The Scandinavian welfare societies depend on strong states to provide public services and to redistribute income. Scandinavians enjoy comprehensive welfare systems that offer citizens social security within open economies. ...

Mass media and social media afford a communicative environment providing a horizon of orientation for citizens about conflicts relating to religion, and provide social actors with the tools to engage in such conflicts. ...

Can a camera sense what a human eye cannot? This question was of great concern to early film theorists. It has since been rejuvenated by recent trends in contemporary cinema that present the photographic lens as transcending ...

Live music events are increasingly saturated with and mediated via the online and mobile devices of the audience. This article explores patterns in this media use surrounding the Øya festival in Norway and focuses, in ...

Modern smartphones, tablets, laptop computers, and increasingly even cameras and wristwatches now come with built-in geolocation sensors. An ever-increasing range of services now ask for the latitude and longitude registered ...

TV 2 feirer 25-årsjubileum i 2017. Da Kong Harald og Dronning Sonja innledet åpningsshowet fra Grieghallen 5. september 1992, ble døren slått opp for en særegen blanding av norsk allmennkringkasting og amerikansk kommersiell ...

Public relations has long been preoccupied with the notion of dialogue, and the advent of social media ushered in new enthusiasm. Still, despite the technology on offer and the fact that dialogue has become a value that ...

Konflikter rundt religion omtales hyppig i mediene. De forbindes særlig med islam. Ut fra en survey i den norske befolkningen i april 2015, avdekker denne artikkelen mønstre i nordmenns bruk av massemedier og nettmedier i ...

Based on a comparative project on media and religion across Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, this article analyzes relationships between religiosity and political attitudes in Scandinavia and how these connect with attitudes ...

The literature on social media use in risk and crisis communication is growing fast, and it is time to take stock before looking forward. A review of 200 empirical studies in the area shows how the literature is indeed ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...