Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion

Fredrik Norén is a Senior Research Assistant at Humlab – the digital humanities hub at Umeå University, Sweden – with a PhD in media and communication. He has published research related to media history, governmental information and computational text analysis. Emil Stjernholm is an Assistant Professor in media and communication studies at Lund University, Sweden. His areas of research include film and television history, propaganda studies and visual communication. C. Claire Thomson is Professor of Cinema History at UCL, UK. She is the author of Short Films from a Small Nation: Danish Informational Cinema 1935-65 (2018) and co-editor of A History of Danish Cinema (2021). Her current research focuses on film and public health and unrealised films.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Cultural Diplomacy and Public Information.- 3. Politics and Security.- 4. Internationalism and Environmentalism.- 5. Afterwords.