Monika Djerf-Pierre

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• PhD
• Professor (Full) at University of Gothenburg

Constructive or solutions-focused news is often promoted as a way to mitigate news avoidance and declining levels of trust in mainstream news media. The constitutive element of the constructive approach is the prioritization of solutions-focused news stories. Rather than reporting negative, conflict-driven news about societal issues, journalism sho...

This study addresses how issue familiarity conditions longitudinal news framing effect dynamics. Comparing how the economic consequences frame impacts interpretation of two global problems—antimicrobial resistance and climate change—we study longitudinal effects across two similar issues varying significantly in salience and politicization, focusin...

This article examines whether shifts in news media attention to societal issues matter for how strong beliefs citizens have about those issues. Based on an issue signal approach, in which media salience is conceptualized as signal strength, the study analyzes whether sociotropic beliefs become more prevalent, extreme, and certain when news media sa...

The basictheme of this artide is gender and power in the field of journalism in Sweden. It is not controversial to assert that journalism, historically speaking, evolved as a male-dominated field. Despite the high level of gender quality in Sweden, however, this pattern remains the case. Drawing on Bourdieu's theories on habitus, capital and field...

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing the world. With the rapid growth of social media, YouTube has become an influential social media platform providing publics with expert health knowledge. This article explores how antimicrobial resistance is communicated on YouTube. Drawing on qualitative media analyses of the most v...

The lack of women’s voices, status, and recognition in the news media is a challenge to both human rights and a sustainable future. Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe addresses longstanding questions in the study of gender equality in media content and media organizations across countries and over time. Drawing on data from the Gl...

Gender equality in the media is emphasized by the United Nations as one of the critical issues for the future, specifically through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action from 1995, where women and the media is one of twelve areas where actions are to be taken. Yet we know surprisingly little about the factors that encourage gender equalit...

The chapter examines the possible explanations to the variations in gender equality in news media content across the globe by drawing from two different approaches: the modernization approach and the gendered media fields approach. The modernization approach links the level of gender equality in the media to broader processes of socioeconomic devel...

The aim of this chapter is to develop such a unitary measure of gender equality in news media content. Although gender and journalism has been on the agenda at least since the 1970s, we still lack a robust and easy-to-use measure to quantify, assess, and track the magnitude and persistence of gender inequalities in the news. By drawing from data co...

News media can be an important source of information about emerging health threats. They are also significant sites for the production of narrative on threats to life that help to condition and reflect the responses of governments and publics. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one such health threat with particular significance because it represent...

The rationale for this study is that self-categorising rating scales are becoming increasingly popular in large-scale survey research moving beyond binary ways of measuring gender. We are referring here to the use of rating scales that are similar to graded scales capturing left–right or liberal–conservative political ideology, that is, scales that...

Across surveys and regardless of controls, women in many Western countries are consistently more politically left-leaning than men. More recently, however, innovative measures of non-binary gender identity suggest important heterogeneity in political attitudes within the categories of ‘women’ and ‘men’. Building from this, we study the direct and c...

The article examines how local government officials in Sweden use social media and to what extent the emergence of social media has altered the relationship to conventional news media. The article examines the development of local government-media relations across time on the basis of a unique survey-based data set comparing the local political and...

Social media and local government The advent of social media such as Facebook, Twitter and blogs provide government institutions with both challenges and opportunities (Klang and Nolin, 2011; Magro, 2012). On the one hand there is potential to increasing legitimacy through involvement, collaboration and dialogue (Knox, 2013). Social media allows ci...

First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores the intersections between governance and media in western democracies, which have undergone profound recent changes. Many governmental powers have been shifted toward a host of network parties such as NGOs, state enterprises, international organizations, autonomou...

Journalism has gradually become 'normalized into social media', and most journalists use social media platforms to publish their work (Bruns, 2018). YouTube is an influential social media platform, reaching over a billion users worldwide. Its extensive reach attracts professional and amateur video producers who turn to YouTube to inform, entertain...

Concepts such as risk aversion and anxiety have received renewed attention in various strands of gender and politics research. Most contemporary scholars suggest that gender gaps in this area are related to social norms and stem from social learning rather than from inherent gender traits. Very few, however, elaborate on the gender variable to reac...

This paper raises questions of media coverage of “compounded crises” related to extreme weather disaster, in the context of urgent calls to address the implications of a changing climate. Through media analysis, it examines the ways debate over bushfire protection policy was framed and made culturally meaningful, thereby politically consequential,...

This study analyzes whether the agenda-setting influence of traditional news media has become weaker over time—a key argument in the “new era of minimal effects” controversy. Based on media content and public opinion data collected in Sweden over a period of 23 years (1992–2014), we analyze both aggregate and individual-level agenda-setting effects...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) imperils health for people across the world. This enormous challenge is being met with the rationalisation of prescription, dispensing and consumption of antimicrobials in clinical settings and in the everyday lives of members of the general population. Individuals need to be reached outside clinical settings to prepa...

Det här kapitlet studerar vilken betydelse nyhetsmedier och medieanvändning har för människors uppfattningar om och oro för ökad antibiotikaresistens. Analysen tar sin utgångspunkt i teorier om medieeffekter och kunskapsklyftor. Resultaten visar att antibiotikaresistens har funnits på svenska mediers agenda under flera decennier och att nyhetsrappo...

Projektet Kriskommunikation 2.0, startades med syftet att utveckla och fördjupa kunskaperna om digitala och sociala mediers betydelse för samhällets kriskommunikation. Projektet har undersökt och jämfört hur kriskommunikationens tre huvudaktörer – allmänhet, myndigheter och nyhetsmedier – har tänkt och agerat under fem kriser som inträffade under p...

Journalists’ uses of Twitter have received considerable attention from scholars in recent years. There are good reasons for this surge in interest. Twitter is, possibly, the most important social medium for journalists. To have a Twitter account is virtually a professional obligation; journalism schools regard Twitter proficiency a ‘must have’ for...

The hype over social media and the rapid expansion of social networking and micro-blogging in recent years can easily lead us to believe that all journalists are online, chatting and tweeting, all the time. Previous research, however, indicates that the spread of social media differs between groups of journalists and that social media usage is rela...

Although there is plenty of research investigating the linkages between news media use and political distrust, virtually all of these studies focus on the impact of media use on political distrust at a particular point in time. At the same time, the transition from low-choice to high-choice media environments suggests that the relationship might no...

The article examines how local government officials in Sweden use social media and to what extent the emergence of social media has altered the relationship to conventional news media. The article examines the development of local government-media relations across time on the basis of a unique survey-based data set comparing the local political and...

The hype over social media and the rapid expansion of social networking and micro-blogging in recent years can easily lead us to believe that all journalists are online, chatting and tweeting, all the time. Previous research, however, indicates that the spread of social media differs between groups of journalists and that social media usage is rela...

Australia and Sweden display very different institutional settings and contexts for the production of environmental journalism. This empirical study examined how two major quality newspapers in Sweden and Australia have framed renewable energy as an environmental, political, scientific, economic and civil society issue. A deductive, quantitative me...

News interviews are contexts in which political responsibilities are articulated and negotiated. Although the accountability interview is recognized as a commonsense practice in journalism, and the research on political interviews is substantial, it partly remains to explore how responsibilities are negotiated in different forms of questioning in j...

Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach to explore the causal links between gender and sociotropic anxiety, this article studies the characteristics and magnitude of gender differences in anxiety to a range of social risks and threats. Specifically, it tests whether gender differences with regard to perceived vulnerability, personality traits, ideo...

While there is plenty of research investigating the linkages between news media use and political distrust, virtually all of these studies focus on the impact of media use on political distrust at a particular point in time. At the same time, the transition from low-choice to high-choice media environments suggest that the relationship might not be...

This study investigates how political accountability, as a key democratic principle, is performed in the media and how the practices and representations of accountability are transformed over time by the influences of mediatization. The implications of mediatization are analyzed with a focus on how aspects of media dramaturgy and independent journa...

This longitudinal study investigates whether the impact of political interest—a key motivational factor behind news consumption—on various forms of news consumption has increased over time. The analysis is based on a unique large-scale representative annual survey conducted in Sweden over the years 1986–2010, enabling a comprehensive analysis of ci...

Political accountability is fundamental in a democratic society. Societal changes such as the marketization of the public sector have, however, made accountability issues complex and negotiable. The question of who is to be held to account for policy failures is increasingly a subject of struggle within the media. The aim of this article is to exam...

This article examines the longitudinal development of environmental news reporting in Swedish television over an extended period of time, 1961-2010. It returns to Anthony Downs's (1972) seminal article on issue attention cycles when analyzing the cyclic nature of environmental news reporting and advances the issue attention cycle framework by intro...

The ongoing social media hype puts pressure on journalists to be active in social media 24/7. In this process professional values and journalistic norms are put to the test and not all journalists are equally keen to embrace the “social media life”. So far, few studies have examined the differences between categories of journalists when it comes to...

This article examines the dynamic relationship between issues in environmental news reporting. The focus of the study is on issue interactions within a single news programme over a 50-year period, covering all news stories on environmental issues in the main public service news programme on Swedish television between 1961 and 2010. The analysis sho...

The study of intra-media agenda setting and issue dynamics in news reporting is essential to the understanding of the construction of issue attention cycles in the news. The present article identifies two factors—issue fatigue and issue competition—that influence the longitudinal development of issues in the news; factors that can contribute to exp...

This article describes the changes in the management of provincial newspapers in Sweden from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Five Swedish newspapers form the focus of the study: Barometern (Kalmar), Borås Tidning (Borås), Jönköpings-Posten (Jönköping), Nya Wermlands-Tidningen (Karlstad) and Sundsvalls Tidning (Sundsvall). The article tra...

This essay argues that the relationship between gender equality in journalism and other political, social, and economical institutions in society is a subject worthy of rigorous study. How is gender equality in the media related to social development in other areas? Do media and journalism matter? This essay takes current research on gender and jou...

Ledarskapets betydelse när det gäller organisationers och företags framgång har under många decennier intresserat forskarvärlden. Inom tidningsvärlden är frågan om ledarskapets villkor och betydelse särskilt intressant genom att den svenska tryckfrihetslagstiftningen anger att det skall finnas en ansvarig utgivare på varje tidning som är juridiskt...

The basic theme of the essay is gender and power in the field of journalism in Sweden. It is not controversial to assert that journalism, historically speaking, evolved as a male-dominated field. Despite the high level of gender quality in Sweden, however, this pattern remains the case. Drawing on Bourdieu's theories on habitus, capital and field a...

The Nordic countries are often noted for their high level of gender equality. The media sector is no exception and it is true that almost 50 percent of Swedish journalists are female. However, female presence at the senior level of media organizations remains much lower. This article analyses the Swedish media elite from a gender perspective. It is...

Spegla, granska, tolka handlar om hur nyheter och samhällsprogram vuxit fram i radion och televisionen. Från starten 1925 har etermedierna utvecklats från att vara tidningsbranschens röst i etern med en enda nyhetssändning per dag till dagens konkurrensutsatta radio och TV med nyhetssändningar under hela dygnet. Boken beskriver också t.ex. radiore...

This article explores to what extent public service news reporting in Sweden has undergone any significant changes during the last decade, when public service broadcasting became exposed to commercial competition. The analysis employs a historical approach that serves to uncover the trajectory of news reporting and journalism from the early days of...

The book analyses the development of environmental news reporting in Swedish television 1961-1994.

"Does Media History have a future?" Two Norwegian media researchers posed the ques- tion in a monograph from the Norwegian Association of Media Researchers over a dec- ade ago (Myrstad & Rasmussen 1990:1). In the ensuing years it turned out that histori- cal research on the media most definitely did have a future, not least in the Nordic coun- trie...

163 Djerf-Pierre, M & Wängnerud, L (2011) Människors oro och politikens ansvar i Sören Holmberg, Lennart Weibull & Henrik Oscarsson (red) Lycksalighetens ö. Göteborg: SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet. D et är få känslor som är så allmänmänskliga som känslor av oro och rädsla. Edvard Munchs tavla "Skriet" och Pär Lagerkvists dikt "Ångest, ånges...