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Media in Motion : Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region.
Title:
Media in Motion : Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region.
Author:
Eide, Elisabeth.
ISBN:
9781409404477
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Series:
Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Change of Climate -- 2 In Case of Diversity: Dilemmas of Sharing Good Practices Across Borders in European Broadcasting -- 3 'Drumming, Drumming, Drumming': Diversity Work in Swedish Newsrooms -- 4 Investigators or Integrators? Broadcast Journalists Covering Multicultural Norway -- 5 Being Me, Being Us, Being Them: Experienced Media Actors Negotiating their Minority Backgrounds -- 6 'Just Like Vacuum Cleaning …': Reporting the Roma Beggar Tourists in Norway -- 7 Borders of the Finnish Nation: Media Politics and Rape by 'Foreign' Perpetrators -- 8 'Japanese, Japanese, Japanese …': Representations of East Asians in Contemporary Swedish Visual Culture -- 9 From Lonely Guest Workers to Conflict-ridden Diasporas: A Historical Survey of Norwegian Migrant Cinema -- 10 Sing a Song, but Stay Out of Politics: Two Cases of Representations of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Danish Media -- 11 Commercial Television, Multicultural Drama and Migrant Audiences in Finland -- 12 Transcending the National Imagery: Digital Online Media and the Transnational Networks of Ethnic Minority Youth in Norway -- 13 Satellite Living: Transnational Television and Migrant Youth in Finland -- 14 Everyday Mediated Practices of Citizenship: Struggling with a New Language and Culture Through Media -- 15 Understanding the Audience in a Multicultural Society -- Index.
Abstract:
Owing to increased migration dating from the 1990s, Nordic countries have gone through substantial cultural and social changes, resulting in increased debate surrounding the politics of multiculturalism. One of the central realms of the discussion around multiculturalism in the Nordic region concerns the media, which is considered to be a vital factor in the construction of society's values, as well as an essential tool in the integration process of migrants, providing as it does a symbolic arena for learning about and becoming part of society. This collection draws together the latest research from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to look at different aspects of the relationship between media and migration in the Nordic region. Exploring the role played by the media in nation building and the power of the media in the definition of who 'belongs' in society, Media in Motion examines the practices of inclusion and exclusion that characterise mainstream media representations. The book also examines the manner in which recent technological changes suggest the emergence of a transnational and cosmopolitan media landscape; a space which blurs the boundaries of the national and transnational, as well as between the public and the private, with significant implications for the ways migrants may take and become part of society. As such, it will be of interest to those working in the fields of media, race and ethnicity, colonialism and postcolonial studies, and migration.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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