The Commons of the Tragedy

Presents findings from surveys conducted in September and October 2001. Looks at how the Internet was used by millions after the September 11 terror attacks to grieve, console, share news, and debate the nation's response

The Dot-com Meltdown and the Web

Presents findings from a survey conducted between August and September 2001. Looks at how the collapse of the dot-com economy has had tangible effects on personal lives, and how online Americans have made quick adjustments to the changing Web environment

Deliverable D4.2. User satisfaction of climate services

The EVOKED framework focuses on the co-creation aspects of climate services (co-design, co-development and co-validation) using Living Labs to engage stakeholders. Embedded in each of these steps, is a co-evaluation process to assess the experience of the stakeholders involved in the co-creation of climate services. Furthermore, co-evaluation assesses user satisfaction as feedback to bridge the process-content gap and thus to improve each step in the EVOKED framework and ultimately help build engaged communities. To carry out co-evaluation during the EVOKED project, a questionnaire was developed and completed by the participants of the Living Labs. The questionnaire includes evaluations of the Living Labs process itself as well as the climate services being developed. This report D4.2 'User satisfaction of climate services' aims to document and present the use and results from the questionnaires as they were used in Living Lab workshops and during the different field trials for the development of tailored climate services for five EVOKED case study sites.EU, Horizon Europe European Research Area for Climate Services JPI Climate The Research Council of Norway Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany) NWO FORMA

Social media as a political backchannel: Twitter use during televised election debates in Norway

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 debates about the role of social media in audience participation and traditional media’s changing role as gatekeepers and agenda setter. Design/methodology/approach - A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. By introducing and using the IMSC multiple step analysis model on the Twitter datasets, we are able to analyse the flow of thousands of tweets and compare them with topics discussed in the televised debates. Findings - We find that the same topics are discussed on Twitter as on TV, but "the debate about the debate" or Meta talk tweets reveal critical scrutiny of the agenda. We identify a clear pattern of political fandom and media criticism in the "debate about the debate", indicating that Meta talk in social media can function as a critical public sphere, also in real time, which has not been identified in existing studies of Twitter and political TV shows. Originality/value - The analysis is unique in the sense that we analyse a smaller, national Twitter population in deeper detail than what is common in larger Twitter studies related to political televised debates. The IMSC model can be used in future Twitter studies to uncover layers in the data material and structure the findings

Of course we are on Facebook”: Use and non-use of social media among Swedish and Norwegian politicians

ABSTRACT While plenty of research has provided important insights into the uses of the Internet by politicians during elections, a relatively scarce amount of work has looked into these uses outside of such parliamentary events. This paper seeks to remedy this lack of research by presenting a study on the 'routine' uses of two of the currently most popular social media services -Facebook and Twitter. Focusing on politicians elected to the national parliaments of Norway and Sweden, the paper employs novel methodologies for data collection and statistical analyses in order to provide an overarching, structural view of the day-to-day social media practices of Scandinavian politicians. Findings indicate that use levels are rather low for both services -the median amount of tweets sent and messages posted on Facebook is close to one per day. Further analyses reveal that the most active politicians could be labeled as 'underdogs', as they are more likely to be younger, in opposition and out of the political limelight

The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking

This article analyses the novel form of live political fact-checking, as performed by the Norwegian fact-checking organisation Faktisk.no during the Norwegian parliamentary election campaign in 2021. The aim of the study was to investigate the epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking. Through methods of participatory observation, interviews and textual analysis, the study finds that Faktisk.no used several strategies to bridge the ‘epistemic gap’ between the logics of breaking news and political fact-checking. Combined, these strategies pushed the live fact-checking towards a confirmative epistemology, implying that the live political fact-checking confirmed (1) knowledge already believed to be true and (2) hegemonic perspectives on what constitutes important and reliable information. The findings thereby point to a potential reorientation of political fact-checking from being a critical corrective of political elites to confirming the perspectives and knowledge base of the same elites.The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checkingpublishedVersio

Hazard and risk assessment for early phase road planning in Norway

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The Relevance of Technology to Information Verification: Insights from Norwegian Journalism During a National Election

Growing concerns about disinformation have led to the development of new digital tools and systems designed for journalists’ verification and fact-checking needs. Despite these technological developments, research has demonstrated that emerging technologies are not utilised as often and are not as highly valued as industry narratives suggest. There are indications that the typical journalist values traditional skills such as writing and interviewing higher than digital technology skills and that many journalists do not consider the new tools to be very useful in their everyday work. This article takes on a sociotechnical approach to study the interplay between journalists, technology, organisational and professional routines. Specifically, we examine journalists’ use of verification technologies to detect disinformation during an election period. Our findings show a discrepancy between the alleged potential of new technologies and the everyday practices of newswork and fact-checking – also in the digitally advanced Norwegian media industry. We found tensions between established routines and cultures in the newsroom and the push for the renewal of journalistic methods which can be sorted under two headings: strategy vs. practice and proximity vs. distance to the beat and sources.The Relevance of Technology to Information Verification: Insights from Norwegian Journalism During a National ElectionpublishedVersio

Socio-economic vulnerability to natural hazards – proposal for an indicator-based model

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From Permanently Hired Local Journalist to Temporary Digital Head. The Development of the Job Market for Journalists 1987–2017

Denne artikkelen presenterer en analyse av stillingsannonser i fagbladet Journalisten fra 1987 til 2017. 1628 stillings- annonser i årene 1987, 1997, 2007 og 2017 er analysert for å undersøke hvordan arbeidsmarkedet for journalister, slik det framkommer av stillingsannonser i fagbladet, har utviklet seg. Funnene viser blant annet at antall ledige jobber annonsert i Journalisten, har blitt halvert i 30-årsperioden, og at andelen faste jobber som utlyses, har gått kraftig ned, mens andelen kortere engasjementer har økt betydelig. Dette kan tolkes som at journalister er stadig nærmere å utgjøre et prekariat, det vil si en yrkesgruppe med løs og usikker tilknytning til arbeidslivet. Funnene viser også at det er faste jobber i lokalaviser som har forsvunnet fra stillingsannonsene, noe som representerer en potensiell fare for utviklingen av lokalt mediemangfold og for lokaldemokratiet.This article presents an analysis of jobs announcements in the Norwegian trade press publication Journalisten from 1987 to 2017. A total of 1628 job ads published in 1987, 1997, 2007 and 2017 are assessed with content analysis in order to investigate how the Norwegian labour market for journalists, as it is portrayed in jobs ads in the trade press publication, has developed. The findings reveal that the number of jobs advertised in Journalisten was reduced by 50 per cent from 1987 to 2017 and that permanent jobs have reduced dramatically, while short-term contracts are the new standard. This could be interpreted as journalists increasingly representing a workforce marked by precarious and uncertain relations to employers. The findings also reveal that the jobs that have vanished from Journalisten are mostly in local newspapers, and the article therefore concludes that local media diversity, and hence local democracy, is potentially endangered.publishedVersio