Research on gender faces growing pressure worldwide — a reality game studies scholars know well, from #Gamergate to ongoing harassment. PhD candidates Tom Legierse and Ida Martine Gard Rysjedal call for a network of care among gender and games researchers.

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Our book just published open access - research across disciplines from Global North and Global Majority World. Big thanks to NORDICOM and International Observatory on Information & Democracy & 100s who participated along the way. Download at www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publicati...

How can democracies thrive in an age of #BigTech? Professor Emeritus Robin Mansell discusses her new book and the quest for fairer, more democratic #digital futures.

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The Nordic countries long set the standard for academic independence, but rising government influence, managerial governance, and harassment reports now test that legacy.

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Far-right movements are rising in #Scandinavia. A new Nordicom Review study by Kari Steen-Johnsen, Audun Fladmoe, and Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, explores who turns to right-wing alternative media, and why.

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@stockholm-uni.bsky.social has announced new vacancies for Postdoctoral Fellow and Researchers in Cinema Studies.

The positions are funded by the Anders Sandrews Foundation, with an application deadline of 15 November.

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New @ijoc-usc.bsky.social CFP on Distributed Citizenship!

How do we share democratic chores across platforms, networks and infrastructures? www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Timeline:
✏️Abstracts: 15 Dec 2025
🏛️Workshop in Bergen (March 2026)
📝Papers: 31 May 2026
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A new Routledge volume, "Seriality in the Streaming Era", explores how streaming platforms have transformed the logic of serialized storytelling – reshaping narrative form, audience engagement, and creative practice across media and genres.

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The Danish Tænketanken Digital Infrastruktur has inaugurated a new initiative, Youth CTRL – Youth Coalition for Tech Rights and Legitimacy, designed to bring young people into the heart of debate on democracy, infrastructure, and technological governance.

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The debate on government agencies’ communication flares up from time to time. In a new book, two researchers provide an overview of Swedish government agencies’ communication activities, and conclude with a summary of the most important lessons in seven points.

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Over 3,000 journalism students across the Nordics join the Hovdabrekka Project. Launched in 2004, the project is likely the world’s most comprehensive and long-running study of journalism students and their professional orientations.

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