POLKOM - Senter for studier av politisk kommunikasjon

03/02/2025

Hvilket ansvar har Universitetet i Oslo for å følge opp kommisjonens rapport – til sannhet og forsoning?

14/11/2024

Through their self-presentation on social media, political leaders can either reinforce or challenge existing gender stereotypes, influencing public attitudes toward gender norms. This makes it relevant to investigate these self-presentations. This study, written by Melanie Magin, Joerg Hassler, Anders Olof Larsson and Eli Skogerbø, analysed the official Facebook and Instagram pages of 18 political leaders during the 2021 national election campaigns in Germany and Norway.

Surprisingly, no strong evidence of gendered self-presentations was found in either country, suggesting that successful politicians may navigate the delicate balance between masculine and feminine gender expectations.

🗨️ "This study calls for further comparative research, including investigations of lower-profile politicians and countries with varying degrees of gender equality", says Melanie Magin.

📍 Read the article "Walking the line of the double bind: A cross-country comparison on women and men politicians’ self-presentations on social media" in the latest issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies.

👉 https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/njms-2024-0008

01/10/2024

In our recently published article co-authored with Øyvind Ihlen, Jens Kjeldsen and Anja Vranic, – open access of course –, we analyze public reactions to COVID-19 policies in Scandinavia. We asked how people assessed the trustworthiness of authorities, and how they discussed reasons for complying with regulations and recommendations. Our findings suggest that the trustworthiness of experts and leaders was continually negotiated, manufactured, and renegotiated, producing critical and conditional trust. You find it here:

In an unprecedented situation of uncertainty, the COVID-19 pandemic tested the public crisis communication capacity. Using focus group data, this study analyzes public reactions to COVID-19 policies in Scandinavia. In line with the “rally around the flag” hypothesis, trust in public health autho...

22/11/2023

Stillingstittel: Doktorgradsstipendiater (252609), Arbeidsgiver: Universitetet i Oslo, Søknadsfrist: mandag 15. januar 2024

22/08/2023

https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/aktuelt/arrangementer/2023/pressekonferanse-og-boklansering-politikk-i-urolig.html

Rune Karlsen & co med perspektiver på Stortingsvalget 2021

Politikk i urolige tider gir en oppdatert analyse av norske velgere og norsk politikk ved Stortingsvalget 2021.

08/06/2023

POLKOM-medlem og PhD-student Anja Vranic på IMK, UiO, er ute med ny artikkel i Norsk medietidsskrift i dag: "Strukturell sexisme eller kvinnefrigjørende? En kritisk diskursanalyse av debatten om Hadia Tajiks bokomslag". Vi gratulerer!

I denne studien undersøker jeg de ulike argumentene, perspektivene og diskursene i debatten om omslaget til Hadia Tajiks bok Frihet. En politisk og personlig historie og spør hvordan feminisme forstås av de ulike sidene. Ni debattinnlegg og ...

29/03/2023

Tillitsnivået i Norge har tradisjonelt vært høyt. Hva avhenger denne tilliten av, hvordan ble den endret under korona, og hva skal vi ta med oss til neste pandemi?

15/02/2023

Forskerseminaret i tekst og retorikk er vekket til live igjen. Mandag 20. februar, arrangeres seminarer som kan være aktuelle for POLKOM-folk:

Aaron Hess, "Participatory Approaches to Rhetoric"
https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/forskning/grupper/tekstretorikk/arrangementer/participatory-approaches-to-rhetoric.html

Aaron Hess & Jens Kjeldsen, "Ethos: The State of the Field" https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/forskning/grupper/tekstretorikk/arrangementer/ethos-state-of-the-field.html

Åpent for alle interesserte.

Associate professor Aaron Hess and professor Jens Kjeldsen will give a seminar to the Text & Rhetoric Research Seminar, on a theme of great importance to rhetorical studies as well as to life in general: ethos.

11/02/2023

Below is a link to the webinar on Nordic Talks: The Value of a Free Press, 2 February 2023.

Norway is number one the World Press Freedom Index, while Australia dropped 14 places in 2022 due in part to its highly concentrated media landscape.

This webinar, the second of our special Nordic Talks webinar series, will explore how Norway’s targeted ‘press support’ subsidies could help Australia to achieve greater diversity in its highly concentrated media landscape and improve its protections for public interest journalism. And what can Norway learn from Australia’s world-leading News Media Bargaining Code about regulating Big Tech platforms such as Google and Facebook?

Join Professor Eli Skogerbø from the University of Oslo, and Dr Maria Rae of Deakin University for a fascinating discussion hosted by deputy director Ebony Bennett for the Nordic Policy Centre at the Australia Institute, as part of Nordic Talks. org.au/event/nordic-talks-the-value-of-a-free-press/

Norway is number one the World Press Freedom Index, while Australia dropped 14 places in 2022 due in part to its highly concentrated media landscape. This webinar, the second of our special Nordic Talks webinar series, will explore how Norway’s targeted ‘press support’ subsidies could help Aus...

08/02/2023

Avslutningskonferanse for prosjektet "Pandemiretorikk, sosiale medier og tillit":

Tillitsnivået i Norge har tradisjonelt vært høyt. Hva avhenger denne tilliten av, hvordan ble den endret under korona, og hva skal vi ta med oss til neste pandemi?