Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap är ett samhällsvetenskapligt och humanistiskt ämne som använder sig av många olika forskningsmetoder - denna bok syftar till att möta behovet av en ämnesspecifik metodlära.Här behandlas grunder för vetenskaplig metod, samt både kvalitativa och kvantitativa ansatser: metoder för studier i naturliga situationer (etnografiska fältstudier, etnografi online och samtalsanalys), frågeundersökningar (intervjuer, surveyundersökningar och experiment) samt text- och medieanalyser (kvantitativ innehållsanalys, automatiserade analysmetoder, kritisk diskursanalys, multimodal analys, samt retorisk analys).Denna fjärde omarbetade upplaga innehåller ett nytt kapitel. Övriga kapitel har skrivits om med hänsyn till aktuell forskning och metodutveckling. Samtliga författare är experter med omfattande erfarenheter av de metoder som presenteras. Metoder i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap ger en stabil grund och värdefulla verktyg för såväl studenter på grund- och masternivå som doktorander och forskare.

Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research. Including discussions of more recent scholarship in the field which connects critical realism with interdisciplinary research, this second edition also clarifies concepts – such as retroduction and retrodiction – so as to render them consistent with developments within critical realism, which are covered in a new chapter. An accessible account of the nature of society and social science, together with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena, Explaining Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly.

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approachis a cutting‑edge study of the practices of news journalism against the background of surging authoritarian populism.This book traces key challenges for news journalism when reporting on authoritarian populism or on topics (such as immigration and terrorism) that are typically leveraged by far‑right actors and platforms as a way of attracting media attention and boosting their popularity with national electorates. It also offers in‑depth analyses of how these challenges are responded to by news journalists in the actual, day‑to‑day practices of news production, as evidenced in the discourse of news. By placing qualitative, critical analysis of discourse at the heart of the systematic inquiry into authoritarian populism in the news media, this book applies a broad methodological framework for studying (a) political performances and their mediated representations, (b) the complex and, often contradictory, normalizing processes at work in the news media, and (c) the attendant challenges and critical tasks for contemporary news journalism. Based on detailed analyses of political and news discourse in various European contexts, and in the US, spanning a decade (2014–2024), this book makes a timely and relevant contribution – as liberal democracies could be facing a new turning point in the global rise of authoritarian populism.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of journalism, media studies, political communication, political science, sociology, and discourse studies who are interested in authoritarian and far‑right populism, related discourses of nationalism and xenophobia, populist communication, and the role of news media and journalism.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approachis a cutting‑edge study of the practices of news journalism against the background of surging authoritarian populism.This book traces key challenges for news journalism when reporting on authoritarian populism or on topics (such as immigration and terrorism) that are typically leveraged by far‑right actors and platforms as a way of attracting media attention and boosting their popularity with national electorates. It also offers in‑depth analyses of how these challenges are responded to by news journalists in the actual, day‑to‑day practices of news production, as evidenced in the discourse of news. By placing qualitative, critical analysis of discourse at the heart of the systematic inquiry into authoritarian populism in the news media, this book applies a broad methodological framework for studying (a) political performances and their mediated representations, (b) the complex and, often contradictory, normalizing processes at work in the news media, and (c) the attendant challenges and critical tasks for contemporary news journalism. Based on detailed analyses of political and news discourse in various European contexts, and in the US, spanning a decade (2014–2024), this book makes a timely and relevant contribution – as liberal democracies could be facing a new turning point in the global rise of authoritarian populism.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of journalism, media studies, political communication, political science, sociology, and discourse studies who are interested in authoritarian and far‑right populism, related discourses of nationalism and xenophobia, populist communication, and the role of news media and journalism.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research. Including discussions of more recent scholarship in the field which connects critical realism with interdisciplinary research, this second edition also clarifies concepts – such as retroduction and retrodiction – so as to render them consistent with developments within critical realism, which are covered in a new chapter. An accessible account of the nature of society and social science, together with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena, Explaining Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly.

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach. The book explores how politics is performed and discursively constructed in television news and current affairs in five countries (France, Greece, Italy, Sweden and the UK) and focuses on a moment in time in European politics characterized by challenging tensions; increased Euroscepticism, questioning of mainstream politics; accentuated gaps between the elite and the citizens, and polarizations between member states. Emphasising the performative and discursive dimensions of political communication, the chapters provide a detailed comparative analysis that is centred around three themes: how symbolic representations of politics are shaped by journalistic practices, genres and styles of news reporting; the language and performances of mainstream and populist political leaders; and the participation and representation of citizens’ voices.

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach. The book explores how politics is performed and discursively constructed in television news and current affairs in five countries (France, Greece, Italy, Sweden and the UK) and focuses on a moment in time in European politics characterized by challenging tensions; increased Euroscepticism, questioning of mainstream politics; accentuated gaps between the elite and the citizens, and polarizations between member states. Emphasising the performative and discursive dimensions of political communication, the chapters provide a detailed comparative analysis that is centred around three themes: how symbolic representations of politics are shaped by journalistic practices, genres and styles of news reporting; the language and performances of mainstream and populist political leaders; and the participation and representation of citizens’ voices.

Att förklara samhället är en bok i metodologi. Med den kritiska realismen som grund presenterar författarna metodologiska riktlinjer för en samhällsvetenskap med höga anspråk på att kunna förklara samhälleliga förhållanden. Bokens kapitel behandlar samhällsvetenskapens ontologiska och epistemologiska grunder, begreppsbildning och strukturell analys, kausalitet och förklaring, samhällsvetenskapen som tolkande vetenskap, förhållandet mellan struktur och aktör, olika former av slutledningar och tankeoperationer, relationen mellan det generella och det individuella, teoriers betydelse i forskningspraktiken, olika sätt att koppla teori och empiri, kombinationer av metoder (det som i boken kallas kritisk metodpluralism) samt grunderna för en samhällsrelevant samhällsvetenskap.Kritiken mot de positivistiska vetenskapsidealen, empirismen och tron på den objektiva, bevisade kunskapen har delvis slagit över i sin motsats: en överdriven försiktighet, en långtgående relativism, en betoning på vad vetenskapen inte kan göra i stället för vad den kan göra. Denna bok visar att det finns ett fruktbart alternativ till dessa positioner, ett alternativ som ger mer realistiska och samtidigt konstruktiva grunder för samhällsvetenskaplig forskning.I denna tredje upplaga har flera väsentliga omarbetningar gjorts genom anknytning till aktuell forskning och litteratur samt språkbearbetning. Särskilt finns nya avsnitt om öppna och slutna sociala system samt olika typer av forskning i samarbete med praktiker. Boken vänder sig till alla som vill få en djupare kunskap om vetenskapens grunder och hur spänningen mellan olika vetenskapsteoretiska inriktningar kan lösas. Den är avsedd för akademiska utbildningar inom ett stort fält: samhällsvetenskap, humaniora, hälsovetenskaper och angränsande ämnen.

Forskningsprogrammet "Politisk socialisation och aktörskap: Utvecklingen av ungdomars medborgerliga engagemang" vid Örebro universitet tilldelades anslag av Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond år 2008. I ett brett flervetenskapligt samarbete har forskargruppen försökt förklara skillnader i hur ungdomars politiska intresse och deltagande formas över tid. Statsvetare, medievetare och utvecklingspsykologer har undersökt hur unga mellan 13 och 30 år utvecklar ett samhällsengagemang hemma, bland kompisar, i skolan och på nätet. Detta är programmets slutrapport.

Sällan får journalistik så stor betydelse som i en valrörelse. Där och då avgörs länders politiska framtid. Och sällan kritiseras medier så hårt som då. Denna bok granskar medierapporteringen i valrörelser, med blickar bakåt mot 2014 års svenska valrörelse, presidentvalet i USA och val i en rad europeiska länder de senaste åren. Men siktet är också riktat framåt, mot den svenska valrörelsen 2018. Vi publicerar för första gången en studie av hur medier vinklade valrörelsen 2014 och en enkätstudie med väljare, journalister och politiker före, under och efter samma valrörelse. Här presenteras också en ny studie av i vilken grad svenskar stänger in sig i mediebubblor i valrörelser. Dessutom skrivs historien om sociala mediers betydelse i svenska val och jämförelser hur medier hanterar populistiska/högerextrema partier och kandidater i en rad länder.

Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap är ett samhällsvetenskapligt och humanistiskt ämne som använder sig av många olika forskningsmetoder - denna bok syftar till att möta behovet av en ämnesspecifik metodlära.Här behandlas grunder för vetenskaplig metod, samt både kvalitativa och kvantitativa ansatser: metoder för studier i naturliga situationer (etnografiska fältstudier, etnografi online och samtalsanalys), frågeundersökningar (intervjuer, surveyundersökningar och experiment) samt text- och medieanalyser (kvantitativ innehållsanalys, automatiserade analysmetoder, kritisk diskursanalys, multimodal analys, samt retorisk analys).Denna fjärde omarbetade upplaga innehåller ett nytt kapitel. Övriga kapitel har skrivits om med hänsyn till aktuell forskning och metodutveckling. Samtliga författare är experter med omfattande erfarenheter av de metoder som presenteras. Metoder i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap ger en stabil grund och värdefulla verktyg för såväl studenter på grund- och masternivå som doktorander och forskare.

Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research. Including discussions of more recent scholarship in the field which connects critical realism with interdisciplinary research, this second edition also clarifies concepts – such as retroduction and retrodiction – so as to render them consistent with developments within critical realism, which are covered in a new chapter. An accessible account of the nature of society and social science, together with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena, Explaining Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly.

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approachis a cutting‑edge study of the practices of news journalism against the background of surging authoritarian populism.This book traces key challenges for news journalism when reporting on authoritarian populism or on topics (such as immigration and terrorism) that are typically leveraged by far‑right actors and platforms as a way of attracting media attention and boosting their popularity with national electorates. It also offers in‑depth analyses of how these challenges are responded to by news journalists in the actual, day‑to‑day practices of news production, as evidenced in the discourse of news. By placing qualitative, critical analysis of discourse at the heart of the systematic inquiry into authoritarian populism in the news media, this book applies a broad methodological framework for studying (a) political performances and their mediated representations, (b) the complex and, often contradictory, normalizing processes at work in the news media, and (c) the attendant challenges and critical tasks for contemporary news journalism. Based on detailed analyses of political and news discourse in various European contexts, and in the US, spanning a decade (2014–2024), this book makes a timely and relevant contribution – as liberal democracies could be facing a new turning point in the global rise of authoritarian populism.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of journalism, media studies, political communication, political science, sociology, and discourse studies who are interested in authoritarian and far‑right populism, related discourses of nationalism and xenophobia, populist communication, and the role of news media and journalism.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approachis a cutting‑edge study of the practices of news journalism against the background of surging authoritarian populism.This book traces key challenges for news journalism when reporting on authoritarian populism or on topics (such as immigration and terrorism) that are typically leveraged by far‑right actors and platforms as a way of attracting media attention and boosting their popularity with national electorates. It also offers in‑depth analyses of how these challenges are responded to by news journalists in the actual, day‑to‑day practices of news production, as evidenced in the discourse of news. By placing qualitative, critical analysis of discourse at the heart of the systematic inquiry into authoritarian populism in the news media, this book applies a broad methodological framework for studying (a) political performances and their mediated representations, (b) the complex and, often contradictory, normalizing processes at work in the news media, and (c) the attendant challenges and critical tasks for contemporary news journalism. Based on detailed analyses of political and news discourse in various European contexts, and in the US, spanning a decade (2014–2024), this book makes a timely and relevant contribution – as liberal democracies could be facing a new turning point in the global rise of authoritarian populism.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of journalism, media studies, political communication, political science, sociology, and discourse studies who are interested in authoritarian and far‑right populism, related discourses of nationalism and xenophobia, populist communication, and the role of news media and journalism.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Fully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research. Including discussions of more recent scholarship in the field which connects critical realism with interdisciplinary research, this second edition also clarifies concepts – such as retroduction and retrodiction – so as to render them consistent with developments within critical realism, which are covered in a new chapter. An accessible account of the nature of society and social science, together with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena, Explaining Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly.

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach. The book explores how politics is performed and discursively constructed in television news and current affairs in five countries (France, Greece, Italy, Sweden and the UK) and focuses on a moment in time in European politics characterized by challenging tensions; increased Euroscepticism, questioning of mainstream politics; accentuated gaps between the elite and the citizens, and polarizations between member states. Emphasising the performative and discursive dimensions of political communication, the chapters provide a detailed comparative analysis that is centred around three themes: how symbolic representations of politics are shaped by journalistic practices, genres and styles of news reporting; the language and performances of mainstream and populist political leaders; and the participation and representation of citizens’ voices.

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach. The book explores how politics is performed and discursively constructed in television news and current affairs in five countries (France, Greece, Italy, Sweden and the UK) and focuses on a moment in time in European politics characterized by challenging tensions; increased Euroscepticism, questioning of mainstream politics; accentuated gaps between the elite and the citizens, and polarizations between member states. Emphasising the performative and discursive dimensions of political communication, the chapters provide a detailed comparative analysis that is centred around three themes: how symbolic representations of politics are shaped by journalistic practices, genres and styles of news reporting; the language and performances of mainstream and populist political leaders; and the participation and representation of citizens’ voices.

Att förklara samhället är en bok i metodologi. Med den kritiska realismen som grund presenterar författarna metodologiska riktlinjer för en samhällsvetenskap med höga anspråk på att kunna förklara samhälleliga förhållanden. Bokens kapitel behandlar samhällsvetenskapens ontologiska och epistemologiska grunder, begreppsbildning och strukturell analys, kausalitet och förklaring, samhällsvetenskapen som tolkande vetenskap, förhållandet mellan struktur och aktör, olika former av slutledningar och tankeoperationer, relationen mellan det generella och det individuella, teoriers betydelse i forskningspraktiken, olika sätt att koppla teori och empiri, kombinationer av metoder (det som i boken kallas kritisk metodpluralism) samt grunderna för en samhällsrelevant samhällsvetenskap.Kritiken mot de positivistiska vetenskapsidealen, empirismen och tron på den objektiva, bevisade kunskapen har delvis slagit över i sin motsats: en överdriven försiktighet, en långtgående relativism, en betoning på vad vetenskapen inte kan göra i stället för vad den kan göra. Denna bok visar att det finns ett fruktbart alternativ till dessa positioner, ett alternativ som ger mer realistiska och samtidigt konstruktiva grunder för samhällsvetenskaplig forskning.I denna tredje upplaga har flera väsentliga omarbetningar gjorts genom anknytning till aktuell forskning och litteratur samt språkbearbetning. Särskilt finns nya avsnitt om öppna och slutna sociala system samt olika typer av forskning i samarbete med praktiker. Boken vänder sig till alla som vill få en djupare kunskap om vetenskapens grunder och hur spänningen mellan olika vetenskapsteoretiska inriktningar kan lösas. Den är avsedd för akademiska utbildningar inom ett stort fält: samhällsvetenskap, humaniora, hälsovetenskaper och angränsande ämnen.

Forskningsprogrammet "Politisk socialisation och aktörskap: Utvecklingen av ungdomars medborgerliga engagemang" vid Örebro universitet tilldelades anslag av Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond år 2008. I ett brett flervetenskapligt samarbete har forskargruppen försökt förklara skillnader i hur ungdomars politiska intresse och deltagande formas över tid. Statsvetare, medievetare och utvecklingspsykologer har undersökt hur unga mellan 13 och 30 år utvecklar ett samhällsengagemang hemma, bland kompisar, i skolan och på nätet. Detta är programmets slutrapport.

Sällan får journalistik så stor betydelse som i en valrörelse. Där och då avgörs länders politiska framtid. Och sällan kritiseras medier så hårt som då. Denna bok granskar medierapporteringen i valrörelser, med blickar bakåt mot 2014 års svenska valrörelse, presidentvalet i USA och val i en rad europeiska länder de senaste åren. Men siktet är också riktat framåt, mot den svenska valrörelsen 2018. Vi publicerar för första gången en studie av hur medier vinklade valrörelsen 2014 och en enkätstudie med väljare, journalister och politiker före, under och efter samma valrörelse. Här presenteras också en ny studie av i vilken grad svenskar stänger in sig i mediebubblor i valrörelser. Dessutom skrivs historien om sociala mediers betydelse i svenska val och jämförelser hur medier hanterar populistiska/högerextrema partier och kandidater i en rad länder.