Category: The Nordic region
Pandemic increased news and media usage in the Nordics
The Corona pandemic has led to increased demand for news in the Nordic countries. The increase for television news is particularly clear, while social media as a news source has played a minor role. These are some of the results from national Corona surveys during Spring and Summer 2020.
Global tech giants control our news consumption
Global tech giants, with Google and Facebook in the forefront, have increasing power over the news media. Being in a monopoly-like position on the digital advertising market, they are indirectly able to control what kind of journalism reaches digital media users, according to a new study, published by Nordicom. To resist the power of the tech giants, media organisations, as well as countries, have to cooperate.
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.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.
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.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.
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.