New research assistant!

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 …

Two new publications from SCANPUB’s team

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’s annual Winter Symposium in Oslo January 24-25th 2019

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 …