Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television travels across people and
popular culture, exploring the pathways to engagement and the various ways in which we …

This study explores how audience's everyday use of fictional entertainment may facilitate
public connection. Whereas the public connection perspective thus far primarily has been …

Nordic noir is an emerging crime genre that draws on crime fiction, feature film, and
television drama. The term Nordic noir is associated with a region (Scandinavia), with a …

This article addresses the question of how engagement with fictional entertainment can
enable audiences to function as citizens. It argues that existing theoretical perspectives …

This article discusses whether European or national-level media policies are suitable for
facilitating a Europeanisation of national cultural public spheres. It is argued that current EU …

This article uses the concept of cultural citizenship to understand engagement in political
comedy. The concept stresses popular culture's value for identity and community …

Speculative fiction is based on one main question: what if? This paper addresses the
question of how audiences interpret such interrogative. In particular, our main interest lies in …

In TV fiction, over the past years, it has been possible to detect the recuperation of specific
themes linked to a particular sociopolitical context: the Cold War. The Russians and the …

This article focuses on fan experiences of place in the Scandinavian crime series The Bridge
(Bron|| Broen). It offers four in-depth portraits of fans representing different modes of …

The convergence of media consumption and tourist practices convincingly refutes
Meyrowitz's argument that media contribute to an emergence of “a placeless culture” …