Blar i Department of Information Science and Media Studies på forfatter "Knudsen, Erik"
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Affective Polarization in Multiparty Systems? Comparing Affective Polarization Towards Voters and Parties in Norway and the United States
Knudsen, Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A growing body of comparative studies on partisan hostility – a phenomenon known as affective polarization – is providing evidence that partisan affective polarization is generally no greater in the United States than it ... -
Affektiv polarisering i Norden – en oversikt
Knudsen, Erik; Lindholm, Jenny; Heiselberg, Lene; Holmberg, Nils (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023) -
Beyond the Limits of Survey Experiments: How Conjoint Designs Advance Causal Inference in Political Communication Research
Knudsen, Erik; Johannesson, Mikael Poul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09-13)This paper calls attention to what is arguably the most notable advancement in survey experiments over the last decade: conjoint designs. The benefit of conjoint design is its capacity to study and compare the causal effects ... -
Drivers of News Sharing: How Context, Content, and User Features Shape Sharing Decisions on Facebook
Trilling, Damian; Knudsen, Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)What makes people share political news on Facebook? Prior studies have identified how different features predict audiences’ likelihood to share news on social media – the so-called shareworthiness of news. However, we still ... -
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
Knudsen, Erik; Nordø, Åsta Dyrnes; Iversen, Magnus Hoem (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this study, we extend the literature on the rally ‘round the flag phenomenon, that is, that international crises tend to cause an increase in citizens’ approval of political institutions. We advance this literature and ... -
How the public understands news media trust: An open-ended approach
Knudsen, Erik; Dahlberg, Stefan; Iversen, Magnus Hoem; Johannesson, Mikael Poul; Nygaard, Silje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Despite the central role that ordinary citizens play as ‘trustors’ (i.e. the actor that places trust) in the literature on news media trust, prior quantitative studies have paid little attention to how ordinary citizens ... -
Journalistikkens fremstillingsmakt. Nyhetsrammer, meningsdanning og medialisering
Knudsen, Erik (Doctoral thesis, 2016-06-03)This book addresses three core aspects of the literature within communication science: 1) how journalists frame stories in the news, 2) the effects of such frames on citizen’s attitudes, and 3) how such frames can contribute ... -
Modeling news recommender systems’ conditional effects on selective exposure: evidence from two online experiments
Knudsen, Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Under which conditions do news recommender systems (NRSs) amplify or reduce selective exposure? I provide the Recommender Influenced Selective Exposure framework, which aims to enable researchers to model and study the ... -
Monsterjournalistikken - Pressens rolle i Hardangersaken
Knudsen, Erik (Master thesis, 2011-05-31)Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg dekningen av kraftlinjesaken i Hardanger i de tre norske papiravisene VG, Aftenposten (Morgen og Aftenutgaven) og Bergens Tidende. Prosjektet fokuserer på pressens oppgaver, eller ... -
Topical Preference Trumps Other Features in News Recommendation: A Conjoint Analysis on a Representative Sample from Norway
Knudsen, Erik; Starke, Alain Dominique; Trattner, Christoph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)A variety of news articles features can be used to tailor news content. However, only a few studies have actually compared the relative importance of different features in predicting news reading behavior in the context ... -
Towards Responsible Media Recommendation
Elahi, Mehdi; Jannach, Dietmar; Skjærven, Lars; Knudsen, Erik; Sjøvaag, Helle; Tolonen, Kristian; Holmstad, Øyvind; Pipkin, Igor; Throndsen, Eivind; Stenbom, Agnes; Fiskerud, Eivind; Oesch, Adrian; Vredenberg, Loek; Trattner, Christoph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Reading or viewing recommendations are a common feature on modern media sites. What is shown to consumers as recommendations is nowadays often automatically determined by AI algorithms, typically with the goal of helping ... -
Understanding How News Recommender Systems Influence Selective Exposure
Seddik, Khadiga Mahmoud Abdalla; Knudsen, Erik; Trilling, Damian; Trattner, Christoph (Chapter, 2023)News recommender systems (NRSs) offer benefits in the realm of information consumption and person- alized news delivery. Yet, some critics argue that overly personalized news recommendations can pose a threat to democracy ... -
The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native Advertising and the Convergence of Editorial and Commercial Content
Ferrer-Conill, Raul; Knudsen, Erik; Lauerer, Corinna; Barnoy, Aviv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This study investigates the visual objects that are used to either disclose or disguise the commercial nature of native advertising as news articles. We adopt a “material object” approach to explore the potential implications ...