Tag: University of Bergen

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 …

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 …