Publications

• Haugsgjerd, Atle; Hesstvedt, Stine & Karlsen, Rune (2021). Increased Media Choice and Political Knowledge Gaps: A Comparative Longitudinal Study of 18 Established Democracies 1995–2015. Political Communication.  ISSN 1058-4609.
• Ess, Charles Melvin (2021). Internet Research Ethics and Social Media, In Ron Iphofen (ed.),  Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity.  Springer Publishing Company.  ISBN 978-3-030-16758-5.  chapter.  s 1 - 21 Show summary

  Internet research ethics (IRE) is introduced via a historical overview of its development by the Association of Internet Researchers’ ethics committees (2002, 2012, 2020) and the Norwegian Research Ethics Committees (2003, 2006, [2018] 2019). These overlapping but importantly distinctive guidelines foreground key norms and principles (starting with human autonomy and dignity), ethical frameworks (utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, care ethics), and prevailing, especially question-oriented approaches to identifying and resolving representative ethical challenges in internet research. Comparing and contrasting these (and other relevant) guidelines further introduce us to additional central elements of assumptions regarding personhood and moral agency (individual vis-à-vis relational); respecting and incorporating diverse national/cultural ethical traditions and norms by way of an ethical pluralism; the role of dialogical, process approaches and reflective ethical judgment (phronēsis); interweaving ethics and methods; and considering ethical challenges characteristic of distinct stages of research. Two challenges evoked by Big Data research techniques are examined, beginning with the possibilities and limitations of informed consent and researchers’ possible use of “gray data” (personal information that is hacked and thus made public and available to researchers). Current and future challenges cluster about protecting both researchers’ and subjects’ privacy – specifically, privacy as now reconceptualized in terms of contextual integrity as appropriate to the more relational selves facilitated especially by social media – in an emerging Internet of Things (IoT).

• Bucher, Taina (2021). Data and algorithms, In Leah Lievrouw & Brian Loader (ed.),  Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Communication in Society.  Routledge.  ISBN 1138672092.  Chapter.
• Andersen, Patrick Lie; Smette, Ingrid & Bredal, Anja (2020). Ungdoms voldsutsatthet og foreldres landbakgrunn, I: Anja Bredal; Helga Eggebø & Astrid Eriksen (red.),  Vold i nære relasjoner i et mangfoldig Norge.  Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 978-82-02-68104-3.  Kapittel 9.  s 167 - 195 Full text in Research Archive.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). How mobile media impacts urban life: blending social cohesion and social distancing. Interactions.  ISSN 1072-5520.  27(6), s 51- 56 . doi: 10.1145/3424682 Show summary

  Wireless mobile media are diffusing faster than any other technology, also in the time of emergency such as corona. These mobile media are not only changing people's lives, but also the broader social context and social cohesion in urban life. With corona we are also physically restricted in so many ways with enforced social distancing as part of an emergency intervention minimizing exposure to infected individuals. Even before the corona crises most of us was dependent up on mobile devices to keep in touch. And in even in public spaces many of us, having a cell phone in hand and AirPods in ears is the default mode while walking the streets or when taking the subway. Such mobile habits mean much less chance of bumping into others and having a conversation with the fellow residents who populate our real lives. On the other hand, the transition to real-life social distancing intervention are maybe less altering to our status quo mobile mediated situation.

• Orgeret, Kristin & Rønning, Helge (2020). Political communication in East Africa. Journal of African Media Studies.  ISSN 2040-199X.  12(3), s 231- 240 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/jams_00021_2
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke & Petersen, Line Nybro (2020). Ins and outs of transmedia fandom: Motives for entering and exiting the SKAM fan community online. Poetics.  ISSN 0304-422X. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101510 Show summary

  This article investigates the motives for entering a digital fan community and becoming a fan for the first time—and, subsequently, leaving it again—by focusing on these fans’ main entry and exit points. It looks at the fan community following the Norwegian hit show SKAM (2015–17), which grew over its four seasons into a global cult phenomenon with viewers and fans of all ages from around the world. Empirically, the article draws on forty-seven interviews with Scandinavian SKAM fans between the ages of thirteen and seventy. Based on these interviews, the article presents a tripartite model through which fan motivations are located in the intersections among intrapersonal, social, and transmedial factors.

• Staksrud, Elisabeth & Olafsson, Kjartan (2020). Is It Me, or Is It You? Exploring Contemporary Parental Worries in Norway, In Liza Tsaliki & Despina Chronaki (ed.),  Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-3-030-46435-6.  13.  s 323 - 325
• Mikuška, Jakub; Smahel, David; Dedkova, Lenka; Staksrud, Elisabeth; Mascheroni, Giovanna & Tijana, Milosevic (2020). Social relational factors of excessive internet use in four European countries. International Journal of Public Health.  ISSN 1661-8556. . doi: 10.1007/s00038-020-01484-2
• Bergh, Johannes; Haugsgjerd, Atle & Karlsen, Rune (2020). Norsk politikk siden 1945, I: Johannes Bergh; Atle Haugsgjerd & Rune Karlsen (red.),  Valg og politikk siden 1945. Velgere, institusjoner og kritiske hendelser i norsk politisk historie.  Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 978-82-02-66460-2.  1.  s 13 - 37
• Ihlen, Øyvind & Raknes, Ketil (2020). Appeals to ‘the public interest’: How public relations and lobbying create a social license to operate. Public Relations Review.  ISSN 0363-8111.  46(5) . doi: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2020.101976
• Bengtsson, Stina; Fast, Karin; Jansson, André & Lindell, Johan (2020). Media and basic desires: an approach to measuring the mediatization of daily human life. Communications.  ISSN 0341-2059. . doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-0122
• Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Schillemans, Thomas & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2020). Media and Bureaucracy: Investigating Media Awareness Amongst Civil Servants. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration.  ISSN 2001-7405. Show summary

  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 bureaucratic values. In this article, we argue that media awareness is unevenly spread in public bureaucracies, and rather is contingent on individual and organizational characteristics. More specifically, we present the hypotheses that media awareness depends on the amount of media related work, the amount of media attention on the organization in which they work, as well as the civil servants’ fundamental views on the role of the media in society. To test the hypotheses, the article utilizes a large-N survey of civil servants in Norwegian ministries and agencies. The results show that the vast majority of civil servants care about how issues appear in the press. Further on, we find that civil servants’ media awareness coexists with traditional bureaucratic values, offering some relief to scholars who fear the disruptive effects of the media in public administration. As the hypotheses suggest, we find that this media awareness is linked to civil servants’ actual media-related work. However, the analysis shows that civil servants working in organizations with a lot of media attention are, in fact, are less aware of the media.

• Valentini, Chiara; Ihlen, Øyvind; Somerville, Ian; Raknes, Ketil & Davidson, Scott (2020). Trade Unions and Lobbying: Fighting Private Interests While Defending the Public Interest?. International Journal of Communication.  ISSN 1932-8036.
• Kiberg, Håvard (2020). Personaliserte anbefalinger og musikalsk mangfold – en umulig kombinasjon?. Norsk Medietidsskrift.  ISSN 0804-8452. . doi: 10.18261/issn.0805-9535-2020-03-03
• Ytre-Arne, Brita; Syvertsen, Trine; Moe, Hallvard & Karlsen, Faltin (2020). Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities. New Media & Society.  ISSN 1461-4448.  22(9), s 1715- 1732 . doi: 10.1177/1461444820913561 Full text in Research Archive.
• Allern, Sigurd & Pollack, Ester (2020). The Role of Think Tanks in the Swedish Political Landscape. Scandinavian Political Studies.  ISSN 0080-6757.  43(3), s 145- 169 . doi: 10.1111/1467-9477.12180 Full text in Research Archive.
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke & Syvertsen, Trine (2020). From problem to solution? Why it is difficult to restrict the remit of public broadcasters. The International Journal of Cultural Policy.  ISSN 1028-6632. . doi: 10.1080/10286632.2020.1807522 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  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 draws on a comparative analysis of two specific review processes in Britain and Norway, addressing the future remits of the public service broadcasters BBC and NRK. In both cases, the processes were initiated by governments explicitly stressing the need for radical change, but ambitions were not met although some changes took place. The article combines theories of advocacy coalitions and multiple streams to discuss how key stakeholders within the two processes operated to promote and inhibit change by defining–and re-defining–problems and solutions.

• Karlsen, Rune; Lütz, Georg & Öhberg, Patrik (2020). Candidate Campaigns in Comparative Perspective, In Lieven De Winter; Rune Karlsen & Hermann Schmitt (ed.),  Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties: A Comparative Perspective.  Routledge.  ISBN 978-0-367-24851-2.  4.  s 78 - 96
• Fadnes, Ingrid; Larsen, Anna Grøndahl & Krøvel, Roy (2020). Conclusion: Researching self-censorship caused by inadequate safety of journalists. Causes, solutions and future research., In Anna Grøndahl Larsen; Ingrid Fadnes & Roy Krøvel (ed.),  Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship.  Routledge.  ISBN 9780367409623.
• Fadnes, Ingrid; Larsen, Anna Grøndahl & Krøvel, Roy (2020). Introduction. Safety for journalists and self-censorship, In Anna Grøndahl Larsen; Ingrid Fadnes & Roy Krøvel (ed.),  Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship.  Routledge.  ISBN 9780367409623.
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2020). Drama as Flagship Productions: Small-Nation Television and Digital Distribution, In Anne Marit Waade; Eva Novrup Redvall & Pia Majbritt Jensen (ed.),  Danish Television Drama. Global Lessons from a Small Nation.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-3-030-40797-1.  Chapter 8.  s 147 - 165 Show summary

  Several studies have addressed the international success of Danish television drama. Somewhat in the shadow of these success stories, we find Norwegian television drama, which has developed a different approach in which novel and digital distribution is a key component. In fact, two of the internationally best-known Norwegian television dramas, the NRK–Netflix production Lilyhammer (produced by Rubicon TV, 2012–2014) and the online teen drama SKAM (NRK, 2015–2017), share a novel approach to distribution for which they have become acknowledged as ‘digital flagship productions’, not only in Norway and Scandinavia, but also internationally. Based on industry reports, material from the trade press, and industry interviews, this chapter analyses Norwegian drama in the aftermath of the Danish success and the global lessons that can be taken from this.

• Karlsen, Rune; Beyer, Audun & Steen-Johnsen, Kari (2020). Do High-Choice Media Environments Facilitate News Avoidance? A Longitudinal Study, 1997–2016. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.  ISSN 0883-8151. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2020.1835428
• Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti & Ytreberg, Espen (2020). A Human Interest Economy: The Strategic Value of Turning Ordinary People into Exemplars in the News Media. Journalism Studies.  ISSN 1461-670X.  21(8), s 1093- 1108 . doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1720520 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  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 of health, where patients and their experiences with disease play an increasingly central role across media platforms, the article theorizes the hierarchies and dilemmas of a “human interest economy” in which ordinary people become exemplars, based on the authenticity of their experience, and their ability to attract attention and support. Departing from 38 interviews with management and communications professionals in Norwegian health interest groups, the article analyzes how organizations that provide exemplars to the news media adapt to and negotiate generic human interest formats that favor certain diseases, victims, and storylines over others. By discussing how the normative claims of immediate and authentic bottom-up voices in the news media tie in with less visible and more implicit strategic interests, the article adds to the theorizing about the role and power of ordinary people in the news, and how they serve the strategic interests of organizational actors that liaise between journalists and participants.

• Ihlen, Øyvind (2020). Science communication and strategic communication: The case of health authorities, trust building and vaccine hesitancy. Journal of Communication Management.  ISSN 1363-254X.  24(3), s 163- 167 . doi: 10.1108/JCOM-03-2020-0017
• Lüders, Marika (2020). Innovation & creativity: Media as business and commons, In M. Bjørn von Rimscha (ed.),  Management and Economics of Communication.  De Gruyter Mouton.  ISBN 978-3-11-058716-6.  12.  s 223 - 240 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  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, economics and marketing literature rarely address innovations in media industries, and communication and media scholars seldom look beyond their own disciplinary boundaries when studying media innovations. This chapter first reviews how the interrelated notions of innovation and creativity are conceptualized in the literature, and next how innovation and creativity apply to media industries. Using music streaming services as a case, I argue how innovation and business literature provides perspectives useful for understanding the development and adoption of these services. Key notions include a turn to experience-centric approach to innovation, customers as co-producers of service-value, and the context of innovation extending to include multiple actors and their interactions. Whereas the innovation literature has much to offer, media and communication scholars are likely better positioned to investigate media innovations than scholars from the business and marketing fields. This is due to the pro-innovation bias and lack of critical approaches in the innovation literature. A core concern for the study of media innovations is therefore to also question innovation

• Følstad, Asbjørn & Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Users’ Experiences with Chatbots: Findings from a Questionnaire Study. Quality and User Experience.  ISSN 2366-0139.  5(3) . doi: 10.1007/s41233-020-00033-2 Show summary

  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 theoretically grounded studies detailing what constitutes good or poor chatbot user experiences. In this paper, we present findings from a questionnaire study involving more than 200 chatbot users who reported on episodes of chatbot use that they found particularly satisfactory or frustrating. The user reports were analysed with basis in theory on user experience, with particular concern for pragmatic and hedonic attributes. We found that pragmatic attributes such as efficient assistance (positive) and problems with interpretation (negative) were important elements in user reports of satisfactory and frustrating episodes. Hedonic attributes such as entertainment value (positive) and strange and rude responses (negative) were also frequently mentioned. Older participants tended to report on pragmatic attributes more often, whereas younger participants tended to report on hedonic attributes more often. Drawing on the findings, we propose four high-level lessons learnt that may benefit chatbot service providers, and we suggest relevant future research.

• Ranji, Banafsheh (2020). Shaping news waves and constructing events: Iranian journalists’ use of online platforms as sources of journalistic capital. New Media & Society.  ISSN 1461-4448. . doi: 10.1177/1461444820925457
• Ranji, Banafsheh (2020). Journalistic illusio in a restrictive context: Role conceptions and perceptions of role enactment among Iranian journalists. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism.  ISSN 1464-8849. . doi: 10.1177/1464884920922026

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• Allern, Sigurd (red.) (2020). Kampen om Campus Nesna. Orkana Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-8104-441-8.  308 s.
• Rasmussen, Terje (2020). Folkesosialisten. Biografien om Finn Fustavsen. Manifest forlag.  ISBN 9788283420968.  500 s.
• Bergh, Johannes; Haugsgjerd, Atle & Karlsen, Rune (red.) (2020). Valg og politikk siden 1945. Velgere, institusjoner og kritiske hendelser i norsk politisk historie. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 978-82-02-66460-2.  297 s.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020). Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.  ISBN 978-1-78769-342-5.  150 s.
• De Winter, Lieven; Karlsen, Rune & Schmitt, Hermann (ed.) (2020). Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties: A Comparative Perspective. Routledge.  ISBN 978-0-367-24851-2.  235 s.
• Larsen, Anna Grøndahl; Fadnes, Ingrid & Krøvel, Roy (ed.) (2020). Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship. Routledge.  ISBN 9780367409623.  210 s. Show summary

  This book explores the relationship between the safety of journalists and self-censorship practices around the world, including local case studies and regional and international perspectives. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the globe, Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship provides new and updated insights into patterns of self-censorship and free speech, focusing on a variety of factors that affect these issues, including surveillance, legislation, threats, violent conflict, gender-related stereotypes, digitisation and social media. The contributions examine topics such as trauma, risk and self-censorship among journalists in different regions of the world, including Central America, Estonia, Turkey, Uganda and Pakistan. The book also provides conceptual clarity to the notion of journalist self-censorship, and explores the question of how self-censorship may be studied empirically. Combining both theoretical and practical knowledge, this collection serves as a much-needed resource for any academic, student of journalism, practicing journalist, or NGO working on issues of journalism, safety, free speech and censorship.

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• Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2020). Akselererende utvikling og tv-mediets fornyede funksjon. Rushprint.  ISSN 1501-2174. Show summary

  Koronaepidemien akselererer den langsiktige medieutviklingen samtidig som den tydeliggjør et av tv-mediets viktigste funksjon: felleskapet.

• Sundet, Vilde Schanke & Helleve, Kjartan (2020, 01. desember). Uangripelege allmennkringkastarar. [Fagblad].  Kringom.
• Bergh, Johannes & Karlsen, Rune (2020). Norway: Political Developments and Data in 2019. European Journal of Political Research: Political Data Yearbook.  ISSN 2047-8844.  59(1), s 279- 285 . doi: doi: 10.1111/2047-8852.12301
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Hvordan hadde unge det i Norge under lockdown – En studie mediebruk og psykososiale konsekvenser ..
• Ní Bhroin, Niamh (2020). Qualitative Research in Social Media.
• Ingierd, Helene; Aarli, Ragna; Staksrud, Elisabeth; Mikkelsen, Øyvind; Dyb, Grete & Anfinset, Nils (2020). Hvor ble det av forskningsetikken?. Aftenposten.no.
• Ní Bhroin, Niamh (2020). Social Media-Innovation: Indigenous and minority language activism in new media.
• Ní Bhroin, Niamh (2020). Å vokse opp med digitale medier i Norg.
• Ní Bhroin, Niamh (2020, 13. juli). Barnevakten advarer mot eksponering.  Budstikka.
• Ní Bhroin, Niamh & Folstad, Siri Hausland (2020). Skadelige medieeffekter knyttet til barn og unges mediebruk: Litteraturgjennomgang..
• Ní Bhroin, Niamh & Folstad, Siri Hausland (2020). Skadelige medieeffekter knyttet til barn og unges mediebruk: Litteraturgjennomgang..
• Milosevic, Tijana; Olafsson, Kjartan; Ni Bhroin, Niamh & Staksrud, Elisabeth (2020). Technology use and happiness: the case of the Nordic child..
• Ni Bhroin, Niamh & Skogerbø, Eli (2020). Indigenous participation in media production: the case of Giddajohtin..
• Ni Bhroin, Niamh & McMonagle, Sarah (2020). SOCIAL MEDIA AND MINORITY LANGUAGES IN EVERYDAY LIFE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO TWITTER CAMPAIGNS PROMOTING THE IRISH LANGUAGE..
• Grøtan, Tor Olav & Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Polarisering i sosiale medier – ikke så farlig likevel?. www.adressa.no. Show summary

  Når vi nå går inn i en ny periode med mer sosial distansering, økende digitalisering og sosiale medier tror vi det er naivt å berolige seg selv med at polarisering ikke er noe stort problem

• Sundet, Vilde Schanke & Minisini, Lucas (2020, 03. september). SKAM: Marmita noruega. [Fagblad].  Sofilm.
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2020). Young streamers and key industry lessons. Show summary

  Exclusive release of research results at Aarhus Series Festival: Streaming is changing the media industries, forcing executives and decision-makers to rethink strategies and actions. A key concern has been how to attract young audiences and gain knowledge of their media habits. How do industry executives perceive young people and their streaming habits? Are young people still seen as leading the path or is “everyone” a streamer today? And, how are these industry perceptions of a young streaming audience translated into production strategies and practices? This talk presents the key lessons that industry executives and decision-makers have learned from the young streaming audience. It draws on nearly 40 in-depth qualitative interviews with leaders and executives from the Norwegian television, film, music, and book industries. The session presents, first, how leaders across sectors address the common “youth challenge”, and second, how leaders, especially in the television industry, respond to this challenge in terms of strategies and practices. The survey is conducted by the research group Streaming the cultural industries, STREAM, funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Hvordan sprenge ekkokamrene? Hvilke stemmer bør vi lytte til i dette tiåret, og hvordan sikrer vi at de når bredt ut?. Show summary

  Hvordan sprenge ekkokamrene? Hvilke stemmer bør vi lytte til i dette tiåret, og hvordan sikrer vi at de når bredt ut? I panelet: direktør i Fritt Ord Knut Olav Åmås, leder i Ytringsfrihetskommisjonen og styreleder i Norsk PEN Kjersti Løken Stavrum, skribent og samfunnsdebattant Nina Bahar og Petter Bae Brandtzæg, førsteamanuensis ved UiO, Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon og sjefforsker ved SINTEF Digital. Ordstyrer: forfatter Vidar Kvalshaug.

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020, 27. oktober). Spørretime om Fake News på NRK EKKO, P2. [Radio].  NRK P2 Ekko. Show summary

  *Spørretime om Fake News - Også i Norge synker tilliten til media, og konspirasjonsteorier brer om seg. Hvem har glede av usikkerhet, løgn og hat og hvordan kan man avsløre falske nyheter?

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae & Grøtan, Tor Olav (2020). Blir angrepet en vekker? Informasjonskrig. Dagsavisen.  ISSN 1503-2892.  (249), s 6- 7 Show summary

  Stortinget, Norges nasjonalforsamling, er blitt et offer for et alvorlig dataangrep. Sporene peker tilbake til Russland. Hvorfor angripes Norges viktigste demokratiske institusjon og hva betyr et slikt digitalt angrep? Det burde bli en vekker. Over natta er norske politikere, byråkrati, arbeidsliv og hverdagsliv blitt heldigitalisert som følge av koronaviruset. Norge er derfor blitt et mer attraktive som mål i en tiltakende digital informasjonskrig.

• Spilker, Hendrik Storstein; Kjus, Yngvar & Kiberg, Håvard (2020). Nødløsninger med langtidsvirkninger? Artisters og konsertarrangørers erfaringer med strømmekonserter..
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020, 26. september). Personvern i retten. [Radio].  NRK P2 Helgemorgen.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Universitetsplassen LIVE: Fake news: løgn og bedrag i sosiale medier.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Falske nyheter som sikkerhetsrisiko. Og hva skjer med stortingsvalget og demokrati i en infodemi?.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Hvordan redde den digitale ytringsfriheten?. Show summary

  Hvordan redde den digitale ytringsfriheten

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Zuckerbergs monster. Vårt land.  ISSN 0805-5424. Show summary

  Boikotten av Facebook ble initiert i midten av juni med emneknaggen #StopHateforProfit - stopp å hate for profitt. Boikotten oppfordrer selskaper verden over om å stoppe å bruke Facebook og Instagram som annonseringskanal gjennom hele juli. Boikottens endelige mål er å tvinge Mark Zuckerberg til mer aktivt å fjerne innhold med rasisme, antisemittisme, oppfordringer til vold og hat, samt falsk helseinformasjon.

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Det digitale samfunnet – sosiale og samfunnsmessige konsekvenser nå og i fremtiden.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Saken mot Laila Bertheussen viser til fulle hvor lite privatliv vi har i 2020. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116. Show summary

  «Rett skal være rett: Antagelig vil all kriminalitet forsvinne som dugg for solen når man bare først får fjernet friheten», sa Georg Apenes, tidligere direktør i Datatilsynet. Tenk deg selv, om du var mistenkt. Politiet er ikke bare interessert i husransakelse. De ønsker full tilgang til alt du har gjort på telefonen din. Dine innerste tanker og følelser, livet ditt. Flere og flere kriminalsaker bruker digitale persondata som bevis for ugjerninger. Apples helseapp på Iphone er sentral i saken mot Laila Bertheussen og i forsvinningssaken på Lørenskog. Helseappen registrerer når på døgnet du går, antall skritt og antall etasjer gått i

• Lundby, Knut (2020). Femti års akselererende medialisering i Norge. Medialisert religion som inntak til dimensjoner ved medialiseringsprosessen.
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke & Skrede, Mona Cecilie (2020, 20. oktober). Besøket er halvert. Storfilmer utsettes. Strømmetjenestene ruster opp..  Aftenposten.
• Dolonen, Jan Arild & Utheim, Maria (2020). Hverandrevurdering og bruk av PeerGrade i bachelorundervisning på Universitetet i Oslo.
• Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Karlsen, Rune & Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2020). Conceptualizing Communication Professionals in Public Bureaucracies: Ideal Types and Empirical Application.
• Ytreberg, Espen (2020). Mediene forsterker følelsen av usikkerhet i møte med en pandemi. Morgenbladet.  ISSN 0805-3847.
• Brun, Elisabeth (2020). Essay Film as Topography: explorations of place though moving image thinking.
• Njie, Ragnhild Aarø & Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2020, 24. september). Mener Disney+ trenger nytt innhold: - Minimalt med nye produksjoner. [Internett].  Kampanje.
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke; Slettemark, Asbjørn & Asker, Cecilie (2020, 24. september). A New Sheriff in Town. [TV].  Nordiske seriedager. Show summary

  Disney Plus lanserer sin tjeneste i Norge. Hvilken strategi har de for å erobre denne delen av verden og hvilken posisjon tenker de å ta. Aftenposten-journalist Anders Veberg i samtale med nordisk sjef i Disney Plus Hans Van Rijn. Hvordan vil det norske markedet bli påvirket av lanseringen og at det stadig blir flere aktører som kjemper om seernes gunst? Panel: Vilde Schanke Sundet, Asbjørn Slettemark og Martin Gundersen Moderator: Cecilie Asker

• Spilker, Hendrik Storstein; Kjus, Yngvar & Kiberg, Håvard (2020). Nødløsninger med langtidsvirkninger? Artisters og konsertarrangørers erfaringer med direktestrømmete "koronakonserter".
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke & Vollan, Mari Brenna (2020, 21. september). SVT er blitt skyteskive.  Klassekampen.
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2020). Derfor vinner NRK politiske debatter om seg selv. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116.
• Jansson, André; Bengtsson, Stina; Fast, Karin & Lindell, Johan (2020). Toward an Emic Perspective of the Mediatization of Everyday Life.
• Fast, Karin; Lindell, Johan & Jansson, André (2020). Disconnection as distinction: A Bourdieusian study of where people withdraw from digital media.
• Lüders, Marika & Marte, Dæhlen (2020, 15. april). Slik vil vi ha lydbøkene våre. [Fagblad].  Forskning.no.
• Ervik, Andreas Nilsen (2020). Vi må jobbe mindre - også når krisen er over. morgenbladet.no.
• Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea & Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2020). Global Super Players in Small Nations: Industry Tensions and Opportunities for Policy Change.
• Ervik, Andreas Nilsen (2020). Teknologi-trivialiteters tyngde. ArtSceneTrondheim.
• Beyer, Audun; Karlsen, Rune & Steen-Johnsen, Kari (2020). Social Media News Consumption and Political Surveillance Knowledge:Adding Motivation and Ability to the Equation.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020). Debatt om mobilavhengighet.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020). What is Media Studies? Consolidation and Digital dilemmas.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 07. januar). Flere forsøker digital detox for å være til stede i øyeblikket. [Tidsskrift].  Forskning.no.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 01. januar). Trenger dere en digital detox?. [Tidsskrift].  Plusstid.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020). Ambivalence, resistance and digital detox: How to live happily, responsibly and ethically in an intensely mediated environment? Keynote.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 29. februar). Mediesjef sletter Facebook-profilen: – Har mistet troen. Intervju om digital detox i forbindelse med at redaktør for Teknisk Ukeblad sletter sin Facebook-profil..  Drammens Tidende.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 11. februar). Når Daniel (23) kjenner det blir for mykje, deaktiverer han Messenger.  Framtida.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 23. februar). Digital frakobling i fastetida. Intervju på Opptur. [Radio].  NRK P1.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 29. februar). Daniel har ingen sosiale medier - Jeg føler meg mye lykkeligere uten.  Stavanger Aftenblad. Show summary

  Mange tenker nok at det er nærmest umulig for en ung mann i 2020 å ikke bruke sosiale medier. Martin Simenrud (24) har nå vært logget av i sju år

• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 15. mars). Mediebruk i koronatider. [TV].  TV2 Nyhetene.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 27. mars). Does a digital detox make sense during the covid-19 crisis?. [Radio].  Journalism.co.uk podcast. Show summary

  Audiences cannot get enough of it, journalists struggle to keep on top of it: information about coronavirus seems like the only topic that matters right now. Can we really afford to take screen breaks at a time like this?

• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 02. april). Expert advice on how to digital detox in self-isolation. On Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnection. [Tidsskrift].  Dazed & Confused Magazine. Show summary

  Screen time has skyrocketed as we all stay inside to combat the pandemic, but now more than ever is an opportunity to disconnect

• Syvertsen, Trine (2020). Medieflyt og læringsflyt i koronasituasjonen.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 11. juni). Intrusive media, ambivalent users, digital detox. [Radio].  Geomedia Studies. Show summary

  In today’s podcast I talk to Professors Trine Syvertsen and Brita Ytre-Arne about issues arising from concerns of overuse of digital media and the strategies by which individuals seek to withdraw from the demands of ever present technologies.

• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 04. juli). Digital detox: Hva skjer når en gjeng gamere henger i friluft?.  Aftenposten.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2020, 26. juni). Hvem har skylda for at vi blir hekta på mobilen? UiOs podcast Universitetsplassen med Vinoth Vinaya, Hold-gründer og Trine Syvertsen. [Radio].  Universitetet i Oslo.
• Ihlen, Øyvind; Valentini, Chiara; Davidson, Scott & Shavit, Anna (2020). Lobbying, the public interest, and democracy: Communication perspectives. Journal of Public Affairs.  ISSN 1472-3891.  20(2) . doi: 10.1002/pa.2091
• Brønn, Peggy Simcic; Ihlen, Øyvind & Buhmann, Alexander (2020). Kunstig intelligens og PR. Communication for Leaders.
• Spilker, Hendrik Storstein & Maasø, Arnt (2020). An algorithm and interface perspective on why access to unlimited amounts of music does not seem to foster musical diversity.

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