The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era

by Trine Syvertsen, Ole J. Mjøs, Hallvard Moe

The Media Welfare Nordic Media in the Digital Era  comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries—Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland—and the ways media organizations there are transforming to address the new digital environment. Taking a comparative approach, the authors provide an overview of media institutions, content, use, and policy throughout the region, focusing on the impact of information and communication technology/internet and digitalization on the Nordic media sector. Illustrating the shifting media landscape the authors draw on a wide range of cases, including developments in the press, television, the public service media institutions, and telecommunication.

164 pages, Hardcover

First published February 28, 2014

About the author

Trine Syvertsen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo. She has published extensively on topics of online media, television, media policy and media history in international journals. Syvertsen is author of several books including Media Resistance: Dislike, Protest, Abstention (Palgrave, 2017) and co-author of The Media Welfare State (University of Michigan Press, 2014). She is currently chairing a four year research project on invasive media and digital detox (Digitox 2019–2023). Trine Syvertsen has held a range of academic leadership positions, serves on editorial boards, contributes to public debates and is an experienced public speaker.

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