In this article, we reflect critically on the research agenda on children’s Internet use, framing our analysis using Wellman’s three ages of Internet studies and taking as our case study the three phases of research by the ...

Against the background of growing interest in normative frameworks within Media and Communication Studies and Internet Studies, I propose a virtue ethics framework for Digital Religion (DR). This framework conjoins loving ...

Progressive and serious representations of homosexuality in Western mainstream video games are a recent phenomenon, and the Canadian developer BioWare has been instrumental in diversifying gender and sexuality representations ...

New media divide opinion; many are fascinated while others are disgusted. This book is about those who dislike, protest, and try to abstain from media, both new and old. It explains why media resistance persists and answers ...

This article uses data from the 25,142-child study EU Kids Online to investigate the impact of sibling status on a child’s experience of online risk and opportunities. In general, the effects associated with having a sibling ...

Drawing on the ethnographic study of the Norwegian Facebook group Yes to wearing the cross whenever and wherever I choose, this article focuses on the emotive performance of conflict. The author delves into the multitude ...

Nyhetene i nettavisene har andre sjangertrekk enn papiravisnyhetene. Det skyldes blant annet at de er tilpasset en annen teknologi, andre produksjonsmønstre, andre lesemåter, andre lesergrupper og andre økonomiske betingelser. ...

How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a ...

Denne artikkelen undersøker det kontroversielle reality-konkurranseprogrammet Paradise Hotel Norge (TV3 2009–) som et estetisk objekt. Artikkelen argumenterer for at Paradise Hotel representerer en ny type genrehybridisering ...

Political communication on social media is the topic of this dissertation. The Internet and social media platforms have provided participants in the public sphere with new ways to connect, communicate and distribute ...

Føler vi også et ubehag når vi er så priviligerte i global og urettferdig verden? Skandinaver er stort sett privilegerte. Gang på gang kåres vi som verdens rikeste, lykkeligste og mest egalitære land. Samtidig fører ...

This article discusses the impact of convergence and digital intermediaries for television as a medium, industry and po-litical and cultural institution. There is currently widespread debate about the future of television ...

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and data play an increasingly visible role in transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs). There has been little research on how the selection of ICT tools influences ...

I sin avhandling undersøker Maja Michelsen åtte barns digitale og fritidsforankrede læringskultur. Disse åtte barna, som er i alderen 9-12 år, har pekt ut viktige tekster og tekstlige aktiviteter i egen hverdag. Michelsen ...

Political parties’ interaction strategy and practice on Facebook is the topic of this article. Political parties and individual politicians can use social media to bypass media and communicate directly with voters through ...

The concept of ‘genre’ is an integral part of the everyday life of most scholars. It is present in reading, writing and conversation, or any other mode of communication and exchange. In the humanities, we study genre in ...

The aim of this chapter is to investigate how US presidential candidates used Twitter when the first phase of novelty had passed and ‘the dust had settled’ after the 2008 Obama campaign. Focusing on the theory of the ...

Hundre år etter at Roald Amundsen nådde Sørpolen, ble han behørig feiret både av det offisielle Norge og av norske nyhetsmedier. Robert F. Scott, som nådde polen om lag en måned seinere, var en del av omtalen. Han fikk ...

Media design can be used for research purposes if it includes a clearly defined research question, and clear evaluation to see whether an answer to the research question has been found. Using a project with locative media ...

Brain images are believed to be physical explanations for cognitive phenomena. However, the persuasive power of brain imaging cannot be fully explained by the general tendency to biologise the mind in contemporary cognitive ...

In this report, we discuss how the original EU Kids Online analytical model was constructed. We review key findings produced from qualitative and quantitative research by EU Kids Online before discussing the rationale for ...

This thesis explores how users of minority languages engage in innovative practices in Social Media. They create new opportunities to communicate in their languages. These include designing web-based tools to support ...

Drawing on interviews with Norwegian party leaders and political staffers from the 2013 parliamentary campaigns about their strategies for social media, this article gives the first insight into why and how politicians and ...

This essay investigates forensic fiction as a trend in televised crime fiction and argues that this trend or subgenre is particularly interesting if we are to understand how surveillance is portrayed in contemporary society. ...

Social media are often discussed in terms of online novelties. However, especially within the broader field of political communication, the uses of such services, as Twitter, at the hands of political actors such as ...

Election campaigns are central to political life as well as to the study of political communication and provides much empirical knowledge about the processes of mediatisation and mediation of politics. Most often studies ...

Social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many other services, have established themselves as part of the networked and increasingly hybrid public sphere, extending and transforming it to allow for and facilitate ...

In an open-ended survey question to European 9- to 16-year-olds, some 10,000 children reported a range of risks that concern them on the internet. Pornography (named by 22% of children who mentioned risks), conduct risk ...

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to explore how Twitter is used as a political backchannel and potential agenda setter during two televised political debates during the Norwegian election in 2011. The paper engages ...

While plenty of research has provided important insights into the uses of the Internet by politicians during elections, a relatively scarce amount of work has looked into these uses outside of such parliamentary events. ...

Twitter is currently one of the most popular outlets of so-called social media, Internet services that allow their users to communicate and share content in a variety of ways. As with the Internet itself, Twitter has been ...

In order to understand and explain current developments in the media landscape, using the lens of innovation and innovation theory adds value to media research. This chapter gives a theoretical introduction to the concept ...

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This article analyses the key strategies for serving children that were developed in Nordic public broadcasting during the first decade of 2000s, with reference to US and European parallels. The main goal is to investigate ...

Helene Høyrup, Hans Jørn Nielsen og Birger Hjørland (red.) Viden i spil. Forskningsbibliotekers funktioner i forandring, 1 udgave 2012. Tilgjengeliggjort med tillatelse fra forlaget.

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This article summarises findings from a research project on the digitisation of Norwegian newsrooms, analysing trends in the industry and changes in user-habits. Findings suggest that most journalists are positive about ...

With the launch of the website Pottermore.com, author J.K Rowling has extended the Harry Potter brand into the digital realm. After seven books and eight films, the Potter saga continues with an online multimedia experience ...

Den moderne journalistikken har alltid hatt to sider. Den har vært en kritisk instans med røtter i massedemokratiet, men den har også vært en del av en kommersiell sfære med røtter i massemarkedet. Derfor har den alltid ...

Internet Research 13.0, University of Salford, 21 October 2012.

Stadig flere forskere tar til ordet for at det å lage nye medietekster skal være en del av medieforskningens repertoar, enten det kalles design, syntese, produksjon eller instruksjon. Denne artikkelen diskuterer design som ...

Muhammed-karikaturene ble trykket i Jyllands-Posten i september 2005. Karikaturene vakte ikke større oppmerksomhet i Norge før redaktør i Magazinet, Vebjørn Selbekk, i januar 2006 valgte å trykke en faksimile av tegningene. ...

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This thesis is a study of how established institutions within the media and telecom industries act in times of change, using the first decade of the 2000s as its time frame. As an emerging field that has inspired high ...

The term "convergence" has been used to describe the media developments following digitalization. In this article, I argue that while convergence was a suitable term to describe the first developments, it is no longer ...

Executive Summary " This report is a part of the European Commission s commitment to and support of the self-regulatory initiative from social networks to implement Safer Social Networking Principles signed by 20 ...

When planning for the future, media managers must balance realism with the need to foresee unexpected changes. This article investigates images of the future in the Norwegian media industry in the early years of the 21st ...

Oppgaven er en sammenlignende undersøkelse av produksjonskontekstene for lokale nyhetstekster i de to serbiske kommunene Novi Pazar og Bujanovac, som ligger i henholdsvis Sandzak og Presevo-dalen, to områder preget av ...

Både i nasjonale strategidokumenter og blant lokalpolitiske aktører fins det en rekke forventninger til hva digitale medier kan føre til av økt lokalpolitisk engasjement og deltakelse. Denne avhandlingen ser nærmere på ...

This paper presents the textopia project, a locative media design experiment set up to explore the relationship between places and literary texts. The system allows a user to walk through the city of Oslo and listen to ...

Research on the risks associated with children’s use of the internet often aim to inform policies of risk prevention. Yet paralleling the effort to map the nature extent of online risk is a growing unease that the goal of ...

This thesis is a study of gaming in multiplayer online games. On the overall scale, it focuses on how the players, the game medium and the producers work together as a system. On a more concrete level, it consists of smaller ...

Media organisations all over the world experience new challenges related to technological developments and convergence. Digitalisation of production has facilitated changes in how journalism is organised and practiced. One ...

Teenagers spend a lot of time on the Internet and social networking sites constitute an important part of their Internet use. Social networking sites are web services that make is easy for the users to create, share and ...

Ungdom bruker mye tid på Internett, og nettsamfunn er en viktig del av ungdoms Internett-bruk. Nettsamfunn er nettjenester der brukerne enkelt kan skape, dele og distribuere informasjon og medieinnhold. Typiske eksempler ...

Published in: Ambivalence Towards Convergence. Digitalization and Media Change Redaktörer: Tanja Storsul, Dagny Stuedahl Nordicom, 2007, 251 p. - ISBN 978-91-89471-50-4, (Research Anthologies and Monographs)

Over the last decade, questions regarding the implications of digitalization and convergence have dominated European media debates. One aspect of the debate has concerned regulation: to what degree would existing regulations ...

The dissertation explores the social value of public libraries by eliciting this value among a random sample of citizens in Norway. Methods for non-market valuation, developed in economics, are found to add to the ...

Denne rapporten søker å kartlegge og definere samiske medier. Kartleggingen har form av kvantitative innholdsanalyser av et utvalg medier (både medier laget av og for samer, og medier uten spesiell tilknytning til det ...