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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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. ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In this introduction we use a speech by Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, as an example with which to explain the psychosocial outlook of the volume. ‘If you had raped three, I will admit it, that’s on ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This article sheds light on the role of social media in the instigation of acts of violence. It identifies and interprets the major forms of interaction emerging from the interplay between page owners and users on German ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
How do lobbyists get their way and what is the consequence for democracy of their strategies? It is frequently asserted that lobbyists appeal to the public interest to strengthen their proposals. This paper empirically ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Context collapse, or the flattening of multiple audiences into a single context, has been an important notion in research on privacy experiences, self-performance, and changing user practices in social media. Yet, previous ...
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Drawing on empirical data from the Scandinavian project Engaging with Conflicts in Mediatized Religious Environments (CoMRel), this chapter ana- lyses the findings from case-studies in: classrooms, online communities, ...
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In light of the preceding case studies, this chapter revisits the theories on the mediatization of religion and on mediatized conflicts that were outlined in the first part of the book. The focus is on the interplay between ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion, 2018)
The overall question that is raised in this book is: how do the media influence public engagement with contested issues about religion? Here is an introduction to the media dynamics and the key concepts on religion and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Digital communication technologies play an increasingly prominent role in humanitarian operations and in response to international pandemics specifically. A burgeoning body of scholarship on the topic displays high ...
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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 ...
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All political scandals trigger discussions of trust, but in a competitive commercial media climate, both important and minor legal offences and moral transgressions are regularly treated as scandalous media events. Today, ...
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This Introduction provides the conceptual and theoretical context for a Special Section on political scandals in the International Journal of Communication. Mediated political scandals are a worldwide phenomenon and are ...
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This theoretical article explores the bottom-up data practices enacted by individuals and groups in the context of organized collective action. Conversing with critical media theory, the sociology of social movements, and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
Digital domains render possible new forms of narrative creativity. This article explores to what extent it is practicable to inform the invention of new storytelling techniques in location–based media, such as augmented ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
When interpreting and disseminating the localisation of Stone Age sites along the rugged coast of Norway, it is always pertinent to include knowledge about sea level at the time the various sites were in use. This is ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Reality TV is immensely popular, and various shows in this media genre involve a storyline of infertility and infertility treatment. Feminists argue that normative and constructed realities about infertility and infertility ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Welfare states are exposed to a host of cost-inducing ‘reform pressures’. An experiment implemented in Germany, Norway and Sweden tests how various reform pressure frames affect perceptions about the future financial ...
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Yes to wearing the cross whenever and wherever I choose (YWC) is a Facebook group that was established in November 2013 to campaign for the right of a television news anchor to wear a cross pendant. YWC with its more than ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This chapter presents an overview of religiosity and attitudes to religious diversity in media and other public spaces based on a cross-Scandinavian survey conducted in 2015. Although Scandinavians in general have a weak ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Through online services, the Scandinavian public service broadcasters have managed to retain strong positions as public service media (PSM) among the audiences in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Social and political changes ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
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I denne artikkelen undersøker jeg hvordan lesbiske og homofile karakterer representeres i fire forskjellige dataspill. Ved å se på design og narrativ til to lesbiske og to homofile karakterer identifiserer jeg et skille i ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the emerging internet and World Wide Web inspired both popular and scholarly optimism that these new communication technologies would inevitably “democratise”—in local organisations, ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This chapter purposes to disentangle some of the messiness that changing algorithms entail. It considers the stories that algorithm changes tell with regards to what is valuable—how value is governed, generated, and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Based on a survey among contributors to the online comments sections of four Norwegian newspapers, we investigate the following research question: How do contributors describe their experiences of repercussions from writing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
This article aims to bridge the gap between media studies and welfare state studies. While media and communications systems are crucial elements in any society, these systems are often not included in studies of the welfare ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
When digitally reconstructing and displaying sequences of historical events in situ, a paradox may emerge: The sequence of actions might often benefit from in-depth information about historical context of various types. ...
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In this article, I examine the Machinima film Finding Fanon II, by London-based artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, for what it can tell us about the relationship between video gaming and the postcolonial. Evoking ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Digital communication technologies play an increasingly prominent role in humanitarian operations and in response to international pandemics specifically. A burgeoning body of scholarship on the topic displays high ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)
The world's first robot teacher, Saya, was introduced to a classroom in Japan in 2009. Saya had the appearance of a young female teacher. She could express six basic emotions, take the register and shout orders like ‘be ...
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This introduction outlines the main topics of this Special Section on “The Processes of Imaging / The Imaging of Processes” and situates them in their specific theoretical and historical contexts. ...
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Within Film Studies and Philosophy accounts of superficiality and cinema are few and far between. If there is any talk of it at all, more often than not, it is decidedly hostile. A similar sense of skepticism is reserved ...
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In this essay I consider the device of depthlessness in film. I am interested in particular in the ways in which this device can determine, or at least raise questions about, the nature of the fictional world. Taking my ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
It might be thought that Human-Machine Communication (HMC) and ethics have little, if anything to do with one another. To be sure, those engaged in the more technical sides of HMC—ICT designers, software engineers, ...
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Designing and developing chatbots as a new interface to provide Health information for young people needs a new understanding of new user needs and motivations, as well as privacy. What is needed to develop a successful ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The article investigates the relationship between Norwegian MPs and their home constituency. The approach is based on the concept of constituency representation, which combines representational focus and constituency ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion, 2017)
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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 ...
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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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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 ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
We examine what we see as some of the key developments in the field of adolescents and children and media research. With the caveat as regards to our specific research perspective and possible bias stemming from there, we ...
Can we say anything ethical about Digital Religion? Philosophical and Methodological considerations.
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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 ...
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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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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 ...
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Dagens forskningsbibliotek lever ikke opp til stereotypien av støvete, stille rom med hysjende bibliotekarer. Snarere er bibliotekene ofte i forkant av den teknologiske utviklingen. Tenkningen om deres samfunnsoppdrag ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Research on the digital divide has moved beyond connectivity to skills and usage disparities. Yet for many older people lack of connectivity remains a challenge, and for those who do have access, skills and usage remain ...
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Building on in-depth interviews with the leaders of Norway’s political youth organizations, this chapter focuses on two types of barriers to free speech that are at work in the political field: First, external barriers ...
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This article proposes a reconceptualization of the term “actor” within motion pictures and presents the argument that “acting” is a matter of distributed agency performed by heterogeneous assemblages. What constitutes an ...
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Link to article at Project Muse: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/682901
Link to journal: http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/journals/detail/framework
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
The English-language research tradition of studying media events is widely considered to have started with Dayan and Katz’ Media Events. This seminal work is characterised by an emphasis on liveness and broadcast technology ...
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This commentary on Media Events frames it as centrally being about societal transformation. The issue of transformation has been central in philosophical and historical approaches to the event, and Media Events can be ...
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This paper examines citizens’ interactions with politicians in social media in what is referred to as an everyday context, unmediated by news media. Through a representative survey, we compare the influence of a series of ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
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The way politicians ‘look’ is taken to be one of the essential aspects of the ‘mediatization’ and ‘professionalization’ of politics. Yet there is very little research about the role of image and self-presentation in political ...
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The democratic importance of journalism is related to public good aspects of media products, as well as news media’s positive externalities. Journalism of high quality helps ensure we are all better informed and thus ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
What became known as the CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Com - munication) conference series began at a specific time in Internet studies-and in a very specific experience of culture shock. I describe these ...
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The Norwegian Facebook page, Yes to wearing the cross whenever and wherever I choose was initially created to protest the prohibition of the cross for NRK-news anchors. Yet, many of the discussions and audience interactions ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Since the early 2000s, Digital Media Ethics (DME) has emerged as a relatively stable subdomain of applied ethics. DME seeks nothing less than to address the ethical issues evoked by computing technologies and digital media ...
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I introduce this double issue, showing first how the articles conjoin global perspectives with fine-grained attention to specific communication venues vis-à-vis critical theory, politics, religion, children and youth, ...
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That children have a right to protection when they go online is an internationally well-established principle, upheld in laws that seek to safeguard children from online abuse and exploitation. However, children’s own ...
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This article investigates user experiences with editorial control in online newspaper comment fields following the public backlash against online comments after the 2011 terror attacks in Norway. We analyze data from a ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This study examines non-editorial news coverage in leading US newspapers as a source of ideological differences on climate change. A quantitative content analysis compared how the threat of climate change and efficacy for ...
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In their quest for official and cultural recognition, French First Wave critics such as Louis Delluc discursively positioned the working-class female cinemagoer as emblematic of the sorry state of unsophisticated French ...
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This article argues that meaningful citizen-state interaction is a core component of the OGP mandate and theory of change. Assessing the frequency and quality of such activities in countrie’ national action plans can ...
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Media and politics have been defined as a symbiosis because they are mutually dependent on each other. Accordingly, current research trends are concerned with investigating how this symbiosis is developing and changing as ...
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This article examines the extent to which journalists of The Daily Monitor and The Ethiopian Herald report on internal conflict, especially ethnic conflicts, which were prevalent during the study period, from 2005 to 2013, ...
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I'm Not There presents a radical departure from the traditional biopic. Rather than focusing on individual agency as a conduit of history, I'm Not There uses the figure of Bob Dylan as a conduit for identity per se. I'm ...
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This article discusses how sovereignty can be entrenched through the interplay between texts and actions. The case is the coverage of the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s travels to Antarctica by one Norwegian ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
In this study, we test the relationship between gender and candidate approaches to social media campaigning by exploring a party-oriented system with a strong presence of female politicians, namely Sweden. Women have been ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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 ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
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 ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)
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 ...
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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 ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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Skandinaver er stort sett privilegerte. Gang på gang kåres vi som verdens rikeste, lykkeligste og mest egalitære land. Samtidig fører ...
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In Norway music-streaming services have become mainstream in everyday music listening. This paper examines how 12 heavy streaming users make sense of their experiences with Spotify and WiMP Music (now Tidal). The analysis ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
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 ...
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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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2016)
A key aspect of music-streaming services is the user’s access to their vast libraries and abundant choices anytime and anywhere. This article explores how artists performing at a large music festival in Norway were streamed ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)
The phenomenon of cyberbullying is gaining ever more attention by media and policy makers in many countries. Theoretical frameworks using a socio-ecological approach emphasise the importance of contextual explanatory factors ...