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Christensen, Miyase
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Christensen, M. & Christensen, C. (2024). From the Gezi Park Protests to the Akbelen Forest: Care in the Context of Democracy and Political Dissent. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 18(1-2), 173-177
Open this publication in new window or tab >>From the Gezi Park Protests to the Akbelen Forest: Care in the Context of Democracy and Political Dissent
2024 (English)In: Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, ISSN 1752-4032, E-ISSN 1752-4040, Vol. 18, no 1-2, p. 173-177Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this essay, a brief history of environmental protests in Turkey will be followed by a discussion connected to two central frameworks: the logic of extractivism and care. Specifically, we argue that analysis of events such as the recent protests in the Akbelen Forest, just as the Gezi Park protests over a decade ago, need to account for the fact that a great deal of environmentalism and environmental activism is linked to broader social and political critique, particularly in countries such as Turkey with what is described as a “neo-authoritarian” or “new authoritarian” administration. We argue that these events and the ways in which they have materialized point to the need to pay further attention to intersections such as narrated space and spaces of narrativity, in this particular case, vis-à-vis care, democracy and political dissent.

Keywords
Environmental advocacy, extractivism, care, democracy, media, activism
National Category
Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-225542 (URN)10.1080/17524032.2023.2300998 (DOI)001138539800001 ()2-s2.0-85181700228 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-01-17 Created: 2024-01-17 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Christensen, M. (2023). On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations. International journal of cultural studies, 26(4), 365-371
Open this publication in new window or tab >>On mediations and the environment: Material, spatial and epistemic considerations
2023 (English)In: International journal of cultural studies, ISSN 1367-8779, E-ISSN 1460-356X, Vol. 26, no 4, p. 365-371Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The thinking behind this special issue was to move beyond the representation of the environment in news media and large-scale popular culture, and consider other informational outlets and spaces where environmental change is mediated and communicated. While mediatization has been an influential paradigm in media and communication studies, it has not addressed issues of, for example, materiality in relation to the excavation, use, construction and discarding of communication technologies. Thus, this special issue addresses the mediation of the environment on a broadened level, taking it beyond the ways in which media content alone represents environmental issues.

Keywords
communication, environment, materiality, media, narrative, mediatization, Anthopocene
National Category
Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-217026 (URN)10.1177/13678779231170241 (DOI)000972931500001 ()2-s2.0-85153603505 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-05-09 Created: 2023-05-09 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Christensen, M. & Nilsson, A. E. (2018). Media, Communication, and the Environment in Precarious Times. Journal of Communication, 68(2), 267-277
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Media, Communication, and the Environment in Precarious Times
2018 (English)In: Journal of Communication, ISSN 0021-9916, E-ISSN 1460-2466, Vol. 68, no 2, p. 267-277Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The seminal 1983 Ferments in the Field collection made limited reference to environmental issues and concerns. Considering communication media and technological artifacts as both nature and culture and, more specifically, through defining media as both infrastructural environments and content, we discuss how challenges brought about by environmental change can inform contemporary media and communication research and environmental communication. The materiality of e-waste, which has resonance for cultural, political, economic, and geographic analyses, is used as an illuminating case in point. We link the implications ensuing from the e-waste issue with the roles mediation and communication of environmental narratives play, and how they can be informed by such medianatures, as well as geopolitical considerations.

Keywords
Environmental Communication, Media, Geopolitics, E-Waste, Globalization
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157825 (URN)10.1093/joc/jqy004 (DOI)000432320600008 ()
Available from: 2018-06-26 Created: 2018-06-26 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Christensen, M. & Nilsson, A. E. (2017). Arctic sea ice and the communication of climate change. Popular Communication, 15(4), 249-268
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Arctic sea ice and the communication of climate change
2017 (English)In: Popular Communication, ISSN 1540-5702, E-ISSN 1540-5710, Vol. 15, no 4, p. 249-268Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Media play a major role in framing key political issues such as climate change, and the melting of the Arctic snow and ice has become a bellwether of global climate change through the mediations of the region and its wildlife. While Arctic change has scientific significance for understanding global warming, it also plays a key role in the popular communication of global climate change and its impacts. This article addresses questions such as how the Arctic and its sea ice have become become powerful images of climate change, and what roles scientific activities, technologies, and networks play in relation to media and mediation. Drawing upon earlier research on the role of the media and framing in relation to climate change in general and upon Arctic climate change in particular, we explore how media framings are linked with various dynamics such as scientific practice and the institutional structure of the media system.

National Category
Media and Communications Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-152690 (URN)10.1080/15405702.2017.1376064 (DOI)000418534600001 ()
Available from: 2018-02-23 Created: 2018-02-23 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Christensen, M. & Wormbs, N. (2017). Global Climate Talks from Failure to Cooperation and Hope: Swedish News Framings of COP15 and COP21. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 11(5), 682-699
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Global Climate Talks from Failure to Cooperation and Hope: Swedish News Framings of COP15 and COP21
2017 (English)In: Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, ISSN 1752-4032, E-ISSN 1752-4040, Vol. 11, no 5, p. 682-699Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The purpose of this study is to offer an analysis of how two UN Conferences of Parties, COP15 in Copenhagen 2009 and COP21 in Paris 2015, were covered and debated in Swedish newspapers. Two national and two regional newspapers were selected for the study, and a qualitative frame analysis was conducted on 309 articles. A typology of frames applicable to science-related policy and climate change debates was used and its relevance for global climate summit context was discussed. Having territory in the Arctic region, indigenous populations affected by climate change measures, and political and public sensitivity to environmental issues, the climate debate has particular significance in the Swedish case. Findings indicate a trust in the role of national and supra-national governance to address climate change problems, but also that newspapers in Sweden maintained a focus on the global aspects of the two meetings, rather than framing them as surrogate battlefields for domestic politics.

Keywords
Frame analysis, COP15, COP21, media and climate change, news and climate talks, environment
National Category
Media and Communications Social and Economic Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-152610 (URN)10.1080/17524032.2017.1333964 (DOI)000418738000008 ()
Available from: 2018-02-05 Created: 2018-02-05 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Christensen, M. (2017). Postnormative cosmopolitanism: Voice, space and politics. International Communication Gazette, 79(6-7), 555-563
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Postnormative cosmopolitanism: Voice, space and politics
2017 (English)In: International Communication Gazette, ISSN 1748-0485, E-ISSN 1748-0493, Vol. 79, no 6-7, p. 555-563Article in journal (Refereed) Published
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-147853 (URN)10.1177/1748048517727188 (DOI)000411829900001 ()
Available from: 2017-10-27 Created: 2017-10-27 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Christensen, M. & Thor, T. (2017). The reciprocal city: Performing solidarity—Mediating space through street art and graffiti. International Communication Gazette, 79(6-7), 584-612
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The reciprocal city: Performing solidarity—Mediating space through street art and graffiti
2017 (English)In: International Communication Gazette, ISSN 1748-0485, E-ISSN 1748-0493, Vol. 79, no 6-7, p. 584-612Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article, based on two case studies conducted in Stockholm and London, we discuss how graffiti and street art provide forms of expressive cosmopolitanism in reclaiming voice and reciprocity in the city. Through in-depth interviews and observations, we explore how urban artists, using their practice, foster ever-transient and contesting senses of outsidered aesthetics and communicative culture that both seek to challenge the institutionalization and hegemonic indoctrination of today's media cities and, as such, become part of the ensemble that constitute its visual geography. While there are many parallels and inter-urban synchronicity, our results indicate that locally-specific elements are prominent in each city. Both studies indicate that the solidaritarian and spatially mediating character of graffiti and street art, and not just their contents, constitutes a resource in sustaining the possibility of coproducing worldly visions in and of the cities. They both observe struggles for openness and social critique taking place across time and space.

Keywords
Banksy, cosmopolitanism, global mobility and remediation, media, political economy, solidarity, street art and graffiti, urban space and city
National Category
Media and Communications
Research subject
Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-147512 (URN)10.1177/1748048517727183 (DOI)000411829900003 ()
Projects
Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Mediations of Expressivity, Social Space and Cultural Citizenship
Funder
Swedish Research Council
Available from: 2017-10-02 Created: 2017-10-02 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Christensen, M. & Jansson, A. (2015). Complicit surveillance, interveillance, and the question of cosmopolitanism: Toward a phenomenological understanding of mediatization. New Media and Society, 17(9), 1473-1491
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Complicit surveillance, interveillance, and the question of cosmopolitanism: Toward a phenomenological understanding of mediatization
2015 (English)In: New Media and Society, ISSN 1461-4448, E-ISSN 1461-7315, Vol. 17, no 9, p. 1473-1491Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The institutional and meta-processual dimensions of surveillance have been scrutinized extensively in literature. In these accounts, the subjective, individual level has often been invoked in relation to subject-object, surveillor-surveilled dualities and in terms of the kinds of subjectivity modern and late-modern institutions engender. The experiential, ontological realm of the mediatized everyday vis-a-vis surveillance remains less explored, particularly from the phenomenological perspective of the lifeworld. Academic discourses of surveillance mostly address rhetorically oriented macro-perspectives. The same diagnosis largely applies to the debates on the cosmopolitanization process. The literature of cosmopolitanism revolves around broad cultural and ethical transformations in terms of the relationship between Self and Other, individual and humanity, and the local and the universal. Our aim in this article is to conceptualize the dynamics that yield a cosmopolitan Self and an encapsulated Self under conditions of increasingly interactive and ubiquitous forms of mediation and surveillance.

Keywords
Complicit surveillance, cosmopolitanism, globalization, identity, interveillance, lifeworld, mediatization, phenomenology, social theory, surveillance
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-121871 (URN)10.1177/1461444814528678 (DOI)000361127400005 ()
Available from: 2015-10-23 Created: 2015-10-19 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Christensen, M. (2014). Technology, Place and Mediatized Cosmopolitanism. In: Andreas Hepp; Friedrich Krotz (Ed.), Mediatized Worlds: Culture and Society in a Media Age (pp. 159-173). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Technology, Place and Mediatized Cosmopolitanism
2014 (English)In: Mediatized Worlds: Culture and Society in a Media Age / [ed] Andreas Hepp; Friedrich Krotz, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, p. 159-173Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The past two decades of media and communication studies have been dominated by a research agenda marked by an overwhelming attention paid to two phenomena: technological change and globalization. The study of digitalization and personalization of technology, particularly in its earlier phase, focused primarily on the emancipatory potential of information and communication technologies, or ICTs (e.g., Plant, 1997; Splender, 1995). While later research incorporated a more down-to-earth appreciation of technology, technological determinism continues to be reinvoked by way of casting new media tools as powerful agents of social change. This leads to the production of reductionist visions, particularly during times of perceived technological breakthrough (such as the Arab Spring and the case of Wikileaks), and a narrow conception of the mediatized worlds, which we find ourselves in today. Likewise, earlier theories of globalization foregrounded mediated and imagined dimensions (e.g., Appadurai, 1996; Beck, 2004; Castells, 2012; Rantanen, 2005) as well as cultural fusion and flows, with material aspects and complexities of ‘the everyday’ often overlooked or underplayed. One reason for this is cookie-cutter approaches to both globalization and technological change. Another is lack of empirical studies to support grand theoretical claims.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Keywords
Mediatized Community, Global Mobility, Technological Determinism, Cultural Citizenship, Media Penetration
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-106300 (URN)10.1057/9781137300355_10 (DOI)000337096500010 ()978-1-137-30035-5 (ISBN)978-1-137-30034-8 (ISBN)
Available from: 2014-08-04 Created: 2014-08-04 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Christensen, M. (2013). New Media Geographies and the Middle East. Television and New Media, 14(4), 267-270
Open this publication in new window or tab >>New Media Geographies and the Middle East
2013 (English)In: Television and New Media, ISSN 1527-4764, E-ISSN 1552-8316, Vol. 14, no 4, p. 267-270Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This special issue of Television & New Media brings together current research on media technologies, society, and culture in the Middle East from diverse methodological and analytical perspectives. The topics addressed cover a wide spectrum: circulation of Arab music videos and public discourse; Lebanese bloggers and mediated public spheres; transnational television audiences and ontological security; social media, TV talk shows, and political change in Egypt; youth-generated Arab media and cultural politics; and the Arab Spring as an ephemeral communicative space. Together, the articles provide a panorama of how today's multimodal media geographies and engaged actors reinscribe public cultures and politics in the Middle East.

Keywords
television, media geography, online social media, Arab Spring, communicative space, popular communication
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-91824 (URN)10.1177/1527476413481856 (DOI)000319606300001 ()
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Available from: 2013-07-08 Created: 2013-07-04 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
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