Rolf E.S. Halse

Title: PhD Candidate

Phone: +47 55 58 41 31

E-mail: Rolf.Halse@infomedia.uib.no

Visiting address: Fosswinckelsgt. 6

Room number: 516

Television series; issues of representation; qualitative audience research; popular culture.

Rolf Halse is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. His research interests are on politics of representation and audience reception, especially in regards to US TV series drama. The objective of his PhD project is to examine the representation of Muslim characters in the US television serial 24, and to investigate how different interpretative communities read and perceive Muslim characters. Moreover, he studies how the portrayal of Muslims changes from the early to the latter seasons of 24, and looks at this in relation to multiculturalism and a shifting political climate in the US. Theoretically, his dissertation aims to bring together academic work in cultural studies on representation, stereotyping, and TV audiences/fandom. Empirically, textual analysis of the TV serial, focus group interviews and analysis of online fans’ texts, is carried out.

Publications in Cristin

Publications:

Halse, Rolf (forthcoming, 2012) "Negotiating boundaries between us and them: Ethnic Norwegians and Norwegian Muslims speak out about the ‘next door neighbour terrorist’ in 24". Nordicom Review 33(1).

Halse, Rolf (2011) "The Muslim-American Neighbour as Terrorist: The Representation of a Muslim Family in 24". Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 11(4). Full text

Halse, Rolf (2009) "'De kan være naboene dine’ - Fremstillingen av en muslimsk familie i sesong 4 av 24’. Norsk Medietidsskrift 16(3): 231-51. Full text

Halse, Rolf (2006) "Politisk slagside i uavhengig presse?". Sosiologisk Årbok årg 19, nr. 1-2. S. 67-89. Full text

 

Selected papers (conferences/seminars):

Halse, Rolf "Textual poaching, textual gamekeeping and the counterstereotype: American and Norwegian online fans’ perception of positive portrayals of Muslims in 24. NordMedia 2011, International Conference, Akureyri, Iceland, 11.08.11-13.08.11.

Halse, Rolf "American and Norwegian online fans’ perception of positive portrayals of Muslim Arabs in 24: Textual poachers or reactionary gamekeepers?". IAMCR, International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 13.07.11-17.07.11.

Halse, Rolf "The Arab-American Neighboor as Terrorist: The representation of a Muslim Family in the TV serial 24". Contemporary Serial Culture: Quality TV Series in New Media Environment, International Conference, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, 14.01.10–16.01.10.  

Halse, Rolf "Negotiating borders between ingroups and outgroups: Ethnic Norwegians and Norwegian Muslims speak out about 24's portrayal of Muslims". Multiculturalism, Media, Violence, Symposium, Centre Franco-Norvegien en Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, 03.12.09-04.12.09.

Halse, Rolf "The representation of Muslims and Islam in the TV serial 24: Ethnic Norwegians and Norwegian Muslims speak out". Media, Islam and Modernity: Challenges to the Nordic Context', Seminar, Sigtuna, Sweden, 26.01.09-28.01.09.

Halse, Rolf "'They could be next door" – En studie av hvordan TV-serien 24 fremstiller en muslimsk familie". Norsk Medieforskerkonferanse, Lillehammer, Norway, 30.10.08-31.10.08.

Research networks:

The Nordic Network on Media and Religion

Democracy and the digitisation of audiovisual culture

Democracy and rule of law

Visual Studies (Department of Information Science and Media Studies)