The objective of this chapter is to describe and discuss some important political journalism development trends in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The term political journalism traditionally refers to news, commentaries, ...

This study is a Mixed Method Study where we combine elements of qualitative and quantitative research approaches to investigate Kids’ Digital Lives During COVID-19 Times (KiDiCoTi) a research project coordinated by the ...

I denne masteroppgaven analyserer jeg formidling av nevrovitenskap i artikler publisert i det populærvitenskapelige magasinet National Geographic. I artiklene, som ofte bærer et visst aktualitetspreg, belyses forskjellige ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 article explores implications of the central position of the smartphone in an age of constant connectivity. Based on a qualitative study of 50 informants, we ask how users experience and handle temporal ambivalences ...

This thesis studies the differences in the Norwegian and Swedish media coverage of the international and national video game industries, and the possible consequences of said differences. It does so by using a theoretical ...

Nye medier bruker i økende grad algoritmebaserte anbefalingssystemer for å gi innhold eller produktforslag rettet mot brukerens preferanser. På strømmetjenestene Netflix og Spotify kan brukeren få forslag til filmer, serier ...

Denne studien undersøker ulikhetene i Høyreavisen Morgenbladets og Venstreavisen Dagbladets omtale og dekning av Norges første sivile ulydighetsaksjon med fokus på naturvern. Ettersom det var den første store direkte ...

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 ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker en konflikt om reklame for utenlandske pengespill på norske TV-skjermer. I mai 2020 vedtok Stortinget en lovendring som kan gi myndighetene mulighet for å stanse reklame for utenlandske ...

This study examined emotions of news and comments from a famous Norwegian newspaper called Verdens Gang’s (VG) Facebook public page. The data set for analysis contains 84 news items and 7876 comments collected from the new ...

I denne oppgaven analyseres forholdet mellom papirboka og e-boka i dagens mediesamfunn. Man ser nye trender i bokverden ti år etter e-bokas store oppblomstring, og balansen mellom papirboka og e-boka er i stadig endring. ...

I denne studien sammenliknes dramaturgien i pilotepisoder fra Netflix-originalserier, der alle episoder av en sesong slippes samtidig, med dramaturgien i pilotepisoder laget for lineær-TV. Studien fokuserer spesielt på ...

Advanced democracies experience a decline in political trust at the same time as television news is developing with an increased focus on political strategy and horse-race reporting during elections. Communication scholars ...

This thesis explored how artificial intelligence (AI), media platforms, and media users affect practices of fashion trend forecasting. Fashion trend forecasting is an essential part of the fashion system. Forecasters provide ...

Denne studien har undersøkt norske mediers fremstilling av norsk bistandshjelp til afrikanske land sør for Sahara i norsk presse i 2017. Fokuset i studien er hvordan lokalbefolkningen i de afrikanske landene fremstilles i ...

Netflix and other streaming platforms have permanently changed both the way we consume film and television, and its content. One could even say that the recent rise of the streaming age is one of the big, significant turning ...

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 ...

On Friday, 15th March 2019, a series of terror attacks occurred in the City of Christchurch. Targeted places were mosques, during Friday prayer, and attacks were carried out by one perpetrator, who later identified himself ...

Denne studien undersøker hvorvidt, og eventuelt hvordan, nettpatruljen i Sør-Vest politidistrikt bygger relasjoner med publikum gjennom dialog på sosiale medier. Dialog beskrives som «noe mer» enn kun toveiskommunikasjon, ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan død fungerer og presenteres i dataspillet The Sims 4. Gjennom en tekstanalyse av spillets grensesnitt, objekter, karakterer og lagringsfunksjon diskuteres det hvilke ideer om død som ...

I denne oppgaven har jeg sett på omdømmeoppturen Norges herrelandslag i fotball hadde mellom 2016-2018, som presentert i VG-artikkelen fra 13. november 2018 Sjekk den oppturen: Landslagets omdømme i kraftig bedring. I ...

Masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan sosiale medier påvirker forholdet mellom politiske journalister og politikere. Forholdet anses å være et avhengighetsforhold hvor politiske journalister søker informasjonen politikere har, ...

Enterprise sosiale plattformer [ESP] er en viktig arena for digital kommunikasjon og samhandling internt og eksternt i bedrifter. Flere norske bedrifter har tatt i bruk Slack og Microsoft Teams. Bruk av sosiale medier i ...

Denne masteroppgaven handler om hvordan man lobbyerer i et høyregulert marked: norsk alkoholpolitikk. Det er en kvalitativ case-studie som undersøker hvordan Bryggeri- og drikkevareforeningen lobbyerte i sine to siste ...

I denne oppgaven studeres hvordan enkelte av Norges nettaviser forholder seg bruk av algoritmer for personalisering av innhold. Mer presist undersøkes det om i hvilken grad nyhetsredaksjoner personaliserer, og videre hva ...

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 ...

This research is an identity-focus analysis of the Danish cartoon crisis in Turkish Islamic newspapers. Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons visually depicting Islam Prophet Mohammed on 30 September ...

I denne masteroppgaven studeres TV-serie-diskurser i TV-podkaster, produsert av fans, om Skam og Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Begrepet som brukes om denne typen podkaster er fanpodkaster, og studien fokuserer på hva podkastverter ...

De siste årene har vist en stor oppblomstring av målspesifikke norske ungdomsserier. I ettertid av suksess-serien SKAM (2015-2017) har allmennkringkasteren NRK stått for skapelsen av flere konsepter som eksperimenterer med ...

While the normative debate on the “ideal” public sphere is ongoing and did not reach any form of agreement since Jürgen Habermas’s thesis publication in 1962, the study of public spheres in actually existing democracies ...

The focus of the study is on production of media content, and it was conducted using a practical-theoretical approach. The practical part involves the making of MOJO! A mobile documentary about mobile journalism, filmed ...

Klimaendringer er vanskelig å visualisere. Det skyldtes blant annet av endringer i klimaet over tid som ofte ikke kan observeres direkte. For mange kan bildene av klimaendringer virke abstrakte og fjerntliggende, der ...

Debatten om kjøtt har de senere årene fått stor oppmerksomhet. Denne masteroppgaven analyserer en liten del av debatten ved å undersøke hvilke tolkningsrammer om kjøtt den norske kjøttbransjen, EAT Foundation og mediene ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 thesis investigated a possible link between creativity and audiences’ preference to films genre. In study 1, n= 712 participants n=267 males and n=445 females completed a paper-based survey where participants rated ...

Denne oppgaven søker å belyse hvordan mediedekningen av reality-tv i norske aviser opprettholder klassestrukturer i samfunnet ved å bruke Skeggs (1997, 2004) og Bourdieus (1977, 1979, 1986) teorier om kulturelle klasseskiller, ...

Sammendrag Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg hvordan dyr i reklamefilm for kjøtt blir representert, og hvilket bilde dette gir av kjøttindustrien i Norge. Studien tar utgangspunkt i tre reklamefilmer: Griseløftet - Vi setter ...

For chatbots to be broadly adopted by users, it is critical that they are experienced as useful and pleasurable. While there is an emerging body of research concerning user uptake and use of chatbots, there is a lack of ...

Scholars claim that civil servants are increasingly having to engage in media management and be aware of how events are presented in the press, with this media awareness being said to threaten civil servants’ traditional ...

Algorithms are an increasingly important element of internet infrastructure in that they are used to make decisions about everything from mundane music recommendations through to more profound and oftentimes life changing ...

Kunstig intelligens, stordata og algoritmer er globale fenomener som berører mange bransjer. Over de siste årene har kunstig intelligente stordataverktøy inntatt norske kommunikasjonsbyråer. Denne studien har sett nærmere ...

The well-known “high-choice news avoidance thesis” and the alternative “network structure perspective” stipulate somewhat conflicting expectations about news consumption in today’s digital media systems. Based on annual ...

The computational turn leads to a robo-philosophy that uses computational and robotic technologies as testbeds for philosophical questions such as the nature of being human. Robo-theology extends these approaches and ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new collaboration between the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES). Design/methodo ...

This article focuses on the prominence of dirt and excrements in online male subcultures. It offers an understanding of both the computer nerd cultures of the 4chan forum and Incel (acronym for “Involuntary celibate”) ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

<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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...