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Indiana Jones’ staunch anti-Nazism and the franchise’s satirical belittling and ridicule of the Third Reich render its protagonist an antifascist memetic icon. While considerable attention has been devoted to the digital media landscape of the right, less emphasis is given to left-wing movements and memetic warfare. Through analysis of humorous representations of German Nazis in the films, where N
Denna artikel innehåller en analys av samtliga rapporter från Statens offentliga utredningar (SOU), 1945-89. Analysen applicerar metoder inom digital humaniora och inkluderar forskning gjort i en Jupyterlabbmiljö som utvecklats på Humlab på Umeå universitet. Artikeln är ett resultat av forskningsprojektet Välfärdsstaten analyserad, som ämnar att digitalisera litteratur, arbetar med datasäkring av In 2015 the National Library of Sweden finished digitising all Governmental Official Reports (SOU) from 1922 to 1999. Traditionally, SOU reports – and work performed within different governmental committees – were tasked with preparing the Swedish government for apt and rational decision-making. The range of subjects covered by governmental committees and SOU reports basically includes every area
While much previous research has focused on the propaganda war in Swedish cinemas, including both newsreels and feature films, little attention has been devoted to the clandestine film screenings that were organized by member clubs, friendship societies and other associations throughout the course of the Second World War. During the war, both Nazi Germany and the Allies invested heavily in propaga
The research text seminar is generally a cherished element in academic life. Ideally, this is the place for the exchange of high intellectual thoughts in an atmosphere of mutual respect. But the text seminar, if viewed from the perspective of its historical roots in German academia, is also an arena for collective, informal and apprenticeship learning that is today challenged by a much more indivi
This paper describes the methodology behind the matching of patents and a literature-based innovation output indicator (LBIO) collected from trade journals covering the manufacturing and ICT service sectors in Sweden 1970-2015. A combination of manual processing and simple machine learning tools has enabled the identification, classification and linking of patents that otherwise would have been ve
It is a common joke that Playboy magazine has been “read for the articles.” However, there has been relatively little academic interest in what the articles in Playboy have actually been about. As this essay shows, the volumes of Playboy magazine offer a remarkable archive of critical reviews of US foreign politics. The chapter approaches Playboy as one of the spaces for expanding the political un
Focusing on Western tourism behind the Iron Curtain, this chapter introduces the main research questions addressed in the volume: firstly, how and why Eastern Europe became a tourist destination for citizens of the West; secondly, what impact this had on the development of a tourism industry in the Eastern bloc; and thirdly, to what extent the experiences of Western tourists in Eastern Europe infl
In Western societies, with increasingly salient mediation processes, eating, too, has become an entanglement of offline and online practices. Food as carrier of values has never merely satisfied bodily needs, which makes it essential to investigate mediated eating practices and emerging digital foodscapes in order to understand how they change everyday life, but also culture at large. However, mos
KOM Seminar Series: Prof. Olof Sundin - "RE-SEARCH" | Department of History 1 Oct KOM Seminar Series: Prof. Olof Sundin - "RE-SEARCH" 1 October 2025 13:00 to 15:00 Seminar Olof Sundin, Professor of Information Studies at the Department of Cultural Studies LU, will present ongoing research from his VR funded project RE-SEARCH, analyzing how information-seeking strategies evolve in response to the A
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KOM Seminar Series: Prof. Olof Sundin - "RE-SEARCH" | The Subject of History 1 Oct KOM Seminar Series: Prof. Olof Sundin - "RE-SEARCH" 1 October 2025 13:00 to 15:00 Seminar Olof Sundin, Professor of Information Studies at the Department of Cultural Studies LU, will present ongoing research from his VR funded project RE-SEARCH, analyzing how information-seeking strategies evolve in response to the
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KOM Seminar Series: Assoc. Prof. Howard Nothhaft - “A bag of tricks” | Department of History 15 Oct KOM Seminar Series: Assoc. Prof. Howard Nothhaft - “A bag of tricks” 15 October 2025 13:00 to 15:00 Seminar Howard Nothhaft, Associate Professor at the Department of Communication LU, will present a book idea with the current working title “A bag of tricks” about concepts where strategic communicati
KOM Seminar Series: Assoc. Prof. Howard Nothhaft - “A bag of tricks” | The Subject of History 15 Oct KOM Seminar Series: Assoc. Prof. Howard Nothhaft - “A bag of tricks” 15 October 2025 13:00 to 15:00 Seminar Howard Nothhaft, Associate Professor at the Department of Communication LU, will present a book idea with the current working title “A bag of tricks” about concepts where strategic communicat
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This study focuses on the Swedish public information programme Anslagstavlan, a unique audiovisual communication tool for Swedish government agencies since 1972 and an important part of Sweden’s audiovisual cultural heritage. Whereas digital research methodologies for data-driven text analysis have been developed and established over the last decades, the use of digital tools in the analysis of au
Why was the British Parliament so late in broadcasting its debates? Scholars have made recommendations on parliamentary communication, analysed its effects, and described the debates and arguments on broadcasting parliament. But who was making these arguments, and what role did parliamentarians’ identities play in these debates? We show the crucial role that partisanship—but also the distinctions
Reflecting on the individual studies of civil defence during the Cold War provided in this volume, this brief, concluding chapter performs three tasks. First, against the backdrop of the empirical analyses and the collective exploration of the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries, we reflect on the potential and limitations of this concept in historical scholarship. Second, we sum up the findings
This thesis is a study of the moral, medical, and socioeconomic arguments in favor of a racial hygienic sterilization legislation carried out in conservative, social democratic and socialist newspapers in Denmark from 1911-1923. While the sterilization legislation did not come into effect until 1933, the question was heavily discussed publicly in the preceding years. The public belief in omniscien
The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of to
When restrictions and rationing took effect during the Second World War, home sewing became a necessity for many women. This paper presents and discusses the distribution of paper patterns for home sewing in Sweden during the war years, using the examples of three different pattern magazines. It shows how these magazines conveyed, interpreted, and adapted fashion to home sewers. Despite the fact t
This article presents the key findings of a Finnish memory-work project conducted in 2012 on consumer experiences and associations related to pornography. The memory-work material points to a high degree of reflexivity in definitions of pornographic preference as well as to drastic shifts in the ubiquity of pornography from the pre-1990s ‘age of scarcity’ to the current ‘age of plenty.’ At the sam
