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<p>In this article, we address the history of Nordic media research through a case study of the formation of media research in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s and the role that The Board for Psychological Defence played in the formation of Swedish academic media research during the Cold War era. Based on archival research, we find that the impact of the psychological defence on Swedish media research was mainly concentrated to one Swedish university, and that the impact on the theoretical and methodological development of the discipline has been rather limited. This distinguishes the Swedish case from what has been argued in historical research on the development of media and communication research in the US.</p>
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In this article, we address the history of Nordic media research through a case study of the formation of media research in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s and the role that The Board for Psychological Defence played in the formation of Swedish academic media research during the Cold War era. Based on archival research, we find that the impact of the psychological defence on Swedish media research was mainly concentrated to one Swedish university, and that the impact on the theoretical and methodological development of the discipline has been rather limited. This distinguishes the Swedish case from what has been argued in historical research on the development of media and communication research in the US.

Swedish Media Research in the Service of Psychological Defence During the Cold War?

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

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In this article, we address the history of Nordic media research through a case study of the formation of media research in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s and...

Swedish Media Research in the Service of Psychological Defence During the Cold War?

Published Online: Jun 07, 2020

Page range: 133 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/njms-2020-0012

Keywords
research funding, Sweden, mass communication, propaganda, psychological defence

© 2020 Peter Jakobsson et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Swedish Media Research in the Service of Psychological Defence During the Cold War?

Published Online: Jun 07, 2020

Page range: 133 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/njms-2020-0012

Keywordsresearch funding, Sweden, mass communication, propaganda, psychological defence

© 2020 Peter Jakobsson et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
research funding, Sweden, mass communication, propaganda, psychological defence