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This dissertation analyses the power and democratic function of political commentators writing for legacy newspapers in contemporary Norway. Although such commentators are highly visible in the public debate, this study finds that their overall readership has decreased significantly in the last decade. Commentators increasingly form and inform an e...
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... broadsheets, while Dagens Naeringsliv is a liberal business paper. The newspapers in question are better understood as similar to news outlets such as The Guardian or The Washington Post. Audience maps provided by the Newman and colleagues (2017:38) illustrates that the UK's online audience is far more polarised than its Norwegian counterpart ( Fig. 1). This lack of polarisation amongst the audiences of Norwegian mainstream media may surprise someone accustomed to United Kingdom tabloids or the North- American press, but as noted by Hallin and Mancini (2004), the Scandinavian Democratic Corporatist media model is different from both the Mediterranean (Polarised Pluralist) model and ...
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... is evident that paywalls have a pronounced effect on the accessibility of political commentary. While Norwegians have the world's highest willingness to pay for digital news, remarkably more so than the British people, only fifteen per cent have an ongoing online news subscription (Fig. 10, p. 40). Amongst those who do not pay for online news, fifty-five per cent report that it is "highly unlikely" that they will do so in the future ( Sakariassen et al. 2017). The most common explanation that these respondents provide is that they already have access to free online news (ibid.), which can refer to both the credible public ...
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... and colleagues (2017) digital traffic stems from Facebook -which is said to be a "significant decrease". This is pertinent, seeing that VG is the most prominent news outlet on social media amongst the five newspapers in question (Fig. 2, p. 13). The development of decreasing reach may be explained by the algorithmic changes introduced by interviewed for this study report that the importance of social media is ...
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... journalistic and political interview subjects worry about the rise of the alt-right, an opinion in keeping with the writings of Sunstein (2017) and Nagle (2017). One commentator explains that "Resett, Document, and Rights are amongst the most shared news outlets every single day", an assessment confirmed by my statistical findings (Fig. 2, p. 13). The implications of this development are eloquently articulated by a young female ...
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Purpose: This article investigates how English competence is perceived and valued in China’s matchmaking market, paying special attention to how English proficiency is mentioned on matrimonial posters publicly displayed in the market. Methods: The study is qualitative by nature. Fieldwork was conducted in the market to obtain information such as the size, layout, opening time etc., and pictures of dating adverts were taken. Information regarding candidates’ English competence on the adverts was collected and subject to further thematic analysis. Conclusions: Qualitative analysis of the dating adverts showed that English competence is generally perceived as a valuable attribute, a type of institutionalized cultural capital in the market. It is also regarded as a gatekeeper of marriage opportunities, meaning that it is used by candidates to seek potential partners with similar socioeconomic status, and to weed out “disqualified bidders.” Implications: The findings highlight the discrepancy between official ideology of English and ideology of English held by the general public. Marriage candidates have their own ways of making sense of official ideology of English based on their private agenda, and use it as a stepping stone to maximize the symbolic and material profit of the marriage transaction.
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The internet and digital platforms provide commentary- and opinion-based journalism with new opportunities to develop into new digital formats, such as podcasts. This article is based on the case studies of four Norwegian podcasts in 2020 and 2021. The findings show that commentary journalism in the form of podcasts has an obvious dual purpose: as publicity and as a commercial. The podcast facilitates a societal mission for the public while creating branded goods for the companies involved. Based on the material and the categories we had constructed, we developed a set of binaries that, understood as typologies, capture important dimensions of the differences between the podcasts. These binaries are monologue vs. dialogue, factual vs. personal, reflexive vs. assertive, and intellectual discussants vs. experts. In the article, we discuss how podcasts draw commentary journalism in a dialogical direction. We also discuss what impact this has upon public reasoning and the democratic role of commentary journalism.
