{"id":1647,"date":"2019-09-19T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T08:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordmedianetwork.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1647"},"modified":"2020-02-14T12:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:26:47","slug":"big-differences-in-swedish-and-danish-media-coverage-of-metoo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nordmedianetwork.org\/de\/latest\/news\/big-differences-in-swedish-and-danish-media-coverage-of-metoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Differences in Swedish and Danish Media Coverage of #MeToo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-l-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In Sweden, the hashtag #MeToo created a snowball effect of demonstrations and debates requiring political change, to which Swedish politicians responded by participating in the debate. In Denmark, media coverage was far less extensive and more critical of #MeToo, according to a new study published by Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the revelations of sexual abuse in Hollywood, the hashtag #MeToo spread like wildfire across the world. Denmark and Sweden are considered to be some of the world&#8217;s most equal countries, but the media coverage of #MeToo shows great differences in the attitude of Danes and Swedes towards the phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new study, published in the scientific journal&nbsp;<em>Nordicom Review<\/em>, media researchers Tina Askanius (Malm\u00f6 University) and Jannie M\u00f8ller Hartley (Roskilde University) have reviewed hundreds of articles and compared the Swedish and Danish coverage of #MeToo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-6f4a977c-f087-4dca-9a88-73938c2c3078\"><strong>In Sweden, #MeToo was taken more seriously<\/strong><\/h2><style>#block-6f4a977c-f087-4dca-9a88-73938c2c3078 h2, #block-6f4a977c-f087-4dca-9a88-73938c2c3078 h3, #block-6f4a977c-f087-4dca-9a88-73938c2c3078 h4, #block-6f4a977c-f087-4dca-9a88-73938c2c3078 h5 , #block-6f4a977c-f087-4dca-9a88-73938c2c3078 { color: #000; }<\/style>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study shows that #MeToo received about four times more attention in the largest Swedish newspapers compared to Denmark. In Sweden, the issue is usually raised on news sites with statements from Swedish politicians, while the Danish newspapers mainly wrote about the subject on cultural and opinion pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 In Denmark, #MeToo was presented as something you can have different attitudes to, not as a structural problem that requires answers from Danish politicians or changes in legislation. The fact that #MeToo was treated as a topic of debate meant that virtually no Danish politicians commented on the issue during the period, says Jannie M\u00f8ller Hartley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-e3b04243-4cfe-416b-b5b3-0e5c012df0a0\"><strong>Different views on #MeToo<\/strong><\/h2><style>#block-e3b04243-4cfe-416b-b5b3-0e5c012df0a0 h2, #block-e3b04243-4cfe-416b-b5b3-0e5c012df0a0 h3, #block-e3b04243-4cfe-416b-b5b3-0e5c012df0a0 h4, #block-e3b04243-4cfe-416b-b5b3-0e5c012df0a0 h5 , #block-e3b04243-4cfe-416b-b5b3-0e5c012df0a0 { color: #000; }<\/style>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study shows that #MeToo was described differently in Denmark and Sweden. In particular, Danish male journalists were critical of the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 The story of #MeToo as a &#8216;witch hunt&#8217; and an &#8216;illegal people&#8217;s court&#8217;, which is almost missing in Swedish reporting, permeates Danish coverage. At the same time, we see in Swedish media a story about #MeToo as a popular movement and a struggle against power structures. Swedish media describe #MeToo with terms such as &#8216;a revolution&#8217;, a &#8216;popular movement&#8217;, a &#8216;scream of silence culture&#8217;, an &#8216;avalanche&#8217;, a &#8216;paradigm shift&#8217;, and one refers to one before and one after #MeToo, says Tina <g class=\"gr_ gr_14 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"14\" data-gr-id=\"14\">Askanius<\/g>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tina Askanius and Jannie M\u00f8ller Hartley believe that these differences should be understood in their context. The study points out that gender equality disappeared from the focus of Danish debate and political rhetoric in the 1990s and that the issue was then not recognized as a political problem, while the opposite applies in Sweden. This contributed to Denmark and Sweden having very different conditions for a public debate on sexual abuse, power and inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article &#8220;Framing Gender Justice: A comparative analysis of the media coverage of #metoo in Denmark and Sweden&#8221; is written by Tina Askanius and Jannie M\u00f8ller Hartley and published in the journal&nbsp;<em>Nordicom Review<\/em>, published by Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.sciendo.com\/view\/journals\/nor\/40\/2\/nor.40.issue-2.xml\">Read the article: Framing Gender Justice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-839f416d-9b05-4fd2-9d62-27eb3a703bac\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/h2><style>#block-839f416d-9b05-4fd2-9d62-27eb3a703bac h2, #block-839f416d-9b05-4fd2-9d62-27eb3a703bac h3, #block-839f416d-9b05-4fd2-9d62-27eb3a703bac h4, #block-839f416d-9b05-4fd2-9d62-27eb3a703bac h5 , #block-839f416d-9b05-4fd2-9d62-27eb3a703bac { color: #000; }<\/style>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tina Askanius, Associate Professor, Malm\u00f6 University, phone: +46 40-66 57707, e-mail:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tina.askanius@mau.se<\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Jannie M\u00f8ller Hartley, Associate Professor, PhD, Roskilde University, phone: +45 46 74 37 53, e-mail:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jath@ruc.dk<\/a><\/li><li>Cecilie Ravik, Communication Officer, Nordicom, phone: +46 76-618 12 55, e-mail:&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cecilie.ravik@nordicom.gu.se<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo: Mihai Surdu on Unsplash<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Sweden, the hashtag #MeToo created a snowball effect of demonstrations and debates requiring political change.","protected":false},"featured_media":1718,"template":"","categories":[21],"class_list":["post-1647","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories-new-publications"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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