Publications
Publications by affiliated researchers
Countering Misinformation in Political Reporting
Enhancing Journalistic Legitimacy
This book examines how journalists should deal with the growing tide of political disinformation and public scepticism towards news media. Informed by the latest research from the UK and around the world, the book draws on a series of UK-based studies over a six-year period between 2019-2024, systematically analysing over 4000 news items and sources across fact-checking sites and broadcast programming. It examines audiences through a survey of more than 1,000 people, a news diary study of 200 participants, and fourteen focus groups, in addition to interviewing some of the most prominent news editors and journalists in broadcast news.
The Data Welfare State
The book provides an in-depth analysis in the contemporary shifts in welfare provision. It addresses technological changes including datafication and algorithmic automation that have relevance for public service media.
More information about the book The Data Welfare State.
The Future of the Nordic Media Model – A Digital Media Welfare State?
The edited book engages with the role of digitalisation for the Nordic media model and explores what the current challenges in the field are. Read the report
The Future Nordic Media Model on Nordicom.
Read an interview with the editors conducted by the publisher Nordicom.
Navigating the News:
Young People, Digital Culture and Everyday Life
Based on an extensive ethnography of news practices and perceptions among a broad range of youth in Sweden, this book discusses how the digitisation of news has shaped young people’s understanding of what news is, and how it is made relevant, trusted and used in the temporalities and spatialities of everyday life.
Vad tycker medborgarna om public service?
Radio och TV i allmänhetens tjänst. Givet de förpliktigande orden är det inte konstigt att public service debatteras. I grund och botten är detta bra: Public service är en institution med makt och ska därför vara föremål för diskussion och debatt.
Men samtidigt som det är positivt att public service debatteras är det olyckligt om diskussionen fastnar i ”tyckande”. När det gäller public service finns det ju hyllmeter av akademisk forskning! Att tycka är inte fel – men att argumentera utifrån fakta väger onekligen tyngre.
Public service: En svensk kunskapsöversikt vänder sig till alla med ett intresse för public service – inte minst politiker, journalister och samhällsdebattörer.
Kulturjournalistikens världar:
om kulturbevakningens politiska, globala och digitala dimensioner
Hur ser världen ut när den betraktas genom ett kulturellt filter? Hur bidrar kulturjournalistiken till förståelsen av brännande samtidshändelser och samhällsfrågor?
Är kulturjournalisternas oro för kritikens överlevnad i det digitala medielandskapet befogad? I denna bok undersöker tre medieforskare kulturjournalistikens utveckling sedan 1980-talet med särskilt fokus på omvärldsbilder och politiska dimensioner.
The audience of distant suffering and the question of (in)action
From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media.
It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and aid have been constructed in a period of evolving mass communication, demonstrating the extent to which many seemingly new phenomena in fact have long historical legacies.
Ultimately, the critical histories collected here help to challenge existing asymmetries and help those who advocate a new cosmopolitan consciousness recognizing the dignity and rights of others.
Talk Back and Participate! Cultural technologies and the making of the active audience in Swedish local radio 1977–2000
Questioning Entertainment Value: Moments of disruption in the history of Swedish television entertainment
Challenges for Swedish Public Service Television: Competition and commercialization in the news market
This book analyses the historical development of Swedish broadcasting from the introduction of radio in the mid-1920s until the early 2000s. In relation to international research, it explores key aspects of how broadcast media emerged as a way to communicate over distance, connected to audiences, and evolved into central institutions and socio-cultural universes in society.
The book derives from a large-scale research programme on Swedish broadcast history comprising about 50 studies and led by the "Swedish Foundation of Broadcast Media History".
Value and the media:
cultural production and consumption in digital markets
Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constantly make judgements of various kinds with respect to them.
This book focuses on how value – aesthetic, political and social and economic value – is produced in contemporary media and cultural production. Contending that value is not constituted by the essence of a thing, but is rather produced in social relations, through negotiations and justifications, Value and the Media discusses changes in the cultural industries over the past two decades, emphasising the rise of new, digital media, and the opportunities that these afford for the production and consumption of media texts and objects.
Richly illustrated with examples from the UK, USA and Europe, this volume explores a range of media: both old mass media and new personal media, with a constant focus on the importance of both for our understanding of the changes that have occurred on the media landscape and their implications for the production of value. As such, this book will be of interest to social scientists and theorists working in the fields of cultural and media studies, popular culture, and consumption.
Media Houses: Architecture, Media, and the Production of Centrality
In much recent theory, the media are described as ephemeral, ubiquitous, and de-localized. Yet the activity of modern media can be traced to spatial centers that are tangible enough – some even monumental.
This book offers multidisciplinary and historical perspectives on the buildings of some of the world’s major media institutions. Paradoxically, as material and aesthetic manifestations of «mediated centers» of power, they provide sites to the siteless and solidity to the immaterial. The authors analyse the ways that architectural form and organization reflect different eras, media technologies, ideologies, and relations with the public in media houses from New York and Silicon Valley to London, Moscow, and Beijing.
TV-journalistik i konkurrensens tid: nyhets- och samhällsprogram i svensk TV 1990–2004
TV är för de flesta en av de viktigaste källorna till nyheter och information om politik och samhälle. Hur ha nyhets- och samhällsprogram i svensk TV förändrats sedan avskaffandet av TV-monopolet? Har konkurrensen lett till fördjupning, större bredd och mångfald? Har nyhets- och samhällsprogrammen i svensk TV kommersialiserats?
Vilken betydelse har förändringarna för den svenska demokratin? Detta är bara några av de frågor som behandlas i boken, som undersöker vad som egentligen har hänt med nyhets- och samhällsprogrammen sedan svensk TV gick från monopol till konkurrens.
Från klubbrum till medielabyrint: ungdomsprogram i radio och TV 1925–1993
Boken följer ungdomsprogrammens etablering och utveckling genom radioprogram som Fönstret, Klubb Fiskartorpet, Tonårsträffen, Tio i Topp, Tvärs, Hemma hos och Metropol.
Utbudet sätts också in i ett vidare socialt och kulturellt sammanhang och diskuteras i förhållande till etermediernas föränderliga funktion gentemot publik och samhälle.