"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 themselves 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. Illustrating the shifting media landscape in these
countries, the authors draw on a wide range of cases, including
developments in television, radio, the press, and the public service
media institution.