Oscar Westlund
Oscar Westlund holds a tenured position as Associate Professor at the department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg.
Westlund was Research Leader at the Government offices of Sweden April 2015 to February 2016, for the inquiry "Medieutredningen" appointed by the Swedish Ministry of Culture. He has previously also worked as Associate Professor at the Culture Aesthetics Organizations and Society division (CAOS) at the IT-University of Copenhagen (2012-2014). He has also been a visiting researcher at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University (2011), and has been a research partner i projects conducted at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg (2007-2009) and the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies in Seville (2009-2010).
Westlund is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on the transformations and relationships between old and new media. He has specialized in qualitative and quantitative longitudinal studies of media organizations, media content and services, as well as media usage patterns. He researches the evolving dynamics and interplay of journalism, ICTs and crisis communications on individual, generational and societal level. Westlund serves on the editorial boards of Digital Journalism, Journal of media Business Studies, Journal of Media Innovations and Mobile Media & Communication. He has published widely in Swedish and English, including the monograph “Cross-media news work – Sensemaking of the Mobile Media (R)evolution” (2011). Westlund has published widely in international peer-review journals, including articles in Digital Journalism, Information, Communication & Society, Journalism Practice, Mobile Media & Communication, European Review, Northern Lights, International Journal on Media Management, Behaviour & Information Technology, New Media & Society and International Journal of Communication
Westlund currently pursues research into the diverse role legacy media and digital/mobile media play for various generations in everyday life and during crisis situations. He collaborates and co-authors various articles and chapters relating to the changing mediascape, transforming media use patterns, and also changing ways of cross-media news work. He teaches on journalism, media and communication for undergraduate-, Masters-, and PhD students.
See my website for updated information: www.oscarwestlund.com
Westlund was Research Leader at the Government offices of Sweden April 2015 to February 2016, for the inquiry "Medieutredningen" appointed by the Swedish Ministry of Culture. He has previously also worked as Associate Professor at the Culture Aesthetics Organizations and Society division (CAOS) at the IT-University of Copenhagen (2012-2014). He has also been a visiting researcher at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University (2011), and has been a research partner i projects conducted at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg (2007-2009) and the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies in Seville (2009-2010).
Westlund is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on the transformations and relationships between old and new media. He has specialized in qualitative and quantitative longitudinal studies of media organizations, media content and services, as well as media usage patterns. He researches the evolving dynamics and interplay of journalism, ICTs and crisis communications on individual, generational and societal level. Westlund serves on the editorial boards of Digital Journalism, Journal of media Business Studies, Journal of Media Innovations and Mobile Media & Communication. He has published widely in Swedish and English, including the monograph “Cross-media news work – Sensemaking of the Mobile Media (R)evolution” (2011). Westlund has published widely in international peer-review journals, including articles in Digital Journalism, Information, Communication & Society, Journalism Practice, Mobile Media & Communication, European Review, Northern Lights, International Journal on Media Management, Behaviour & Information Technology, New Media & Society and International Journal of Communication
Westlund currently pursues research into the diverse role legacy media and digital/mobile media play for various generations in everyday life and during crisis situations. He collaborates and co-authors various articles and chapters relating to the changing mediascape, transforming media use patterns, and also changing ways of cross-media news work. He teaches on journalism, media and communication for undergraduate-, Masters-, and PhD students.
See my website for updated information: www.oscarwestlund.com
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The Media inquiry involved Anette Novak, Göran Blomberg, Sookia Carlsson, Lukasz Lindell, Martina Wagner and Oscar Westlund
The book has mainly been authored by Anette Novak, Göran Blomberg and Oscar Westlund.
The report starts by providing an introduction to mobile search. It highlights differences and commonalities with search technologies on other platforms (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 is devoted to the supply side of mobile search markets. It describes mobile markets, presents key figures and gives an outline of main business models and players. Chapter 3 is dedicated to the demand side of the market. It studies users’ acceptance and demand using the results of a case study in Sweden. Chapter 4 presents emerging trends in technology and markets that could shape mobile search. This vision was partly based on an analysis of forward-looking scenarios for mobile, developed by the authors and evaluated by experts in the field (Chapter 5). Another input was a questionnaire to which 61 experts responded. Drivers, barriers and enablers for mobile search were summarised in a SWOT analysis. The report concludes with some policy recommendations in view of the likely socio-economic implications of mobile search in Europe.
Articles by Oscar Westlund
since the 1990s, but it was not until the commercial birth of touchscreen-enabled mobile
devices, offered with flat-rate subscriptions for mobile internet, that widespread production
and use of news-related content and services began to flourish. Accessing mobile news has
gained traction in the everyday life of the public. In parallel, legacy news media have in recent
years developed news provision, by repurposing or customising journalistic content published
for mobile sites and/or applications. This article explores the production of mobile news, by
discussing and synthesising the findings of the contemporary literature found in the nexus of
journalism and mobile media. It posits a model of journalism focusing on the roles of humans
and technology in activities characterised by customising or repurposing. The article also presents
a research agenda focusing on the production of mobile news.
"
organizations through a series of extensive changes involving economic, editorial, and technological challenges. Media managers need to develop a better understanding of user behavior and demand. This article addresses the news media landscape and the dynamics at play between print and online media, departing from an elaboration on theories of displacing and complementing effects. The empirical journey focuses on changes over time with regard to how people make use of evening tabloids through print and online. A dataset that comprises annual postal-based surveys carried out from 1998 to 2009 is used for the analysis. The results show an historical change regarding the usage patterns of evening tabloids. First, online news, in general, has acquired a stronger position among users over time, at the expense of the readership of printed evening tabloids. Second, with regard to the interrelated roles of print and online news sites, the latter constitute the primary channel for users—in particular, among 16- to 49-year-olds. Third, gender has the strongest complementing effect, as men are distinguished users of both print and online news. When it comes to explaining displacing effects, these take place among the more highly educated, and the smallest displacing
effects are found among 50- to 85-year-olds. The results
illustrate the complex dynamics at hand with regard to simultaneous
displacing and complementing effects, which nurtures sage
managerial implications."
Résumé : Le téléphone mobile, à l’origine un instrument privilégiant la voix et le texte, est devenu un appareil technologique multimédia. Mais dans quelle mesure les utilisateurs profitent-ils de ces fonctions multimédias? Cet article examine la diffusion et l’adoption d’appareils mobiles multimédias tout en mettant l’accent sur leur contenu journalistique. Il souligne deux aspects de l’utilisation mobile multimédia : sa diffusion (quels facteurs différencient les utilisateurs des indifférents?) et les attitudes à son égard (plus précisément, quels sont les comportements d’adoption typiques?). Les résultats proviennent de plusieurs sondages quantitatifs représentatifs de la Suède qui ont été effectués en 2005, 2006 et 2007.
Papers by Oscar Westlund
Book download: http://www.medieutredningen.se/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/SOU_2016_30_webb.pdf
Conference presentation at MEG 2016 in Gothenburg April 7th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQvs9TMkAM&feature=youtu.be
The Media inquiry involved Anette Novak, Göran Blomberg, Sookia Carlsson, Lukasz Lindell, Martina Wagner and Oscar Westlund
The book has mainly been authored by Anette Novak, Göran Blomberg and Oscar Westlund.
The report starts by providing an introduction to mobile search. It highlights differences and commonalities with search technologies on other platforms (Chapter 1). Chapter 2 is devoted to the supply side of mobile search markets. It describes mobile markets, presents key figures and gives an outline of main business models and players. Chapter 3 is dedicated to the demand side of the market. It studies users’ acceptance and demand using the results of a case study in Sweden. Chapter 4 presents emerging trends in technology and markets that could shape mobile search. This vision was partly based on an analysis of forward-looking scenarios for mobile, developed by the authors and evaluated by experts in the field (Chapter 5). Another input was a questionnaire to which 61 experts responded. Drivers, barriers and enablers for mobile search were summarised in a SWOT analysis. The report concludes with some policy recommendations in view of the likely socio-economic implications of mobile search in Europe.
since the 1990s, but it was not until the commercial birth of touchscreen-enabled mobile
devices, offered with flat-rate subscriptions for mobile internet, that widespread production
and use of news-related content and services began to flourish. Accessing mobile news has
gained traction in the everyday life of the public. In parallel, legacy news media have in recent
years developed news provision, by repurposing or customising journalistic content published
for mobile sites and/or applications. This article explores the production of mobile news, by
discussing and synthesising the findings of the contemporary literature found in the nexus of
journalism and mobile media. It posits a model of journalism focusing on the roles of humans
and technology in activities characterised by customising or repurposing. The article also presents
a research agenda focusing on the production of mobile news.
"
organizations through a series of extensive changes involving economic, editorial, and technological challenges. Media managers need to develop a better understanding of user behavior and demand. This article addresses the news media landscape and the dynamics at play between print and online media, departing from an elaboration on theories of displacing and complementing effects. The empirical journey focuses on changes over time with regard to how people make use of evening tabloids through print and online. A dataset that comprises annual postal-based surveys carried out from 1998 to 2009 is used for the analysis. The results show an historical change regarding the usage patterns of evening tabloids. First, online news, in general, has acquired a stronger position among users over time, at the expense of the readership of printed evening tabloids. Second, with regard to the interrelated roles of print and online news sites, the latter constitute the primary channel for users—in particular, among 16- to 49-year-olds. Third, gender has the strongest complementing effect, as men are distinguished users of both print and online news. When it comes to explaining displacing effects, these take place among the more highly educated, and the smallest displacing
effects are found among 50- to 85-year-olds. The results
illustrate the complex dynamics at hand with regard to simultaneous
displacing and complementing effects, which nurtures sage
managerial implications."
Résumé : Le téléphone mobile, à l’origine un instrument privilégiant la voix et le texte, est devenu un appareil technologique multimédia. Mais dans quelle mesure les utilisateurs profitent-ils de ces fonctions multimédias? Cet article examine la diffusion et l’adoption d’appareils mobiles multimédias tout en mettant l’accent sur leur contenu journalistique. Il souligne deux aspects de l’utilisation mobile multimédia : sa diffusion (quels facteurs différencient les utilisateurs des indifférents?) et les attitudes à son égard (plus précisément, quels sont les comportements d’adoption typiques?). Les résultats proviennent de plusieurs sondages quantitatifs représentatifs de la Suède qui ont été effectués en 2005, 2006 et 2007.
KEY WORDS: newspapers; future of journalism; media competition; mobile news; online business models
Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 179-200