Pernilla Severson

Pernilla Severson
Linnaeus University | lnu · Department of Media and Journalism

PhD Media and Communication Studies

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Introduction
Pernilla Severson is Associate Professor i Media and Communication Studies. She currently works at the Department of Media and Journalism, Linnaeus University. Pernilla does research in Communication and Media focusing digital media, digital methods and participatory aspects.

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Publications (21)
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As a part of the DiMPAH-project, the authors have developed an open educational resource (OER) on netnography. In this paper, the OER is presented and critically discussed as the broader problem identified during course-development is made explicit and explored through two research questions: 1) How can an OER be designed that positions netnography...
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As part of a transnational project focused on creating Open Education Resources (OERs) on selected digital methods, the authors are currently developing an OER on netnography. Designing this OER, we have identified two pertinent methodological issues of netnography that have been debated during recent years: the need to shift focus from “community”...
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This chapter discusses the importance of caring about ethics, sampling strategies and analysis methods in a digital humanities- related context, using the concept of critical digital method. The critical digital method is a reflexive digital method that acknowl- edges that methods have to do with power: "The difference between a critical and a non-...
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This unpublished paper aims to contribute to a more critical understanding of the production of digital and online media production as designing for democracy by studying user-centred digital media (UDM) producers from a cultural perspective placed in a historical development. Theoretically informed cultural values of particular importance and rele...
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In this chapter I argue and describe how studies of digital media and terrorism can be strengthened by increased methodological awareness concerning critical approaches and digital methods as critical digital methods. Critical digital method development is research involved in a reflexive project regarding digital methods and their role in shaping...
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In this article, knowledge building through combinations of methods in a digital context is discussed and explored. Two types of digital bigger and smaller data-driven media studies are used as examples: digital focus groups and the combination of internet traffic measurements, surveys and diaries. The article proposes the concept of digital method...
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As the media landscape are becoming increasingly differentiated (structure), segmented (supply) and fragmented (use), cross-media consumption is not a new occurrence, in particularly not for younger consumers. This target group is also highly sought after by the media industry, but it has proven hard to get to pay, especially for non-entertaining c...
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This article explores the politics of digital archives focused explicitly on women journalists and their work. A key question is here the wider implications and value for journalism historiography. A qualitative analysis is conducted of the online presence of two illustrative archives, one an oral history project called Women in Journalism and the...
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Audience studies have a history of studying people reading, listening and watching mass media at home. Domestication, as Silverstone and Haddon (1996) describe it, is an understanding of the design/domestication interface, implying a process of mutually shaping. This study contributes to an understanding of the future of audiences as still taking p...
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This is an article concerning the development of methods for studying user-generated content (UGC) in digital contexts. Method development can advantageously mean applying analytical reference points: a form of perspective making and navigation with a common understanding of where different disciplines can contribute. Cultural studies on 'pleasure'...
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This is a study of teletext’s role in the development of digital terrestrial television in Sweden particularly as super teletext focusing on the public service television company Sveriges Television (Swedish Television) (SVT), and this company’s policy documents, both strategy document and public service audits made, 1996-2002. The purpose is to ar...
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Experiments in innovation, design, and democracy that search not for a killer app but for a collaboratively created sustainable future. Innovation and design need not be about the search for a killer app. Innovation and design can start in people's everyday activities. They can encompass local services, cultural production, arenas for public discou...
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A case study is made of a University exploring potential for social media as educational technology. The analysis highlights the value of understanding characteristics of social media in relation to formal information and communication systems called Learning Management Systems. Risk and autonomy are used for analysing. Results show situated differ...
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Abstract: Title: Participatory design theory on collaboration to further understanding of journalistic practices In this paper the field of participatory design is argued as offering valuable theoretical insight to further understanding of journalistic practices in the context of digital media’s participatory possibilities. Participatory design...
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Title: Public service media engaging in fan-based social networked practices Author: Pernilla Severson, PhD Media and Communication Studies, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden This paper is exploring how public service media is engaging in fan-based social networked practices. The purpose is to describe and contribute to a...
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This chapter reports on Australian and Swedish experiences in the iterative design, development, and ongoing use of interactive educational systems we call ‘Media Maps.’ Like maps in general, Media Maps are usefully understood as complex cultural technologies; that is, they are not only physical objects, tools and artefacts, but also information cr...
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In a Swedish setting an audience orientation is applied to investigate public service TV in the ongoing development of terrestrial digital television. Focus is on institutionalised politics and public service TV companies Sveriges Television (Swedish Television) and Utbildningsradion (Education Radio). In a case study through a multitude of materia...
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This paper reports on Australian and Swedish experiences in the iterative design, development, and ongoing usage of an interactive educational system we call 'Media Maps'. Like maps in general, Media Maps are usefully understood as complex cultural technologies. That is, they are not only physical objects, tools and artefacts, but also information...

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