THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE IN SCANDINAVIAN PUBLIC SPHERES 1970-2015
As of July 2019 Hedda Paulsen joins our team as a research assistant. She will mainly focus on SCANPUBS WP1, collecting data and analyzing the immigration debate aired at key TV channels in Scandinavia, as well as handling the project’s administrative work. Hedda completed her master’s degree in media studies at the University of Bergen. Read More …
Articles by several researchers from SCANPUB’s team have been published in the latest issue of Javnost – The Public, journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, Volume 26, 2019 – issue 2. This is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal in the social sciences that address problems of the public sphere on international and interdisciplinary Read More …
An article by Professor Jens E. Kjeldsen recently got published in The Journal of the Media Ecology Association, Explorations in Media Ecology (EME). The article is titled: “Working through immigration with images”. The article proposes the concept rhetorical working through as a way of describing how photojournalistic rhetoric functions as ‘equipment for living’. It argues that Read More …
SCANPUB just conducted its third annual Winter Symposium in Oslo at the Institute for Social Research. The Symposium opened Thursday 24th January focusing on the immigration debate in Scandinavia, and other issues such as nationalism, citizenship, human rights and democracy. The Symposiums participants also discussed a wide range of issues related to SCANPUB`s aims and future Read More …