Browsing Department of Information Science and Media Studies by Author "Moe, Hallvard"
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Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump
Moe, Hallvard; Ytre-Arne, Brita; Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article investigates sense-making processes of news audiences when faced with destabilizing global events. The destabilizing event is Trump’s 2016 election win, which we study from the perspective of audiences far ... -
The Burden of Subscribing: How Young People Experience Digital News Subscriptions
Borchgrevink-Brækhus, Marianne; Moe, Hallvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper analyzes how young non-paying news users experience digital news subscriptions in Norway. As news organizations face declining advertising revenues, digital subscriptions are considered the sustainable financial ... -
The Challenges of Comparing Media Systems — An Interview with Daniel C. Hallin
Moe, Hallvard; Sjøvaag, Helle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)In this interview, Daniel C. Hallin offers hindsight concerning his collaborative project with Paolo Mancini — Comparing Media Systems — Three Models of Media and Politics (2004). Hallin discusses methodological difficulties ... -
Citizens’ news use during Covid-19 Concerns about misinformation and reliance on local news in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (Chapter, 2023)This chapter analyses how citizens in four Nordic countries navigated the complex information environment during the Covid-19 pandemic, where news from various sources mixed with abundant information across digital platforms. ... -
Commercial Services, Enclosure and Legitimacy: Comparing Contexts and Strategies for Public Service Media Funding and Development
Moe, Hallvard (Chapter, 2008)European public broadcasters have long since ceased to be solely publicly financed. But the inherently controversial licence fee on television sets has remained a key source of funding. Facing an increasingly complex digital ... -
Comparing Platform "Ranking Cultures" Across Languages: The Case of Islam on YouTube in Scandinavia
Moe, Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article is concerned with how different agencies play out in shaping public debate online and, for this purpose, employs an approach that acknowledges the role not just of algorithms seen in isolation, but in context ... -
Deliberative systems theory and citizens’ use of online media: testing a critical theory of democracy on a high achiever
Holst, Cathrine; Moe, Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Deliberative systems theory is a promising candidate for a normative theory of democracy that combines ideal requirements with feasibility. Yet, recent theoretical elaborations and studies of citizens’ online media use ... -
The Democratic Significance of Everyday News Use: Using Diaries to Understand Public Connection over Time and beyond Journalism
Moe, Hallvard; Ytre-Arne, Brita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article argues that journalism scholars should strive to understand the democratic significance of everyday news use, and that such an interest requires us to tackle some methodological and conceptual challenges. We ... -
Digitaliseringen av fjernsyn og allmennkringkastingens skjebne
Moe, Hallvard (IMV-utgivelse; 54, Research report, 2003)Rapporten har spådommene om kringkastingens oppløsning som utgangspunkt, og spør: Står vi virkelig midt oppe i en teknologisk revolusjon som bestemmer utviklingen, eller er det mulig å forklare prosessene ved hjelp av andre ... -
Distributed Readiness Citizenship: A Realistic, Normative Concept for Citizens’ Public Connection
Moe, Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article argues that our view of citizens as miserably failing to maintain their role in democracy is problematic, and that the problems stem from the “informed citizen” ideal: it is too demanding, but also misses the ... -
Doomscrolling, Monitoring and Avoiding: News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown
Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper analyzes news use during the COVID-19 pandemic, asking how people balance between conflicting needs for information and disconnection in an extraordinary situation. We analyze empirical data from a qualitative ... -
Enabling Cultural Policies? Culture, Capabilities and Citizenship
Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Moe, Hallvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article mobilizes the capabilities approach to offer a new and empirically grounded critical perspective on how cultural policy should promote citizenship to audiences. The capabilities approach posits that public ... -
Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation
Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article draws on the framework of “folk theories” to analyze how people perceive algorithms in the media. Taking algorithms as a prime case to investigate how people respond to datafication in everyday media use, we ... -
From Fermentation to Maturity? Reflections on Media and Communication Studies: An Interview with Todd Gitlin, Jostein Gripsrud & Michael Schudson
Sjøvaag, Helle; Moe, Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009)Twenty-six years after the Journal of Communication published a special issue entitled “Ferment in the Field,” Professors Todd Gitlin, Jostein Gripsrud and Michael Schudson reflect on the state of the field of media and ... -
Habermas, Mouffe and political communication. A case for theoretical eclecticism
Karppinen, Kari; Moe, Hallvard; Svensson, Jakob (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)Much of the research on communication and democracy continues to lean on Jürgen Habermas’s work. However, many aspects of his approach have been intensely criticised in recent debates, both in communication studies and ... -
Lidenskap som politikkens drivkraft. Et intervju med Chantal Mouffe
Moe, Hallvard (Norsk medietidsskrift 2006 13(2): 159-165, Journal article, 2006)An interview with Chantal Mouffe -
Media Institutions as a Research Field: Three Phases of Norwegian Broadcasting Research
Moe, Hallvard; Syvertsen, Trine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2007)The article discusses the background and origins of research on media institutions as a field, and especially assesses the development and status of Norwegian research on broadcasting institutions. It is demonstrated how ... -
Morgendagens NRK: Allmennmedievirksomhet
Moe, Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008)Centered on the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK – which celebrates its 75 year anniversary in 2008 – this article discusses a current key challenge for media policy: how to rethink and legitimize public media institutions ... -
Nettmedier og offentligheten. Vox Publicas netthøring om NRK-plakaten
Øvrebø, Olav Anders; Moe, Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-02-24)Nettutviklingen har åpnet muligheter for en mer mangfoldig offentlighet der flere kan delta. Med utgangspunkt i erfaringer fra et forsøk med en åpen netthøring om NRKs framtid, diskuterer denne artikkelen hvordan ... -
Operationalizing distribution as a key concept for public sphere theory. A call for ethnographic sensibility of different social worlds
Moe, Hallvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article takes issue with public sphere theories’ lack of focus on the consequences of social inequality. Citizens divide the work of following politics between them, and we need a cohesive conceptualization of such ...