Göran Eriksson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Göran Eriksson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Göran |
| FAMILY NAME | Eriksson |
| SIGNATURE | ERIKSSON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Media and Communication Studies, Örebro University, SE-701 82 Örebro, Sweden |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Humour, ridicule and the de-legitimization of the working class in Swedish Reality Television
Drawing on tools from Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis this paper analyses the editing techniques in a Swedish docu-soap showing that humour is used to ridicule the working-class participants, representing them as slow, inflexible, undynamic and unstylish. The paper places this within broader discursive shifts in Sweden where the rise of neoliberalism requires a dismantling of the welfare state, legitimized partly though establishing the lo…
Cooperative or Adversarial? Journalists’ Enactment of the Watchdog Function in Political News Production
This study examines how power relations between journalism and political actors vary across the news production process. Applying a process approach, it addresses this issue by exploring journalists’ enactment of the watchdog role in two key moments of news production: the interactional phase and the news-construction phase. The study is conducted in the context of press conferences with the Swedish Government and involves data from question-and-…
Rethinking the Rethinking
During the last few decades, the possibilities and limitations of qualitative media audience research have regularly been discussed in media and communication research. Quantitatively oriented researchers have claimed that qualitatively oriented research is incapable of producing general knowledge. From a ‘radical ethnographic’ point of view it has been stated that such knowledge is more or less useless, while other qualitatively oriented researc…
Cooperative or Adversarial? Journalists’ Enactment of the Watchdog Function in Political News Production
This study examines how power relations between journalism and political actors vary across the news production process. Applying a process approach, it addresses this issue by exploring journalists’ enactment of the watchdog role in two key moments of news production: the interactional phase and the news-construction phase. The study is conducted in the context of press conferences with the Swedish Government and involves data from question-and-…
Humour, ridicule and the de-legitimization of the working class in Swedish Reality Television
Drawing on tools from Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis this paper analyses the editing techniques in a Swedish docu-soap showing that humour is used to ridicule the working-class participants, representing them as slow, inflexible, undynamic and unstylish. The paper places this within broader discursive shifts in Sweden where the rise of neoliberalism requires a dismantling of the welfare state, legitimized partly though establishing the lo…
Rethinking the Rethinking
During the last few decades, the possibilities and limitations of qualitative media audience research have regularly been discussed in media and communication research. Quantitatively oriented researchers have claimed that qualitatively oriented research is incapable of producing general knowledge. From a ‘radical ethnographic’ point of view it has been stated that such knowledge is more or less useless, while other qualitatively oriented researc…
Rethinking the Rethinking
During the last few decades, the possibilities and limitations of qualitative media audience research have regularly been discussed in media and communication research. Quantitatively oriented researchers have claimed that qualitatively oriented research is incapable of producing general knowledge. From a ‘radical ethnographic’ point of view it has been stated that such knowledge is more or less useless, while other qualitatively oriented researc…
Cooperative or Adversarial? Journalists’ Enactment of the Watchdog Function in Political News Production
This study examines how power relations between journalism and political actors vary across the news production process. Applying a process approach, it addresses this issue by exploring journalists’ enactment of the watchdog role in two key moments of news production: the interactional phase and the news-construction phase. The study is conducted in the context of press conferences with the Swedish Government and involves data from question-and-…
Humour, ridicule and the de-legitimization of the working class in Swedish Reality Television
Drawing on tools from Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis this paper analyses the editing techniques in a Swedish docu-soap showing that humour is used to ridicule the working-class participants, representing them as slow, inflexible, undynamic and unstylish. The paper places this within broader discursive shifts in Sweden where the rise of neoliberalism requires a dismantling of the welfare state, legitimized partly though establishing the lo…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Adversarial system (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work)