• “Approaching an Abyss”: Liberalist Ideology in a Norwegian Cold WarBusiness Paper 

      Fonn, Birgitte Kjos (Media and Communication;Volume 6, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-09)
      The international business press has been a powerful and influential voice in modern societies and, as its formative years took place during the Cold War, a closer look at the ideologies that were promoted in this part of ...
    • Audience-Centric Engagement, Collaboration Culture and PlatformCounterbalancing: A Longitudinal Study of Ongoing Sensemaking of Emerging Technologies 

      Chua, Sherwin; Westlund, Oscar (Media and Communication;Vol 7, No 1 (2019): Emerging Technologies in Journalism and Media: International Perspectives on Their Nature and Impact, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-10)
      Digital journalism studies have done little in terms of studying longitudinally the interrelationships between emerging technology and convergent news practices. This study addresses that void by using a sensemaking approach ...
    • Crises, Rumours and Reposts: Journalists’ Social Media Content Gathering and Verification Practices in Breaking News Situations 

      Backholm, Klas; Ausserhofer, Julian; Frey, Elsebeth; Larsen, Anna M. Grøndahl; Hornmoen, Harald; Högväg, Joachim; Reimerth, Gudrun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Social media (SoMe) platforms provide potentially important information for news journalists during everyday work and in crisis-related contexts. The aims of this study were (a) to map central journalistic challenges and ...
    • Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies 

      Steensen, Steen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This article reports findings from an in‐depth, autoethnographic study of local communities in Denmark and England left behind by local journalism. The study was conducted during—and is thematically framed by—the Covid‐19 ...
    • Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective 

      Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine; Røe Mathisen, Birgit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      An emerging body of research addresses how news deserts cause democratic deficits. This literature is mostly concerned with the closure of local news outlets. The present study was carried out in Norway, a country characterised ...
    • The Dislocation of News Journalism: A Conceptual Framework for the Study of Epistemologies of Digital Journalism 

      Ekström, Mats; Westlund, Oscar (Media and Communication;Volume 7, Issue 1 (2019): Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-11)
      This article focuses on news journalism, social media platforms and power, and key implications for epistemology. The conceptual framework presented is intended to inspire and guide future studies relating to the emerging ...
    • Invisible Locative Media: Key Considerations at the Nexus of Place and Digital Journalism 

      Erdal, Ivar John; Øie, Kjetil Vaage; Westlund, Oscar; Oppegaard, Brett (Media and Communication;Vol 7, No 1, 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-19)
      Mobility and location awareness are pervasive and foundational elements of contemporary communication systems, and a descriptive term to synthesize them, “locative media”, has gained wide spread use throughout mobile media ...
    • “It’s New to Us”: Exploring Authentic Innovation in Local News Settings 

      Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine; Hess, Kristy (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Many local newsrooms across the globe have been forced to re‐assess (and re‐assert) their value and function during a period of intense digital disruption. “Innovate or die” has become an accepted mantra as governments, ...
    • #MeToo, Sexual Harassment and Coping Strategies in Norwegian Newsrooms 

      Orgeret, Kristin; Idås, Trond; Backholm, Klas (Media and Communication;Volume 8, Issue 1 (2020): Rethinking Safety of Journalists, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-25)
      This article, through conducting a study of the sexual harassment (SH) of media workers, investigates the extent and types of SH experienced by the editorial staff of Norwegian newsrooms at the time the #MeToo campaign ...
    • Rethinking Safety of Journalists 

      Orgeret, Kristin; Tayeebwa, William (Media and Communication;Volume 8, Issue 1 (2020): Rethinking Safety of Journalists, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-25)
      The introductory chapter to the thematic issue, entitled “Rethinking Safety of Journalists,” shows how promoting the safety of journalists is closely related to press freedom. It presents the articles of the thematic issue ...