Power and Media Systems
Welcome all to this new blog, made especially for my first course as a Lund exchange student: Power and Media Systems. During this time in Lund, I'm mostly here to learn about Swedish culture. I am currently studying Scandinavian Studies in Amsterdam and this exchange therefore mostly is focussed on acquiring knowledge from Sweden in the country itself. However, I have always liked to get into other areas of study as well. As various types of media got my interest, and the politic landscape has been getting rougher and rougher over the last couple of years, I am eager to find out what this course will teach me about the world of media which we live in. During this first week, we read several pieces on the personalisation of politics. What I found especially helpful was the review paper written by Aelst et. al. In this paper, the main terminology of political media personalisation was explained. The article differentiates between two types of personalisation: on the one side there i...