scholarly journals Overview of Nordic Media Research on Immigration and Ethnic Relations

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Horsti
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Media And Communication

Abstract Nordic media and communication research had reacted to the ethnically/racially and culturally changing societies since the 1980s, and the multidisciplinary field of migration, ethnic relations and the media has been shaped. This overview draws upon existing body of research, particularly on recent literature since the early 2000s, and aims to sketch out the rough lines of Nordic media research by mapping and comparing developments in this area. In addition, it points out some major outcomes and, finally, suggests future developments. The longest line of research is based on text analysis, mostly quantitative and qualitative content analysis and discourse analysis of majority media’s texts on immigration and ethnic minorities. Later on, the research focus has widened to cover various dimensions of media output as well as production and reception. Although the field is intensively developing, comparative research among the Nordic countries, and between other European countries, is scarce.

Media and Violence. Closing one Door: Opening Another

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Field
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Media Violence ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Door Opening ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Effects Of Media ◽  
Theoretical Developments

SummaryThis article sets the debate about the effects of media violence in the context of broader media research. A direct and simple ‘cause and effect’ model between media violence and violence in society does not stand up to scrutiny. It relies on an obsolete model of media influence which stands outside current, theoretical developments in mass communication research. It has diverted attention away from more relevant accounts which see the media as having ‘a primary function’ of ‘legitimation and maintenance of authority’. These suggest a no less powerful but infinitely more subtle model of media influence which finds wide support in other areas of mass communication research. Ironically, since popular debate about media violence has been – and still is – based almost exclusively upon experimental research, it too seems to serve this same legitimation process.

scholarly journals A View from the Inside: The Dawning Of De-Westernization of CEE Media and Communication Research?

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Epp Lauk
Keyword(s):  
Critical Mass ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
East And West ◽  
Media And Communication

The Editorial outlines some characteristics of the development of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) media and communication scholarship during the past 25 years. In the majority of CEE countries, the media and communication research was re-established after the collapse of communism. Since then, a critical mass of active scholars has appeared who form an integral part of the larger European academia. A gradual integration of East and West perspectives in media and communication research is taking place along with moving away from the barely West-centred approach, and utilizing the research done by CEE scholars. Certain ‘de-westernization’ and internationalization of the research in terms of theoretical and methodological frameworks is depicted.

scholarly journals Strong and Weak Forms of Mediatization Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (s1) ◽  
pp. 111-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Ampuja ◽  
Juha Koivisto ◽  
Esa Väliverronen
Keyword(s):  
Social Institutions ◽  
Weak Form ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
Media Research ◽  
To Come ◽  
Media And Communication

AbstractDuring recent years, the concept of mediatization has made a strong impact on media and communication studies, and its advocates have attempted to turn it into a refined and central theoretical framework for media research. The present article distinguishes two forms of mediatization theory: a strong form based on the assumption that a ‘media logic’ increasingly determines the actions of different social institutions and groups, and a weak form that questions such a logic, though the latter form emphasizes the key role of the media in social change and singles out mediatization as a central ‘meta-process’ today. Exponents of the weak form have convincingly criticized the notion of media logic. However, the weaker version of mediatization is itself problematic, as its advocates have failed to produce a clear explanatory framework around the concept. We argue that, although the analytical status of mediatization is unclear, fascination with the concept will, in all probability, continue in the years to come, due to the promises of heightened disciplinary coherence and status that this notion has conveyed for media and communication studies.

scholarly journals Media Ecology – (Un)necessary Research Perspective in Communication and Media Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Laskowska ◽  
Krzysztof Marcyński
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Media And Communication

<p>The aim of this review and theoretical study is to determine the importance of media ecology theory for communication and media studies. Bearing in mind this research goal, the following research questions were asked: What is the media ecology theory? What approach to media and communication research does it represent? What research perspectives are proposed in the field of media ecology? What new can media ecology bring to communication and media studies? An additional objective of the article, and, at the same, time the intention of the authors, is to raise the interest of Polish researchers in the subject of media ecology and its various aspects, enriching research in the field of communication and media studies.</p>

Medialisierung und Mediatisierung

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Birkner
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication

Mediatization is of the most successful yet most often discussed approaches used in media and communication studies. The issues of media change and societal change are central in this respect, with two traditions having developed, which examine the role of the media in our modern society in different ways (qualitative v quantitative methods). The research focus could be divided between a) changes to communication in humans’ daily lives, for example through smartphones, and b) influences of the mass media in different areas of society such as politics, the economy and sport. The second edition of this book, which has been revised and updated, explains the origins of these approaches, presents key studies and findings on them and discusses their similarities and differences.

A state of flux: Histories of social media research

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stine Lomborg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Moving Target ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Media And Communication

This article sets out to map the broad contours of social media research, teasing out in particular the ways in which the scholarly literature in the fields of media and communication research has addressed social media as a phenomenon since the emergence of the term ‘social media’ in the early 2000s. As a communicative phenomenon and research object, social media would appear to be in flux. Changes to existing services, the emergence of new services, and the disappearance of previously popular services testify to the sense of social media as a moving target. Researchers of social media seem to accept change, rather than continuity, as a condition for the study of social media. This is evident in our choice of research topics and data sources, but also in our discourses on social media. By examining the sense of flux of social media research in a historical perspective, this article aims to provide useful directions for future media and communication research on social media. Specifically, it suggests ways to stabilise social media as an object of study and to install a greater historical awareness in social media research.

scholarly journals Swedish Media Research in the Service of Psychological Defence During the Cold War?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Peter Jakobsson ◽  
Fredrik Stiernstedt
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Methodological Development ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media And Communication

AbstractIn this article, we address the history of Nordic media research through a case study of the formation of media research in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s and the role that The Board for Psychological Defence played in the formation of Swedish academic media research during the Cold War era. Based on archival research, we find that the impact of the psychological defence on Swedish media research was mainly concentrated to one Swedish university, and that the impact on the theoretical and methodological development of the discipline has been rather limited. This distinguishes the Swedish case from what has been argued in historical research on the development of media and communication research in the US.

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