New Public Connection Research
In this seminar, Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud (ISF) and Ivar Eimhjellen (NORCE) will introduce perspectives from public connection research: "In a connected sphere of deviance: Alarmed citizens after the pandemic" and "Relative Public Disconnection: Poverty and Media Use in the Media Welfare State".
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Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud is a political scientist and leader of Fritt Ord's Monitor project on the status og freedom of expression in Norway and Ivar Eimhjellen is NORCE researcher and coordinator of the Centre for Research on Civil Society and the Voluntary Sector. Together, they will give two talks from their work in public connection research.
Talks:
Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud: In a connected sphere of deviance: Alarmed citizens after the pandemic
Ivar Eimhjellen: Relative Public Disconnection: Poverty and Media Use in the Media Welfare State, based on a paper in the International Journal of Communication with Torgeir Nærland discussing implications for media policy and critiquing the key underlying notions of equality and informed citizenship.
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