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Social media as a political backchannel: Twitter use during televised election debates in Norway
(ASLIB Proceedings;66(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-04)Purpose - This study aims to explore how Twitter is used as a political backchannel and potential agenda setter during two televised political debates during the Norwegian election in 2011. The article engages with current ... -
Social Media Communication During Disease Outbreaks: Findings and Recommendations
(Social Media Use in Crisis and Risk Communication: Emergencies, Concerns and Awareness;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-13)The chapter provides recommendations for key communicators’ social media use during pandemic threats. Recommendations are based on findings from two sets of case studies during the 2014–2015 outbreak of Ebola in West Africa: ... -
Social Media in Management of the Terror Crisis in Norway: Experiences and Lessons Learned
(Social Media Use in Crisis and Risk Communication: Emergencies, Concerns and Awareness;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-13)The chapter addresses the question of how crisis and emergency communicators in the justice (police) and health sector in Norway reflect on their use – or lack of use – of social media during the terror crisis on 22 July ... -
Social media in serious leisure: Themes of horse rider safety
(Information research;22(4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Introduction. The aim of this study is to gain insight into how issues of safety are discussed and understood by horse riders on social media. Safety issues are omnipresent in the leisure activity of horse riding. Social ... -
Social media in Uganda: revitalising news journalism?
(Media, Culture and Society;Volume: 42, issue: 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-22)The article discusses the role of social media in relation to the traditional journalistic sphere in Uganda. Through an analysis of how journalists in three Ugandan newspapers use social media in their daily work, the ... -
Social media use and its associations with mental health 9 months after the covid-19 outbreak: a cross-national study
(Frontiers In Public Health;January 2022 | Volume 9 | Article 752004, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01-18)Background: The covid-19 pandemic has impacted the health and well-being of millions across the globe. Strict social distancing policies and periodic lockdowns has led to an increased reliance on alternative online means ... -
Social media use and its associations with mental health nine months after the COVID-19 outbreak: a cross-national study
(Frontiers In Public Health;January 2022 | Volume 9 | Article 752004, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01-18)Background: The covid-19 pandemic has impacted the health and well-being of millions across the globe. Strict social distancing policies and periodic lockdowns has led to an increased reliance on alternative online means ... -
Social Media Use in Crises and Risks: an introduction to the collection
(Social Media Use in Crisis and Risk Communication: Emergencies, Concerns and Awareness;, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018-09-13)This book is about how different communicators – whether professionals, such as crisis managers, first responders and journalists, or private citizens and disaster victims – have used social media to communicate about risks ... -
Social needs in a nursing home context How are social needs and social care understood within a nursing home context?
(Master thesis, 2021)This thesis explores how social needs and social care are understood within a nursing home context. Studies suggest that elders in nursing homes are susceptible to loneliness. Newer political aims are to combine caregiving ... -
Social pedagogy in a professional Norwegian child welfare context
(European Journal of Social Education;(18/19), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-04)This article is on the issue of social pedagogy in a professional Norwegian child welfare context. Gerd Hagen’s analysis and argumentation on child welfare is a point of departure. In a too wide understanding of child ... -
Social Resilience in the Labour Market: Learning from Young Adults with Visual Impairments in Oslo and Delhi
(Young - Nordic Journal of Youth Research;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-03)Globally, young adults with visual impairments (YAVI) encounter multiple employment barriers. However, many circumscribe the risk of labour market exclusion and secure gainful employment. This article surfaces protective ... -
The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Telepresence robots are increasingly used in schools as a way of including students who are unable to be physically present in the classroom with other students. The use of such robots is intended not just to help students ... -
Social support and recovery from mental health problems: a scoping review.
(Nordic Social Work Research;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-04)Several systematic reviews have suggested the linkages between social support and mental health or the use of mental health services in general. There is a need to develop the knowledge on different associations between ... -
Social work and sociology: historical separation and current challenges
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Social workers use of knowledge in an evidence-based framework: a mixed methods study
(European Journal of Social Work;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-03)Since the 1990s, evidence-based practice has become part of social work, grounded in the notion that social work should be a research-based profession. However, recent studies show that social workers struggle with bridging ... -
Social workers' challenges in the assessment of child abuse and maltreatment: Intersections of class and ethnicity in child protection cases.
(Critical and radical social work An international journal;Volume 5, Number 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-23)Defining and assessing child abuse and maltreatment has long been a challenge to both researchers and practitioners in social work. Taking an intersectional perspective, this paper explores the meaning of class and ethnicity ... -
Sociodemographic predictors of and main reasons for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in eastern Oslo: a cross-sectional study
(BMC Public Health;22, Article number: 1878 (2022), Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Background: Vaccines are an essential public health strategy to curb viral infection spreading that hinge on vaccine uptake which may be threatened by vaccine hesitant individuals. This study aims to identify sociodemographic ... -
Socioeconomic inequalities in health during the Great Recession: A scoping review of the research literature
(Scandinavian Journal of Public Health;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-10)Aims: The so-called “Great Recession” in Europe triggered widespread concerns about population health, as reflected by an upsurge in empirical research on the health impacts of the economic crisis. A growing body of empirical ... -
Sociomaterial Paradoxes in Global Academic Publishing: Academic Literacies at the Intersection of Practice and Policy
(College English;Vol. 82, No. 6, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07-31)The creeping dominance of Anglophone-center journals as the most viable publication venues worldwide has resulted in the ubiquity of English as “the language” for academic publishing as well as the preeminence of Western ... -
Some Remarks on Effect Studies of Physician Dissatisfaction
(Professions and Professionalism;5(1), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)I present a few general comments on the study of causality from the viewpoint of research methodology and philosophy of science. Researchers should notice that there are several conceptions of causality implicating diverse ...