Media, Culture and Society

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Media, Culture, Society

Chairs: Stig Hjarvard (stig@hum.ku.dk)
Professor, Department of media, cognition and communication, University of Copenhagen

Göran Bolin (goran.bolin@sh.se)
Professor, Media & Communication Studies, Södertörn University College

The division focuses on the interplay between the media and their cultural and social context. The media have emerged as a central institution of modern society, and other actors and institutions must increasingly accommodate to the logic of the media in order to gain access to the communicative resources that media control. At the same time media, including mobile and interactive media technologies, become integrated into the fabric of the wider culture and society: Work, consumption, politics, family life, religion and many other social and cultural phenomena are transformed by the increased mediatization of modern society at the same time as the media themselves are influenced by cultural and social factors. The development of new social networks, changes in political communication and governance, and the changing relationship between art, culture, and commercial market are important aspect of these new dynamics.

The media perform important rituals in modern society, both by the staging of major media events and through the ritualization of everyday social practices. Media discourses establish political realities and negotiate the social meaning of age, gender, class, and ethnicity, and media have become important vehicles for the reproduction and renewal of lifestyles. The importance of media needs to be considered in the context of other transforming forces of high modernity: globalization, individualization, commercialization etc. The division invites theoretical, historical, methodological, and empirical contributions and it will provide a forum for a renewed dialogue between the social sciences and the humanities.

Abstracts and papers
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A Bridge over Troubled Water?
Celebrity news and public connection among Finnish readers
Ahva Laura, Heikki Heikkilä, Jaana Siljamäki, Sanna Valtonen
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The effects of television
Andri Már Sigurðsson

Media, religion and scandal - a study of Finnish media discussion of a child abuse case
Andreas Häger

Facebook – self-disclosure, small talk and social play
Anne Scott Sørensen

The Social Practices of Innovation Cultures: An Ethnographic Study of Innovation
Journalism and Local Entrepreneurship
Annelie Ekelin,Britt-Marie Ringfjord

AN EDITORIAL SEWING CIRCLE – COLLABORATIVE STORYTELLING BEYOND ESTABLISHED
JOURNALISTIC PLATFORMS
Åsa Ståhl, Kristina Lindström, Margareta Melin, Johanna Rosenqvist

Facebook as a Digital Public Sphere – Colonization or Emancipation?
Bjarki Valtýsson

Fra sygdom til succes
Sundhed som moderne tv-underholdning
Christa Lykke Christensen

The Political Economy of Google
Christian Fuchs
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Which Alternative? Online Media Practices and Protest
Christina Neumayer

Ungdoms forhold til nyheter – en studie basert på mediedagbok
Dag Elgesem, Linda Elen Olsen
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