Medier, offentligheter, samfunn

Publisert av: Universitetsforlaget, ISBN: 9788215019765. http://www.universitetsforlaget.no

Den digitale offentligheten i kultur- og bibliotekpolitikken

Echo chambers, fake news, filter bubbles and algorithms have been framed as great threats to our contemporary democracies and public spheres. In the Nordic countries, the state plays an active role in sustaining democracy and the public sphere through culture- and knowledge policies. The Norwegian Government have over the last years presented a white paper on overall cultural policy and a library strategy document. Both documents address the effects of digital technology on democracy, and how culture institutions in general and libraries in particular can help sustain our democracies in changing times. In this article, we study these and preceding documents on culture- and library policies. We analyze how they address digital technology and how they see culture- and library policies as providing solutions to digital threats to democracy and the public sphere. Furthermore, we study what notion of democracy and the public sphere are prevalent in Norwegian cultural policies. The results show that the Government view culture as a remedy against a fragmented public sphere, and that libraries play a key role as providers of digital guidance and teaching

Planning for culture, association activities and public life : an analysis of the districts Norra Sorgenfri and Sofielunds verksamhetsområde in Malmö

The purpose of this study is to examine the relation between culture and association activities on the one hand and the public life of the city on the other. I will explore how this relation is manifested in the planning of two districts in Malmö: Norra Sorgenfri and Sofielunds verksamhetsområde. To be able to do this I have conducted interviews with planners working within the two districts and I have analysed planning documents. To explain and analyse the outcomes of the study I have used assemblage theory which is a theory that explains how an object of study can be understood as a composition, i. e. an assembly, of different human and nonhuman actors. The districts are being analyzed as assemblages. The result is an analysis of the procedure of the planning, its spatial expressions and the different kinds of conflicts that have emerged. Based on that analysis I have accounted for the actors taking part in the two areas. In the conclusion I discuss the difference in the outcome in the two districts, regarding planning for culture, association activities and public life.Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka relationen mellan kultur och föreningsliv å ena sidan och stadens offentliga liv å andra sidan, samt hur den relationen tar sig uttryck i planeringen av två stadsdelar i Malmö: Norra Sorgenfri och Sofielunds verksamhetsområde. För att undersöka detta har dels intervjuer genomförts med planerare från de två stadsdelarna, dels har planhandlingar analyserats. Detta har gjorts utifrån det teoretiska ramverket assemblage theory, en teori som handlar om hur ett studieobjekt kan förstås som en sammansättning av olika mänskliga och ickemänskliga aktörer. Områdena undersöks alltså som assemblage. Resultatet har blivit en analys av hur planeringen gått till, hur den är tänkt att ta sig rumsligt uttryck och vilka spänningsfält som uppstått. Utifrån den analysen redogörs även för de aktörer som ingår i respektive assemblage. I slutsatsen diskuteras varför områdena kommit att se så olika ut när det kommer till planering för kultur, föreningsliv och offentlighet

Fra eneveldets scene mot representative forsamlinger: visitasen som offentlig arena i Norge, ca. 1750-1850

From the Stage of State Power to Representative Assembly?: The Visitation as a Public Arena, 1750–1850 In the eighteenth century, the bishops’ visitations to dioceses constituted an important part of the control apparatus of the Church and the absolutist state. The article examines visitations in Norway in terms of public arenas, where the common people interacted with Church officials. During the period 1750 to 1850, the visitations were gradually transformed from arenas in which the state manifested its power towards a largely undifferentiated populace, to meeting places that resembled representative assemblies with both clerical and common lay members. Thus, it adapted to new forms of public participation established by the reforms of national and local government in the first half of the nineteenth century. At the same time, the process amounted to an elitization, because a few representatives replaced of the congregation as a whole. It is also argued that parish churches in the eighteenth century functioned as general public forums with a number of other functions in addition to worship, such as being places of trade and festivities. This seems to change in the nineteenth century, when churches became more exclusively religious arenas. The transition can be seen in the context of new forms of participation in Church matters. Many clerics wanted greater participation by sections of the commoners, in order to strengthen control in moral and religious matters.Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0

"The Middle Class Patriarch in the Bourgeois Public"

During the second parts of the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century the middle class patriarch played an important role in the formation and transformation of the bourgeoisie in Sweden - especially in the upper middle class dominated by industrialists, wholesalers and owners of "bruk". According to the comic press in the early twentieth century appearance was characteristic. Obviously he was a man. In the caricatures he often carried a high cylinder, wore a sturdy moustache a' la Bismarck, was evidently thick and because of that a back leaned posture, and had a authoritative appearance. Often he smoked a fat cigar. Here we will discuss his world view. First of all we discuss him on the basis of the changes in the bourgeois public and its patriarchal relations. Then we consider important parts of the world view and lastly we discuss the middle class patriarch as an industrialist.

Dialog eller elektronisk oppslagstavle? : Tolv tippeligaklubbers bruk av sosiale medier som kommunikasjonsplattform

Stadig flere organisasjoner benytter seg av profiler på sosiale medier. Noen benytter det til å markedsføre seg selv, mens andre bruker det til å kommunisere med sine interessenter. Sosiale medier tilbyr organisasjoner og virksomheter større friheter til å bli kjent med sine egne brukere og interessenter. Gjennom åpenhet og dialogisk kommunikasjon blir både organisasjon og interessent mer avhengige av hverandre og det skapes sterkere relasjoner. I denne oppgaven vil tolv fotballklubber bli satt under lupen. Undersøkelsen vil se om klubbene benytter seg av som dialogisk kommunikasjon i sosiale medier for å føre nettopp dialog med egne supportere og dermed skape tettere bånd mellom klubb og supporter. Gjennom analysen diskuteres det om og hvordan dialog blir brukt. Tilstedeværelsen fører til at klubbene blir mer åpne, samtidig som det gir dem utfordringer med tanke på hvordan de skal bruke de nye mediene til både kommunikasjon og relasjonsbygging