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The co-construction of political scandal in hybrid media: A Swedish case study Cover

The co-construction of political scandal in hybrid media: A Swedish case study

Nordicom Review
Volume 46 (2025): Issue 2 (June 2025)
By: Mathilda Åkerlund  
Open Access
|Sep 2025
Figures & tables

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Wayback Machine screenshot of YouTube videoComments: Screenshot taken on 3 April 2022.

Figure 2

Screenshots of Instagram post, tweet, and Svenska Dagbladet article promoting the videoComments: The Instagram post (top-left), tweet (bottom-left), and Svenska Dagbladet article (right), have been auto-translated.

Figure 3

Screenshots from Dagens ETC journalist’s Twitter thread Comments: Screenshots have been auto-translated and compiled.

Figure 4

Social network of sources with explicit in-text references (excluding tweets)

Figure 5

Timeline of the unfolding of the scandal

Gensim Word2Vec similarity scores “Nyamko”, “Sabuni”

29 March–5 April6 April–resignation
wordsimilarity scorewordsimilarity score
party leader0.94party leader0.99
oppose0.88Norway0.95
Busch0.87the Liberals0.94
Ebba0.87flee0.93
the Liberals0.87stumbled0.92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2025-0018 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108
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Language: English
Page range: 194 - 216
Published on: Sep 3, 2025
Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
hybrid media,
political scandal,
social media,
news media,
Sweden
Related subjects:
Social sciences,
Communication science,
Public and political communication,
Mass communication

© 2025 Mathilda Åkerlund, published by University of Gothenburg Nordicom
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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