Ole Johan Mjøs

Stilling: førsteamanuensis

Telefon: 55 58 41 26

E-post: Ole.Mjos@infomedia.uib.no

Besøksadresse: Fosswinckelsgt. 6

Romnummer: 526

Publikasjoner i Cristin

  

Books

Mjøs, O. J. (2012) Music, Social Media and Global Mobility. New York and London: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415882743/

Mjos, O. J. (2010) Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks. New York and London: Routledge   http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415992466/  

 

Refereed journal articles

Mjøs, O. J. (2010) The Symbiosis of Children's Television and Merchandising: Comparative Perspectives of the Norwegian Public Service Broadcaster, NRK, and the global Disney Channel, Media, Culture and Society http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/32/6.toc

Mjøs, O. J. (2011) A Marriage of Convenience? European Public Broadcasters’ Cross-National Partnerships in Factual Television, International Communications Gazette http://gaz.sagepub.com/content/73/3/181.abstract

  

Book chapters

Moe, H. and Mjøs, O. J. (forthcoming) The Arm's Length Principle in Nordic Public Broadcasting Governance. Gothenburg: Nordicom.

Mjøs, O. J. (2010) ’News Corporation’s MySpace.com and the Digital Challenges to Audiovisual Regulations’ in J. Gripsrud and H. Moe, The Digital Public Sphere: Challenges for Media Policy. Gothenburg: Nordicom.

 

Publications in development

Mjøs, O. J.; Moe, H.; Enli, G.; Syvertsen, T. Digital Media in the Nordic Region (tentative title, under advance contract with the University of Michigan Press. Full review manuscript submitted to the Press January 2012)

New book proposal, single authored (submitted to major university press December, 2011)

Mjøs, O. J. The Music and Social Media Nexus: New Spaces for Global Mobility (journal article in development)

Co-authors Hallvard Moe and Vilde Schanke Sundet, The Functions of Buzzwords: A Comparison of Web 2.0 and Telematics (journal article to be submitted)

 

Research report

Mjøs, O. J. (2008) NRK Super og Disney Channel Norge: Medieglobalisering i Norge. Research project funded by the Council for Applied Media Research, The Norwegian Media Authority (the report is only available in Norwegian) 

 

Forthcoming papers and presentations

Rethinking Localization in the Era of Global Social Media revised paper, International Communications Association’s (ICA) conference, 24 – 30 May, 2012, Arizona.

Faculty member, Joint Summer School, Media Policy, Business and Practice in the Digital Age, Communication University of China, 8 - 16 July, 2012, Beijing.

Faculty member, ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School, 12 – 17 August, 2012, Ljubljana.

Social Media: New Spaces for Global Mobility? paper, ECREA 2012, the 4^th European Communication Conference, 24 - 27 October, 2012, Istanbul.

 

Selected previous conference papers/presentations

Rethinking Localization in the Era of Global Media. Paper presented at the Nordmedia conference, 2011, 11-13 August, Akureyri, Iceland.

A Marriage of Convenience? European Public Broadcasters’ Cross-National Partnerships in Factual Television. Poster paper presented at the International Communications Associations (ICA) conference, 2011, 25-30 May, Boston, US. 

The Functions of Buzzwords: A Comparison of Web 2.0 and Telematics (co-authored with Hallvard Moe and Vilde Schanke Sundet) Paper presented at the Norwegian Media Association's 14th Conference, 2010, 27-29 October, Ålesund, Norway

Discovery Channel and the Factual Television Genre: Using ‘the Spectacular’ to reach a global and local television audience, paper presented at the International Communications Associations pre-conference on the Chindia challenge to global communication, 2010, 22-26 June, Singapore

Music, Social Media, and Global Mobility, presentation at the Center for Mobilities Studies Research Day, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK, 2010, 26 May.

Mjos, O. J. MySpace.com: Power, Participation and Paradox, paper presented at the DigiCult symposium Television and the Digital Public Sphere, Institut Francais de Presse, Université de Pantheon-Assas (Paris II), 22-24 October, 2008, Paris.

Mjos, O. J. Globalization of Production: The Factual Television Programming Genre, paper presented at the IAMCR conference, 23-25 July, 2007, Paris.

Mjos, O. J. Researching a global media phenomenon: reflections on theory and methods, paper presented at the ICA pre-conference Methodologies of Comparative Media Research in a Global Sphere: Paradigms-Critique-Methods, ICA, 23-28 May, 2007, San Francisco, US.

Mjos, O. J. Thoughts on the relationship between media research and media industry experience, paper presented at the conference ‘Minding the Gap:’ Reflections on Media Practice & Theory. Organized by MeCCSA Postgraduate Network in collaboration with Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 12 May, 2007, Oxford.

Mjos, O. J. A Marriage of Convenience? BBC, Discovery and Globalization, revised paper presented at the conference Internationalising Media Studies: Imperatives and Impediments, University of Westminster, 15-16 September, 2006, London.

Ole J. Mjøs is Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. He specializes in the fields of international communication and global media.

Ole is the author of the book Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks (Routledge, 2010), based on his PhD thesis. His next monograph, Music, Social Media and Global Mobility, was also published by Routledge (2012). Ole’s work has appeared in the journals Media, Culture and Society, and the International Communication Gazette, and he has presented his work in the US, UK, France, Singapore, Iceland and Lithuania.

He was an visiting researcher at the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, UK, and made short visits to the Centre in late 2009 and first half of 2010, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/cemorepeople.htm, Ole he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA, for three months in the first half of 2009, http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/people-past.html#section086

Ole received his PhD in Media and Communications from University of Westminster, UK, in 2007, and an MA in Transnational Communications and the Global Media, Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2003.