Karsten Pedersen

Meta Framing And Polyphonic Structures: A case study of news reporting in sports journalism

The present case study deals with the Danish tabloid BT’s coverage of cycling team owner Bjarne Riiss possible knowledge of doping use in his cycling teams. BT sees itself as a sports paper and tries to signal that it takes sports coverage as seriously as other kinds of news. We see that reflected in various ways in BT’s 2012 coverage of a doping case involving Riis. In this article I investigate the way in which BT meta frames itself and its own actions in order to show and underline the seriousness with which BT treats sports journalism. The study is part of a recurring Danish project harvesting and mapping the entire news output in one specified week, and draws on insights from framing theory as well as polyphony theory.

PPL in Intercultural Settings

The chapter offers an insight into how the master programme in Communication Studies sees and handles challenges in the combination of international students and the Roskilde pedagogical stance. The chapter is written from a planner’s point of view and endeavours to show that it is possible to plan a programme so that students unaccustomed to Roskilde’s brand of PPL will be able to benefit from the approach without jeopardising the principles upon which it is built.

Plain Language and Organizational Challenges

Changing the language in an organization is a major organizational change. In this article, I discuss some of the organizational challenges for one specific language change implementation, taking the stance that language change must be treated as any other organizational change for it to have an effect. I work with the case of the Danish tax authorities’ language project aimed at producing more readable letters. The empirical data that I work with are two qualitative informant interviews. One recorded at the language project’s headquarters where they lay out the general lines for the project, and the other at the payment center where they use the revised letters.