These are a few links to articles and notes on games in Norwegia. Most of these are pdf's of reports from the Norwegian Media Authority, one is a note by the Norwegian media researcher Eva Liestøl, on games and violence. This stuff is not exactly brand new, but still contain some interesting descriptions and good points to consider when discussing games in a Norwegian context.
Nettsvermere (On children and their use of the internet)
Dataspill og Vold (Computer games and Violence, by the game researcher Faltin Karlsen)
Regulering av dataspill (Regulating computer games, a report on games to assist in considering systems for regulating computer games in Norway.)
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Interesting blog. Check out this site on the way Norway treats Canada in their media.
http://norwaymediawatch.blogspot.com/
I really hope nobody have a Canadianmediawatch out there, because I am pretty sure if we started pointing out every time somebody mistook Norway for Sweden, Denmark, Finland or Iceland, it would be a full time job for several employees - who could all spend their time more efficiently and profitably.
But if this floats you boat, by all means...
I totally agree! I completely encourage anyone to monitor Canadian news media coverage of Norway, and see how often it refers to Norwegian culture, languages, sports, food, way of life, education, geography, currency, etc. as Swedish. I think Norwegians will be pleasantly surprised to know Canadians are offering Norway fair, balanced, and professional journalism. To my knowledge there is not a problem in the Canadian press, but I fully support anyone trying to find out if there is. I would love to compare to see if there is a problem. Canada is a professional nation, and generally does not base its reporting on sentiment, with the exception of maybe the sport of hockey.
That's a pretty broad and arrogant statement, but I hope that you're right, that a nation the size of Canada has nothing but perfectly professional journalists. I fear that they are as human as most other newsreporters though.
No one mentioned perfect journalists, but I would argue there is a considerable difference between how Canadian journalists report about Norway; than how Norwegian journalists report about Canada. It has nothing to do with arrogance. Let's remember journalists have a unique duty in reporting; in that their words affect and influnce a great number of people. In addition, once they publically present their stories, they open themselves up to comment, critic, praise, and scrutiny. This is part of the process for this professional role in society. If professional journalists just want to assume or guess on facts, and then are approached for mis-information, they have a duty to accept their mistakes and correct them. It has nothing to do with arrogance, and everything to do with fairness.
This discussion is going far off topic, so I am putting an end to it now.
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