THE GLOBAL AUDIENCES OF DANISH TELEVISION DRAMA TELEVISION DANISH OF AUDIENCES GLOBAL THE The Global Audiences of Danish Television Drama Following the surprising and unprecedented international export of Danish television drama in the early 2010s, this anthology explores the reception of these series among global audiences by tracing the travel of the series to seven different countries: Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Turkey, and the UK. Each contribution differs in terms of its theoretical and methodological position and reflects the diverse backgrounds of the researchers and types of data collected. As a whole, the anthology provides insights on global audience research in an age of multi-platform and multi-directional media flows, as well as on the complex nature of contemporary audiences located in different parts of the • Pia Majbritt Jensen & Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen (Eds.) world. The anthology offers a novel contribution to research on Danish television drama, the international circulation of audiovisual content produced in non-Anglophone contexts, and the phenomenon of Nordic Noir for both students and scholars. Pia Majbritt Jensen is Associate Professor at the Department of Media Studies and THE GLOBAL AUDIENCES OF Journalism, Aarhus University. Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen is Associate Professor at the Department of English, Aarhus DANISH TELEVISION University. DRAMA University of Gothenburg Pia Majbritt Jensen Box 713, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden Telephone +46 31 786 00 00 • Fax + 46 31 786 46 55 3 > & Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen (Eds.) 3 E-mail [email protected] NORDICOM www.nordicom.gu.se NORDICOM 85521 8 978-91-88855-21- 78918 ISBN 9 Contacts Based at the University of Gothenburg, Nordicom is a Nordic non-profit knowledge centre that collects and communicates facts and research in the field of media and communication. 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Recent publications Nordicom is financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Swedish Ministry of Culture and D MEDIA, EXTREMISM AND FREE EXPRESSION MEDIA, EXTREMISM AND FREE EXPRESSION OTHERING • GLOBAL DIVERSITIES TRANSNATIONAL Close and Distant I G I T TITLE A TRANSNATIONAL OTHERING • GLOBAL DIVERSITIES L This book explores the interplay between government and media drawing on unique M This anthology addresses complex, interconnected issues, such as the rise of extremism and terrorism, diver- E evidence from, and in-depth analysis of, four national cases: Finland, Lithuania, Poland D sity and minority rights, as well as the situation for freedom of expression in eight different countries, most of I INEQUALITIES are the unwanted companions of media and communication. A and Sweden. Based on the chapters dedicated to each country, five additional chapters IN them with a Muslim majority population. Extremists recruit terrorists through social media, and target minori- | Close and Distant Digital Media Political Executive–Media Relations in Four Countries the University of Gothenburg. Visit our website for more information about Nordicom’s work E Transnational Othering address the following cross-national themes: government communication, social media, Tradi tional analogue mass media were criticized for creating inequalities by Q ties as well as freedom loving people by utilizing their freedom of expression to threaten the rights of others. U formality/informality in journalist-source relations, mediatisation of politics, and political A This happens not least in countries with a long experience of dictatorship. Journalists face huge challenges being biased, serving hegemonic interests, and accumulating far too much power L I communication culture. T when reporting on these issues. The contributors are both academics and journalists, conveying their expe- I E riences from transnational research co-operation as well as reporting from the ground in conflict areas. Thus, in the hands of mighty industrial conglomerates. Under the digital regime, most S The book reveals what really goes on between the political executive and the media AND DISCRIMINATION DISTRUST DIVIDES, POLICIES AGAINST this volume addresses itself to journalism students as well as professional journalists and others who need to in everyday practices within these countries. First, it uncovers a process of mediated inequalities survived, and new ones occurred. Knowledge gaps transformed into navigate in a world in which both extremists and authoritarian states may stifle gender and minority rights, as political-cultural change within media-political systems. Second, it illustrates the work- well as the right to report and express oneself freely. Political Executive-digital divides, news journalism is challenged by social networking sites, and ings of prime ministerial power and communication aides at this apex of political power Inequalities – Global Diversities Elisabeth Eide, (Dr. Art.) is professor of journalism studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, and has worked TRANSNATIONAL and the media and those who work there. Third, it examines both the struggle within global corporate monopolies outperform national media companies. Algorith- at Oslo and Bergen Universities, as well as Punjab University and Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris. She has CLOSE & Nil Mutluer Orgeret Elisabeth Eide, Kristin Skare governing institutions to control the flow of information and the tensions between civil and about our academic book publishing. mic selection, surveillance, Big Data and the Internet of Things are creating new worked as an academic, writer and journalist, and published a large number of books and research articles servants and political aides, and takes the reader through the four media-political con- DIGITAL MEDIA on conflict journalism; climate journalism; gender and journalism; journalism and diversity and has received OTHERING texts rooted in a deep knowledge of these relationships. inequalities which follow traditional patterns of class, gender, wealth and educa- several awards for her work. She has worked and travelled much in South Asia and the Middle East. The result is an illuminating and original analysis of politics, political communication, tion. This book revisits old and new media and communication inequalities in Kristin Skare Orgeret, (Dr. Art.) is professor of journalism and media studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, | media and journalism, and offers greater understanding of the realities of government Karl Magnus Johansson & Gunnar Nygren AND Media Relations in PoliciesNorway. Sheagainst has published extensively within the field of journalism in conflict situations, safety of journalists, times of digital transition. It has been written in a collective effort by the members GLOBAL Nordic-Baltic – and democracy – and media in practice as well as the role of media within contem- global journalism and media and gender. She has worked as a researcher and lecturer in several countries in Africa and Asia and is currently coordinating the Norhed project ”Bridging Gaps” – a cooperation between porary politics. of THE EUROMEDIA RESEARCH GROUP. journalism schools in Uganda, Nepal, Norway and South Sudan. Karl Magnus Johansson is a Professor of Political Science and Gunnar Nygren is a Nil Mutluer, (PhD) is the Einstein Foundation Senior Scholar at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. From DIVERSITIES Professor of Journalism, both in the School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University, INEQUALITIES DISTANT 2016 to 2018 she was awarded the Philipp Schwartz Research Fellowship of Humboldt Foundation. She has Stockholm. published extensively in the areas of gender, (ethnic and religious) diversity, nationalism, migration, memory and Turkish politics in various academic and non-academic journals and newspapers. Four Countries Divides, Distrust and | Perspectives JOSEF TRAPPEL POLICIES AGAINST DIVIDES, DISTRUST AND DISCRIMINATION Political Executive–Media Relations in Four Countries MEDIA, EXTREMISM AND FREE EXPRESSION University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg Box 713, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden ( Box 713, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden Telephone +46 31 786 00 00 • Fax + 46 31 786 46 55 ed. Telephone +46 31 786 00 00 • Fax + 46 31 786 46 55 3 > ) E-mail [email protected] University of Gothenburg Discrimination > Nordicom, 2019 E-mail [email protected] Nordicom, 2019 www.nordicom.gu.se Box 713, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden NORDICOM Telephone +46 31 786 00