Mats Hyvönen

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My dissertation in Media and Communication Studies, published in 2014, analyzed the self-images of Swedish local newspapers between 1920 and 2010. It contributed to the study of the media history of the press by analyzing how local newspapers have articulated what they are, what they do, how, why and for whom from the time of the modernization of the press after the First World War to the changing media landscape of today. The study concluded with a historical periodization covering four sub-periods in which very different aspects of “newspaper” were prominent in the self-images. The overall conclusion of the dissertation was that the meaning production of the local newspapers have undergone significant changes in the period studied and that these changes show why the meanings of “the newspaper” and “the press” cannot be formulated in timeless concepts.

In November 2020, Maria Karlsson (also in the Engaging Vulnerability research program) and I received a grant from The Swedish Research Council (project ID 2020-02424_VR) for the project “True Crime on the Air. The Representation of Crime, the Law, and the Justice System in Swedish Public Service Radio’s P3 Documentary”. The research project started in September 2021 and will run through 2023.

Read more on the Engaging Vulnerability website: http://www.engagingvulnerability.se/mats-hyvonen-coordinator/