Åland – a peculiar media system
This article captures the dynamics of a special case when it comes to media systems, namely the Åland Islands, or Åland, with 6,700 islands and 30,000 inhabitants. Åland is one of three self-governed areas in the Nordic region (the others being the Faroe Islands and Greenland) and is an officially m...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:be22c746ac6942b9ada7bfcc50435163 2023-08-27T04:09:21+02:00 Åland – a peculiar media system Lindén Carl-Gustav 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0014 https://doaj.org/article/be22c746ac6942b9ada7bfcc50435163 EN eng Sciendo https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0014 https://doaj.org/toc/2001-5119 2001-5119 doi:10.2478/nor-2021-0014 https://doaj.org/article/be22c746ac6942b9ada7bfcc50435163 Nordicom Review, Vol 42, Iss s2, Pp 8-21 (2021) åland media system heritage local media geography Communication. Mass media P87-96 article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0014 2023-08-06T00:41:42Z This article captures the dynamics of a special case when it comes to media systems, namely the Åland Islands, or Åland, with 6,700 islands and 30,000 inhabitants. Åland is one of three self-governed areas in the Nordic region (the others being the Faroe Islands and Greenland) and is an officially monolingual Swedish-speaking part of Finland, where the majority speak Finnish. In this article, I describe how Åland, despite its small size, has a media system characterised by a diverse and complete offering of local media: two daily newspapers, its own public service and public service offerings from both mainland Finland and neighbouring Sweden, a commercial radio station, and several magazines. However, media diversity is limited by the fact that the same person – a local business tycoon, Anders Wiklöf – controls both newspapers. There is one main research question motivating this study: What are the specific features of the media system in Åland? To be able to answer that, I relied on the analysis of three sets of data: nine interviews, a two-part survey and the media policy adopted in 2018, and transcripts of the preceding political debate. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands Greenland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Faroe Islands Greenland Nordicom Review 42 s2 8 21 |
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This article captures the dynamics of a special case when it comes to media systems, namely the Åland Islands, or Åland, with 6,700 islands and 30,000 inhabitants. Åland is one of three self-governed areas in the Nordic region (the others being the Faroe Islands and Greenland) and is an officially monolingual Swedish-speaking part of Finland, where the majority speak Finnish. In this article, I describe how Åland, despite its small size, has a media system characterised by a diverse and complete offering of local media: two daily newspapers, its own public service and public service offerings from both mainland Finland and neighbouring Sweden, a commercial radio station, and several magazines. However, media diversity is limited by the fact that the same person – a local business tycoon, Anders Wiklöf – controls both newspapers. There is one main research question motivating this study: What are the specific features of the media system in Åland? To be able to answer that, I relied on the analysis of three sets of data: nine interviews, a two-part survey and the media policy adopted in 2018, and transcripts of the preceding political debate. |
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