Cristina Archetti

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Postal address Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Profile

I am Professor in Political Communication and Journalism at the University of Oslo, Norway. I have been researching, teaching and supervising students for 20 years.

I am broadly interested in the role of the media and communication in society and politics. Although, over the years, I have worked on a variety of topics—from international journalism and foreign correspondence, public diplomacy, the role of the media in terrorism, radicalization and conflict, to the construction of silence around infertility—I have always been driven by the same questions: How do we explain the mediated world we live in? How do we know what we know?

I am committed to making a positive difference to the world we live in through my research, teaching, and public engagement. Beyond Western paradigms, I let myself be inspired by systemic, indigenous, and postcolonial approaches to knowledge. My aim is to provide students with the creative, regenerative mindsets we need to deal with the social and ecological challenges we currently face.

Beyond academia, I am a psychotherapist specialized in trauma. The understanding of the way adverse life experiences affect, over time, the mind, the body and our communities (even across generations) further informs my research and teaching.

Current projects

At the moment I am working on the following projects:

  • The “blackspots” of journalism: how the voices of minorities get muzzled and silenced; how racism is subtly produced and reproduced in Norwegian media; which practical measures in the newsroom can contribute to greater inclusion.
  • More-than-human perspectives in political communication. I am investigating the way foreign species are represented in Norwegian media. I am approaching animals and plants as political actors and citizens of a more-than-human biotic polity and exploring how the boundaries of their inclusion/exclusion are negotiated.
  • Researching lived experience. I am working on the manuscript of my new book The trauma of infertility: The experience of involuntary childlessness.

Academic interests

  • Political communication
  • Media and politics
  • Journalism
  • Media and conflict
  • Media, (in)fertility, and involuntary childlessness
  • More-than-human approaches
  • Indigenous, post-colonial, non-Western-centric epistemologies
  • Qualitative methodologies: content analysis; interviews; ethnography; creative methods

Social media and profiles

Tags: Media and communication, Political communication, Journalism, Media and conflict, Media and involuntary childlessness, Qualitative methods

Publications

  • Archetti, Cristina (2023). Deviations: Poetic Reflections on Method. Screenworks. 13(1). doi: 10.37186/swrks/13.1/3.
  • Archetti, Cristina & Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla (2022). Enabling Knowledge: The Art of Nurturing Unknown Spaces. Nordic Journal of Art and Research (A & R). ISSN 2535-7328. 11(1). doi: 10.7577/information.5053. Full text in Research Archive
  • Archetti, Cristina (2022). Researching Experience in Journalism: Theory, Method, and Creative Practice. Journalism Studies. ISSN 1461-670X. 23(8), p. 974–997. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2022.2061576. Full text in Research Archive
  • Archetti, Cristina (2021). Making contact: When research needs to touch the heart and get under the skin. Samfunnsviter'n. p. 16–17.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2021). When public relations can heal: An embodied theory of silence for public communication. Public relations inquiry. ISSN 2046-147X. doi: 10.1177/2046147X211014095. Full text in Research Archive
  • Archetti, Cristina (2020). Research, methods, and the Zen art of questioning what you know. Norsk Medietidsskrift. ISSN 0804-8452. 27(2), p. 1–7. doi: 10.18261/ISSN.0805-9535-2020-02-06. Full text in Research Archive
  • Archetti, Cristina (2019). No life without family: Film representations of involuntary childlessness, silence and exclusion. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics. ISSN 1740-8296. 15(2), p. 175–196. doi: 10.1386/macp.15.2.175_1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Archetti, Cristina (2019). Mapping Transnational Journalism in the Age of Flows: Or How I Ditched “Foreign Correspondence” and the “Immigrant Press” and Started to Love Histoire Croisée. Journalism Studies. ISSN 1461-670X. 20(15), p. 2150–2166. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2019.1568905. Full text in Research Archive
  • de Boer, Marjolein; Archetti, Cristina & Solbrække, Kari Nyheim (2019). In/Fertile Monsters: The Emancipatory Significance of Representations of Women on Infertility Reality TV. Journal of Medical Humanities. ISSN 1041-3545. p. 1–16. doi: 10.1007/s10912-019-09555-z. Full text in Research Archive
  • Archetti, Cristina (2018). The Unbearable Thinness of Strategic Communication. In Biola, Corneliu & Pamment, James (Ed.), Countering Online Propaganda and Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy. Routledge. ISSN 1138578622. p. 81–98.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2017). Image, self-presentation and political communication in the age of interconnection: An alternative understanding of the mediatization of politics. Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook. ISSN 1601-829X. 15(1), p. 89–109. doi: 10.1386/nl.15.1.89_1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Archetti, Cristina (2017). Narrative Wars: Understanding Terrorism in the Era of Global Interconnectedness. In Miskimmon, Alister; O'Loughlin, Ben & Roselle, Laura (Ed.), Forging the World: Strategic Narratives and International Relations. University of Michigan Press. ISSN 978-0472130214. p. 218–245.
  • Stanyer, James; Archetti, Cristina & Sorensen, Lone (2016). The United Kingdom: Hybrid Populisms, Mixed Fortunes, and Unstable Support. In Aalberg, Toril; Esser, Frank; Reinemann, Carsten; Strömbäck, Jesper & De Vreese, Claes (Ed.), Populist Political Communication in Europe: Comprehending the Challenge of Mediated Political Populism for Democratic Politics. Routledge. ISSN 978-1138654792. p. 165–177.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2015). Terrorism, Communication and the Media. In Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline; Clubb, Gordon & Mabon, Simon (Ed.), Terrorism and Political Violence. Sage Publications. ISSN 144627280X. p. 134–152. doi: http:/dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473917248.n11.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2015). Terrorism, Communication and New Media: Explaining Radicalization in the Digital Age. Perspectives on Terrorism (PT). ISSN 2334-3745. 9(1), p. 49–59.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2015). Bringing Back Emotion, Imagination and the Senses: Creative Writing in Journalism Research. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics. ISSN 1740-8296. 11(2), p. 239–249. doi: 10.1386/macp.11.2.239_3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Archetti, Cristina (2015). Journalism, Practice and…Poetry: The Unexpected Effects of Creative Writing on Journalism Research. Journalism Studies. ISSN 1461-670X. 18(9), p. 1106–1127. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2015.1111773. Full text in Research Archive
  • Archetti, Cristina (2014). Journalism & the City: Redefining the Spaces of Foreign Correspondence in London and Oslo. Journalism Studies. ISSN 1461-670X. 15(5), p. 586–595. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2014.894354.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2013). Journalism in the Age of Globalization: The Evolving Practices of Foreign Correspondents in London. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. ISSN 1464-8849. 14(3), p. 419–436. doi: 10.1177/1464884912472140.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2012). The Impact of New Media on Diplomatic Practice: An Evolutionary Model of Change. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy. ISSN 1871-1901. 7(2), p. 181–206. doi: 10.1163/187119112X625538.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2012). Which Future for Foreign Correspondence? London Foreign Correspondents in the Age of Global Media. Journalism Studies. ISSN 1461-670X. 13(5-6), p. 847–856. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2012.664352.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2011). Friend or Foe? Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in Political Communication. European Political Science. ISSN 1680-4333. 10(4), p. 1–16. doi: 10.1057/eps.2011.40.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2010). Comparing International Coverage of 9/11: Towards an Interdisciplinary Explanation of the Construction of News. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. ISSN 1464-8849. 11(5), p. 567–588. doi: 10.1177/1464884910373536.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2008). Unamerican Views”: Why US-Developed Models of Press-State Relations Don’t Apply to the Rest of the World. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC). ISSN 1744-6708. 5(3), p. 4–26. doi: 10.16997/wpcc.87.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2008). News Coverage of 9/11 and the Demise of the Media Flows, Globalization and Localization Hypotheses. International Communication Gazette. ISSN 1748-0485. 70(6), p. 463–486.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2007). A Multidisciplinary Understanding of News: Comparing Elite Press Framing of 9/11 in the US, Italy, France and Pakistan. Journal of International Communication. ISSN 1321-6597. 13(1), p. 86–118. doi: 10.1080/13216597.2007.9674709.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2004). Are the Media Globalizing Political Discourse? The War On Terrorism Case Study. International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review. ISSN 1447-9508. 2, p. 1301–1308.

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  • Archetti, Cristina (2020). Childlessness in the Age of Communication: Deconstructing Silence. Routledge. ISBN 9780367409944. 284 p.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2014). Politicians, Personal Image and the Construction of Political Identity: A Comparative Study of the UK and Italy. Palgrave Pivot. ISBN 1137353414. 108 p.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2012). Understanding Terrorism in the Age of Global Media: A Communication Approach. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-29138-7. 218 p.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2010). Explaining News: National Politics and Journalistic Cultures in Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-10966-7. 258 p.

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  • Archetti, Cristina (2023). Atlas of pain/Atlas of healing. Resonans. ISSN 2535-2601. p. 40–45.
  • Archetti, Cristina (2022). More fragile than you think: Journalism and freedom of expression beyond the rhetoric. Norsk Medietidsskrift. ISSN 0804-8452. 29(1), p. 1–7. doi: 10.18261/nmt.29.1.6.
  • Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla & Archetti, Cristina (2020). Of cross-disciplinary encounters: Introducing movement, breath and other artistic interventions in academic research.
  • Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla & Archetti, Cristina (2018). EMBODIED, a Performance lecture on involuntary childlessness.

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