News – SCANPUB

Anders Liens doctoral thesis finds little difference in Islam-criticism in Norway, Sweden and Denmark

Posted onMarch 19, 2021April 15, 2021AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

Congratulations to researcher Anders Nima Jafarnejad Lien on his doctoral thesis, Counterpublic Discourses in Facebook Comment Sections – A Comparative Analysis of Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish (Social) Media Discourse on Islam. The study examines Scandinavian discourses on Islam on Facebook. Lien explores 15 different newsmedia in Norway, Sweden and Denmark and their attitudes and positions Read More …

Doctoral thesis from SCANPUB’s team member John Magnus Dahl: “Voices on the Border”

Posted onFebruary 23, 2021March 19, 2021AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

Congratulations to researcher John Magnus Ragnhildson Dahl on his doctoral thesis “Voices on the Border : Comedy and Immigration in the Scandinavian Public Spheres”! In the dissertation “Voices on the Border” Dahl explores how humor and comedy related to immigration has influenced the broader public debate about the subject in Scandinavia. By researching key events Read More …

Ida Andersen: Instead of deliberative debate, 2020

Doctoral thesis from SCANPUB: Ida Andersen’s “Instead of the deliberative debate”

Posted onDecember 21, 2020December 21, 2020AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

Congratulations to researcher Ida Vikøren Andersen on her doctoral thesis Instead of the deliberative debate: How the principle of expression plays out in the news-generated Facebook discussion! The study explores rethorical strategies in social media immigration debate, and offers new ways to describe the scope and functions of public debates in digital environments. By introducing Read More …

Two new reports: Immigration in TV-debates and Scandinavian non-fiction literature

Posted onOctober 12, 2020October 20, 2020AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

Our research assistants, Lars Finborud and Ingeborg Hedda Paulsen, have written two reports that we are now happy to release. Finborud writes about Immigration in Scandinavian non-fiction literature from 1970-2020. All 127 pages giveyou a unique insight in a subject not yet explored: how immigration has been understood and explained by so-called experts in popular Read More …

Immigration in Scandinavian television fiction – new report

Posted onSeptember 29, 2020AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

Irmelin W. Nilsen shows in this report how immigration and immigrants have been dealt with in the Scandinavian television fiction from 1980 to 2019. Apparent tendencies regarding developments in thematic and the portrayal of immigrants over the time period in question will be explored. The report will conclusively present comparative perspectives on the developments and main Read More …

The six roles populist radical right parties have had in Scandinavian immigration debate

Posted onAugust 31, 2020AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

New publication! Hilmar Mjelde recently published the article “The Six Roles of the Anti-Immigration Parties in Scandinavian Immigration Press Debate” in Nordic journal of migration research. The article shows how the populist radical right parties are not just exchanging the same set of arguments with their political opponents over and over again during 1970-2016.The article also Read More …

New Publication by Anniken Hagelund

Posted onMarch 25, 2020AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

SCANPUB’s team member Anniken Hagelund recently published the article “After the refugee crisis: public discourse and policy change in Denmark, Norway and Sweden” in Comparative Migration Studies. Abstract: The refugee crisis of 2015 can be characterised as an exogenous shock, an immigration shock, which according to institutional theory may create a window of opportunity for path-breaking Read More …

Jens Kjeldsen, Professor of rhetoric and visual communication at Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen

New publication in Rhetorica Scandinavica

Posted onMarch 3, 2020March 3, 2020AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

We are happy to announce that Jens E. Kjeldsen’s article “The rhetoric of shame in the immigration debate” is published in Rhetorica Scandinavica no. 79, 2019. Abstract: The rhetoric of shame has become predominant inthe public sphere. This is especially the case in immigration debates. Here citizens express shame over the way their nation treats immigrants Read More …

New publication by Silje Nygaard

Posted onFebruary 7, 2020AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

We are happy to announce that SCANPUB’s own Silje Nygaard has published the article “Boundary Work: Intermedia Agenda-Setting Between Right-Wing Media and Professional Journalism” in Journalism Studies. Abstract: Through a quantitative content analysis (n = 878), this study examines and compares intermedia agenda-setting between right-wing alternative media outlets and mainstream online newspapers in the Scandinavian countries Read More …

Two new research assistants!

Posted onNovember 14, 2019AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

In this last and busy year of the SCANPUB project, we have hired two new research assistants in order to cover more parts of the public sphere. We welcome Irmelin and Lars to the team! Irmelin Wihelmsen Nilsen At SCANPUB, Irmelin will be working with the cultural section of the public sphere, and her Read More …

New publication in International Journal of Communication

Posted onNovember 6, 2019November 6, 2019AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

Hilmar Mjelde and Jan Fredrik Hovden, both members of the SCANPUB team, recently published the article “Populism in Scandinavian Immigration Discourse 1970–2016“, in International Journal of Communication. The article is open access and available at the journal’s website. If you want to read more articles from SCANPUB’s team members, the list of publications is updated. Read More …

News: Publication, Panel Session And Presentation

Posted onSeptember 3, 2019AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

This month parts of the SCANPUB team will be presenting their work at two international conferences. First up is the conference “Rhetoric in Society 7, Rhetoric as Equipment for Living”, September, 11-13, at Ghent University. Ida Andersen, Jens Kjeldsen and John Magnus Dahl will attend the panel session “Using comments sections, press photographs, and comedy Read More …

Charles Schumer (D-NY), in a direct appeal to President Trump and his immigration policies.

Can a picture change migrant policies? New publication from SCANPUB’s team

Posted onJuly 25, 2019AuthorIngeborg Hedda Paulsen

In the article “Photo of a Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter is Fading Fast” SCANPUB’s team member Jens Kjeldsen asks the question: “Can images of suffering really stop war – or change immigration policy?”. The article features an analysis of the photo of two drowning migrants, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter. Kjeldsen gives Read More …

New research assistant!

Posted onJuly 21, 2019AuthorOda Slotnes

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 …

Publications from SCANPUB in Javnost – The Public

Posted onMay 9, 2019July 19, 2019AuthorOda Slotnes

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 …

Two new publications from SCANPUB’s team

Posted onFebruary 2, 2019February 2, 2019AuthorOda Slotnes

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

Posted onFebruary 2, 2019February 2, 2019AuthorOda Slotnes

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 …

Professor Jostein Gripsrud and Postdoc Hilmar Mjelde at Populism-workshop

Posted onDecember 4, 2018December 4, 2018AuthorLuise Salte

Professor Jostein Gripsrud and Postdoc Hilmar Mjelde participated at the workshop “Media Populism and European democracy” November 9. Professor Gripsrud held the presentation “Norway’s Progress Party: Populism and tabloidization”, and Postdoc Mjelde held the presentation “Crowning Moments: Transformative Populist Use of the Media and the Case of Carl I. Hagen and the 1987 No-Confidence Motion”. Read More …

First SCANPUB Book

Posted onOctober 2, 2018October 17, 2018AuthorLuise Salte

On October 9th, the first SCANPUB book, “Norsk hamskifte? En kritikk av Terje Tvedt , et betinget forsvar for godheten og en etterlysning av midtbanen i innvandringsdebatten“, written by Professor Jostein Gripsrud, was published. As the book is a critique of Terje Tvedt`s “Det internasjonale gjennombruddet“, which got a lot of publicity in the Read More …

Talk on Project aims and preliminary results at “Foreningen Norden”-meeting

Posted onSeptember 19, 2018AuthorLuise Salte

Professor Jens Kjeldsen gave a talk to the Norden Association (Foreningen Norden), Wednesday 19. september at Bergen Public Library. Kjeldsen spoke of SCANPUBs aims, presented ongoing work within the Project, and showed some of the results from the Projects quantitative analysis. Further, Kjeldsen elaborated on the results by giving examples on how the immigration debate Read More …