Approaches to Political Commentary in Scandinavia: A Call for Textual, Evaluating Scholarship

TY - JOUR

T1 - Approaches to Political Commentary in Scandinavia

T2 - A Call for Textual, Evaluating Scholarship

AU - Bengtsson, Mette

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Political commentary is a contested genre that has attracted a great deal of attention in the Scandinavian public debate, whereas the scholarly literature on it is still in an initial phase. In order to strengthen future research, the present paper suggests a two-dimensional matrix indexing the research on Scandinavian political commentary along the dimensions text/context and descriptive/evaluative. The matrix enables us to see more clearly what we already know and where we lack knowledge. It enables us to see how each category can be developed, the interplay among them, and the obvious lack of textual, evaluative ap- proaches. The author argues that a joint, cross-disciplinary engagement is necessary if we are to adequately understand the potentials and problems of political commentary.

AB - Political commentary is a contested genre that has attracted a great deal of attention in the Scandinavian public debate, whereas the scholarly literature on it is still in an initial phase. In order to strengthen future research, the present paper suggests a two-dimensional matrix indexing the research on Scandinavian political commentary along the dimensions text/context and descriptive/evaluative. The matrix enables us to see more clearly what we already know and where we lack knowledge. It enables us to see how each category can be developed, the interplay among them, and the obvious lack of textual, evaluative ap- proaches. The author argues that a joint, cross-disciplinary engagement is necessary if we are to adequately understand the potentials and problems of political commentary.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1403-1108

VL - 36

SP - 5

EP - 18

JO - N O R D I C O M Review

JF - N O R D I C O M Review

IS - 1

ER -