[Air-L] New book: Media dynamics of cultural conflicts in Scandinavia

[Knut Lundby]

AoIR Vice President Lynn Schofield Clark is one of the distinguished scholars offering an international perspective on this study by Norwegian, Danish and Swedish colleagues: CONTESTING RELIGION.The Media Dynamics of Cultural Conflicts in Scandinavia.

The book is available open access from www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/478981<http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/478981> and also as paperback from De Gruyter.

It explores conflicts related to religion as they play out in public broadcasting, social media, local civic settings, and schools. It examines how the mediatization of these controversies influences people’s engagement with contested issues about religion, and redraws the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion.

Mona Abdel-Fadil’s study of the contested discussion in a Facebook group may be of particular interest to the AoIR community:
https://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110502060/9783110502060-011/9783110502060-011.xml
But there are also other chapters of relevance to internet researchers.

The book is edited by Knut Lundby, with 16 contributors from the CoMRel project Engaging with Conflicts i Mediatized Religious Environments
https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/comrel/index.html

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Knut Lundby
Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo
<knut.lundby at media.uio.no<mailto:knut.lundby at media.uio.no>>