Papers by kristin skare Orgeret
Routledge eBooks, Mar 1, 2024
Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities
With the expansion of mobile communications infrastructure, social media usage in the Global Sout... more With the expansion of mobile communications infrastructure, social media usage in the Global South is surging. Compared to the Global North, populations of the Global South have had less prior experience with social media from stationary computers and wired Internet. Many countries are experiencing violent conflicts that have a profound effect on their societies. As a result, social networks develop under different conditions than elsewhere, and our goal is to provide data for studying this phenomenon. In this dataset paper, we present a data collection of a national Twittersphere in a West African country of conflict. While not the largest social network in terms of users, Twitter is an important platform where people engage in public discussion. The focus is on Mali, a country beset by conflict since 2012 that has recently had a relatively precarious media ecology. The dataset consists of tweets and Twitter users in Mali and was collected in June 2022, when the Malian conflict bec...
Routledge eBooks, Oct 11, 2022
This anthology addresses complex, interconnected issues, such as the rise of extremism and terror... more This anthology addresses complex, interconnected issues, such as the rise of extremism and terrorism, diversity and minority rights, as well as the situation for freedom of expression in eight different countries, most of them with a Muslim majority population. Extremists recruit terrorists through social media, and target minorities as well as freedom loving people by utilizing their freedom of expression to threaten the rights of others.This happens not least in countries with a long experience of dictatorship. Journalists face huge challenges when reporting on these issues. The contributors are both academics and journalists, conveying their experiences from transnational research co-operation as well as reporting from the ground in conflict areas. Thus, this volume addresses itself to journalism students as well as professional journalists and others who need to navigate in a world in which both extremists and authoritarian states may stifle gender and minority rights, as well as the right to report and express oneself freely
Routledge eBooks, Jun 10, 2021
Springer eBooks, 2018
The main argument of this chapter is that media scholars in general would produce better work if ... more The main argument of this chapter is that media scholars in general would produce better work if they paid more attention to issues of gender. This chapter attempts to give a broad overview of recent research within the field of gender and communication in Africa, combined with a few deeper dives into some relevant examples. The illustrations will be from both the production side and the content side of the media, but are presented without the intention of covering the entire field exhaustively.
Digital journalism, Feb 7, 2020
Until recently, the notion of emotion in media studies and communication research was mostly exam... more Until recently, the notion of emotion in media studies and communication research was mostly examined through the lens of cultural studies, media effects, and visuals. Research on emotion in journalism has been slow to arrive, as Karin Wahl-Jorgensen shows in this special issue. However, this is radically changing. Contributions by Hassan, Kilgo, Lough, Riedl, Sanchez Laws, Waddell, and Zou highlight how the affordances of digital journalism have an impact on the space for emotion in evaluating the relationships between journalists, journalistic content and their audiences. Embracing emotions as a dimension in digital journalism studies contributes to opening up interesting approaches towards concepts such as objectivity, and for more nuanced research on the power hidden in the 'taken for granted' in classic liberal journalism. While highlighting the liberating and empowering potential in the inclusion of emotions in journalism, there is also a need to focus on how affective dynamics can be spurred by phenomena such as conflict and hate. When introducing emotions in the journalistic loop, new questions arise, and perspectives of power and negotiations must be included in these discussions.
Information, Communication & Society, Jan 17, 2021
Journalism Practice, Oct 14, 2022
The state owned media in Zimbabwe have frequently been described as the government s voicetube. T... more The state owned media in Zimbabwe have frequently been described as the government s voicetube. This study explores the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation s News at Eight from democratic and nationbuilding perspectives. It studies how relations of ownership and control of the parastatal institution are established in the actual television text. The national News appears as a stronghold of consensual discourse, subordinating opposition politics to a national master narrative of tribute to status quo and the ruling regime. Nevertheless, financial problems, increased commercialisation and pressure from both inside and outside the ZBC create a situation where the institution s struggle for the control of reality becomes increasingly difficult. This is observed through a case study of ZBC s covering of the ZCTU demonstrations in December 1997. In a situation where the economy is open and requires transparency and good governance and the quest for democracy and political openness is increasing, the ZBC News is described as one of the last convulsions of the forced consensus hegemony in Zimbabwe. broadcasting
978-91-87957-42-0, 2016
The chapter studies how concepts of gender, war and peace are understood and applied in the cover... more The chapter studies how concepts of gender, war and peace are understood and applied in the coverage of international strategies for conflict and peace in examples from Norwegian newspapers. The theoretical backdrop is found in discussions on traditional and more recent forms of feminism and in some of their inherent contradictions.
The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa, 2018
The main argument of this chapter is that media scholars in general would produce better work if ... more The main argument of this chapter is that media scholars in general would produce better work if they paid more attention to issues of gender. This chapter attempts to give a broad overview of recent research within the field of gender and communication in Africa, combined with a few deeper dives into some relevant examples. The illustrations will be from both the production side and the content side of the media, but are presented without the intention of covering the entire field exhaustively.
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