The Media Welfare State

• Main Author: Hallvard Moe (auth)
• Other Authors: Gunn Enli (auth), Trine Syvertsen (auth), Ole J. Mjøs (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Michigan Press 2014
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; Digitalization; media industry; Nordic countries
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Age is the first theoretically-driven book to comprehensively address the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland - and the ways media organizations there are transforming to address the new digital environment. The authors address Nordic media-industry structure and content from the standpoint of scholarly perspectives on global, regional and local approaches to media development. Taking a comparative approach, they provide an overview of media institutions and policy throughout the region, focusing on the impact of Information and Communication Technology/Internet and digitalization on the Nordic media sector. As illustrations, the authors draw on a wide range of cases, including developments in media forms such as television, radio, the press and the public service media institution.