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• Kulturjournalistikens världar: Om kulturbevakningens politiska, globala och digitala dimensioner

  2022. Kristina Riegert, Anna Roosvall, Andreas Widholm.

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  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. Författarna kartlägger innehåll i tidningar, radio och tv och intervjuar kulturjournalister. De diskuterar de sociala mediernas betydelse och belyser svenskarnas intresse för kulturjournalistik. 

  Det visar sig att kulturjournalistiken har ett unikt anslag jämfört med traditionell nyhetsjournalistik och politisk opinionsbildning. Den rör sig gärna bortom nationalstatliga förståelseramar och är debattdrivande på ett särpräglat sätt. Laddade kulturdebatter om #metoo, terrorism och identitetspolitik breder ut sig och lockar till klick. Samtidigt har recensionsgenren fortfarande en given roll i utbudet, även om den befinner sig i klicklandskapets utkanter. 

  Boken ger en unik inblick i en sällan belyst del av det svenska medielandskapet, och tillför ny kunskap om kulturjournalistikens särskilda stildrag samt de roller den spelar i samhället och demokratin. 

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• Abundance or crisis? Transformations in the media ecology of Swedish cultural journalism over four decades

  2021. Andreas Widholm, Kristina Riegert, Anna Roosvall. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism 22 (6), 1413-1430

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  The aim of this study is to map and scrutinize developments within Swedish cultural journalism, with a particular focus on transformations in genres, text types and thematic repertoires. Drawing on a constructed week sample from press, television and radio during four decades (1985, 1995, 2005, 2015), we address three aspects of 'the crisis discourse' of cultural journalism: (1) the potential decline in cultural coverage due to economic cutbacks and downsized cultural desks; (2) cultural journalism's perceived 'quality crisis' connected to transformations of thematic repertoires; and (3) the alleged decline of cultural expertise related to changes in cultural journalism's generic structures. The study makes a unique contribution to cultural journalism scholarship by identifying media-specific differences and complementary relationships between media forms, building on media ecology and genre theory. In contrast to the crisis discourse, results show that cultural journalism has expanded significantly through popularization and thematic and generic diversification, but the transformations are different in press, radio and television due to differing role positions in the larger media ecosystem. In addition, some parts of the cultural journalism media ecology appear to be endangered.

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• Cultural Communication as Political Communication

  2021. Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Anna Roosvall. Power, Communication, and Politics in the Nordic Countries, 177-196

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  This chapter makes the argument that issues related to the cultural public sphere should be considered part of the political communication circuit. Cultural journalism in the Nordic context is a central case in point. On the side of arts, popular culture, and lifestyle, Nordic cultural journalism at times includes reporting and debate about sociocultural and politically saturated issues such as climate change, migration, terrorism, freedom of speech, identity politics, and gender inequalities. The chapter highlights three theoretical approaches, intersecting with the field of political communication, which have been of particular importance in Nordic scholarship about cultural journalism: public sphere theory, the politics of recognition, and the sociology of (cultural) journalism. The media coverage and debates about #metoo in Danish and Swedish cultural journalism in late 2017 serve to illustrate the arguments about the political in cultural journalism and reveals its quantitative salience as well as its qualitative specificities.

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• Introduction to climate justice communication

  2020. Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg. Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change, 291-292

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  Theme VIII. Climate Justice Communication:

  This theme consists of two chapters, one largely theoretical piece, drawing on previous studies to suggest future directions for research, and one applied case study. Both chapters discuss the situations of Indigenous peoples and illuminate challenges of communicating climate justice across diverse communicational and geographical contexts. Roosvall and Tegelberg (Chapter 22) detail how attention to economic, cultural, and political justice must be combined with attention to geographical scope, suggesting that future research consider how geographical scales are combined or disconnected in climate change reporting for diverse types of media. In Chapter 23, Yagodin applies a pluralistic climate justice approach, which includes justice for nature, and zooms in on Russian climate change reporting. He examines how calls for climate justice were largely excluded from journalistic, but not NGO, framings of the 2016 anthrax outbreak on the Yamal peninsula. Together, these contributions highlight possibilities and challenges for justly communicating about climate justice.

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• Media and Climate Migration: Transnational and Local Reporting on Vulnerable Island Communities

  2020. Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg, Florencia Enghel. Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities, 83-98

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  Climate-induced migration is a global challenge that affects specific local communities unevenly. This chapter addresses it as an issue of climate justice via three cases concerning U.S. islands: Sarichef Island in Alaska, Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana, and Puerto Rico. The cases were selected for their similarities and differences concerning degrees of poverty, indigenous populations and rights, and political representation. These aspects correspond to three dimensions of injustice: economic, cultural and political. Our aim is to explore how climate migration is understood in local and transnational media and if and how issues of justice appear in selected news coverage.

  To this purpose, we apply multimodal critical discourse analysis on a small sample of newspaper articles for each case. Findings indicate that transnational journalism tends to attend to economic injustice and scalar transcendence (local-global scales), while local journalism uniquely includes connections between two or more justice dimensions, which is necessary for the amendment of injustice, and scalar integration, where the needs of people are not motivated by what the rest of the world can learn, but viewed as crucial in themselves. There are also differences between the cases, indicating that acceptance for climate migration as a term varies across communities.

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• The importance of the matters, geographies, and mediations of justice

  2020. Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg. Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change, 293-304

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  This chapter draws upon existing research on media and climate justice to outline an agenda for future research on climate justice communication. By focusing on the challenges faced particularly by Indigenous and other frontline communities around the world, we demonstrate that this agenda must pay close heed to geographical scales and how these are (dis)connected in climate change reporting. Drawing on Fraser (2014), we outline how diverse matters of justice (economic, cultural, political) interact as conditions for climate justice. By detailing key areas, concepts and analytical distinctions, we offer a way forward in terms of communicating climate justice as well as for researching climate change communication through a lens of justice theory and analysis. The chapter ultimately illuminates how the intersection between matters of justice, geographical scales and diverse media (local, national, transnational) make communicating demands for climate justice such a challenging task; yet one filled with opportunities.

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• Allt mer tolkande journalistik: subjektivitet, åsikter och känslor i nyhetsmedierna

  2019. Anna Roosvall, Andreas Widholm. Nyheter - allt mer en tolkningsfråga

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  I det här kapitlet undersöker vi hur förekomsten av tolkande journalistik varierar mellan medier, ämnesområden och över tid, samt hur den tolkande journalistiken förhåller sig till känslor. Vi tar avstamp i ett antal tidigare studier om subjektiv, tolkande och känslomässig journalistik och analyserar därefter utvecklingen med särskild tonvikt på journalistikens bidrag till demokratin.

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• Cultural Journalism

  2018. Kristina Riegert, Anna Roosvall, Andreas Widholm. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

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  Cultural journalism is a subfield of journalism that encompasses what is known as arts journalism. While arts journalism is characterized by reviews, critique, news, and essays about the arts and popular culture, cultural journalism has a broader take on culture, including lifestyle issues, societal debate, and reflective ethical discussion by cultural personas or expressed in a literary style. Both arts and cultural journalists see their work as “journalism with a difference,” evoking different perspectives and worldviews from those dominating mainstream news reporting. At the same time, cultural journalism shares with journalism issues like boundary work, genre blurring, digitalization, globalization, professionalization, and “the crisis of journalism.” There are three main ways cultural journalism has been studied: one research strand defines cultural journalism as material produced by the cultural desks or material that is explicitly labelled cultural journalism; another defines it as journalism about culture, regardless of how it is labelled or produced; and a third strand includes only arts journalism, examining journalistic content on the fine arts and popular culture. Studies from all of these approaches are included in this article due to the effort to include a wide variety of countries at different time periods and an effort to track joint defining features and developments in cultural journalism. The emphasis is on the Nordic context, where the term “cultural journalism” is well established and where research is relatively comprehensive. The research is divided into three themes: the cultural public sphere and the contribution to democracy; cultural journalism’s professionalism and the challenges of digitalization; and transnational and global aspects of cultural journalism, including tendencies such as cultural homogenization and hybridization.

  International research on cultural journalism as a subfield has been complicated by its varying designations (arts journalism, feuilleton, journalism about culture, entertainment), and its numerous aesthetic forms, disciplines, or types of culture, all of which are changing over time. Despite these issues, research points in the same direction: the amount of cultural journalism is increasing, and the boundaries against other types of journalism are becoming more porous. There is also a decline in editorial autonomy. In common with journalism, there is an increase in generalists working with culture and greater central managerial control in new multiplatform media organizations. The research points to an increase in a more transnationally oriented cultural journalism, mainly through a larger share of cultural news and popular culture—while its core, review and critique, has changed in character, or arguably lost ground. The increasing “newsification” of cultural journalism should prompt future research on whether the “watchdog” role vis-à-vis the cultural industries is growing. New forms of art and culture are beginning to get coverage, but also, in some cases, the intermixing of “lifestyle” with cultural journalism. The commercialization and celebrity aspects of this are clear, but new digital platforms have also enabled new voices and different formats of cultural journalism and a wider dissemination and intensity in cultural debates, all of which emphasize its democratic potential. New research on this subject appears to focus on the longitudinal changes in cultural journalism, the implications of digitalization and globalization, and cultural journalism in broadcasting.

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• Media and Transnational Climate Justice: Indigenous Activism and Climate Politics

  2018. Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg.

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  Media and Transnational Climate Justice captures the intriguing nexus of globalization, crisis, justice, activism and news communication, at a time when radical measures are increasingly demanded to address one of the most pressing global issues: climate change. Anna Roosvall and Matthew Tegelberg take a unique approach to climate justice by focusing on transnational rather than international aspects, thereby contributing to the development of theories of justice for a global age, as well as in relation to media studies. The book specifically explores the roles, situations and activism of indigenous peoples who do not have full representation at UN climate summits despite being among those most exposed to injustices pertaining to climate change, as well as to injustices relating to politics and media coverage. This book thus scrutinizes political and ideological dimensions of the global phenomenon of climate change through interviews and observations with indigenous activists at UN climate summits, in combination with extensive empirical research conducted on legacy and social media coverage of climate change and indigenous peoples. The authors conclude by discussing transnational solidarity and suggest a solidarian mode of communication as a response to both the global crisis of climate change and the broader issues of injustice faced by indigenous peoples regarding redistribution, recognition and political representation.

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• The Transnationalism of Cultural Journalism in Sweden: Outlooks and Introspection in the Global Era

  2018. Anna Roosvall, Andreas Widholm. International Journal of Communication 12, 1431-1451

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  Cultural journalism is a unique and underresearched subfield of journalism. This article presents the first systematic study of Swedish cultural journalism, quantitatively mapping content from four decades, zooming in on the years 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015. We study conceptions of the world outside Sweden during times marked by geopolitical turning points, globalization, and rapid structural transformations in the journalistic market. Employing content analysis of a representative sample from the press and public service radio, we explore geographical and scalar aspects, with a focus on political and global dimensions. Although we found evidence for Eurocentrism and domestication-staples of Western journalism overall-results show that Swedish cultural journalism was a steady conveyor of transnational narratives during all studied periods, which together with a primarily nonconflictual approach, sets cultural journalism apart from foreign news and decreases the risk of misframing in a globalized world.

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• Cultural journalism as a contribution to democratic discourse in Sweden

  2017. Kristina Riegert, Anna Roosvall. Cultural Journalism in the Nordic Countries, 89-108

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  This chapter traces the historical development of Swedish cultural journalism as a distinctive contributor to societal debate and aesthetic discourse in the mainstream media. How did Swedish cultural journalism come to have this dual focus on politics and artistic expression, and where does it stand in relation to today’s digital media landscape? The chapter deals with the hybrity of this sub-field of journalism, the meta-debates about its professionalisation and commercialisation, key cultural editors that staked out a space for cultural journalism in their newspapers and how the public service media gradually took on their own cultural journalistic roles in relation to the press.

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• Editorial and Cultural Debates in Danish and Swedish Newspapers: Understanding the terror attacks in Paris and Copenhagen in early 2015

  2017. Nete Nørgaard Kristensen, Anna Roosvall. Cultural Journalism in the Nordic Countries, 135-157

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  This chapter analyses Danish and Swedish editorial/op-ed and cultural opinion articles in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris and Copenhagen in early 2015. Based on a theoretical framework detailing agonistic democracy, and deliberative and antagonistic approaches, a quantitative analysis maps who voices opinions and what conflicts and contexts are evoked, pointing to similarities in how events are understood on a broader level. A qualitative analysis of polarizations, key concepts, reference points, and linguistic registers, specifying who is pictured as 'other' and how relationships to 'others' are imagined, indicates differences both between countries and between newspaper sections: While editorials, particularly Danish, often display one-sided stereotypical polarising antagonistic world-views, and Swedish artilces display tendencies to abandoning previous multicultural approaches, (particularly Swedish) cultural opinion articles evoke conflictual co-existence, drawing on multiple cultural/political/philosophical contexts, thereby underlining cultural journalism's crucial role for agonistic democracy in aglobalising world.

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• Journalism, Climate Change, Justice and Solidarity: Editorializing the IPCC AR5

  2017. Anna Roosvall. Media and Global Climate Knowledge, 129-150

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  Justice is a significant undercurrent in journalism and in international politics on climate change. Yet it is too seldom explicitly discussed or problematized in these contexts. This largely theoretical and explorative chapter heeds the re-thinking of justice, responsibility and solidarity in a globalizing world, as expressed in political philosophy as well as in media studies. The international politics of climate change are most pertinently discussed and evaluated in editorials, which provide the research material for this chapter. In qualitatively examined example editorials from high-income countries, the discourse calls for global action while concurrently applying diverse versions of domestication. The editorials use strong obligation modality language (something “must” be done), refer to responsibility and justice, but do not specify the injustice or what should be done to amend it. The discourse does not (yet) reassess economic privilege or the dynamics of political representation. It is a solidaritarian discourse, but only vaguely so due to lack of specifications.

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• The mediated politics of place and people: picturing the 'contested place-making' of Irish Travellers at Dale Farm

  2017. Anna Roosvall. Social Identities 23 (3), 343-359

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  This article discusses meanings of people-place relationships, relating to ethnicity-class-gender intersections. The case examined concerns the 'contested place-making' of Irish Travellers at Dale Farm (UK), where the Travellers were eventually evicted from a place they owned. The material consists mainly of online slideshows in the Guardian. Visuals and place share the role of concretizing news, situating them and underlining their truth claims. Hence, news visuals are well suited for discussions of relationships between places and peoples. The study comprises theories of media, place and identity, relating to mobility, minorities and globalization. Methodologically, compositional analysis, discourse-theoretical method and an intersectional approach are combined. The place conflict is rarely understood in terms of justice. Instead, ethnicity-class-gender intersections appear as significant in the imagery, countering certain old stereotypes, but also connecting to discourses of 'threatening minorities', and 'bad mobility'. Manifested through excessive imagery of barricades/fences/walls/gates, 'identity management' meets 'place management', detaching some identities from some places. The Travellers thus appear as anomalies, separated from others. This is partly connected to the slideshow format, where linguistic elaboration on motifs is very limited, partly to the selection of certain themes and motifs in the slideshows, and partly to the societal politics surrounding the issue.

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• Journalistik, rättvisa och rättigheter

  2016. Anna Roosvall. Människorna, medierna & marknaden, 303-328

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  Rättvisa brukar definieras som rätten att delta på samma villkor som alla andra (Fraser, 2008). Deltagande är samtidigt centralt i diskussioner om journalistik och särskilt digital journalistik. Men att rättvisa krävs för att alla ska kunna delta på lika villkor lyfts sällan fram. Det krävs ett rättvist samhälle för att rättigheter ska kunna utnyttjas. Därmed krävs inom journalistiken en medvetenhet om rättvisedimensioner och rättvisekonflikter samt dessas starka koppling till rättigheter. I detta kapitel belyser jag hur ökad medvetenhet om relationer mellan journalistik, rättvisa och rättigheter kan bidra till ett mer hållbart demokratiskt samhälle, inte minst i en globaliserande tid. Medborgares deltagande diskuteras i anslutning till detta utifrån en uppdelning i: direkt deltagande, där medborgare kan göra sig hörda utan journalistisk inramning (utanför journalisters artiklar/inslag) och indirekt deltagande, genom representation av medborgare i journalistiska texter. Detta illustreras med exempel från två områden: (diskussioner om) kommentarsfält på nyhetssajter samt rapportering om minoriteter. I det senare fallet diskuteras hur ursprungsfolk och klimaträttvisa, respektive romer skildras i pressen. Dessa empiriska delar anknyter på olika sätt till centrala ämnen för en rättvis mediepolitik, nämligen: minoriteters villkor och möjligheter, diskriminering, mångfald, inomnationella såväl som transnationella dimensioner, samt hur medborgare återges av och överlag har möjlighet att delta i medier (se även Hulténs kapitel kring mångfald i journalistiken). I det följande skisseras en bakgrund gällande lagar, konventioner och deklarationer om diskriminering, mänskliga rättigheter, yttrandefrihet och mångfald. Denna lägger grunden för den efterföljande genomgången av teorier om och tidigare studier av rättvisa och ansvar respektive rättigheter och demokrati, i relation till globalisering och digitalisering. I avsnittet om rättigheter och demokrati anknyts kort forskning kring kulturjournalistik i press och public service-medier och särskilt pressdebattens betydelse för demokratin. De huvudsakliga empiriska exemplen ges dock i två påföljande avsnitt vilka söker svara på i vilken mån medborgare ur olika grupper kan delta i medierna genom 1) att delta direkt i diskussioner på diskussionsforum, såsom kommentarsfält i online-medier genom tillgång till a) tekniska förutsättningar, samt b) sociala förutsättningar som demokratiska säkra samtalsmiljöer och 2) att delta indirekt genom att få sina perspektiv erkända och röster hörda i berättelser om gruppen (exemplifierat med forskning om ursprungsfolk och romer). Kapitlet avslutas med en sammanställning av slutsatser och implikationer för mediepolitiken, utifrån de perspektiv som här belyser ämnesområdet.

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• Media and Nationalism

  2016. Anna Roosvall. The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism

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  Mass media and nationalism have been intertwined for as long as they have existed. In Europe the introduction of the printing press, together with increased use of folk languages, became essential for the emergence of mass media and nationalism alike. Media development has subsequently repeatedly coincided with nationalistic tendencies, as when the peak of imperialism intersected with the emergence of the telegraph and of photography. Media and nationalism are perhaps most obviously entangled in times of war and conflict, when both regulation and language use may become more nationalistic. Moreover, the gendered nature of mediated nationalism tends to stand out most clearly in wartime too. Media and nationalism can furthermore be understood in terms of “hot” versus “banal” forms, spatial categorization, media ownership and laws, postcolonialism, consumerism, and methodological nationalism in journalistic methodology. Previous dichotomization of nationalism and globalization in research has recently been countered through terms such as “hybridity” and “trans‐locality.”

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• Natural Ecology Meets Media Ecology: Indigenous Climate Change Activists’ Views on Nature and Media

  2016. Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg. The Environment in the Age of the Internet, 75-104

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  This chapter examines how views on natural ecology connect to specific media ecologies. It focuses particularly on how activists in organisations working to highlight indigenous perspectives on climate change, and the threat climate change poses to many indigenous communities, discuss traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Read it here: http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/484/

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• Religion, globalization and commodification in online world news slideshows: the dis/connection of images and texts

  2016. Anna Roosvall. Social Semiotics 26 (1), 76-93

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  Lately, possibilities of producing and spreading news pictures have increased explosively through online media. Concurrently, religion has become increasingly salient in politics and news. Both processes are connected to globalization. This study encompasses globalization, religion and online images and aims to convey how online world news slideshows represent religion, and more particularly how linguistic and visual parts of picture paragraphs are interrelated, as well as related to representations of different religions. Methodologically multimodal analysis and discourse analysis are combined, focusing on composition of images and (dis-)connection of images and texts. Theories on globalization and possibilities and particularities of online news (pictures) and slideshows, frame the analysis. Tendencies to templates for different religions are found. Many religions appear as aesthetic commodities in images, whereas Islam in texts sells images of violence/destruction. Image-text relations are thus crucial both in the creation of meaning and of commodities in online news image culture. Two main image-text types are identified: Religion in text, (potential) violence/destruction/despair in picture (Islam) and Spirituality/worshipping/aestheticism (other religions). The world news slideshows have crucial roles as containers for these polarized image-text types, where they are related to and defined by each other in the genre's (cl)aim to cover the whole world.

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• Kulturjournalistik

  2015. Anna Roosvall, Kristina Riegert, Andreas Widholm. Handbok i journalistikforskning, 263-282

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• Media and the Geographies of Climate Justice: Indigenous Peoples, Nature and the Geopolitics of Climate Change

  2015. Anna Roosvall, Matthew Tegelberg. tripleC 13 (1), 39-54

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  Climate change has universal, global implications and uneven, particular local effects. Examining how this complex phenomenon is understood in public discourse calls for the merging of theorizing on geography, justice, nature and the mediation of environmental protest. This article combines these strands to discuss relationships between peoples, places, politics, nature and the media in terms of climate justice. Empirical examples are drawn from interviews conducted with indigenous activists and observations of press events organized by indigenous groups during a U.N. climate summit. We argue that the “misframing” of indigenous peoples at international climate summits underlines the necessity to integrate the perspectives of marginalized, transnational groups and their growing demands for climate justice into future media research on climate change, and the need for a reframing of the mediation of climate change.

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• Medier och intersektionalitet

  2015. Anna Roosvall, Kristina Widestedt. Mediers känsla för kön, 35-53

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  Intersektionalitet är ett begrepp som alltmer kommit att influera genus- och feministisk forskning under senare år. Det har dock mer sällan applicerats i mediestudier. I det följande diskuterar och operationaliserar vi intersektionella angreppssätt i relation till mediestudier. Vi utgår ifrån ett par exempelartiklar som vi inledningsvis analyserar med fokus på olika sociala kategorier såsom kön, klass, etnicitet och nationalitet, för att sedan övergå till en integrerad intersektionell analys där kategorierna ”griper in i varandra” och smälter sam- man. Utifrån dessa exempel definierar vi intersektionalitetssstudier närmare och diskuterar fördelar såväl som svårigheter med intersektionalitet som metod. För att ytterligare belysa hur intersektionella angrepssätt och mediestudier kan korsbefrukta varandra, redogör vi sedan för ett antal avgörande traditioner inom medie- och kulturforskningen och diskuterar betydelsen av hur man där förstår makt, sanningsanspråk, identitet och representation – vilka alla utgör centrala ingredienser också i intersektionella angreppssätt. Avslutningsvis argumenterar vi för en ökad användning av intersektionella perspektiv i mediestudier; för en ökad uppmärksamhet kring komplexiteten i mänskliga identiteter och (makt-)relationer i medieutbudet såväl som i samhället.

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• Romregister och brott på topp: Rapportering om romer i Dagens Nyheter och Aftonbladet 1995-2014

  2015. Ester Pollack, Anna Roosvall. Mediebilden av romer, 10-31

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  Medierapportering spelar roll. Det har sällan varit så tydligt som när DN den 8 maj 2015 skriver på förstasidan: ”Polischefen ber romer om ursäkt. Eliasson lovar bättring efter DN:s avslöjande”. Rubriken refererar till DN:s egen reportageserie om det så kallade rom-registret i september 2013, ett polisregister där romer och resande registrerades oavsett om de begått brott eller inte. Barn såväl som avlidna var medräknade. Rubriken från 2015 visar att DN:s avslöjande fått en tydlig effekt. Polischefens ursäkt får också sin så viktiga offentliga karaktär just genom att den rapporteras i medierna. På detta sätt kommer ursäkten till allmän kännedom. På samma sätt har all annan medierapportering om romer betydelse för kunskap om och förståelse av romers situation. Den offentliga diskussionen om romer har varit särskilt påtaglig det senaste decenniet. Debattens vågor har gått höga inte bara kring romregistret, utan också kring främst rumänska romer som tigger och sover på gator och i tältläger i Sverige. Rapporteringen om romer berör rörligheten av arbetskraft inom EU-området, frågor om social och ekonomisk utslagning samt debatt om nationalism, ”främlingsfientlighet” och ren rasism. I en ny norsk surveystudie och forskningsrapport om tillresande fattiga från Rumänien i Oslo, Köpenhamn och Stockholm pekas det på att migranterna – både romer och andra – i huvudsak kommer från grupper och lokalsamhällen som har upplevt ökande grad av social marginalisering och fattigdom i hemlandet (Djuve, Friberg, Tyldum & Zhang, 2015). I vår studie undersöker vi medierapportering kring romer under de senaste 20 åren, från och med Sveriges EU-inträde 1995 till och med 2014 då rapporteringen om ”romer”, ”zigenare”, ”EU-migranter”, ”tiggare” och allt vad denna grupp kallas, med tiden blir mycket intensiv. När en grupp får många namn på detta sätt är det inte så säkert att det är ett ”kärt barn”; lingvisten Roger Fowler (1991) kallar det istället ”överlexikalisering”, ett fenomen som inträffar då något är omstritt och/eller definierat som onormalt. Vi studerar artiklar från Aftonbladet och Dagens Nyheter, de två mest lästa tidningarna ur de gamla kategorierna kvällstidning respektive morgontidning. På detta sätt kommer vi åt både de artiklar som når ut allra bredast via Aftonbladet, och de som publiceras i det organ som brukar betraktas som allra mest avgörande för opinionsbildning i Sverige: DN.

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• The political in cultural journalism: Fragmented interpretative communities in the digital age

  2015. Kristina Riegert, Anna Roosvall, Andreas Widholm. Journalism Practice 9 (6), 773-790

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  This article explores how nine Swedish cultural editors and managers in mainstream media institutions define cultural journalism and its political dimensions during times of increased digitization and media convergence. Swedish cultural journalism is aesthetic and political critique applied to subject areas (music, literature, etc.) and contemporary societal and ethical issues. Drawing on Zelizer we ask whether there is a common interpretive community of cultural journalists in different media regarding: (1) how they define their scope, (2) how they understand “the political” in cultural journalism and its implications for democracy, and (3) how they view media convergence and digitalization. We find that although editors/managers from different media share a basic understanding of cultural journalism as an alternative perspective to news, “the political” in cultural journalism is approached differently in the press and the public service broadcast media. Furthermore, due in part to structural conditions, they also see the effects of digitization differently, forming sub-communities on two counts. This study thus contributes new knowledge to a field previously focused almost exclusively on newspapers.

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