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PhD Fellowship positions in Journalism and Media Studies Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students and conduct...

2 x fully funded PhD positions available at the Department of Journalism and Media Communication, OsloMet, Norway. Deadline: February 13, 2026

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ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This article by @vildess.bsky.social draws on interviews with twenty Norwegian #media executives to explore strategies for reaching young #audiences, identifying three common strategies for engaging #youth. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The article is included in a forthcoming special issue of Digital Journalism focused on journalism and platform power, edited by the excellent editorial team of Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, Sarah Anne Ganter, and Annika Sehl.

Conceptualising Youth Media Strategies: Balancing Platforms, Profiles, and People Young people’s media consumption has shifted from traditional mass media towards social media, fostering an industry view of youth as a “lost generation” and promoting media organisations to broade...

Shameless self-promotion: I have a new article out on media industry strategies for reaching youth. The article identifies three common strategies for engaging youth, conceptualised as the three Ps: Platform, Profile, and People. Open access!

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Please read and share: the Potsdam Call on Autonomous Weapon Systems (potsdamcall.dgdg.blog) We risk losing the principle that only humans—not machines—should make life-and-death decisions. The call urges prevention of a future where machines are authorised to kill without human judgment.

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❤️ SKAM (straks) 10 år! ❤️

Favorittpodkast møter favorittserie når Seriesnakk med Torkil Risan går gjennom alle de ikoniske øyeblikkene i SKAM. 4 episoder ute, 5 episoder kommer. Med Julie Andem, Mari Magnus, Lisa Teige, Carl Martin Eggesbø med flere

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Marika Lüders and I have a new article out, where we explore youth entertainment in a world of abundance and the challenge to domestic media. Open access!

Nå er det alvor for oss. Vil du la Document danse på Filters grav? filternyheter.no/vil-du-la-di...

This is happening across so many of our major media institutions. Such hyper-commercialized media institutions are structurally prone to this kind of political economic pressure where profit imperatives trump democratic needs. Instead of ringing alarm bells, they are toning down their coverage.

Our article challenges the narrative of influencer independence and offers a deeper understanding of how power operates in the digital creator economy.

While influencers often present themselves as self-governing and authentic, their freedom is continually negotiated within a web of cultural norms, algorithmic pressures, and economic structures.

Based on interviews with 28 Norwegian influencers, managers, and media professionals, our article reveals that influencer autonomy is far more complex than it seems.

💥PUBLICATION ALERT: Influencer autonomy: Navigating authenticity, agencies, and algorithms

Co-written with Kari Steen-Johnsen and Mads Møller Andersen as part of a special issue on influencers, edited by Mette Mortensen and Anne Jerslev

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Shout out to GLOBAL NATIVES team star Marika Lüders, who has a new publication on teen and entertainment media in New Media & Society.

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Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything' The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.

"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."

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“The article will die, should die, but storytelling will not”: Notes from the Nordic AI in Media Summit Topics included model building, "liquid content," and European tech sovereignty.

At the Nordic AI in Media Summit, newsroom leaders gathered to talk “liquid content,” European tech sovereignty, and the death of the article page.
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Why 'After Mass Media'? After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-first Century explores how the changes in the business of television over the last 30 years tie to changes in the content made. The book...

My latest book, After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-first Century is now available from NYU Press. Some thoughts here on why I wrote it and what I’m up to. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-af...

I feel so proud to announce that my first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - will be published in March 2025, by @ucpress.bsky.social 🫶🏼

Hello I've decided to use Blue Sky now. In unrelated news, my book 'Influencer Creep' will be published with University of California press in October 2025. It's about the ways influencer culture has transformed creative work.

Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...