Denmark Current literature

Mediated intimacies Connectivities, relationalities and proximities Rikke Andreassen, Michael Nebeling, Kathrine Harrison & Tobias Raun (red.), Routledge, 2017, 336 s., ISBN 9781138631861.

Social media, characterized by user-generated content, inter-activity, participation and community formation, have gained much research atten-tion in recent years. At the same time, intimacy, affectiv-ity and emotions are increas-ingly growing as fields of

study. While these two areas are often interwoven, the actual interconnections are rarely studied in detail. This anthology explores how social media construct new types of intimacies, and how prac-tices of intimacy shape the development and use of new media, offering empirical knowledge, the-oretical insights and an international perspective on the flourishing field of digital intimacies.

Science Fiction, Ethics and the Hu-man Condition

Christian Baron, Peter Nicolai Halvorsen & Christine Cornea, Springer International Publishing, 2017, 246 s., ISBN 9783319565750.

This book explores what sci-ence fiction can tell us about the human condition in a technological world, with the ethical dilemmas and conse-quences that this entails. This book is the result of the joint efforts of scholars and scien-tists from various disci-

plines. This interdisciplinary approach sets an ex-ample for those who, like us, have been busy as-sessing the ways in which fictional attempts to fathom the possibilities of science and technology speak to central concerns about what it means to

be human in a contemporary world of technology and which ethical dilemmas it brings along.

Medieret - Frihed og ansvar

Trine Baumbach, Karnov Group, 2017, 592 s., ISBN 9788761939241.

I bogen behandles reglerne om mediernes frihed og an-svar, altså mediernes ytrings-frihed, ytringsfrihedens græn-ser, det særlige medieansvar, den retlige regulering af me-diernes arbejdsmetoder og mulighed for at indsamle in-formation, herunder reglerne

om aktindsigt, reglerne om Pressenævnet og god presseskik samt reglerne om kildebeskyttelse.

Indefinite Visions

Martine Beugnet, Allan Cameron & Arild Fetveit, Edinburgh University Press, 2017, 384 s., ISBN 9781474407120.

Examines the aesthetics, con-cepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images. Audiovisual culture often privileges the instantly identi-fiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the per-fectly synchronized line of di-alogue. Yet order and clarity

do not come 'naturally' to the moving image. Light, motion, definition, compression: the condi-tions of recording, storing and screening can sub-ject audiovisual media to countless variations, pulling them towards the indefinite and illegible.

Denmark

Digitale metoder

Andreas Birkbak & Anders Kristian Munk, Hans Reitzel, 2017, 200 s., ISBN 9788741258218.

Digitaliseringen af sociale om-gangsformer giver både nye muligheder og udfordringer for samfundsvidenskabelig og humanistisk forskning. Det er blevet relativt enkelt at høste meget store datamængder fra sociale medier og lignende in-ternetteknologier, men det er

et åbent spørgsmål, hvad man stiller op med denne overflod af nye digitale spor. Denne bog gi-ver en praktisk indføring i, hvad det vil sige at ar-bejde med digitalt fødte data.

Dansk film og kulturel globalisering

Ib Bondebjerg & Ulla Bondebjerg, Sam-fundslitteratur, 2017. 320 s., ISBN 9788759326817.

Bogen beskriver og analyserer den globalisering af det dan-ske samfund, som er sket si-den 1970’erne, med særlig vægt på de konflikter, kultur-møder og globale udfordrin-ger, det har givet anledning til. Bogen er den første danske bog, som tager fat på, hvordan

globaliseringen og den mere multikulturelle sam-mensætning af det danske samfund har påvirket dansk film, både spillefilm, kortfilm og dokumen-tarfilm.

Transnational European Television Drama Production, Genres and Audiences Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall, Ras-mus Helles, Signe Sophus Lai, Henrik Søn-dergaard & Cecilie Astrupgaard, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 336 s., ISBN 9783319628069.

This book deals with the role of television drama in Europe as enabler of transnational, cultural encounters for audi-ences and the creative commu-nity. It demonstrates that the diversity of national cultures is a challenge for European TV drama but also a potential

richness and source of creative variation. Based on data on the production, distribution and recep-tion of recent TV drama from several European countries, the book presents a new picture of the transnational European television culture. The au-thors analyse main tendencies in television policy and challenges for national broadcasters coming from new global streaming services

Web 25 Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web Niels Brügger (red.), Peter Lang, 2017, 257 s., ISBN 9781433132704.

Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web celebrates the 25th anniver-sary of the Web. Since the be-ginning of the 1990s, the Web has played an important role in the development of the In-ternet as well as in the devel-opment of most societies at

large, from its early grey and blue webpages intro-ducing the hyperlink for a wider public, to today’s multifacted uses of the Web as an integrated part of our daily lives. This is the first book to look

Denmark

back at 25 years of Web evolution, and it tells some of the histories about how the Web was born and has developed.

The Web as History Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present Niels Brügger & Ralph Schroeder (red.), UCL Press, 2017, 270 s., ISBN 9781911307426.

The World Wide Web has now been in use for more than 20 years. From early browsers to today’s principal source of information, entertainment and much else, the Web is an integral part of our daily lives, to the extent that some people believe ‘if it’s not online, it

doesn’t exist.’ While this statement is not entirely true, it is becoming increasingly accurate, and re-flects the Web’s role as an indispensable treasure trove.

Ældre mennesker i et mediesamfund

Christa Lykke Christensen & Anne Jers-lev, Frydenlund Academic, 2017, 262 s., ISBN 9788771185874.

Medier er en selvfølgelig del af tilværelsen – også for æl-dre. Bogen fortæller i seks ca-ses, hvordan ældre bruger me-dier, og hvordan medierne præger vores forestilling om, hvad der er en god alderdom. Ældre mennesker udgør en større del af befolkningen end

nogensinde før, og mange er aktive brugere af samfundets store medieudbud, uanset om det er smartphones, ugeblade, tv og radio. Bogen hen-vender sig til professionelle og studerende inden

for ældre-, sundheds-, pædagogik- og medieområ-det samt alle, der interesser sig for kultur og me-dieudviklingen.

Medieproduktion Kommunikation med levende billeder Jørgen Riber Christensen, Thomas Mosebo Simonsen & Ole Ertløv Hansen, Samfunds-litteratur, 2017, 228 s., ISBN 9788759329696.

Medieproduktion: Kommuni-kation med levende billeder er en grundbog til produktionen af audiovisuelle medier. Bo-gen fokuserer på de korte for-mater, der hyppigt ligger til grund for undervisningen og

samtidigt er de mest udbredte for kommunikation med levende billeder på sociale medieplatforme.

Language in the Digital Era Challenges and Perspectives Daniel Dejica, Gyde Hansen, Peter San-drini & Iulia Para (red.), Walter de Gruyter, 2017, 220 s., ISBN 9783110472042.

This collected volume brings together the contributions of several humanities scholars who focus on the evolution of language in the digital era. The first part of the volume explores general aspects of hu-manities and linguistics in the digital environment. The sec-

ond part focuses on language and translation and includes topics that discuss the digital translation policy, new technologies and specialized transla-tion, online resources for terminology manage-ment, translation of online advertising, or subti-tling. The last part of the book focuses on lan-guage teaching and learning and addresses the changes, challenges and perspectives of didactics in the age of technology.

Denmark

Counter-Narratives and Organization

Sanne Frandsen, Tim Kuhn & Marianne Wolff Lundholt (red.), Routledge, 2017, 320 s., ISBN 9781138929456.

Counter-Narratives and Or-ganization brings the concept of "counter-narrative" into an organizational context, illumi-nating these complex elements of communication as intrinsic yet largely unexplored aspect of organizational storytelling. The individual chapters focus

on the character of counter-narratives, along with their performative aspects, by addressing ques-tions such as: how do some narratives gain domi-nance over others? How do narratives intersect, relate and reinforce each other? How are organiza-tional members and external stakeholders engaged in the telling and re-telling of the organization?

The Euro Crisis and European Identi-ties Political and Media Discourse in Germany, Ireland and Poland Charlotte Galpin, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 259 s., ISBN 9783319516103.

This book builds upon our knowledge of the far-reaching economic, political and social effects of the Euro crisis on the European Union by providing a unique study of European identities. In partic-ular, it considers the impact on the construction of European

identities in political and media discourse in Ger-many, Ireland and Poland—three countries with profoundly different experiences of the crisis and never before compared in a single study. Offering an original insight into the dynamics of identity change at moments of upheaval, the author argues that political and media actors in the early stages

of the crisis drew on long-standing identities in or-der to make sense of the crisis in the public sphere.

Evaluating Media Richness in Organ-izational Learning

Albert Gyamfi & William Idongesit, IGI global, 2017, 328 s., ISBN 9781522529569.

Evaluating Media Richness in Organizational Learning is a reference source for the latest scholarly research on the ap-plication of computational tools for knowledge manage-ment frameworks and strate-gies in organizations. Featur-ing a broad range of coverage

on topics and perspectives such as web semantics, product innovation, and knowledge sharing, this book is ideally designed for researchers, consult-ants, practitioners, professionals, and upper-level students seeking current information on ways to facilitate business innovation and achieve compet-itive advantage.

Helt til grin Moderne audiovisuel komik på tværs af me-dier Andreas Halskov, Henrik Højer & Thomas Larsen Schwartz (red.), VIA Film & Trans-media, 2017, 288 s, ISBN 9788793063693.

"Humour is serious business." Sådan skrev humorforskeren Walter Nash for mere end 30 år siden, og det lader til, at flere i dag har fået øjnene op for den kunst, der kan ligge i komediegenren. Denne bog handler dog ikke så meget om

humor i generel forstand, men om moderne audio-visuelle komedieformer, der udnytter den filmiske stil som en central del af komikken. Bogen rum-mer kapitler om alt fra tv-satire og sketchshows til moderne romcoms, sitcoms, dramedier og webse-rier.

Denmark

Mixed segmentation Combining audience segmentation, psycho-physiology and textual content analysis. Mixed methodological research of triangula-tion and parallelization in a multivariate de-sign

Allan Grutt Hansen, Anders Bonde & Morten Aagaard, Aalborg Universitetsfor-lag, 2017, 61 s., ISBN 9788771126563.

This book is about using re-cent developments in the fields of data analytics and data visualization to frame new ways of identifying target groups in media communica-tion. Based on a mixed-meth-ods approach, the authors combine psychophysiological

monitoring (galvanic skin response) with textual content analysis and audience segmentation in a single-source perspective. The aim is to explain and understand target groups in relation to, on the one hand, emotional response to commercials or other forms of audio-visual communication and, on the other hand, living preferences and person-ality traits.

Tal! - sammen

Ejvind Hansen, Forlaget Mindspace, 2017, 158 s., ISBN 9788793535169.

Samtaler skaber og ødelægger liv. Samtaler åbner for verden ved at lukke for den. For at kunne samtale er vi nødt til at dyrke tavsheden. Vi kan kun sikre ytringsfriheden ved at begrænse den. Tal! – sammen handler om sådanne paradok-ser i samtaler, som vi ikke kan

løse, men som vi alligevel må forsøge at løsne op for. Ved at forstå, hvordan vi kan begrunde vores talehandlinger og talefrihed, kan vi se, hvilken magt talen har, og hvordan vi kan blive bedre til at

tale på en måde, der åbner for rummelige fælles-skaber, hvor flest muligt har indflydelse, og hvor vi gennem vores forskellighed udfordrer hinanden til en bred, nysgerrig og nuanceret forståelse af forhold i verden.

Locating Nordic Noir From Beck to The Bridge Kim Toft Hansen & Anne Marit Waade, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 313 s., ISBN 9783319598147.

This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir televi-sion drama from the 1990’s until today. The authors intro-duce the history of contempo-rary Nordic Noir from the per-spective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of

well-known television crime dramas such as Beck, The Killing, Trapped and The Bridge as well as a range of other important Nordic Noir cases. The book positions the development of Nordic Noir on the global market for popular tele-vision drama and places the international attention towards Nordic crime dramas within regional de-velopment of drama production in Sweden, Den-mark, Norway and Iceland.

Denmark

FAKE NEWS Når virkeligheden taber Vincent Fella Hendricks & Mads Vester-gaard, Gyldendal, 2017, 176 s., ISBN 9788702247268.

Politik og medier oversvøm-mes af fordrejninger, fortiel-ser, forglemmelser og for-vanskninger af sandheden. Vi invaderes af populistiske for-tællinger, “alternative kends-gerninger” og “fake news”. Det er nu et faktum, at misin-formation er noget man aktivt

må forholde sig til som politiker, som journalist og som borger. Men hvordan? Det handler om at få opmærksomhed. Omtale i æteren og trafik på de sociale medier. I informationstidsalderen er op-mærksomhed en dyrebar ressource. Omtale og tra-fik er penge, magt og politisk indflydelse, selv hvis det er på bekostning af sandhed, fakta og de alt for virkelige udfordringer, vi står over for.

Compact Cinematics The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media

Pepita Hesselberth & Maria Poulaki, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 256 s., ISBN 9781501322266.

Compact Cinematics chal-lenges the dominant under-standing of cinema to focus on the various compact, short, miniature, pocket-sized forms of cinematics that have existed from even before its standardi-zation in theatrical form, and in recent years have multiplied

and proliferated, taking up an increasingly im-portant part of our everyday multimedia environ-ment. Short films or micro-narratives, cinematic pieces or units re-assembled into image archives and looping themes, challenge the concepts that

have traditionally been used to understand cine-matic experience, like linear causality, sequential-ity, and closure, and call attention to complex and modular forms of cinematic expression and per-ception.

Den digitale borger

Morten Hjelholt & Jannick Schou, Hans Reitzel, 2017, 172 s., ISBN 9788741268125.

Digitaliseringen af velfærds-staten påvirker i større eller mindre grad alle. Men hvad vil det sige at blive gjort til og være en digital borger? Hvilke fortællinger, perspektiver og blikke er der på den digitale borger i dag? Og hvordan håndterer det enkelte individ disse nye forventninger i sin

dagligdag? Disse spørgsmål undersøger forfat-terne i denne bog ved at sætte fokus på den digi-tale borger som en grundlæggende ny politisk fi-gur i den danske velfærdsstat.

Social Media Marketing A Practitioner Guide

Svend Hollesen, Philip Kotler & Marc Oli-ver Opresnik, Opresnik Management Con-sulting, 2017, 209 s., ISBN 9781521023341.

Marketing communication is undergoing a digital revolu-tion. The increasing popularity of blogging, podcasting, and social networks enables world customers to broadcast their views about a product or ser-vice to a potential audience of billions. Traditional advertis-

ing does not work as well as it has in the past. This book on ‘Social Media Marketing’ guides through the maze of communities, platforms, and social media tools so that markers can decide which ones to use, and how to use them most ef-fectively.

Denmark

Digitale metoder At skabe, analysere og dele data Sara Mosberg Iversen & Kirsten Drotner (red.), Samfundslitteratur, 2017, 248 s., ISBN 9788759327937.

Digitaliseringen og dens resul-tater er med os overalt - fra kommunikation 24/7 på mo-bile medier til personlig sund-hedsstatistik. Denne gennem-gribende digitalisering af sam-fundet medfører en omfat-tende produktion af data, som giver nye muligheder for at

undersøge det digitale felts kommunikationsfor-mer, relationer og netværk, hvad enten der er tale om individer, institutioner eller instrumenter. Bo-gen giver en grundlæggende introduktion til, hvordan digitale metoder kan benyttes til at under-søge det digitale felt, både når man skaber og ana-lyserer data, og når man deler undersøgelsesresul-tater.

From Superman to Social Realism Children's Media and Scandinavian Child-hood Helle Strandgaard Jensen, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017, 188 s., ISBN 9789027201607.

Can children’s media be a source of education and em-powerment? Or is the com-mercial media market a threat to their sense of social and democratic values? Such ques-tions about the appropriate-ness of children’s media con-sumption have recurred in

public debates throughout the twentieth cen-tury. From Superman to Social Realism provides an exciting new approach to the study of chil-dren’s media and childhood history, drawing on theories of cross-media consumption and transna-tional history.

Cybersecurity and Privacy - bridging the gap

Samat Khajuria, Lene Tolstrup Sørensen & Knud Erik Skouby (red.), River Publi-shers, 2017, 238 s., ISBN 9788793519664.

The huge potential in future connected services hinges on the precondition that privacy and security needs are dealt with in order for new services to be accepted. This issue is appearing increasingly on the agenda at both the company and individual level. Cyberse-curity and Privacy – Bridging

the Gap addresses two very complex fields of the digital world: cybersecurity and privacy. These multifaceted and multidisciplinary issues are usu-ally understood and valued differently by different individuals, data holders, and legal bodies, but a change in one field immediately affects the others. Policies, frameworks, strategies, laws, tools, tech-niques, and technologies – all of these are tightly interwoven when it comes to security and privacy.

Dialogues on Poetry Mediatization and New Sensibilities Stefan Kjerkegaard & Dan Ringgaard (red.), Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2017, 370 s., ISBN 9788771126501.

This book’s inquiry into con-temporary poetry takes two di-rections. The first direction leads to several close exami-nations of digital, multi-modal and performative poetry, and how perspectives or perhaps just an awareness of a new media landscape recondition

our understanding of an old literary genre. The second direction expands into considerations of contextual theories of affect and atmosphere, to materiality studies and towards the heterogenic field of politics, for example feminism, minority

Denmark

studies, digital and environmental humanities or cosmopolitanism. Hence, the question the articles in this volume pose is whether this match of medi-atization and new sensibilities can be seen as a major novel development in the history of poetry.

Strategisk kommunikation på sociale netværksmedier

Lisbeth Klastrup, Samfundslitteratur, 2017, 44 s., ISBN 9788759326602.

"Strategisk kommunikation på sociale netværksmedier" er en kort introduktion til de mange udfordringer og muligheder det giver at kommunikere stra-tegisk på de sociale netværks-medier. Bogen præsenterer ak-tuel viden om og forskning in-den for feltet, og viser i for-

længelse af udgivelsen Sociale netværksmedier, hvordan man kan forstå brugernes interaktion med organisationer og brands på de sociale netværks-medier som et samspil mellem brugernes behov, organisationens handlen og mediets egne rammer.

Music Video After MTV Audiovisual Studies, New Media, and Popular Music Mathias Korsgaard, Routledge, 2017, 228 s., ISBN 9781138670600.

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and to-day almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in ac-ademia, music videos do not currently share this popularity. Music Video After MTV gives music video its due aca-

demic credit by exploring the changing landscapes surrounding post-millennial music video. Across

seven chapters, the book addresses core issues re-lating to the study of music videos, including the history, analysis, and audiovisual aesthetics of music videos. Moreover, the book addresses the recent changes following the digitization of music video, including its changing cycles of production, distribution and reception, the influence of music videos on other media, and the rise of new types of online music video.

Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in the Media

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen & Unni From (red.), Routledge, 2017, 182 s., ISBN 9781138234024.

This book addresses a topic in journalism studies that has gained increasing scholarly at-tention since the mid-2000s: the coverage and evaluation of arts and culture, or what we term ‘cultural journalism and cultural critique’. The book highlights three approaches to

this emerging research field: (1) the constant chal-lenge of demarcating what constitutes the ‘cul-tural’ in cultural journalism and cultural critique, and the interlinks of cultural journalism and cul-tural critique; (2) the dialectic of globalization’s cultural homogenization and the specificity of lo-cal/national cultures; and (3) the need to rethink, perhaps even redefine, cultural journalism and cultural critique in view of the digital media land-scape.

Denmark

In Bewegung setzen … Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Anima-tionsforschung Markus Kuhn, Franziska Brunckner, Er-

win Feyersinger & Maike Sarah Reinerth, Springer-VS, 2017, 228 s., ISBN 9783658130176.

Antologien analyserer den grundlæggende betydning af animation i vores medialise-rede verden. Animation påvir-ker billeder, følelser, kunst, in-dustri og transformerer også forskning. Det udfordrer de traditionelle (audio-)visuelle discipliner og teorier.

Style, Mediation, and Change Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Me-dia Janus Mortensen, Nikolas Coupland & Ja-cob Thøgersen (red.), Oxford University Press, 2017, 266 s., ISBN 9780190629496.

When talk circulates through technological media - through television or radio and through the activities they support, like the dissemina-tion of news, product adver-tising or entertainment - it takes on distinctive character-istics, functions and styles.

The talking media have developed their own ways of styling individuals (often as celebrities of dif-ferent types, but also as 'ordinary people'), and ways of styling relationships (such as constructing informality or trust or authority). Media also style their own ways of communicating (how to read the news, how to conduct interviews, how to en-tertain or educate others, and so on).

Tillid hænger ikke på træerne Styr dit omdømme med skovflåtmodellen Trine Nebel, Ajour, 2017, 152 s., ISBN 9788793453043.

Om skovflåtmodellen, en kommunikationsmodel i fem faser, der giver afsendere med et brand hjælp til at håndtere mediehistorier og undgå dårlig om-tale. Det er en model, Trine Nebel har konstrueret ud fra den ide, at dårlig medieomtale er som en skovflåt: Reagerer du ikke rigtigt, og arbejder du ikke med dit omdømme på længere sigt, så kan det lille, lede dyr forårsage store ødelæggelser, i værste fald død.

Danmarks første lydoptagelser Edisons fonograf i 1890'ernes København Steen Kaargaard Nielsen & Claus Byrith, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2017, 268 s., ISBN 9788771249651.

I efteråret 1889 vandt Thomas Edisons fonograf genklang i København. Nu blev det for alvor muligt at optage og gen-give lyd, og et betaget publi-kum strømmede til for at høre vidundermaskinen. Frem til midten af 1890’erne optog

grosserer Gottfried Ruben og instrumentmager Theodor Cornelius-Knudsen et bredt udvalg af ti-dens populære sangere, skuespillere og musikere. Mange af disse skrøbelige fonografvalser har mi-rakuløst overlevet frem til i dag. Nu har Det Kgl. Bibliotek, Aarhus, digitaliseret optagelserne og vakt Danmarks ældste lydspor til live.

Denmark

Paranoia på Film Om overvågning, panik og konspirationsteori i thriller- og science fiction-genren Peter Ole Pedersen, Antipyrine Distribution, 2017. 160 s., ISBN 9788793108868.

Filmbog med hovedfokus på temaet overvågning i thriller og science fiction-genren. Gennem omfattende analyser af Francis Ford Coppolas The Conversation (1974), David Finchers Panic Room (2002), George Lucas THX 1138

(1971) og Steven Spielbergs Minority Report (2002) gives kritisk bud på populærfilmens mange fremstillinger af den paranoia, panik og konspira-tion, der er forbundet med overvågningens omfat-tende rolle i vores moderne samfund.

Fra øje til øre Redskaber og virkemidler i oplæsning Hanne Smith Pedersen & Louise Fischer-Nielsen, Samfundslitteratur, 2017, 274 s., ISBN 9788759329160.

Hvilke teknikker kan hjælpe med at få en tekst til at lette fra papiret eller skærmen? Hvilke analyseredskaber kan få en præcis fortolkning frem i en oplæsning? Hvordan kan man bruge stemme og krop til at formidle tekstens budskab og nå sine tilhørere? Og hvilke

virkemidler kan man arbejde med for at gøre op-læsningen præcis og levende i forskellige genrer? Det er nogle af de spørgsmål, som Fra øje til øre arbejder med svarene på. Bogen handler om, hvordan man arbejder med og forbedrer oplæs-ning, som man bl.a. finder i tv og radio, i podcasts og lydbøger, i skoler, på biblioteker, i kirken, til oplæsningsarrangementer og bogmesser og i lydaviser.

In the Aftermath of Gezi From Social Movement to Social Change? Hans-Åke Persson & Oscar Hemer (red.), Palgrave Macmillian, 2017, 219 s., ISBN 9783319518527.

This edited volume addresses various aspects of social and political development in Tur-key and the latter’s role within a global context. Paradigmati-cally and theoretically, it is situated in the realm of com-munication and/for social change. The chapters thread

together to present a fresh and innovative study that explores an array of issues related to the Gezi protests and their aftermath by scholars and activ-ists from Scandinavia, Turkey and India.

Rethinking Journalism Again Societal role and public relevance in a digital age Chris Peters & Marcel Broersma (red.), Routledge, 2017, 234 s., ISBN 9781138860865.

It’s easy to make a rhetorical case for the value of journal-ism. Because, it is a necessary precondition for democracy; it speaks to the people and for the people; it informs citizens and enables them to make ra-tional decisions; it functions as their watchdog on govern-

ment and other powers that be. But does rehashing such familiar rationales bring journalism studies forward? Does it contribute to ongoing discus-sions surrounding journalism’s viability going forth? For all their seeming self-evidence, this book considers what bearing these old platitudes have in the new digital era. It asks whether such hopeful talk really reflects the concrete roles jour-nalism now performs for people in their everyday lives.

Denmark

Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy, Communication, Governance Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing & Jeremy Moon (red.), Cambridge University Press, 2017, 430 s., ISBN 9781107114876.

This upper-level textbook of-fers an up-to-date introduction to issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) from a global perspective. Written by an international team of ex-perts, it guides students through key themes in CSR

including strategy, communication, regulation and governance. Balancing critiques of CSR with a discussion of the opportunities it creates, it in-cludes chapters devoted to critical issues such as human rights, anti-corruption, labour rights and the environment

Culture War Affective Cultural Politics, Tepid Nationalism and Art Activism

Camilla Møhring Reestorff, Intellect Ltd, 2017, 400 s., ISBN 9781783207572.

The culture wars, intertwining art, culture, and politics, have sparked prominent political debates across the globe for many years, but particularly in Europe and America since 2001. Focusing specifically on the experience of Denmark

during this period, Culture War aims to analyze and understand the rise of right-wing nationalism in Europe as part of the globalization and mediati-zation of the modern nation state and the culture war and affective politics arising from it.

Participatory heritage

Henriette Roued-Cunliffe & Andrea Copeland (red.), Facet Publishing, 2017, 224 s., ISBN 9781783301232.

This new book provides a wide range of international guidance and perspectives on the issues surrounding the preservation of local cultural heritage, ranging from formal cultural heritage institutions to individual community mem-bers in the associated pro-

cesses of creation, organization, access, use and preservation. Participatory Heritage explores is-sues including, how to manage copyright, owner-ship, orphan works, open data access to heritage representations and artefacts, crowdsourcing, cul-tural heritage amateurs, information as a commod-ity or information as public domain, sustainable preservation, and attitudes towards openness.

Handbook on ICT in Developing countries 5G perspectives Knud Erik Skouby, Idongesit Williams & Albert Gyamfi (red.), River Publishers, 2017, 388 s., ISBN 9788793379916.

The mobile communications market in developing countries is growing at a rapid rate. This is evident in the rapid spread of mobile broadband cellular networks such as 3G. 4G is also being deployed in devel-oping countries around the world. As the global commu-

nications market proceeds towards 5G, it is evi-dent that developing countries will not be left be-hind. However, there are challenges and barriers on the road ahead specific to developing coun-tries.

Denmark

Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906-1924 The Rise and Fall of the Polar Bear Christian Isak Thorsen, John Libbey & Co Ltd, 2017. 250 s., ISBN 9780861967315.

Nordisk Films Kompagni 1906-1924: The Rise and Fall of the Polar Bear is the first comprehensive study of the Danish film company, Nordisk Films Kompagni, in the silent era. Based on ar-chival research, primarily in the company’s surviving busi-

ness archives, this volume of KINtop describes and analyzes how Nordisk Film became one of the leading players in the world market and why the company failed to maintain this position.

Revolution of Innovation Manage-ment The Digital Breakthrough Eric Viardot & Alexander Brem (red.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 280 s., ISBN 9781137574749.

This edited collection explores how digitalization is changing the management of innova-tion, and the subsequent im-plications for the next phases in its development. The au-thors identify and examine rel-evant phenomena which are related to the ongoing digital

breakthrough in the context of innovation man-agement such as user innovation, crowd sourcing and crowd funding, as well as social media.

Comparing Political Journalism

Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser & David Ni-colas Hopmann (red.), Routledge, 2017, 200 s., ISBN 9781138655867.

Comparing Political Journal-ism is a systematic, in-depth study of the factors that shape and influence political news coverage today. Using tech-niques drawn from the grow-ing field of comparative politi-cal communication, an inter-national group of contributors

analyse political news content drawn from news-papers, television news, and news websites from 16 countries, to assess what kinds of media sys-tems are most conducive to producing quality journalism. Comparing Political Journalism of-fers a scope in assessing the implications for the ongoing transformation of Western media sys-tems, and addresses core concepts of importance to students and scholars of political communica-tion world-wide.

Kreativ markedskommunikation Æstetik og digital deltagelse Anne-Marit Waade & Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen, Systime 2245-2818 (ISSN) Bogse-rie, 2017, 248 s., ISBN 9788761692214.

Bogen belyser aktuelle ten-denser inden for markedskom-munikation med særligt fokus på forbrugernes kreative og di-gitale deltagelse. Bogens for-fattere fokuserer på tre væ-sentlige tendenser, der vedrø-rer markedsføring i en digital

kultur. 1) Hvordan reklamer i stigende grad kan betragtes som æstetiske objekter, der arbejder på at skabe en æstetisk følelse hos modtageren. 2) At markedsføring appellerer til deltagelse ved at ind-drage publikum på konkrete måder, fra tekstuelle gættelege til onlinedelinger, fanaktiviteter og

Denmark

events. 3) At markedsføring ikke længere kun fin-der sted i kendte reklamemedier og -genrer, men derimod bliver komplekse kommunikationsstrate-gier, fx virale, finurlige og brugergenererede kam-pagner online eller opsigtsvækkende markeringer i byrummet.

Computerspil Dannelse, pædagogik og svedige håndflader Bo Kampmann Walther, Turbine, 2017, 124 s., ISBN 9788740614138.

Denne bog er en introduktion til computerspillene. Men også en bog om de døre, som computerspil åbner ind til de andre medier omkring dem. Medieforsker Bo Kampmann Walther tegner et kort i ægte 3D over udviklingen i det vir-tuelle landskab – fra de første

grove pixels til nutidens hyperrealistiske grafik. Samtidig dykkes ned under overfladen. Ned til anarkiet, til dilemmaerne, til selvopholdelsesdrif-ten og den ofte temmelig subtile morale i de for-skellige kategorier af computerspil.

Advancing Multimodal and Critical Discourse Studies Interdisciplinary Research Inspired by Theo Van Leeuwen’s Social Semiotics Sumin Zhao, Emilia Djonoc & Anders Björkvall (red.), Routledge, 2017, 220 s., ISBN 9781138697638.

This volume highlights the dy-namic and groundbreaking contributions of Theo van Leeuwen to the fields of mul-timodality, social semiotics, and critical discourse analysis, and demonstrates how the key themes in his work have influ-enced and will continue to

shape multimodal research. Beginning with a preface and introduction that detail the founda-tions of his work through an intellectual biog-raphy, the book, featuring fifteen contributions from an international group of leading scholars in the field, builds on this overview of his work to look more closely at the myriad ways in which se-miotic resources, such as touch, sound, and typog-raphy, lie at the heart of modern communication today, but also at how technology, globalization, social media, and changing social and cultural norms are influencing new and developing semi-otic and discursive practices.

Dokumentalist: Mogens Vestergaard Kjeldsen