Media and the International Community
About the research group
The research group is a meeting point for researchers with an interest in developing and implementing interdisciplinary projects at the crossroads between the media and the international community - with an emphasis on change processes in Europe during and after the end of the Cold War. The group focuses on the textual content in a broad sense and on the media's various narrative forms. The group focuses on three main theme areas:
- Media history - includes both the traditional mass media and the new digital media.
- Visual means and narrative forms in the media, e.g., in foreign journalism and international politics from the 1990s and onwards, and how they have been expressed in the news (press photos, photographs, cartoons and films) about protests, crises, conflicts and war.
- Crisis communication and research dissemination (both as a subject area and a way of communicating academic results) - including the use of audiovisual exhibitions.
The group holds regular meetings and aims to arrange or contribute to seminars and conferences with relevant topics.
Ongoing projects
“Creative Dissent: Alternative Cultures During Socialism and Beyond, 1945-1991” (in progress)
Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion. Palgrave MacMillian 2022
Special Issue of the Mediehistorisk tidsskrift, no. 1-2 2022, The Nordic Foreign News reporting during the long 20th Century.
The Norwegian Foreign News Reporting during the 20th Century. Project baked by the Norwegian Free Speech Fundation and the The Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association.
Cost Action: Lead-Me: Leading Platform for European Citizens, Industries, Academia and Policymakers in Media Accessibility (2021-2024).
Lek og spillifisering av fotografier i den sosiale og mobile era, paper, Fjordkonferansen 2022
A selection of completed projects related to members of the group
Exhibition: Conflict, Resolution and the Media. IAMHIST conference Kiel University College of Applied Science, summer 2022.
Protest, Terror, Conflict, and War: Masterclass and Symposium, International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST), International Conference in Volda, January 2022. The Conference was postponed due to the Corona restriction.
COST Action: New Exploratory Phase in Research on Eastern European Cultures of Dissent. (2017-2022)
The “Child Welfare Service in Media” project is about how this important public service is presented in the media and to what extent this coverage could influence the confidence in this institution. Read more about the project.
"Issue Management and Risk Communication"
Per in 100 questions
Reading north through social semiotics
The Spanish Civil War in the Norwegian media 1936-1939: The struggle for public opinion.
Still, Small Voice: Ambiguity in Art & Photography.
Frame of Mind: Looking at 50 Photographs.
Landscape & Literature.
"Kardashianization of social media photographs: Perfect photographs by and from the people."
"Algae to Future Project" (A2F)
«The Litzmannstadt ghetto in Lodz - mediation of sensitive topics
Audiovisual exhibition in Lodz, Poland (Reflections upon 3 completed Intercultural and Cross-medial workshops)
Media and Revolt. Strategies and Performances from the 1960’s to the Present. Berghahn Books 2014.
Media and the Cold War 1975-1991.
Nordic Media and the Cold War. Nordicom 2015.
Media and the Cold War in the 1980s. Between Star Wars and Glasnost. Palgrave 2018
When the Berlin Wall fell: an analysis of the press, radio and TV in 1989. Media history journal no. 29, 2018.
Researching Newsreels: Local, National and Transnational Case Studies. Palgrave 2018
Around the World: The First Norwegian Newsreel, 1930-1941.
The Legal Settlement and Reconstruction in the Norwegian Newsreel Norsk Filmrevy, 1945-1949.
The Documentary Impulse. Phaidon
"Creative Communication Design: Communicating the Holocaust to Younger Generations." Conference article for Cumulus Conference Paris, spring 2018.
ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon) conference exhibition in Oslo
International Media and the Cold War Conference 2014: Conference exhibition in Volda
Research group members
Henrik G. Bastiansen
Stuart Franklin
Thomas Lewe
Burcu Peksevgen
Idar Flo
Erling Sivertsen
Kristian Fuglseth
Jan Arne Halvorsen
Endre Eidså Larsen
Birgitte Kjos Fonn (Oslo Metropolitan University)
Bjørn Sørenssen (NTNU Trondhiem)
Hans Fredrik Dahl (University of Oslo)
Bernt Hagtvet (University of Oslo)