Publications

• 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.
• Askim, Jostein; Kolltveit, Kristoffer & Karlsen, Rune (2020). Public Office as a Stepping Stone? Investigating the Careers of Ministerial Advisors. Political Studies Review.  ISSN 1478-9299. Show summary

  Ministerial advisors (MAs) have become an essential aspect of executive branches worldwide, thus making the MA office a potential route for young politicians aspiring to an expanding political class. The article studies which professions MAs migrate to following their ministerial careers, how MAs’ post-ministerial careers compare to their pre-ministerial careers, and if the variance in careers can be explained by the resources that MAs obtain while in government. Empirically, the article draws on a cohort of 139 MAs in Norwegian governments between 2001 and 2009; it covers positions in the political sphere and the public, private and voluntary occupational sectors over a period from each MA’s youth to the end of 2017. The bibliographic data is combined with surveys and elite interviews. The results show that more than expanding the political class as a recruitment ground for future MPs and ministers, MA appointments serve as stepping-stones to careers outside of politics. Most MAs experience shifts between occupational sectors and upward to higher positions. However, MAs’ attractiveness in the labour market is surprisingly unaffected by what they actually did in office; rather, it rests on resources such as insider knowledge and networks. Keywords: Ministerial Advisors, Careers, Political Class, Revolving door, Executives

• Ess, Charles Melvin (2020). Thinking Ethically About Mobile Devices: A Rough Guide, In Rich Ling; Leopoldina Fortunati; Gerard Goggin; Lim Sun Sun & Yuling Li (ed.),  The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Communication and Society.  Oxford University Press.  ISBN 9780190864385.  11.5.  s 621 - 636 Show summary

  The author introduces primary frameworks for analyzing and resolving common ethical issues evoked by mobile devices. These include prevailing ethical frameworks along with underlying assumptions about the nature of selfhood and identity—that is, as more individual or relational: the latter also help index important cultural differences in ethical approaches. The author shows how these apply in two exemplar cases: the Fairphone and “quantified relationship” (QR) apps. The two cases of the Fairphone and QR apps, as taking up broad issues of consumption and production as well as privacy, autonomy, and personal relationships, respectively, thus cover a relatively wide range of ethical issues relevant to a wide audience of “everyday” consumers and users. These analyses aim to also stand as examples and templates for further analyses of ethical challenges evoked by mobile devices.

• Bucher, Taina (2020). The right-time web: Theorizing the kairologic of algorithmic media. New Media & Society.  ISSN 1461-4448.
• Raknes, Ketil; Ihlen, Øyvind & Dan, Viorela (2020). Political public relations and strategic framing, In Jesper Strömbäck & Spiro Kiousis (ed.),  Political Public Relations.  Routledge.  ISBN 978-1-138-48404-7.  Chapter 7.  s 146 - 164
• Skjuve, Marita & Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). Facebook Live: A mixed-methods approach to explore individual live streaming practices and motivations on Facebook. Interacting with computers.  ISSN 0953-5438. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwz038 Show summary

  In April 2016, Facebook launched Facebook Live. Yet, how and why people stream on Facebook Live is poorly understood. Guided by the uses and gratifications theory, we analyzed public, individual live stream videos on Facebook Live (N = 1118) from the USA, Europe and Asia and applied a questionnaire to Facebook Live users (N = 246) in the USA. We found 14 different live streaming practices, the two most common of which were chatting with random people (seen in 48% of the videos) and demonstrations of skills (seen in 10% of the videos). We also identified live streaming sessions that were problematic and challenged Facebook guidelines. From the questionnaire, we revealed that the most important motivations are (i) socializing with family and friends (reported by 38%), (ii) sharing opinions and experiences (reported by 16%) and (iii) entertainment/fun (reported by 15%). Our findings offer insight into the various personal incentives that drive people to stream on Facebook Live and thus contribute to an understanding of the social implications of a new mode of mediated interaction.

• Hagen, Anja Nylund (2020). Paths in the Online Music Jungle: Personal Practices with Music-Streaming Services (forthcoming). Participations. Journal of Audience and Reception Studies.  ISSN 1749-8716.
• Allern, Sigurd (2019). Journalistikk som "faktasjekking", I: Paul Bjerke; Birgitte Kjos Fonn & Birgit Røe Mathisen (red.),  Journalistikk, profesjon og endring.  Orkana Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-8104-358-9.  Kapittel 7.  s 167 - 187
• Syvertsen, Trine; Donders, Karen; Enli, Gunn & Raats, Tim (2019). Media disruption and the public interest. Nordic Journal of Media Studies.  ISSN 2003-184X. . doi: 10.2478/njms-2019-0002
• Bucher, Taina (2019). Bad Guys and Bag Ladies: On the Politics of Polemics and the Promise of Ambivalence. Social Media + Society.  ISSN 2056-3051.
• Sandberg, Linn; Bjereld, Ulf; Bunyik, Karina; Forsberg, Markus & Johansson, Richard (2019). Issue salience on twitter during swedish party leaders' debates. Nordicom Review.  ISSN 1403-1108.  40(2), s 49- 61 . doi: 10.2478/nor-2019-0033
• Andersen, Mads Møller & Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2019). Producing Online Youth Fiction in a Nordic Public Service Context. View : Journal of European Television History and Culture.  ISSN 2213-0969.  8(16), s 110- 125 . doi: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2019.jethc179 Show summary

  This article investigates the conditions for making online youth fiction in a public service context at a time when young people increasingly are abandoning both legacy mass media and linear flow television to consume and share content online. The article’s starting point is the production of online youth fiction in two Nordic public service institutions, the Norwegian NRK and the Danish DR, and it discusses how digitisation and new competitors present both challenges and opportunities for institutions such as these. Furthermore, the article discusses the organisation of online youth fiction in both institutions and investigates how organisational strategies and production cultures come into play in each of these broadcasters’ early signature youth series: the widely popular online teen drama SKAM (NRK, 2015-2017) and the far less known youth series Anton 90 (DR, 2015). Our findings show that it was the pressure imposed by digitisation and new competitors that led these institutions to take new risks with their youth fiction production, changing their production patterns to make short-form drama series tailored to online streaming, and ultimately treating online youth fiction as a distinctly different task than “regular” fiction.

• Fee, Annie (2019). Paris Looks to the North: Swedish Silent Film and the Emergence of Cinephilia, In  Nordic film cultures and cinemas of elsewhere.  Edinburgh University Press.  ISBN 1474438059.  16.  s 207 - 223
• Rasmussen, Terje (2019). Offentlig mening som politikkens omverden 2000 - 2020. Mediehistorisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 2464-4277.
• Lundby, Knut (2019). Conflictual Diversity and Contested Cultural Heritage: Newspaper Coverage of Religion in Norway 1938–2018. Temenos.  ISSN 0497-1817. . doi: 10.33356/temenos.87828
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). ‘This Tragically Obscured Summer’: News Media and Uncertainties of Veracity in the 1928 Nobile/Amundsen Disaster. Media History.  ISSN 1368-8804. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2019.1702006
• Maasø, Arnt & Hagen, Anja Nylund (2019). Metrics and decision-making in music streaming. Popular Communication - The International Journal of Media and Culture.  ISSN 1540-5702. . doi: 10.1080/15405702.2019.1701675 Show summary

  Music streaming enables the tracking of listening behavior in more detail than any previous music-distribution format. While it is well known that streaming services collect troves of data, little is known about how stakeholders, including managers or label executives, make metric-based decisions and how they understand the impact of algorithms. The article uses anonymized interviews with music industry professionals, exploring how they use metrics in streaming services and examining their decision-making processes. The analysis concludes that they rely on a growing volume of data when making decisions about what to promote, and how. Nevertheless, most of the stakeholders focused on fairly simple metrics, such as salient spikes that were noticeable “at a glance.” When discussing these !ndings, we draw attention to the reinforcing feedback loops between metrics, data-based decisions and algorithms, questioning whether data!cation acts to intensify trending events and di"usion of new music.

• Staksrud, Elisabeth (2019). Digital dømmekraft og etiske refleksjoner i barnehagen, I: Henriette Jæger; Margareth Sandvik & Ann-Hege Lorvik Waterhouse (red.),  Digitale barnehagepraksiser Teknologier, medier og muligheter.  Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 978-82-02-63216-8.  11.  s 213 - 231
• Segers, Iris Beau (2019). New neighbours or a security threat? The role of local stories in anti-asylum seeker centre mobilization in the Netherlands. International Communication Gazette.  ISSN 1748-0485. . doi: 10.1177/1748048519883514
• Wilkins, Kim (2019). These Violent Delights: Navigating Westworld as “Quality” Television, In Alex Goody & Antonia Mackay (ed.),  Reading Westworld.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-3-030-14515-6.  Chapter 1.
• Wilkins, Kim (2019). "You can be John Malkovich." Celebrity, Absurdity, and Convention in Being John Malkovich, In Kim Wilkins & Wyatt Moss-Wellington (ed.),  ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze.  Edinburgh University Press.  ISBN 9781474447621.  Chapter 4.
• Wilkins, Kim & Moss-Wellington, Wyatt (2019). Jonze Between the Lines, In Kim Wilkins & Wyatt Moss-Wellington (ed.),  ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze.  Edinburgh University Press.  ISBN 9781474447621.  Introduction.
• Enli, Gunn; Raats, Tim; Syvertsen, Trine & Donders, Karen (2019). Media policy for private media in the age of digital platforms. European Journal of Communication.  ISSN 0267-3231.  34(4), s 395- 409 . doi: 10.1177/0267323119861512
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2019). From ‘secret’ online teen drama to international cult phenomenon: The global expansion of SKAM and its public service mission. Critical Studies in Television.  ISSN 1749-6020. . doi: 10.1177/1749602019879856 Show summary

  This article addresses the production, distribution and global expansion of the online teen drama, SKAM/SHAME (2015–2017), produced by the Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK. The article combines perspectives on transmedia storytelling with production studies and studies of public service broadcasting to investigate the distinct production, publishing and promotion models underpinning SKAM, as well as its public service mission. Furthermore, it addresses SKAM’s transition from a ‘secret’ online teen drama targeting young Norwegians in season one to a global cult phenomenon with viewers and fans in all age groups and on all continents in seasons three and four and relates this expansion to recent shifts within the television industry.

• Allern, Sigurd (2019). Lokaljournalistikk som et kollektivt gode, I: Lisbeth Morlandstø & Birgit Røe Mathisen (red.),  Blindsoner og mangfold – en studie av journalistikken i lokale og regionale medier.  Orkana Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-8104-359-6.  Kapittel 14.  s 305 - 319
• Petersen, Line Nybro & Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2019). Play moods across the life course in SKAM fandom. Journal of Fandom Studies (JFS).  ISSN 2046-6692.  7(2), s 113- 131 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.7.2.113_1 Show summary

  This article considers fans’ playful digital practices and focuses on the play moods that are co-constructed in online fan communities. We analyse how these play moods are negotiated across the life course for participating fans. Play moods are closely tied to the playful modes of fan practices, and by gaining a greater understanding of the moods that fans engage in at different stages of their life course we gain new insights into fan play as it relates to issues of age-related norms in fan communities. Specifically, this article analyses the Norwegian teenage streaming drama SKAM (Shame) (NRK, 2015–17), which was produced for a target audience of 16-year-old Norwegian girls but ended up capturing the hearts of people of all ages across Scandinavia and internationally. This study is based on interviews with 43 Scandinavian fans aged between 13 and 70. The participants were all active on social media (Facebook, Instagram, the show’s blog, etc.) while the show was on the air and the interviews offers insights into issues of age-appropriateness as it relates to fan practices. As such, fans ‘police’ both themselves and each other based on perceptions of age, while also engaging in practices that are by nature playful and may be considered subjectively and culturally ‘youthful’ or ‘childish’. The article combines theory of play and fan studies with a focus on the life course and cultural gerontology in order to highlight these tendencies in the SKAM fandom.

• Fransson, Elisabeth; Martinsen, Trond Jakob & Staksrud, Elisabeth (2019). Rape in the age of the Internet, In Marie Bruvik Heinskou; Kari Stefansen & May-Len Skilbrei (ed.),  Rape in the Nordic Countries: Continuity and Change.  Routledge.  ISBN 9780429467608.  12.  s 189 - 204
• Raknes, Ketil & Ihlen, Øyvind (2019). Self-interest in New Wrapping: “Appeal to the Public Interest” as a Topos in Lobbying. Journal of Public Affairs.  ISSN 1472-3891.  s 1- 9 . doi: 10.1002/pa.2059
• Larsen, Anna M. Grøndahl & Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2019). Metajournalism and media critique: Responses to "Extremist Voices" in the Digitalized News Landscape. International Journal of Communication.  ISSN 1932-8036.  13, s 5463- 5482
• Vermeulen, Timotheus (2019). Soft upper lip – Coach’s facial expressions in Friday Night Lights, In Lucy Fife & James Walters (ed.),  Television Performance.  Springer.  ISBN 9781137608208.  Chapter.  s 225 - 239
• Vermeulen, Timotheus; Gibbons, Alison & Van den Akker, Robin (2019). Metamodernism: Period, Structure of Feeling, and Cultural Logic – A Case Study into Contemporary Autofiction, In David Rudrum; Ridvan Askin & Frida Beckman (ed.),  New Directions in Philosophy and Literature.  Edinburgh University Press.  ISBN 978-1474449144.  Chapter.  s 41 - 54
• Gibbons, Alison; Vermeulen, Timotheus & Van den Akker, Robin (2019). Reality Beckons: metamodernist depthiness beyond panfictionality. European Journal of English Studies.  ISSN 1382-5577.  23(2), s 172- 189 . doi: 10.1080/13825577.2019.1640426
• Somerville, Ian; Edwards, Lee & Ihlen, Øyvind (2019). Introduction: Public relations, society and the generative power of history, In Ian Somerville; Lee Edwards & Øyvind Ihlen (ed.),  Public relations, society and the generative power of history.  Routledge.  ISBN 9781138317116.  1.  s 1 - 12
• Staksrud, Elisabeth (2019). Top ten types of informed consent your supervisor never told you about. Journal of Children and Media.  ISSN 1748-2798.  13(4), s 490- 493 . doi: 10.1080/17482798.2019.1669298
• Lundby, Knut (2019). Media Formatting Religion and Conflict, In Marius Timmann Mjaaland (ed.),  Formatting Religion: Across Politics, Education, Media, and Law.  Routledge.  ISBN 9781138599987.  s 107 - 126 Show summary

  The concept of ‘formatting religion’ invites an exploration of how the media are involved in the formatting processes. Further, what characterizes the formatting and the media dynamics when there are conflicts over religion? These are the concerns of this chapter.

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• Følstad, Asbjørn; Araujo, Theo; Papadopoulos, Symeon; Law, Effie L.-C.; Granmo, Ole-Christoffer; Luger, Ewa & Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (ed.) (2020). Chatbot Research and Design. Third International Workshop, CONVERSATIONS 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 19–20, 2019, Revised Selected Papers.. Springer.  ISBN 978-3-030-39540-7.  273 s.
• Ess, Charles Melvin (2020). Digital Media Ethics, 3rd edition. Polity Press.  ISBN 9781509533435.  343 s. Show summary

  The original edition (2009) was the first interdisciplinary textbook to consider the ethical issues of digital media from global, cross-cultural perspectives. The first five chapters explore specific ethical dimensions of digital media, beginning with cyberbullying, privacy, copyright, and then Friendship and Death Online, Slow/Fair Technology, Democracy, Digital Sex, Sexbots and Games. The sixth chapter introduces diverse ethical frameworks applied within each of the first five chapters, including deontology, utilitarianism, feminist ethics and ethics of care, virtue ethics, Confucian ethics, African traditions - as well as discussion of the meta-ethical positions of ethical relativism, ethical monism/absolutism, and ethical pluralism. As with the previous two editions, the 3rd is noted for its accessibility across a wide range of disciplines and for its pedagogical richness and ease of use, starting with a rich array of specific case studies and examples throughout that illustrate how one or more ethical frameworks may or may not be fruitful.

• Wilkins, Kim & Moss-Wellington, Wyatt (ed.) (2019). ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze. Edinburgh University Press.  ISBN 9781474447621.  264 s.
• Somerville, Ian; Edwards, Lee & Ihlen, Øyvind (ed.) (2019). Public relations, society and the generative power of history. Routledge.  ISBN 9781138317116.  208 s.

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• Grøtan, Tor Olav; Fiskvik, Jannicke; Haro, Peter Halland; Auran, Per Gunnar; Mathisen, Bjørn Magnus; Karlsen, Geir Hågen; Magin, Melanie & Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2020). På leting etter utenlandsk informasjonspåvirkning En analyse av det norske kommunestyre- og fylkestingsvalget 2019 (Rapport på oppdrag fra Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet). Show summary

  Rapporten beskriver en systematisk undersøkelse av mulige målrettede informasjonspåvirkningsforsøk fra utenlandske aktører på ulike digitale plattformer i forbindelse med det norske kommunestyre- og fylkestingsvalget 9. september 2019. Undersøkelsen er basert på kvantitativ og kvalitativ analyse av innsamlede data fra et utvalg av åpne Facebook-sider, Twitter, tradisjonelle medier og alternative medier. Det er ikke funnet klare tegn på utenlandsk påvirkning, selv om debattklimaet på mange måter ligger til rette for aktører med slike intensjoner. Det er imidlertid påvist at aktører som tilsynelatende er norske brukere fra vårt datamateriale også deltar i mer skjulte og ytterliggående fora på nettet, og at noen av disse inngår i nettverk som systematisk overfører innhold fra ytterliggående nettsteder. Disse aktørene modererer bevisst sin språkbruk når de poster på medier som når ut til en bredere offentlighet, og forsøker å kamuflere denne type aktivitet. Dette illustrerer at det kan være særs vanskelig å skille utenlandsk påvirkning fra annen mistenkelig virksomhet på nettet. Selv om det ikke er påvist påvirkning i det begrensede materialet vi har undersøkt, er det nødvendig med mer forskningsbasert kunnskap på dette viktige området. Det er utviklet et metodegrunnlag som bør utvikles med tanke på fremtidige valg og behandling av større mengder data.

• Ytreberg, Espen (2020). The rise of future contingency: Norwgian news media and pandemics.
• Allern, Sigurd & Pollack, Ester (2019). "Is something rotten" in the welfare states of Scandinavia? Nordic political scandals in a shakespearean perspective.
• Allern, Sigurd & Pollack, Ester (2019). True or false? The difficult art of political fact-checking in Norwegian and Swedish journalism.
• Ess, Charles Melvin (2019). From the digital to a post-digital era?, In Mireille Hildebrandt & Kieron O'Hara (ed.),  Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency.  Edward Elgar Publishing.  ISBN 978 1 78897 199 7.  Chapter 7.  s 105 - 118
• Ess, Charles Melvin (2019). Intercultural privacy: a Nordic perspective, In Hauke Behrendt; Wulf Loh; Tobias Matzner & Catrin Misselhorn (ed.),  Privatsphäre 4.0. Eine Neuverortung des Privaten im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung.  J.B. Metzler - a part of Springer Nature.  ISBN 978-3-476-04860-8.  4.  s 73 - 88
• Ess, Charles Melvin & Hård af Segerstad, Ylva (2019). Everything Old is New Again: the Ethics of Digital Inquiry and its Design, In Åsa Makitalo; Todd E. Nicewong & Mark Elam (ed.),  Designs for Experimentation and Inquiry. Approaching Learning and Knowing in Digital Transformation.  Routledge.  ISBN 978-1-13-8592711.  10.  s 179 - 196 Show summary

  We review the development of Internet Research Ethics (IRE), specifically as undertaken within the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR); the most recent guidelines (IRE 3.0) focus on Big Data research techniques that evoke new ethical challenges. We foreground the principle of data-minimization and show how previous approaches to the challenges of informed consent can be made to work in the context of Big Data research.

• Grøtan, Tor Olav; Fiskvik, Jannicke; Haro, Peter Halland; Auran, Per Gunnar; Mathisen, Bjørn Magnus; Magin, Melanie; Brandtzæg, Petter Bae & Karlsen, Geir Hågen (2019). På leting etter utenlandsk informasjonspåvirkning. En analyse av det norske kommunestyre- og fylkestingsvalget 2019. SINTEF rapport 2019:01292. Show summary

  Rapporten beskriver en systematisk undersøkelse av mulige målrettede informasjonspåvirkningsforsøk fra utenlandske aktører på ulike digitale plattformer i forbindelse med det norske kommunestyre- og fylkestingsvalget 9. september 2019. Undersøkelsen er basert på kvantitativ og kvalitativ analyse av innsamlede data fra et utvalg av åpne Facebook-sider, Twitter, tradisjonelle medier og alternative medier. Det er ikke funnet klare tegn på utenlandsk påvirkning, selv om debattklimaet på mange måter ligger til rette for aktører med slike intensjoner. Det er imidlertid påvist at aktører som tilsynelatende er norske brukere fra vårt datamateriale også deltar i mer skjulte og ytterliggående fora på nettet, og at noen av disse inngår i nettverk som systematisk overfører innhold fra ytterliggående nettsteder. Disse aktørene modererer bevisst sin språkbruk når de poster på medier som når ut til en bredere offentlighet, og forsøker å kamuflere denne type aktivitet. Dette illustrerer at det kan være særs vanskelig å skille utenlandsk påvirkning fra annen mistenkelig virksomhet på nettet. Selv om det ikke er påvist påvirkning i det begrensede materialet vi har undersøkt, er det nødvendig med mer forskningsbasert kunnskap på dette viktige området. Det er utviklet et metodegrunnlag som bør utvikles med tanke på fremtidige valg og behandling av større mengder data.

• Smette, Ingrid (2019, 29. september). Minoritetsforeldre endrer oppdragelse av egne barn. [Radio].  P4.
• Fee, Annie (2019, 27. desember). Film-tiåret 2010–2019.  Vårt Land.
• Lundby, Knut (2019). Motkultur og motsetninger. Anmeldelse av Dag Kullerud: "Dagen 1919–2019. Kulturell motstemme i hundre år".. Mediehistorisk tidsskrift.  ISSN 2464-4277.  16(2), s 144- 149
• Slettemark, Asbjørn; Erdal, Marta Bivand; Sundet, Vilde Schanke & Joof, Channeh Maram (2019). Beforeigners - Hva om det virkelig skjedde?. Show summary

  I HBO-serien Beforeigners, kommer det en slags innvandrere til Oslo. Men de er fremvandrere: ikke fra et annet land, men fra en annen tid. Når disse menneskene fra fortiden plutselig dukker opp, endres Oslo. Hvordan gjenspeiler serien frykten eller håpet rundt migrasjon og integrering i dagens Oslo? Er det noe vi kan lære av fiktiv integrering av «flertemporale» fremvandrere? Og hva om dette virkelig skjedde? Hvordan hadde vi håndtert det? Oslo Peace Days har samlet eksperter fra Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo kommune og PRIO for å prate om Beforeigners, Oslo, det norske samfunnet, fremvandring, migrasjon og integrering.

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019, 27. november). Algoritmer og kontroll. [Radio].  Medietilynets podcast. Show summary

  Algoritmene tar kontroll over oss, advarer medieforsker ved SINTEF Digital og Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, UiO, Petter Bae Brandtzæg. Hva mener han egentlig med det? Hvordan bruker norske medier algoritmer, og hvordan påvirker algoritmene din og min mediehverdag? Det spør programleder Mari Velsand om. Pål Nedregotten er konserndirektør i Amedia og dagens andre gjest. Han jobber med hvordan nettopp algoritmene skal gjøre avisene og innholdet mer relevant for deg og meg.

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019, 28. november). Algoritmer - har vi kontroll?. [Radio].  NRK P2 Ekko. Show summary

  Algoritmer – har vi kontroll? - De vet mer og mer om oss. Snart vet de alt, også før vi selv vet det. Vet vi om algoritmene vil oss vel?

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019). Lange tanker taper, mens umiddelbare reaksjoner får herje. Hvem tar beslutningene våre?. Show summary

  Det kan være grunn til å spørre om vi har fått en følelsesmessig dreining og en ny form for sosial kontroll. Stadig klages det over at samfunnsdebatten flyter over av krenkelser, hatytringer, moraliseringer, polarisering og lavt saklighetsnivå. Det interessante er at dette ikke bare gjelder vanlige folks deltakelse i kommentarfeltene. Det påfallende er at også professorer, politikere og etablerte aktører i samfunnsdebattens elitesjikt snubler i designet til Facebook, som ikke favoriserer langsom tenkning.

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019). Teknologien vi omgir oss med, er ikke kjønnsnøytral. Teknologisk innovasjon på guttas premisser.. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).  ISSN 0804-3116. Show summary

  Det moderne digitale samfunnet bygges nå, men utfordringen er at det er i ferd med å ikke bare reprodusere, men forsterke forskjeller mellom menn og kvinner.

• Wilkins, Kim (2019, 28. august). Interview about new book "American Eccentric Cinema". [TV].  TRT World.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019). Algoritmene tar kontroll over oss. Agenda Magasin. Show summary

  Mye er sagt om kunstig intelligens, men den mangler sunn fornuft. Algoritmer er ikke mennesker. Mennesker kan resonnere, det kan ikke maskiner eller algoritmer. En annen sentral problemstilling er at algoritmer mangler transparens i hvordan de de kommer frem til viktige avgjørelser, sortering og kategoriseringer. Utfordringen er også en enorm skjevhet i maktforholdet. Algoritmene vet masse om oss, men vi vet ingen ting om dem. Derfor må vi begynne å stille helt nye og eksistensielle spørsmål: Hva gjør algoritmene med oss og samfunnet? Dette er kanskje særlig viktig for oss i Norge å ta en debatt på det. Norge er blant verdens meste digitaliserte land, og vi er i økende grad styrt og påvirket av algoritmer laget i Silicon Valley. Hvordan vil det påvirke samfunnsutviklingen her hjemme?

• Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2019). The Second Wave: The Development of Real-Time Online Drama. Show summary

  Online drama and real-time publishing have become an established ‘format’, especially in the Nordic countries. The ‘first wave’ was headed by the Norwegian hit show SKAM (NRK, 2015-2017), but the ‘second wave’ includes both several SKAM remakes as well as new successors in all the Nordic countries as well as beyond. In short, playing with time and platforms has become on key strategy for many storytellers trying to reintroduce a sense of liveness and realness. What can we learn from the ‘two waves’ of real-time storytelling? What are the pros and cons of this way of producing and publishing online drama? And, is it possible to renew this format when the rules in the TV market is constantly changing?

• Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2019). 'Youtification' of drama through real-time storytelling. Show summary

  For broadcasters aiming to re-connect with a younger audience, online drama published in real-time has become an attractive new ‘format’. The ‘first wave’of this format became internationally known through the hit show SKAM (NRK, 2015-2017), but the ‘second wave’includes both several SKAM remakes as well as new successors. What can we learn from the ‘two waves’of real-time storytelling? What are the prosand cons of this way of producing and publishing online drama? And, is it still possible to renew the format when the rules in the TV market is constantly changing? In this talk, I address how recent trends within the television industry change the production and publishing of youth television, and the particular role so-called real-time drama play in this context. More precisely, I discuss how real-time drama bring forwards many new opportunities for television players—allowing them to test new storytelling models and industry-audience relations—but also give rise to new challenges and dilemmas—including hard-to-handle third-party-partnerships and unintended fan activity. The presentation is based on my recent study of digital flagship productions within the Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK, which incorporates 50 interviews with key executives, including many people working at SKAM and its main successor (blank, NRK, 2018-).

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019, 01. november). Nå skal Facebook velge ut nyhetssaker du leser..  Aftenposten.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019, 01. november). Instagram. Algoritmer som dreper. [TV].  NRK.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019, 01. november). Teknologiekspert: Instagrams teknologi kan i verste fall være livsfarlig. [Internett].  NRK.
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Animal matter as human environment: Whales and men in photographs from the era of industrial whaling.
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Espen Ytreberg »Kap Herzstein«: Buchvorstellung und Gespräch.
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Espen Ytreberg, Kap Herzstein.
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Espen Ytreberg "Kap Herzstein": Buchvorstellung und Gespräch.
• Hausken, Liv (2019). «Hvorfor kritisk bildekompetanse er viktig for demokratiet».
• Maasø, Arnt (2019). Streaming platforms and research in the Nordics.
• Maasø, Arnt (2019). The gaming and building of trust in music metrics. Show summary

  The datafication of music listening Over the last decade music streaming has become the dominant way of listening to music in many parts of the world, and is currently the single largest revenue source in the music business (IFPI, 2018). With the move form physical LPs and CDs to online listening, the possibility for tracking usage has become possible on a completely new scale, and with a multitude of purposes, from calculating revenue and equity, to decisions on what to release, where to tour, how to maintain a relationship between artists and fans. The shift from ownership- to access-based models of music distribution (Wikström, 2013), has hence led to datafication of music usage. Datafication as a term was first coined by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier in 2013 and describes a broad range of phenomena where our everyday life is quantified, analyzed, and becomes possible to track and used in predictive analysis. Van Dijk (2014) discusses datafication in relation to surveillance and “life mining” or “dataveillance” by social media platforms. Prey (2016) shows how datafication has become an important part of the business of streaming providers such as Spotify and Pandora, and how a multitude of data points are gathered, including adjusting the volume button, or skipping, and analyzed by the services, in order to make decisions and algorithmically based recommendations. This paper asks how different stakeholders in music business use metrics for different strategic purposes, and the role trust in metrics plays in decision making and everyday use. It is well known that access to the different data points from music streaming usage, and the resources to analyze these, varies greatly between different stakeholders. Only the streaming services themselves have access to all the data harvested by the service. Most have also devoted much resources and competence into analyzing and utilizing this data. While the three most powerful labels (with a market share of around 75% of the recorded music industry) also have tremendous resources, they only gain insight into the metrics pertaining the artists they represent and/or own the rights to (apart from the monthly grand total of streams, and various generalized insight). Furthermore, they receive only limited data about the users, not – for instance – personal data of each user, or the comprehensive listening history of each individual user, listening device etc. Smaller labels, managers, intermediaries and artists, have had much more limited access to the different music metrics. However, the last few years Spotify (in particular) has made more data available for artists, brands and other intermediaries, with increased flexibility to harness this. Datafication hence seems to have taken an increasing role, presumably in order to strengthen ties to the music business and capitalize on their

• Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2019). Beforeigners - suksessfaktorer for norske serier på internasjonale strømmeplattformer.
• Sundet, Vilde Schanke; Ihlebæk, Karoline Andrea & Steen-Johnsen, Kari (2019). 20 år med digital mediekrise. Dagens næringsliv.  ISSN 0803-9372.
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Om boka "Kapp Hjertestein".
• Lundby, Knut (2019). "Arbeiderkollektivet" står seg. sosiologen.no. . doi: https://sosiologen.no/essay/sosiologiskbokessay/arbeiderkollektivet-star-seg/
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019, 07. oktober). Deep fake. [TV].  Dagens Næringsliv.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019). Falske nyheter. Hva er det og hvem sprer det?.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019, 29. september). Chatboten som sjelesørger og hjertevenn. [Radio].  Hyllandsverden. Show summary

  Petter Bae Brandtzæg: Chatboten som sjelesørger og hjertevenn

• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019, 27. september). Propaganda i Norge. [Radio].  NRK. Show summary

  Norge, og i vesten, har vi en generell forestilling om at vi har mindre propaganda i våre demokratiske og liberale land, enn andre steder i verden. Men er det i virkeligheten slik? Har vi propaganda i norske medier også? I Mediepanelet skal ukas deltakere drøfte hvorfor det er greit for mediene å plukke diskusjoner fra sosiale medier, og løfte de frem i offentligheten.

• Karlsen, Rune; Beyer, Audun & Steen-Johnsen, Kari (2019). Social Media News Consumption, News Finds Me Perceptions, and Political Knowledge..
• Beyer, Audun; Karlsen, Rune & Steen-Johnsen, Kari (2019). News Habits Die Hard, but Die. A Longitudinal Study of Total News Avoidance in the transition from low to high-Choice Media Environments 1997-2016.
• Ihlen, Øyvind; Raknes, Ketil & Larsson, Anders Olof (2019). The Democratic Success of Twitter as a Lobbying tool.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019). Roboter og falske nyheter.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019). Sosiale medier og falske nyheter.
• Brandtzæg, Petter Bae (2019). Kommunevalg nå. Er det mulig å vinne uten bruk av sosiale medier?.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019). Avoiding the news: Implications of media resistance and non-participation in the digital era.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019). Nordic media welfare state and digital detox.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019, 24. februar). –⁠ Jeg har sett hva folk kan skrive, og å ikke få det i ansiktet hver dag er litt befriende.  Universitas.
• Hellevik, Per (2019). The Dark Side of Intimacy. Exploring Teenage Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse in an Individualized and Digitalized Society. Show summary

  The topic of this dissertation is intimate partner violence and abuse (IPVA) among Northern- European teenagers, with an extended focus on the role of digital media in such behavior. The dissertation covers several aspects of IPVA, hereunder: prevalence, associated factors, and impact of teenage IPVA within a sample of Norwegian teenagers; the grey area between intimacy practices and abusive behaviors; characteristics of digital IPVA victimization among Norwegian and English teenagers; a review of research on associated factors to digital IPVA, both perpetration and victimization; and, teenagers’ own thoughts about prevention and intervention of teenage IPVA. The overarching theoretical framework for this dissertation is the theory of institutionalized individualization. My findings show high prevalence of IPVAims; that intimacy and intimacy practices play a central part in facilitating and exacerba within the sample, and that such violence and abuse can have serious negative impacts on victting aspects of teenage IPVA; that digital media has a significant role in much violent and abusive behavior and tends to co-occur with in-person IPVA; that there is great overlap between factors associated with digital IPVA and in-person IPVA; and finally, that teenagers request more information and knowledge about what constitutes healthy intimate relationships, alongside information about harmful and destructive behavior in such relationships. Moreover, I have found that certain characteristics of individualization – including its effect on intimacy – interplays with violent and abusive behavior in intimate relationships, perhaps facilitating certain forms of perpetration and victimization, while at the same time burdening the involved with the responsibility of the violence and abuse, even when aspects of such harmful behavior might be anchored in certain still-prevailing societal structures.

• Krüger, Steffen & Ni Bhroin, Niamh (2019). Your Health is Our Wealth: Self-tracking health insurance deals, privacy and the erosion of solidarity., In Catherine Fieschi & Heather Grabbe (ed.),  The European Way of Digital: How to make tech work for Open Societies in Europe.  European Policy Institute.  ISBN 9781999961121.  6.  s 51 - 60
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019, 27. februar). Er digital detox årets medietrend?. [Radio].  Ekko, NRK.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019, 07. mars). Digital frakobling. [TV].  TV2 Nyhetskanalen.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019, 25. mars). Skal forske på digital frakobling. [Internett].  nrk.no.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019, 25. september). Forskningsprosjekt om digital detox. [Radio].  NRK Dagsnytt.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019, 18. september). Skjermfri uke og digital frakobling.  Dagen.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019). Media resistance as a collective activity.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019, 04. september). Digital forgiftning. [Radio].  NRK radio - Radio Buskerud.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019). Digital detox - årets medietrend.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019). You've got flight-shame, but what about smartphone-shame? Digital detox and media sustainability.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019). Digital detox - en ny trend.
• Syvertsen, Trine (2019). Loving and hating media, In Peter Jacobsson & Fredrik Stiernstedt (ed.),  Fritt från fältet - om medier, generationer och värden. Festskrift til Gøran Bolin.  Södertörn University Press.  ISBN 978-91-88663-62-7.  3.  s 37 - 47

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