Blar i Tidsskriftpublikasjon på forfatter "Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti"
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A Human Interest Economy: The Strategic Value of Turning Ordinary People into Exemplars in the News Media
Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti; Ytreberg, Espen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article explores how personal experience in the form of human interest stories has become a road to visibility, legitimacy, and impact for organizational actors and interest groups. Focusing on news media representations ... -
Communicating borders - Governments deterring asylum seekers through social media campaigns
Brekke, Jan-Paul; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This article analyses a novel attempt by the Norwegian Government to use Facebook to influence migrants’ destination choices. With the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015 as a backdrop, the Norwegian case reveals the dilemmas ... -
Disruptive Media Events: Balancing Editorial Control and Open Dissent in the Aftermath of Terror
Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Disruptive Media Events: Managing mediated dissent in the aftermath of terror
Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Terror attacks force democratic societies to mobilize, reinforce and rethink core values, including media freedom and freedom of speech. The present article analyzes how one traumatic event—the 2011 Oslo terror—challenged ... -
Ideological biases in research evaluations? The case of research on majority–minority relations
Finseraas, Henning; Midtbøen, Arnfinn Haagensen; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Social science researchers tend to express left-liberal political attitudes. The ideological skew might influence research evaluations, but empirical evidence is limited. We conducted a survey experiment where Norwegian ... -
Interpretive communities of resistance: Emerging counterpublics of immigration alarmism on social media
Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Debates over immigration have become a defining political cleavage closely related to moral values, perceptions of threat, and the rise of online anti-immigration networks and agitation. Based on in-depth interviews with ... -
Media and Bureaucracy: Investigating Media Awareness Amongst Civil Servants
Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Schillemans, Thomas; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Scholars claim that civil servants are increasingly having to engage in media management and be aware of how events are presented in the press, with this media awareness being said to threaten civil servants’ traditional ... -
Når saken tas i mediene: mediedramaturgi og handlingsrom i lokale helsekonflikter
Larsen, Anna Grøndahl; Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022) -
Serving the Media Ministers: A Mixed Methods Study on the Personalization of Ministerial Communication
Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)The personalization of politics has received much attention in both the political science and political communication literature, but the focus has almost entirely been on party leaders and prime ministers. This study ... -
‘Someone should have looked after us’: the boundary work of mental health disclosure on TV
Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti; Blehr Lånkan, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022) -
TV Inside the Psychiatric Hospital: Patient Experiences
Lånkan, Kjersti; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study investigates patients’ experiences with participating in a television (TV) documentary series filmed within psychiatric hospital wards. The study relies on interviews with patients, health staff, and TV producers, ... -
Whose stories are told and who is made responsible? Human-interest framing in health journalism in Norway, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.
Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti; Hallin, Daniel C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Human-interest narratives are journalistic tools to captivate and engage the audience, influence public opinion and bring revenue to media organizations. This paper analyses how human-interest narratives are used in ...