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Contents: Introduction Media production and culture industries Fields of cultural production and ... more Contents: Introduction Media production and culture industries Fields of cultural production and consumption New organisational forms of value production New roles for media users: the work of consumption New textual expressions and patterns of narration The production and consumption of signs Digital markets and value Bibliography Index.

The MIT Press eBooks, May 2, 2023

An in-depth look at Ukraine's attempts to shape how it is perceived by the rest of the world. Dur... more An in-depth look at Ukraine's attempts to shape how it is perceived by the rest of the world. During times of crisis, competing narratives are often advanced to define what is happening, and the stakes of information management by nations are high. In this timely book, Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg examine the fraught intersection of state politics, corporate business, and civil activism to understand the dynamics and importance of meaning management in Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork inside the country, the authors discuss the forms, agents, and platforms within the complex political and communicative situation and how each articulated and acted upon perceptions of the propaganda threat. Bolin and Ståhlberg focus their analysis on the period between 2013 and 2022, when political tensions, commercial dynamics, and new communication technologies bred novel forms of information management. As they show, entities from governments and governmental administration to commercial actors, entrepreneurs, and activists formed new alliances in order to claim a stake in information policy. Bolin and Ståhlberg also explore how the various agents engaged in information management and strove to manage meaning in communication practice; the communicative tools they took advantage of; and the subsequent consequences for narrative constructions.

FACOS-UFSM, 2020

"This book faces an impressive challenge in taking on the subject of mediatization. The task make... more "This book faces an impressive challenge in taking on
the subject of mediatization. The task makes sense since the
UNISINOS’ Communication area, which brought together the
participants of the symposium that gave rise to this collection,
is recognized by studies on mediatization, as a phenomenon
or concept, and concentrates a large part of the production in
the area. José Luiz Braga, Antônio Fausto Neto, Pedro Gilberto
Gomes, Jairo Getúlio Ferreira, and Ana Paula da Rosa form a consistent part of the bibliography on the subject, systematically
organize international congresses in which they set in motion
their national and foreign networks of collaborators and specialized interlocutors, in addition to years of supervising dissertations and theses in the area...The result is a book that offers us a considerably high
level to continue the debate on the scope, meaning, and validity of the concept of mediatization. A set of theoretical chapters
leads us to this level, with concept maps and secure cartographies about where we came from and where we are now. But,
also, the careful applications and thought-provoking explorations of new themes and approaches that this collection has also
taken care of ensuring for us." Wilson Gomes, Foreword.

FACOS UFSM , 2020

"Este livro enfrenta um desafio impressionante ao assumir como objeto o tema da mediatização. Ou ... more "Este livro enfrenta um desafio impressionante ao assumir como objeto o tema da mediatização. Ou “midiatização”,
como a maioria dos autores prefere. A tarefa faz sentido, uma
vez que a área de Comunicação da Unisinos, que convocou e reuniu os participantes do simpósio que deu origem à coletânea,
é reconhecida pelos estudos sobre a mediatização, como fenômeno ou conceito, e concentra uma grande parte da produção
brasileira na área. José Luiz Braga, Antonio Fausto Neto, Pedro
Gilberto Gomes, Jairo Getúlio Ferreira e Ana Paula da Rosa formam parte consistente da bibliografia sobre o assunto, organizam sistematicamente congressos internacionais em que põem
em movimento suas redes nacionais e estrangeiras de colaboradores e interlocutores especializados, além de orientarem há
anos dissertações e teses na área.... O resultado é um livro que nos oferece um patamar
consideravelmente alto para continuar o debate sobre o alcance,
o sentido e a validade do conceito de mediatização. A este patamar nos conduz um conjunto de capítulos teóricos, com mapas
conceituais e cartografias seguras sobre de onde viemos e onde
nos encontramos agora. Mas também as aplicações cuidadosas
e as instigantes explorações de novos temas e de novas abordagens que esta coletânea também cuidou de nos assegura" Wilson Gomes, Prefácio.

While the analysis of generations has been central in the sociological understanding of social ch... more While the analysis of generations has been central in the sociological understanding of social change, the role of the media in this process has only been acknowledged as an important feature during the last couple of decades. Building on quantitative and qualitative comparative research, Media Generations analyses the role of the media in the formation of generational experience, identity and habitus, and how mediated nostalgia is an important part in the social formation of generations.

Avoiding popular generational labelling Göran Bolin argues that the totality of the media landscape is a contextual structure that together with age and life-course factors help inform world-views and ways to relate to the wider society that guide the actions of media users. Media Generations demonstrates how - as different generations come of age at different moments in the mediatised historical process - they develop different media habits, but also make sense of the world differently, which informs their relations to older and younger generations.

It also explores how this process of ‘generationing’, that is, the process in which a generation come into being as a self-perceived social identity, partly builds on specific kinds of nostalgia that establishes generational differences and distinctions. This book will be of special interest to those studying social change, collective memory, cultural identity and the role of the media in social experience.

"The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and cult... more "The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings together internationally recognised scholars from the social sciences and humanities, covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, server farms and search engines, cultural technologies and epistemology, virtual embassies, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, sound media and nostalgia and much more. It contains both historical and contemporary analyses of technological phenomena as well as epistemological discussions on the uses of technology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
1 Introduction: Cultural Technologies in Cultures of Technology Göran Bolin

Part I: Histories of Cultural Technologies

2 The Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the Changing Implications of the Image William Uricchio

3 The Compact Disc and Its Culture: Notes on Melancholia Eric Rothenbuhler

4 Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems: Files, Objects, Distribution Mats Björkin

5 Technostruggles and the Satellite Dish: A Populist Approach to Infrastructure Lisa Parks

Part II: Epistemologies of Cultural Technologies

6 Being ‘Accountable’: TV Audiences and Surveillance Toby Miller

7 Time, Space and Clouds of Information: Data Centre Discourse and the Meaning of Durability Peter Jakobsson and Fredrik Stiernstedt

8 Search Engines in Practice: Structure and Culture in Technical Development Elizabeth Van Couvering

9 Technology and Epistemology: Information Policy and Desire Sandra Braman

Part III: Uses of Cultural Technologies

10 Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self Maria Bakardjieva and Georgia Gaden

11 Virtual Technologies of Nation-States: State Administration in Second Life Stina Bengtsson

12 The Scary Promise of Technology: Developing New Forms of Audience Research Joke Hermes

Notes

Contributors

Index"

Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations wi... more Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constantly make judgements of various kinds with respect to them. Bolin focuses on how value is produced in contemporary media and cultural production, particularly through social relations. Discussing changes over the past two decades, Bolin emphasises the rise of digital media and the opportunities that these afford for media’s production and consumption.

liu.se. Publications. ...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe have attracted in... more Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe have attracted increasing interest from researchers from various disciplines. This book gathers researchers from the humanities, the social and natural sciences, who in their respective ways, and ...

Stockholm: Unit For Youth Research. Stockholm …, Jan 1, 1992

Papers by Göran Bolin

Contents: Introduction Media production and culture industries Fields of cultural production and ... more Contents: Introduction Media production and culture industries Fields of cultural production and consumption New organisational forms of value production New roles for media users: the work of consumption New textual expressions and patterns of narration The production and consumption of signs Digital markets and value Bibliography Index.

The MIT Press eBooks, May 2, 2023

An in-depth look at Ukraine's attempts to shape how it is perceived by the rest of the world. Dur... more An in-depth look at Ukraine's attempts to shape how it is perceived by the rest of the world. During times of crisis, competing narratives are often advanced to define what is happening, and the stakes of information management by nations are high. In this timely book, Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg examine the fraught intersection of state politics, corporate business, and civil activism to understand the dynamics and importance of meaning management in Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork inside the country, the authors discuss the forms, agents, and platforms within the complex political and communicative situation and how each articulated and acted upon perceptions of the propaganda threat. Bolin and Ståhlberg focus their analysis on the period between 2013 and 2022, when political tensions, commercial dynamics, and new communication technologies bred novel forms of information management. As they show, entities from governments and governmental administration to commercial actors, entrepreneurs, and activists formed new alliances in order to claim a stake in information policy. Bolin and Ståhlberg also explore how the various agents engaged in information management and strove to manage meaning in communication practice; the communicative tools they took advantage of; and the subsequent consequences for narrative constructions.

FACOS-UFSM, 2020

"This book faces an impressive challenge in taking on the subject of mediatization. The task make... more "This book faces an impressive challenge in taking on
the subject of mediatization. The task makes sense since the
UNISINOS’ Communication area, which brought together the
participants of the symposium that gave rise to this collection,
is recognized by studies on mediatization, as a phenomenon
or concept, and concentrates a large part of the production in
the area. José Luiz Braga, Antônio Fausto Neto, Pedro Gilberto
Gomes, Jairo Getúlio Ferreira, and Ana Paula da Rosa form a consistent part of the bibliography on the subject, systematically
organize international congresses in which they set in motion
their national and foreign networks of collaborators and specialized interlocutors, in addition to years of supervising dissertations and theses in the area...The result is a book that offers us a considerably high
level to continue the debate on the scope, meaning, and validity of the concept of mediatization. A set of theoretical chapters
leads us to this level, with concept maps and secure cartographies about where we came from and where we are now. But,
also, the careful applications and thought-provoking explorations of new themes and approaches that this collection has also
taken care of ensuring for us." Wilson Gomes, Foreword.

FACOS UFSM , 2020

"Este livro enfrenta um desafio impressionante ao assumir como objeto o tema da mediatização. Ou ... more "Este livro enfrenta um desafio impressionante ao assumir como objeto o tema da mediatização. Ou “midiatização”,
como a maioria dos autores prefere. A tarefa faz sentido, uma
vez que a área de Comunicação da Unisinos, que convocou e reuniu os participantes do simpósio que deu origem à coletânea,
é reconhecida pelos estudos sobre a mediatização, como fenômeno ou conceito, e concentra uma grande parte da produção
brasileira na área. José Luiz Braga, Antonio Fausto Neto, Pedro
Gilberto Gomes, Jairo Getúlio Ferreira e Ana Paula da Rosa formam parte consistente da bibliografia sobre o assunto, organizam sistematicamente congressos internacionais em que põem
em movimento suas redes nacionais e estrangeiras de colaboradores e interlocutores especializados, além de orientarem há
anos dissertações e teses na área.... O resultado é um livro que nos oferece um patamar
consideravelmente alto para continuar o debate sobre o alcance,
o sentido e a validade do conceito de mediatização. A este patamar nos conduz um conjunto de capítulos teóricos, com mapas
conceituais e cartografias seguras sobre de onde viemos e onde
nos encontramos agora. Mas também as aplicações cuidadosas
e as instigantes explorações de novos temas e de novas abordagens que esta coletânea também cuidou de nos assegura" Wilson Gomes, Prefácio.

While the analysis of generations has been central in the sociological understanding of social ch... more While the analysis of generations has been central in the sociological understanding of social change, the role of the media in this process has only been acknowledged as an important feature during the last couple of decades. Building on quantitative and qualitative comparative research, Media Generations analyses the role of the media in the formation of generational experience, identity and habitus, and how mediated nostalgia is an important part in the social formation of generations.

Avoiding popular generational labelling Göran Bolin argues that the totality of the media landscape is a contextual structure that together with age and life-course factors help inform world-views and ways to relate to the wider society that guide the actions of media users. Media Generations demonstrates how - as different generations come of age at different moments in the mediatised historical process - they develop different media habits, but also make sense of the world differently, which informs their relations to older and younger generations.

It also explores how this process of ‘generationing’, that is, the process in which a generation come into being as a self-perceived social identity, partly builds on specific kinds of nostalgia that establishes generational differences and distinctions. This book will be of special interest to those studying social change, collective memory, cultural identity and the role of the media in social experience.

"The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and cult... more "The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings together internationally recognised scholars from the social sciences and humanities, covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, server farms and search engines, cultural technologies and epistemology, virtual embassies, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, sound media and nostalgia and much more. It contains both historical and contemporary analyses of technological phenomena as well as epistemological discussions on the uses of technology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
1 Introduction: Cultural Technologies in Cultures of Technology Göran Bolin

Part I: Histories of Cultural Technologies

2 The Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the Changing Implications of the Image William Uricchio

3 The Compact Disc and Its Culture: Notes on Melancholia Eric Rothenbuhler

4 Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems: Files, Objects, Distribution Mats Björkin

5 Technostruggles and the Satellite Dish: A Populist Approach to Infrastructure Lisa Parks

Part II: Epistemologies of Cultural Technologies

6 Being ‘Accountable’: TV Audiences and Surveillance Toby Miller

7 Time, Space and Clouds of Information: Data Centre Discourse and the Meaning of Durability Peter Jakobsson and Fredrik Stiernstedt

8 Search Engines in Practice: Structure and Culture in Technical Development Elizabeth Van Couvering

9 Technology and Epistemology: Information Policy and Desire Sandra Braman

Part III: Uses of Cultural Technologies

10 Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self Maria Bakardjieva and Georgia Gaden

11 Virtual Technologies of Nation-States: State Administration in Second Life Stina Bengtsson

12 The Scary Promise of Technology: Developing New Forms of Audience Research Joke Hermes

Notes

Contributors

Index"

Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations wi... more Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constantly make judgements of various kinds with respect to them. Bolin focuses on how value is produced in contemporary media and cultural production, particularly through social relations. Discussing changes over the past two decades, Bolin emphasises the rise of digital media and the opportunities that these afford for media’s production and consumption.

liu.se. Publications. ...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe have attracted in... more Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Baltic Sea Region and Eastern Europe have attracted increasing interest from researchers from various disciplines. This book gathers researchers from the humanities, the social and natural sciences, who in their respective ways, and ...

Stockholm: Unit For Youth Research. Stockholm …, Jan 1, 1992

Routledge eBooks, Jan 24, 2022

Nordicom Review, Sep 1, 2002

GÖRAN BOLIN Historically, the broadcast media in Sweden and the Nordic countries have been organi... more GÖRAN BOLIN Historically, the broadcast media in Sweden and the Nordic countries have been organised around strong public service institutions. In a European perspective, Sweden, together with Denmark and Norway, has also been among the last to abandon the public service model and open the system to commercial competitors (Hultén 1996 p. 10). However, since the late 1980s the Nordic countries have seen deep and thorough changes in their radio and television systems. The deregulation of the public service monopolies in the wake of the introduction of transnational networks via cable and satellite, and the fragmentation that has followed from the enormous increase of new media technologies and content, have shaped the Nordic countries into multimediatised electronic landscapes. This has naturally changed the structures of media organisations (cf. Curran 2000), and has affected output structures both quantitatively and qualitatively (cf. Asp 2001 for a Swedish example). These changes have involved radically changed conditions for the production of broadcast content, perhaps especially for television. And it is probably not overstating the case to say that social and cultural effects will continue to follow in the wake of these processes, and that the consequences of these changes are yet to be discovered in full. Quantitatively there has been an increased output in the broadcast media: more channels, more programmes, more possible viewing hours, etc. The demand for programmes to fill radio and television schedules has, firstly, speeded up the production process, to the benefit of productions that can be serialised, in the system of production that John Ellis (2000) describes as demand-led. A second consequence of the new media geography, and the quantitative increase in output, is the rise of new genres and programme formats. One such new format that was launched when Sweden got its third terrestrial, national, and for the first time commercial, television channel (TV4), was Bingolotto. The introduction of TV4 in 1991 meant that viewers in all parts of the country could watch commercial television. Bingolotto allowed Swedish viewers to take part in a game and entertainment show with a level of prizes that had been impossible to air on the public service channels SVT1 and SVT2. The Bingolotto show, originally produced for a local television network in the Gothenburg area with the aim to help local sports associations financially, has since its start on

Nordic journal of media studies, Jun 1, 2023

Anais de Resumos Expandidos do Seminário Internacional de Pesquisas em Midiatização e Processos Sociais, Oct 27, 2020

Young, Aug 1, 2004

The multi-disciplinary character of the field of youth research is often said to contribute to it... more The multi-disciplinary character of the field of youth research is often said to contribute to its dynamic quality. However true this might be, even dynamic and changing fields certainly have their boundaries, although their borders often tend to be blurred, and at times open to contestation. This is of course a natural development also within other scientific fields, as new insights are added to our understanding of phenomena in the world around us. But it might be especially so in the case of relatively young research fields (and I am here ...

Young, Feb 1, 1999

Producing cultures-The construction of forms and contents of contemporary youth cultures GÖR... more Producing cultures-The construction of forms and contents of contemporary youth cultures GÖRAN BOLIN As indicated from a quick look through published anthologies in the 1990s, much energy within Swedish (and possibly also Nordic) youth cultural studies has been spent on describing and analysing identity work in relation to media genres on a personal or individual level (see e.g.

Human machine communication journal/Human-machine communication journal, 2024

Mediatization discourse has so far mainly been centered on media from institutional or social-con... more Mediatization discourse has so far mainly been centered on media from institutional or social-constructionist approaches. The technological developments within communications industries coupled with the wider societal process of datafication might, however, beg for dusting off the smaller, although the long-time existing, technological approach to mediatization as a complement to the two other approaches, in order to understand aspects of automation and human-machine communication. This theoretical article explores how existing mediatization approaches can refocus to include lessons learned from human-machine communication. The first section accounts for the main mediatization approaches. The second section discusses debates on communication, artificiality, and meaning-making. The last section takes the example of the recruitment interview for discussing how mediatization theory can benefit from including a technological approach with influx from human-machine communication, as well as how human-machine communication can learn from wider discussions within mediatization theory.

A fundamental problem in exporting Swedish films and knowledge about filmmaking has, of course, b... more A fundamental problem in exporting Swedish films and knowledge about filmmaking has, of course, been the language barrier. This has also been one reason why Swedish film studies has lived its life on the margins of international film research. With the exception of a few books on Swedish film history and Swedish film directors which have been translated into English, 1 a couple of articles in international film journals and anthologies, 2 and the extensive (mainly US) research on Bergman, which in some cases refers to writings in ...

Routledge eBooks, Feb 8, 2023

This article discusses value creation within the fields of cultural production. It departs from B... more This article discusses value creation within the fields of cultural production. It departs from Bourdieu's field model, and seeks to develop it to fit unrestricted cultural production, for example television production. Bourdieu for the most part discussed the production of value (or forms of capital) in relation to fields of restricted cultural production, that is, within the fine arts (eg art, literature). Although one of his best known works dealt with television, one cannot say that he used the possibilities inherent in his own theory thoroughly enough to ...

Springer eBooks, 2017

This chapter examines how the mediatization of cultural heritage enables people to participate in... more This chapter examines how the mediatization of cultural heritage enables people to participate in the conservation of the urban past. The ways in which mediatization fosters public involvement in urban heritage conservation will be explored by focusing on three developments: the digitization of heritage collections; the growing attention paid to audience participation by heritage institutions; and the grassroots practices of cultural heritage initiated by citizens. Finally, I discuss how the mediatization of cultural heritage changes the public role of heritage institutions and their professionals. My main argument is that mediatization results in a growing diversity of urban heritage initiatives. However, this process of mediatization feeds into wider developments towards the democratization of cultural heritage. This is a pre-print version of a chapter that has been published in the book 'Dynamics of mediatization: institutional change and everyday transformations in a digital age'. Please cite this chapter as: Van der Hoeven, A. (2017). The mediatization of urban cultural heritage: Participatory approaches to narrating the urban past. In O. Driessens, G. Bolin, A. Hepp, S. Hjarvard (Eds.), Dynamics of mediatization: Institutional change and everyday transformations in a digital age (pp. 293-312). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Transforming Communications, 2022

The observation that 'information' and 'data' have come to the centre of capitalism has inspired ... more The observation that 'information' and 'data' have come to the centre of capitalism has inspired a range of descriptive terms aimed at qualifying the broad concepts of "informational capitalism" (

Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research

Data power is a highly ambivalent phenomenon and it is precisely these ambivalences that open up ... more Data power is a highly ambivalent phenomenon and it is precisely these ambivalences that open up important perspectives for the burgeoning field of critical data studies: First, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities. These challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure and instead make visible the local working and living conditions, and resources and arrangements required to operate and run them. Second is the ambivalences between the state and data justice. These consider data justice in relation to state surveillance and data capitalism and reflect the ambivalences between an “entrepreneurial state” and a “welfare state”. Third is the ambivalences of everyday practices and collective action, in which civil society groups, communities, and movements try to position the interests of people against the “big players” in the tech industry. With this introduction, we want to make the argument that seeing data pow...

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 2016

Double special issue of Place Branding & Public Diplomacy, 12 (2-3), edited by James Pamm... more Double special issue of Place Branding & Public Diplomacy, 12 (2-3), edited by James Pamment and featuring 15 articles by researchers and practitioners

In: Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech & Bartłomiej Łódzki (eds) Media Life During/After the COVID 19 Pandemic. London: Routledge, 23-34. , 2022