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Nordic Journal of MEDIA STUDIES volume 3 | 2021 Recent times have seen a peak in media attention to climate change. The latest issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies addresses the intersection between media and the climate crisis. editors: Risto Kunelius & Anna Roosvall

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download free of charge from Nordicom’s website: Edited by The MDM is a research project by the Euromedia Research Group (EMRG), a network of The www.nordicom.gu.seMDM is a research project by the Euromedia Research Group (EMRG), a network of and control across 18 countries. Post-Democraticresearchers concerned with media structure and media policy in and beyond. researchers concerned with media structure and media policy in Europe and beyond. JOSEF TRAPPEL & T JOSEF TRAPPEL & T Communication editors: Josef Trappel & Tales Tomaz editors: Michał Krzyżanowski, ALES TOMAZ Mattias Ekman, Per-Erik Nilsson, ALES TOMAZ Nordicom is a centre for Nordic media research at the University of Gothenburg, NordicomNordicom is a is knowledge a centre for centre Nordic for media Nordic research media research at the University at the University of Gothenburg, of Gothenburg. Nordicom is a centresupported for by Nordic the Nordic media Council research of Ministers. at the University of EDITED BY JOSEF TRAPPEL & TALES TOMAZ NordicomNordicomMattias is funded is a centrewithsupported support forGardell, from by Nordic the the Nordic Nordic media Council research of of Ministers. Ministers. & at the University of Gothenburg,Gothenburg, supported supported by by the the Nordic Nordic Council Council of of Ministers. Ministers. The The book book has been published with support from the University of Navarra. Christian ChristensenISBN 978-91-88855-39-8 has been published withISBN support 978-91-88855-39-8 from the University of Navarra. NORDICOM NORDICOM NORDICOM NORDICOM EDITEDEDITED BY BY JOSEF JOSEF TRAPPEL TRAPPEL & & TALES TALES TOMAZ TOMAZ 9 789188 855398 > 9 789188 855398 > Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, PO Box 713, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, PO Box 713, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden www.nordicom.gu.se www.nordicom.gu.se

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In our connected data societies, the importance of algorithms and automated Coming soon: Wizards of the Web systems is obvious. They determine search engines’ rankings, what driverless cars do when a child appears on the road, and stock market changes. Today data-driven algorithms and automated systems are everywhere.

While algorithms and automated systems themselves are often a topic of con- troversy and debate, this book is about the people behind them; it is an ac- JAKOB OF THE WEB WIZARDS SVENSSON While algorithms and automated systems countthemselves of the cultures, values, and imaginations that guide programmers in their work designing and engineering software and digital technology. Technol- ogy, it is argued, is not neutral and developed free of context. And since algo- WIZARDS rithms and automated systems exercise power in connected data societies, it is pivotal to understand their creators, who could be labelled, it is argued in are often a topic of controversy and debate,the book, Wizardsthis of the Web. book This book is the result of an ethnographically inspired study based on inter- views with software engineers and programmers, observations made at tech OF headquarters and conferences in Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Germany, India, and the US, and a case study of the introduction of algorithmic automation on is about the people behind them; it is an accountthe front page of a Scandinavian newspaper. The author, Jakob Svensson, is professor of Media and Communication Stud- ies at Malmö University. The book is part of the research project Behind the of the cultures, values, and imaginations thatAlgorithm (funded byguide the Swedish Research Council, 2018–2020). THE programmers in their work designing and engineering WEB AN OUTSIDER'S JOURNEY INTO TECH CULTURE, software and digital technology. PROGRAMMING, AND MATHEMAGICS

Nordicom is a centre for Nordic media research at the University of Gothenburg, Wizards of the Web will be published on 8 September.supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers. JAKOB SVENSSON

Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, PO Box 713, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden Author: Jakob Svensson www.nordicom.gu.se special issue 2 The book will be available to read and download free of charge from Nordicom’s website: www.nordicom.gu.se Media Systems in “the Other” and PUBLISH WITH NORDICOM Nordicom is an independent, non-profit academic publisher in the Autonomous Regions field of media and communication. Our line of publications includes editors: ida willig & lars nord monographs, edited anthologies, and two peer-reviewed scientific journals, Nordicom Review and Nordic Journal of Media Studies. All our books and journals are published with digital Open Access, without special issue 3 publication fees or article processing charges, and under a Creative Commons (CC) licence. Class in/and the Media

Editors: Peter Jakobsson, In 2020, Nordicom Review recorded a CiteScore of 1.8 and Johan Lindell, & Fredrik Stiernstedt was included in the top quartile for Communication journals in the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), which measures a journal’s scientific prestige.

coming soon: special issue 4 Learn more about our academic publishing options here: Struggling with https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/publish-with-nordicom Technology: Perspectives on Everyday Life

Editors: Maja Sonne Damkjær, Ane Kathrine Gammelby, Stine Liv Johansen & Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke

This issue will be published in September; Nordicom is a centre for Nordic media research at the University find it at www.nordicom.gu.se of Gothenburg, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.