Our purpose with this Special Issue is to present and contribute to a body of research that critically explores the relationship between media innovation and social change. In doing so, we also outline the contours of a ...

Music streaming enables the tracking of listening behavior in more detail than any previous music-distribution format. While it is well known that streaming services collect troves of data, little is known about how ...

Summary This report presents the findings about Norwegian adolescents’ experiences with sexual messages, including sending/ receiving such messages, and their feelings about those experiences, drawing on data collected in ...

This chapter argues that research on media innovations benefits from combining insights and concepts from the business literature with the critical theory approach typical of media and communication studies. Business, ...

This report presents the findings from a survey of children aged 9–16 from 19 European countries. The data were collected between autumn 2017 and summer 2019 from 25,101 children by national teams from the EU Kids Online ...

Ministerial advisors (MAs) have become an essential aspect of executive branches worldwide, thus making the MA office a potential route for young politicians aspiring to an expanding political class. The article studies ...

Music streaming services all provide affordable and easy access to massive databases of music and instead attempt to increase customer loyalty by optimizing personalized recommendations and offering opportunities for ...

This article discusses the conditions for making policy change, and, more precisely, factors explaining why policy change is often hard to achieve even when key policy actors explicitly throw their weight behind it. It ...

The term ‘think tank’ represents a heterogeneous concept and is used to characterise a diverse group of organisations. This diversity also characterises the Swedish organisations and institutions that currently fall under ...

Insurance companies are increasingly harnessing self-tracking data to innovate and create new health and life insurance schemes. These schemes are often hailed as social innovations, and a major growth opportunity for the ...

This article explores how personal experience in the form of human interest stories has become a road to visibility, legitimacy, and impact for organizational actors and interest groups. Focusing on news media representations ...

Kan man påvirke fortellinger i dataspill? Denne masteroppgaven handler om valg og konsekvenser innen historiebaserte dataspill. Oppgavens problemstillingen fokuserer på hvilken funksjon valgene har, og i hvilken grad valgene ...

In this chapter I give an account of the first ten years of the history of digital self-tracking (2007–2017) and bring to the fore an authoritarian dimension emerging from the current phase in its development. Adding a ...

Emotions, such as anger and fear, have been shown to influence people’s political behavior. However, few studies link emotions specifically to how people debate political issues and seek political information online. In ...

In today´s innovative media market, media companies are increasingly investing in finding new ways to create attractive products and services for their consumers. User-Centered Design (UCD) is one approach for developing ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hva som kjennetegner representasjonen av kvinnelige toppledere i Aftenposten-spalten Livet på toppen og i Dagens Næringsliv-spalten Lederintervjuet. Målet er å kartlegge hvorvidt det eksisterer ...

I denne studien ser jeg nærmere videoer av tre unge jenter (Emma Ellingsen, Linnea Bendiksen og Mina Jacobsen) som eksponerer seg selv på videodelingsplattformen YouTube. Hensikten er å se på hvordan kjønnsrepresentasjonen ...

Denne oppgaven er en todelt studie av Russlandsdekningen i syv norske aviser i perioden 2009-2016, som også inneholder en større teoretisk diskusjon om årsakene til bias og negativitet i mediene. Den første delstudien er ...

We address changes in support for quota policies, with an emphasis on corporate board quotas, among Norwegian elites. Applying theories of policy feedback and framing, we investigate whether changes in attitudes towards ...

Hvordan dekkes terror utført av ekstreme islamister i norske nyhetsmedier, og hvilke utfordringer står nyhetsmediene overfor når de skal dekke terrorhendelser? Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg forholdet mellom etablerte ...

I dagens nyhedsbillede findes der et aspekt, som der ikke er forsket ret meget i; nyheder om terror for børn. Nyheder for børn adskiller sig fra andre nyheder ved at være en genre, som er tilpasset en særlig specifik ...

News outlets funded by actors other than the state are broadening the range of movement for journalists in Cuba. How are these non-state outlets affecting ideals of autonomy in the state media? Through qualitative interviews, ...

Hva kjennetegner mediedekningen av en norsk leder i en periode der flere negative forhold blir kjent? Studien har ved hjelp av kvalitativ innholdsanalyse og kvalitative intervjuer med journalister utforsket hvilke temaer ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan studenter bruker podkast og hvordan profesjonelle aktører jobber med podkastmediet. Oppgaven undersøker også hvordan mediet er blitt tatt imot i store norske medier og holdningene ...

I denne masteroppgaven er tre ulike saker som alle handler om voldtekt, analysert. Disse tre er de som i oppgaven blir omtalt som Kopseng-saken, Hemsedal-saken og Weinstein-saken – saker som er store både i omfang og omtale. ...

The Norwegian web-series Skam (NRK, 2015-2017) has enjoyed an artistic and commercial success that no other Norwegian television show has ever come close to. What is remarkable, considering its critical acclaim and broad ...

In this article, we investigate the power of prevailing definitions within the research field of cyberbullying. We address how these definitions, mostly deriving from developmental psychology, have had a problematic influence ...

Denne masteroppgaven studerer hvordan VG formidler nyheter til unge gjennom Snapchat Discover og nyhetsappen Peil, samt hvordan unge bruker og vurderer denne nyhetsformidlingen. Gjennom en kvantitativ og en kvalitativ ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker interessenter som sekundære krisekommunikatører på den sosiale medieplattformen Facebook. Den utforsker også Facebook som en retorisk sub-arena for krisekommunikasjon der mediebestemte forutsetninger, ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker graden av aldersrelatert interesse for videoinnhold ved å basere antagelsen om at tidsbruk (millisekunder) viser generell interesse for videoinnhold på Facebook fra NRKs nyhetsavdeling i 2018. Som ...

Este artículo analiza el modo en que las imágenes de EE.UU. como enemigo de Cuba afectan a los periodistas de los medios de comunicaciones cubanos. Para la élite política, la imagen de los intereses imperialistas de EE.UU. ...

Denne masteroppgaven utforsker forholdet mellom ekstern og intern faktasjekking og prøver å svare på om og hvordan ekstern faktasjekking påvirker måten journalister gjennomfører sin interne faktasjekking. Bakteppet er en ...

The Fantorangen app is a Norwegian game app for two to four year olds published by Norway’s public service broadcaster (PSB hereafter), NRK. At the time of this study, it is NRK’s only interactive content designed specifically ...

This article contributes to both the scholarly debates on the controversies over gender quotas and the body of knowledge on framing effects through an investigation of whether national elites, individuals in top positions ...

Abstract The news reportage about the Gaza-Israel war in July-August 2014 disseminated not only across newspaper pages and television screens, but through social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. An ...

Hvordan har norske nettaviser omtalt homofili de siste ti årene? Hvilke hovedtema forekommer oftest i forbindelse med nyheter om homofili? Hvem er det som kommer til orde i nyheter om homofili? Hvilke nyhetsrammer blir ...

Denne masteroppgaven har undersøkt verdens største selskapers retorikk når de skriver om miljø og klimaendringer. Mer bestemt har jeg sett på hvilke retoriske topos selskapene bruker, altså argumentenes innhold og form. ...

This master thesis has five chapters. In the first chapter, I highlight the main motivation for this study which is to find out answers to if Al-Jazeera Arabic news through its website www.al jazeera.net has changed its ...

Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg mediedekningen av «ungdom og intim bildedeling på nett» i VG og Aftenposten. Nærmere bestemt har jeg undersøkt hvilke typiske trekk for moralsk panikk man kan finne i mediedekningen. Jeg ...

Digitization, new entrants and the disruption of business models prompt concern about the media’s societal mission. The article investigates how media managers conceptualize societal responsibility in an era of turmoil. ...

Denne oppgaven er ett case-studie av arbeidslivskonflikten på norske havner i perioden fra 2013-2016, en langvarig konflikt og streik som var gjenstand for utstrakt mediedekning og som siden har dannet grunnlag for mange ...

When we conduct ethically sound research, we know that any reason given by an informant to decline or withdraw participation is a legitimate reason. However, some situations can be averted or prevented, increasing your ...

Artikkelen analyserer fenomenet digital detox i Norge med fokus på i hvilken grad invaderende og forstyrrende medier betraktes som et samfunnsmessig problem. Analysen skjer på bakgrunn av økt medietrykk som følge av at ...

Denne praktisk-teoretiske masteravhandlingen vil utforske hvordan en kompleks nyhetssak kan formidles gjennom en selvlaget chatbot. Hovedpoenget til studien er å se hvordan chatbots kan formidle nyheter på en måte som gjør ...

Online sexual engagement, exploration and even criminal offences among youth is a common practice, and there can be blurred borders between pubescent explorative engagements and illegal activities such as digital rape. At ...

Med et stadig økende tilbud av sosiale medieplattformer og forum, har alle med tilgang til internett fått muligheten til å dyrke sine interesser med andre likesinnede. I denne utviklingen har man også sett en minkende trykt ...

Denne masteroppgaven tar sikte på å bidra til forskningslitteraturen ved å kaste lys over kjennetegn, målsetninger og fremgangsmåter ved virksomheter som lykkes med sitt mediearbeid. For å lære mer om disse kildene analyserer ...

Temaet for denne avhandlingen er hvordan journalister i VG benytter seg av sosiale medier i sin journalistiske verktøykasse. For å belyse tema for oppgaven har jeg valgt å besvare følgende problemstilling: Hvordan benytter ...

I denne oppgaven studeres konflikten mellom den nyetablerte frisørbedriften Cutters og en allerede etablert frisørbransje. Dette var en konflikt som til slutt ble løftet opp på politisk nivå, der helseministeren måtte ...

How do political leaders politicise welfare state “reform pressures”, e.g. unemployment, ageing or globalisation, in election campaigns? Competing expectations range from no politicization at all to a clear and unbiased ...

Metadebates concerning how the news media deal with extremism have intensified in the digital media landscape. This article analyzes metajournalistic discourse following a controversial studio interview with the spokesperson ...

Organizational rhetoric is critically questioned for ethics of its strategic processes and aspirational goal of persuasive, inescapably self-interested influence. Such critique pits strategic engagement needed for ...

Purpose: Meta reviews are central for mapping the state of the field, consolidating the heterogeneous public relations body of knowledge, and pointing to new potential research directions. Habermas is one of the most ...

With spindoctoring, publicity seeking stunts and evidence of mal-practice, public relations is easily associated with the development of post-truth society. The elevation of bullshit as political coinage presents a challenge ...

Public discourse on Tinder depicts the dating app as marking the end of traditional – as well as healthy – notions of love and romance, permeating them with a logic of consumption and commodification. Our article offers a ...

A fascination for the authentic is pervasive in contemporary culture. This article discusses texts recommending digital detox and how these accentuate dilemmas of what it means to be authentically human in the age of ...

In this article we explore the dynamic between the pedagogical and the urban, attending to ‘agentive urban learning’. By this we mean processes by which young people build agency in the urban context, in using the resources ...

The process of self-presentation is significantly complicated for people growing up with social media. Many individuals have time-stamped digital footprints in social media from early youth to adulthood. However, little ...

Forming a family and having children constitutes an adulthood rite of passage, one of the tacitly assumed requirements of a fulfilled life. What happens, then, when the “family dream” does not materialize? This article ...

Denne masteroppgaven utforsker brukeres selvpresentasjon på Tinder, og hvordan inntrykksdannelse og interaksjon virker sammen med applikasjonens «affordances». Dernest diskuteres brukernes opplevelser av Tinder i kontekst ...

This article is about the conceptual and methodological challenges of mapping twenty-first-century transnational journalism. They are examined by focusing on the case study of a journalistic genre that spans the local, ...

This article discusses the relationship between nonprofessional media participation and the professional handling of participants. It expands on the case of “Karen”, who related her life-threatening illness and patient ...

Pressure from the media affects the daily work of bureaucrats and induces ‘media stress’, with potentially critical effects on the quality of public policy. This article analyses how bureaucrats’ daily work has been adapted ...

This article investigates the conditions for making online youth fiction in a public service context at a time when young people increasingly are abandoning both legacy mass media and linear flow television to consume and ...

This article addresses the underexplored role of local storytelling in informing mobilization against asylum seeker centres in the Netherlands. In doing so, it summarizes the preliminary results of an in-depth qualitative ...

Digitalisering har tatt nivået på konvergens i media til et annet nivå de siste årene. Det har tatt oppmerksomheten tilbake på kringkastingsfenomenet. Tradisjonell kringkasting på fjernsyn har blitt introdusert til sosiale ...

The film Roma directed by Alfonso Cuarón gained critical acclaim when it was released in 2018. What is different about this art film is that it was released on the streaming platform Netflix. The film's reception exposes ...

<p class="0abstract"><span lang="EN-GB">How may we best utilize mobile augmented reality for storytelling when reconstructing historical events onlocation? In this article we present a series of narrative design ...

The growing use of “smart” toys has made it increasingly important to understand the various privacy implications of their use by children and families. The article is a case study of how the risks to young children's ...

The phrase “religious controversies” is blunt and evocative, and immediately brings up associations to angry mobs, flag burning and, at times, inexplicable rage at seemingly mundane matters. The capacity of religion, whether ...

This research explores the multi-channel networks from the business perspective in responding to current challenges in the turbulent industry. Since some of the giant channel networks has diminished, some voice anticipates ...

Denne artikkelen gir en kort oversikt over den historiske bakgrunnen for utviklingen av det som resulterte i etableringen av en unik kommunal film- og kinoinstitusjon i Norge. Videre ser artikkelen nærmere på de seneste ...

Norge er et foregangsland i den globale kampen mot klimaendringer og global oppvarming. I alle fall er det slik landet liker å identifisere seg. Samtidig er Norge en av verdens største eksportører av fossile ressurser, noe ...

Music streaming services provide people with access to vast libraries of music, but also encourage certain patterns of consuming music. In this article I use Spotify as a case and investigate the action potentials for ...

The visibility and diversity of religion in selected Norwegian newspapers published in the capital of Oslo is studied in a quantitativeanalysis at ten-year intervals from 1938 to 2018, with an emphasis onthe last forty ...

The objective of this study is to contribute knowledge about formation of political agendas on Twitter during mediated political events, using the party leaders’ debates in Sweden before the general election of 2014 as a ...

Økt kvinnerepresentasjon utgjør den største endringen i Stortingets sosiale sammensetning etter andre verdenskrig. I denne artikkelen undersøkes disse kvinnenes videre vei i det parlamentariske beslutningssystemet: I hvilken ...

Digital platforms such as Google, Facebook and Netflix have caused a watershed moment not only for markets and businesses but also for media policy. Concerns about the US-based digital platforms’ impact on national media ...

The summer of 1928 was marked by two internationally reported and disastrous events involving two polar explorers: the crash and rescue of Umberto Nobile’s airship ‘Italia’ in the polar regions of the North Atlantic ocean, ...

Chatbots are emerging as interactive systems. However, we lack knowledge on how to classify chatbots and how such classification can be brought to bear in analysis of chatbot interaction design. In this workshop paper, we ...

Forskning viser at medias omtale av selvmord kan bidra til forebygging, men uaktsom omtale kan ha negative konsekvenser. Norsk presse må følge etiske regelverk, som Vær Varsom-plakaten (VV-p), for å sikre god presseetikk. ...

This study analyzes how media industry players have influenced media political solutions to digitalization, using data from the daily press and policy documents in the period from 1998 to 2017 as sources. It concentrates ...

This chapter discusses the various ways in which audiovisual (AV) media industries have cooperated with the tourism industry and explores the emergent areas for cross-innovation. It demonstrates the gradual mediatisation ...

The subject matter of this thesis is the examination of how the two Norwegian teen television dramas Skam 3 and 17 represent masculinity. I approach this matter by conducting a study of genre and a study of character. In ...

This master thesis has two counterparts. The first one is a written theoretical discussion around the pilot episode of a web-series named Rebolera. The webisode, the second part, was developed independently for a Colombian ...

The current debate about declining media trust is related not only to the disruptive changes in the media but also to the general decline of trust in institutions and politicians. This article combines the perspectives of ...

Denne masteroppgaven handler om true crime-serier og seeropplevelsen av disse. De siste årene har true crime-sjangeren opplevd ny popularitet og det har forekommet en fremvekst i produksjonen av slike tekster. Uhyggelig ...

This article takes a new approach to the comprehensive study of an entire national Twittersphere. It identifies, to the extent that this is possible with the data made available through Twitter’s Application Programming ...