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Erik Knudsen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Social Science Core Facility (DIGSSCORE). He holds a PhD from the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Much of Knudsens research explores patterns and effects of news and political communication, trust in journalism, and selective exposure to like-minded information. He is founder and PI of the Norwegian Journalism Panel and the interdisciplinary Political Communication Research Group at DIGSSCORE (together with Stefan Dahlberg). His work has appeared in Political Communication, Journalism, and other peer-reviewed journals.
Qualifications: Journalism, political communication, selective exposure, framing, agenda setting, media effects, news values, media logics and mediatisation of politics, quantitative content analysis, experimental research design, public opinion and survey research.
Ongoing studies:
- Conjoint experiments of politically motivated selective news exposure
- Conjoint experiments and open-ended questions about trust in media
- Conjoint experiments of selective exposure and selective sharing in social media
- Conjoint experiments of discussion and disagreement
See Knudsens presentation at Forsker Grand Prix here:
Master level course:
2013: Course leader, supervisor, and teacher for MEVI317: News media, agenda, framing, scandals, sources and media effects
Bachelor level course:
2013 and 2014: Supervisor and teacher in MEVI102: Media, audience, media use and opinion formation
2012: Teacher for MEVI100: Introduction to media and communication
*=both authors contributed equally.
Publications:
Knudsen, Erik & Mikael Poul Johannesson* (2018) Beyond the Limits of Survey Experiments: How Conjoint Designs Advance Causal Inference in Political Communication Research. Political Communication. Doi: 10.1080/10584609.2018.1493009. Pre-print avaliable here.
Erik Knudsen, Mikael P Johannesson, and Sveinung Arnesen. 2017. “Selective Exposure to News Cues: Towards a Generic Approach to Selective Exposure Research.”. DIGSSCORE Working paper series 2017:6
Knudsen, E. (2017) Velferdsstatens møte med nyhetspressen: Fremstillingstoner og kildebruk i nyhetsdekningen av NAV. I: Christensen, D. A., Ytre-Arne, B. & Aars, J. (red.) Tjenestedemokratiet. Velferdsstaten som arena for deltakelse. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Nærland, T og Knudsen, E (2017) Velferdsstatens institusjoner og nyhetsmediene: En komparativ studie av medieinteraksjon i NAV og Universitets- og forskningssektoren. I: Christensen, D. A., Ytre-Arne, B. & Aars, J. (red.) Tjenestedemokratiet. Velferdsstaten som arena for deltakelse. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Knudsen, E. (2016) Journalistikkens fremstillingsmakt: nyhetsrammer, meningsdanning og medialisering. [translated title: The Power of Journalistic Framing: News Frames, Public Opinion and Mediatization]. PhD-thesis. Det samfunnsvitenskaplige fakultetet ved Universtitetet i Bergen. Available at: http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/12225
Knudsen, E. (2014). Media Effects as a Two-Sided Field: Comparing Theories and Research of Framing and Agenda Setting, pp.207-217. I: L. Kramp, N., Carpentier, Hepp, A., Tomanić Trivundža, I., Nieminen, H., Kunelius, R., Olsson, T., Sundin, E. og Kilborn, R. (red.) Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. Bremen: edition lumière
Conference Papers:
Knudsen E og Iversen MH. (June 2016) When Politicians go Native: Consequences of Native Advertising for Citizens’ Trust in Political News. ICA, Journalism Division. Fukuoka.
Knudsen E. (August 2015) Framing the Third-person Effect: Perceptions of Framing Effects on Self and Others. NordMedia 2015. Copenhagen.
Knudsen E. (May 2015) Reputation Management, Mediatization, and News Framing of a Norwegian Public Sector Organization. ICA 2015 afternoon pre-conference: Public Sector Communication: The Challenge of Building Intangible Assets. San Juan.
Knudsen E og Iversen MH. (August 2015) Consequences of Native Advertising for Citizens’ Trust in Political News. NordMedia 2015. København.
Knudsen E og Iversen MH. (Feb. 2015) Reinvention through experimenting. How can we increase our understanding of journalism’s audience by using survey experiments? Re-Inventing Journalism. Winterthur, Switzerland.
Nærland TU, Knudsen E , Sjøvaag H, Ytre-Arne. (May 2015) Mediating the Nordic Welfare Model: Journalistic Representations and Public Attitudes. ICA 2015 afternoon pre-conference: Public Sector Communication: The Challenge of Building Intangible Assets. San Juan.
Knudsen, E. (November 2014) The Persuasive Effect of Conceptual Metaphors: Motivated Reasoning, Political Rhetoric and Public Opinion. The Norwegian Citizen Panel Conference; 2014-06-11 – 2014-07-11, Bergen, Norway.
Knudsen, E. (August 2014) Negative press and attitude change: comparing a longitudinal content analysis of press coverage with trend analysis of public opinion. ECREA Summer School Alumni Conference; 2014-08-15 - 2014-08-16, Bremen, Germany
Knudsen, E. (July 2014) Investigating Effects of Political Frame Sponsoring on Public Opinion. International Summer School in Political Communication and Electoral Behavior (New) Media Effects on Electoral Behaviour; 2014-07-07 - 2014-07-11, Milan, Italy
Knudsen, Erik (mai 2013) How the press framed the Norwegian Welfare crisis. Nordic Research Network in Journalism Studies; 2013-05-29 - 2013-05-30
Knudsen, Erik (august 2013) Media Coverage as Attitude Source: A Study of Second-Level Agenda Setting at the Outbreak of a Norwegian Welfare Crisis. NordMedia2013; 2013-08-08 - 2013-08-11
Knudsen, Erik (april 2013) Når velferd blir dagsorden: NAV, presse og opinion. Christieseminaret; 2013-04-24 - 2013-04-24
UiB
Knudsen, Erik (2012) Automatiserte forsideanalyser: arkiverings- og analyseprogramvare løser utfordringer med kvantitative innholdsanalyser av nettaviser, working paper til Norsk Medieforskerlags konferanse i Kristiansand 18.-19. okt. 2012
Knudsen, Erik (2012) Combining Induction and Deduction: Studying Issue-specific News Frames Quantitatively, Master Class for PhD-students at Stockholm University, the Department of Media Studies, Karlavägen 104, April 24.-27
Knudsen, Erik (2012) Et vitenskapsteoretisk paradoks: induksjon som premissleverandør for deduksjon, Obligatorisk vitenskapsteoretisk essay for PhD-graden, Institutt for informasjons- og medievitenskap, Universitet i Bergen
Popular science
Knudsen, Erik (2012) "Analyseprogram avdekker nettavisenes prioriteringer". Vox Publica [Internet] 26.03.2012
Master Thesis: Monster Journalism - The Media coverage of the "Hardanger case" (Norwegian only)
- 2017. Velferdsstatens møte med nyhetspressen: Fremstillingstoner og kildebruk i nyhetsdekningen av NAV. 6. In:
- 2017. Tjenestedemokratiet. Velferdsstaten som arena for deltakelse. Universitetsforlaget. 238 pages. ISBN: 9788215027852.
- 2017. Velferdsstatens institusjoner og nyhetsmediene: en komparativ studie av medieinteraksjon i NAV og universitets- og forskningssektoren. 10, pages 164-180. In:
- 2017. Tjenestedemokratiet. Velferdsstaten som arena for deltakelse. Universitetsforlaget. 238 pages. ISBN: 9788215027852.
- 2016. When politicians go native: The consequences of political native advertising for citizens’ trust in news. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. 1-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884916688289
- 2016. Journalistikkens fremstillingsmakt. Nyhetsrammer, meningsdanning og medialisering. Universitetet i Bergen.
- 2016. Når nyhetsrammer og medialisering møtes : hvordan og hvorfor ramme- og medialiseringsteori bør integreres tettere. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 23: 1-19. doi: 10.18261/issn.0805-9535-2016-04-02
- 2014. Medienes trusselteater. Bergens Tidende. 1 pages. Published 2014-08-02.
- 2014. Media Effects as a Two-Sided Field: Comparing Theories and Research of Framing and Agenda Setting. 3, pages 207-2017. In:
- 2014. Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. edition lumière. 375 pages. ISBN: 978-3-943245-28-8.
- 2013. Må avisen ha en mening? Bergens Tidende. 1 pages. Published 2013-11-09.
- 2013. Må avisen ha en mening? Bergens Tidende. 1 pages. Published 2013-11-09.
- 2013. Simulation of a suite of generic long-pulse neutron instruments to optimize the time structure of the European Spallation Source. Review of Scientific Instruments. 84. 9 pages. doi: 10.1063/1.4803167
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Journalism, political communication, framing, agenda setting, media effects, news values, mediatisation of politics, quantitative content analysis, survey experiment, public opinion.
2016-2020: Postdoctor project: Sharing the other side: the role of emotions in social media behaviour
2016-2018: Exploring the consequenses of native advertising
2011-2015: PhD project: The Power of Journalistic Framing: News Frames, Public Opinion and Mediatization