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

Posted onAuthorIngeborg 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 …

John Magnus Ragnhildson Dahl

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

Posted onAuthorIngeborg 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 onAuthorIngeborg 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 onAuthorIngeborg 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 …

Irmelin Wilhelmsen Nilsen

Immigration in Scandinavian television fiction – new report

Posted onAuthorIngeborg 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 …

Hilmar Mjelde

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

Posted onAuthorIngeborg 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 …

Anniken Hagelund

New Publication by Anniken Hagelund

Posted onAuthorIngeborg 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

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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 …

Silje Nygaard

New publication by Silje Nygaard

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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 …

Publication in International Journal of Communication

New publication in International Journal of Communication

Posted onAuthorIngeborg 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 …