Nordic Media Barometers 2025: Digital Platforms Tighten Their Grip
The 2025 Media Barometers from Sweden and Norway point to the same overall trend: digital and platform-based media continue to grow, while traditional formats such as linear TV, radio, and print newspapers keep losing reach – particularly among younger audiences.
Rethinking Extremism in the Nordic Digital Landscape
The latest special issue of Nordicom Review examines the changing nature of extremism in the Nordic countries, with particular attention to social media, hybrid modes of engagement, and the challenges of defining extremism in digital environments.
SMiD Marks 50 Years with AI-Focused Anniversary Conference
The Association of Media and Communication Researchers in Denmark, SMiD, celebrated its 50th anniversary during its biennial conference held earlier this month. The jubilee gathering brought researchers under the theme “From Print to Prompt: Media and Communication Research and Education in the Era of AI”.
How Digital Media Are Changing Our Democratic Societies
A new edited volume explores how platformisation, social media, and digital infrastructures are reshaping democratic societies, raising questions about power, responsibility, and what it means to be an informed citizen.
Maintaining Distance: Tobias Lindberg on the Arm’s Length Principle in Nordic Media Subsidies
Across the Nordic countries, public subsidies play an important role in sustaining news media. But how can governments support journalism financially while maintaining a clear distance from editorial decision-making? These questions are at the centre of new Nordicom report written by media researcher Tobias Lindberg, which examines how the arm’s length principle is implemented in Nordic media subsidy systems.
Mapping Terrestrial Television in the Nordics
Terrestrial television in the Nordic countries is shaped by a shared European regulatory framework, but each country organises and regulates it in its own way. A new factsheet from Nordicom highlights both the similarities and the key differences in structure, licensing, and public service.
Have You Heard of Afromedia Network? – The Initiative Inspired by NordMedia Network
AfroMedia Network is an international research network dedicated to media and communication studies in African contexts and across the African diaspora. Inaugurated in 2022, the network brings together scholars interested in journalism, digital media, communication research, and media systems connected to Africa.
How Should Media Literacy Be Taught in Special Education? Insights on Citizenship from an Ongoing Project
How could individuals with cognitive disabilities engage with media not only as tools for support, but also as content to be understood, interpreted, and critically reflected upon? To date, research has largely focused on how digital technologies can assist in everyday life. Ulrica Brolinson’s PhD project seeks to shift this perspective by foregrounding citizenship.
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