Your Facebook habits can be predicted by your grandmother’s phone use Telephone culture from the 1950s can explain why and how we use Facebook and other modern social media today.
In politics, bad publicity is not better than no publicity Constant presence in the media damages the government's approval ratings, shows new study.
Is independent science journalism doomed? A debate during the Science in the City festival addressed a question that concerns science journalists around the world: does independent science media have a future?
Nordic researchers flock around comics Comics differ from other storytelling formats such as films and novels. Nordic researchers have now joined forces to understand how.
Women politicians get more bad press than men Male politicians involved in scandals are treated more mildly in Swedish newspapers than their female counterparts, according to a recent study.
The media world will suffer even more The past decade hasn’t been kind to the media world, with regular mass firings of media staff and online media struggling to gain a foothold. Things will only get worse, and that’s a threat to the informed citizen.
For online media, survival is success Times are hard for the traditional media, but actually even harder for the new online media. For them, bare survival is a success in itself, new research suggests. This can have consequences for democracy.
Movies and TV series use computer game dramaturgy Computer games have left their imprints on a variety of media. TV series such as 24 and Lost, and movies such as Inception and Lord of the Rings are clearly inspired by narrative techniques used in computer games.
What makes ’Borgen’ and ’The Killing’ special? The popular Danish TV series ’Borgen’ and ’The Killing’ are highly complex fictional series with elements of reality. This explains why viewers around the world prefer them to one-dimensional series without multiple layers.
Understanding today’s rude teens When some teenagers are being ill-mannered, violent or degrading, it’s not due to a clash with authorities. It’s because other people are without relevance in their world.
When negativity doesn’t pull the news through A news journalist has devoted her master’s thesis in psychology to bringing positivity back to journalism, replacing the negativity that is driving readers away.
