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This chapter sets out to explore charity and solidarity approaches in three cosmographic genres: aid galas, foreign news, and documentaries about foreign nations. I argue that their nation-based ratio together with the panoptic character that allows the home nation a privileged invisibility as the rest of the world is being written, constitute predominantly charity approaches. Solidarity approaches towards global, inter- and intra-national divides do however appear when dialogic modes of writing (verbally and visually) are used. They also concur with political rather than culturalistic understandings of these divides, therefore oppose naturalization of differences and open up for possibilities of change. In the end I discuss possible ways of analyzing solidarity in relation to power in media studies, as well as ways of constituting solidaritarian media texts. A key feature in this project is the breakup of the opposition of genres that discuss the domestic respectively the foreign.

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Recent years have seen another peak in global media attention to climate change. Driven by increasingly dire news about extreme weather, growing demands of systemic adaption and a new wave political activism, the current situation has increasingly been framed as a climate crisis. This introductory essay maps these recent developments and elaborates the conceptual potentials and limitations of the "crisis" frame. It also briefly reviews the state of the art of media research and situates the contributions of the issue into this landscape.

Cultural journalism is a unique and underresearched subfield of journalism. This article presents the first systematic study of Swedish cultural journalism, quantitatively mapping content from four decades, zooming in on the years 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015. We study conceptions of the world outside Sweden during times marked by geopolitical turning points, globalization, and rapid structural transformations in the journalistic market. Employing content analysis of a representative sample from the press and public service radio, we explore geographical and scalar aspects, with a focus on political and global dimensions. Although we found evidence for Eurocentrism and domestication—staples of Western journalism overall—results show that Swedish cultural journalism was a steady conveyor of transnational narratives during all studied periods, which together with a primarily nonconflictual approach, sets cultural journalism apart from foreign news and decreases the risk of misframing in a globalized world.

Climate change has universal, global implications and uneven, particular local effects. Examining how this complex phenomenon is understood in public discourse calls for the merging of theorizing on geography, justice, nature and the mediation of environmental protest. This article combines these strands to discuss relationships between peoples, places, politics, nature and the media in terms of climate justice. Empirical examples are drawn from interviews conducted with indigenous activists and observations of press events organized by indigenous groups during a U.N. climate summit. We argue that the "misframing" of indigenous peoples at international climate summits underlines the necessity to integrate the perspectives of marginalized, transnational groups and their growing demands for climate justice into future media research on climate change, and the need for a reframing of the mediation of climate change.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Anna Roosvall & Inka Salovaara-Moring -- I. The making of nations -- Methodological inter-nationalism in comparative media research : flow studies in international communication / Terhi Rantanen -- The nation as media event / Britta Timm Knudsen -- The mediation of death and the imagination of national community / Lilie Chouliaraki -- Between community and commodity : nationalism and nation branding / G(c)œran Bolin & Per St(c)Æhlberg -- II. Nations and empires revisited -- The future is a foreign place : topographies of post-communism, nation and media / Inka Salovaara-Moring -- Imperial glory is back? : retelling the Russian national narrative by representation and communication / Ivan Zassoursky -- Holy trinity : nation Pentagon, screen / Toby Miller -- Vox Americana : why the media forget, and why it is important to remember / Andrew Calabrese -- III. National selves and others -- The national vs. the global : producing national history in a global television era / Tamar Ashuri -- National television news of the world : challenges and consequences / Kristina Riegert -- Image-nation : the national, cultural and the global in foreign news slide-shows / Anna Roosvall -- The disciplined imaginary : the nation rejuvenated for the global condition / Anu Kantola -- The authors

This chapter makes the argument that issues related to the cultural public sphere should be considered part of the political communication circuit. Cultural journalism in the Nordic context is a central case in point. On the side of arts, popular culture, and lifestyle, Nordic cultural journalism at times includes reporting and debate about sociocultural and politically saturated issues such as climate change, migration, terrorism, freedom of speech, identity politics, and gender inequalities. The chapter highlights three theoretical approaches, intersecting with the field of political communication, which have been of particular importance in Nordic scholarship about cultural journalism: public sphere theory, the politics of recognition, and the sociology of (cultural) journalism. The media coverage and debates about #metoo in Danish and Swedish cultural journalism in late 2017 serve to illustrate the arguments about the political in cultural journalism and reveals its quantitative salience as well as its qualitative specificities.

Introduction : calling for climate justice! -- What is climate justice? : justice, climate and the media -- Diverging geographies : indigenous peoples, climate change and the UN COP summits -- Summit journalism, indigenous peoples and digitalization : a media ecology perspective -- Activism, agonism, agency : indigenous peoples, media witnessing and the political game of the summits -- (Dis)connections : particularism versus universalism and transnational solidarity