorated the sestercentennial adoption of His Majesty’s Gracious Ordinance Relating to Freedom of Writing and of the Press. Peter Forsskål put himself at the centre of that debate, when he in 1759 published the pamphlet Thoughts on Civil Liberty, consisting of 21 paragraphs setting out his thoughts advocating against oppression and tyranny and championing civil rights for everyone.
Medieutveckling 2017 - Medieutbud
Rapporten Medieutveckling 2017 - Medieutbud är ett samarbete mellan Myndigheten för press, radio och tv och Nordicom. Fokus ligger på nyhets- och faktainnehåll i medierna över tid.
Ad Wars: Digital Challenges for Ad-Financed News Media in the Nordic Countries
Digitalisation has changed how we communicate with one another, how we search for information, how we use media and, not least, how media are financed. This report focuses on media financing, specifically the portion of financing that comes from advertisers. Global companies such as Google and Facebook are increasingly chal¬lenging domestic media companies’ position in their national advertising markets.
Cultural Journalism in the Nordic Countries
The role of cultural journalism has been important in the debates about freedom of expression, societal debate, and for journalistic autonomy and specialisation within media organisations.
This book contributes to an emerging international research agenda on cultural journalism at a time when digitalisation, convergence and globalisation are influencing the character of journalism.
Nordicom-Sveriges Mediebarometer 2016
Mediebarometern belyser människors konsumtion av alla slags medier en genomsnittlig dag, oavsett distributionsteknik. Den översiktspublikation som nu utges är den 38e i ordningen, vilket gör Mediebarometern till en unik tidsserie.
Some basic tables are also in English.
The Assault on Journalism: Building knowledge to protect freedom of expression
This book highlights and fuel journalist safety as a field of research, to encourage worldwide participation, as well as to inspire further dialogues and new research initiatives.
The publication is the result of collaboration between the UNESCO Chair at the University of Gothenburg, UNESCO, IAMCR and a range of other partners.
Kampen om reklamen
Digitaliseringen av medielandskapet har förändrat hur vi kommunicerar med varandra, hur vi söker information, hur vi använder medier och inte minst hur medier finansieras. I den här boken är det finansieringen av medierna som står i fokus, och då särskilt den del som kommer från annonsörerna. Globala företag som t. ex Google och Facebook utmanar i allt högre utsträckning de inhemska medieföretagens ställning på de nationella reklammarknaderna.
Citizens in a Mediated World: A Nordic-Baltic Perspective on Media and Information Literacy
This publication is the documentation from the Nordic-Baltic conference Citizens of Mediated World: Nordic-Baltic Perspectives on Media and Information Literacy, in Helsinki 2016.
The event was organised by Nordicom together with the National Audiovisual Institute - KAVI in Finland, jointly with the Nordic media and media education authorities.
Svensk tidningsmarknad under 2000-talet: Strukturförändringar och ekonomisk utveckling
Sedan millennieskiftet har ganska exakt hälften av landets dagstidningar fått ny huvudägare – i vissa fall flera gånger. Resultatet har blivt en tidningsmarknad med allt färre men allt större ägare.
I den här rapporten presenteras och diskuteras den strukturella och ekonomiska utvecklingen inom den svenska dagspressen under 2000-talet.
The Media and the Mundane : Communication Across Media in Everyday Life
This book provides a variety of cases and theoretical insights that touch upon communication across media in everyday life.
The book is the result of a 3 1/2 year project funded by the Danish National Council for Independent Research.
Gendering War and Peace Reporting: Some Insights – Some Missing Links
War reporting has traditionally been a male activity. There is, though, no deterministic link between sex/gender and more peaceful news or a more peaceful world.
This book offers analytic approaches to how traditional war journalism is gendered.
Blurring the Lines: Market-Driven and Democracy-Driven Freedom of Expression
Blurring the Lines: Market-Driven and Democracy-Driven Freedom of Expression focuses on challenges from the market to free speech and how free speech can be protected, promoted and developed when lines between journalism and advertising are blurred. With contributions from 20 scholars in law, media studies and philosophy, it explores an issue deserving greater attention, market pressures on freedom of expression.
Opportunities for Media and Information Literacy in the Middle East and North Africa: Yearbook 2016
The 17th Yearbook published by the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media at Nordicom, fills a gap in the existing body of literature.
The book is published in English and Arabic.
Becoming A Journalist: Journalism Education in the Nordic Countries
Becoming A Journalist: Journalism Education in the Nordic Countries gives a broad picture of Nordic journalism education.
In 19 chapters, researchers and educators write about how journalism education have developed and how challenges in contemporary journalism is met in courses and teaching.
Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Voice & Matter. Communication, Development and the Cultural Return is an outcome of the fourth annual Communication for Development event arranged by Ørecomm.
The anthology reinstate the centrality and urgency of Communication for Development as an area of research and a field of practice.