By adopting a critical perspective on power, the group aims to illuminate how 'big tech', platformisation, and globalisation influence structures within the media industry, encompassing production and distribution models, and change audience relations. The group also aims to address how media institutions function as actors within both new and established societal structures.
The research group will combine different perspectives:
- First, the group adopts a media industry perspective, concentrating on the evolving relationships and dynamics within the media sector, alongside the transformations in production and distribution models.
- Secondly, the group focuses on perspectives regarding policy-making and explores how theories of political processes, along with lobbying and advocacy, can enhance our understanding of national and international changes.
- Thirdly, the group focuses on perspectives on platformisation and how big tech, social media, and transnational streaming services influence various conditions within the industry.
- Fourthly, the group focuses on perspectives on power and examines how technological, economic, political, and cultural conditions influence key actors and structures.
Head of research group
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More about the research group
The aim of the group:
- Societal impact: Enhance awareness of the influence of platforms within our society, concentrating on the media industry. Engage in the public discussion regarding the implications of shifting power dynamics in the media industry.
- Academic purposes: To improve the quality of research about the media industry within the department and encourage investigations into these topics across the Nordic countries. Establish a platform for academic exchange and updates with invited guests, including industry professionals and researchers.
- Study objective: To enhance the quality of teaching concerning the media industry, platform power, and media policy, and to invite master's students and organise regular text seminars.
Activities
- 2–4-hour workshop held 2-3 times per semester.
- A blend of text seminars ('half-baked'), academic contributions from guests and master's students, along with collaborative readings of academic texts.
