Media and Social Space in Russia and Sweden - A Comparative Approach

This book explores the structure of mediated social space in Russian and Swedish metropolises, focusing on the representations of material and ethnic divides, social classes, ordinary persons and elites in mainstream news and popular media. Based on several sets of data gathered over a decade – including surveys, interviews, qualitative and quantitative content analyses – as well as analyses of large scale international surveys, the authors offer a comparison of urban spaces in two neighbouring countries, in order to shed light upon the role of media in society, where mediated space is increasingly characterised by global flows and actors.