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

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: Ida Andersen’s “Instead of the deliberative debate”

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

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 …

New Publication by Anniken Hagelund

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 …