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June, 9-11, 2010 |
Phd-course on - Media Ethnograhpy: Theory and Practice. Senior researcher at SIFO Dr. Jo Helle Valle was speaker togheter with Dr. Debra Spitulnik, Associate Professor, Emory University, USA - Dr. Thomas Tufte, Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark - Dr. John Postill,C3 Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, UK - and Associate Professor Jo Tacchi, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. |
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May 20, 2010 |
New SIFO professional report by Dag Slettemeås and Kjersti Lillebø: "Parabolens betydning for identifisering og tilhørighet blant innvandrere i Norge" (The significance of satellite-mediated television for identification and belonging among immigrants in Norway). |
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Apr. 30, 2010 |
SIFO's project application to the NRC VERDIKT program, "RFID in Society", was awarded funding! Congratulations. The project will commence in 2010 and be finalized in 2013. The project is a collaboration between SIFO, TIK-UiO, SNF-NHH and IMK-UiO. Jo Helle-Valle at SIFO will be project manager.
In addition a second project, "NFC city" was awarded funding by VERDIKT. SIFO is also a project partner in this project, which is headed by Telenor R&I. |
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Apr. 24, 2010 |
DigiMedia / SIFO submitted an application about ICT, gender and pre-schools to the NRC program "Utdanning2020" |
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Apr. 12, 2010 |
New SIFO report on identity theft: "Identitetstyveri i tillitsfulle systemer". Dag Slettemeås has written ch. 5.8 and 5.9 on the Internet and e-commerce. |
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Apr. 9, 2010 |
5 recent comments in online and paper media (Feb. 22 - Apr. 9) - VG, Vårt Land, BT, Adresseavisen, Ukeavisen Ledelse. See media coverage page. |
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Mar. 25, 2010 |
Two applications were submitted to NOS from the DigiMedia group on March 25. ; one related to service journalism and one to transnational lives and networks. Both applications include a Nordic perspective. In addition an application on migrants, networks, and capital forms was submitted to VAM on March 17. |
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Mar. 22, 2010 |
Feature article in Skolemagasinet 2/2010, by Dag Slettemeås: "Endres forbrukerrolles innhold og betydning i det digitaliserte samfunn?" See article here. |
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Mar. 18, 2010 |
Inaugural meeting of the standardisation committee SN/K 178- Automatic identification and data capture. Dag Slettemeås from DigiMedia will represent SIFO and the consumer perspective, in particular related to RFID and privacy. |
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Feb. 1, 2010 |
Article published online in International Journal of Consumer Studies;
"The EMF uncertainty problem related to mobile phones: where do consumers place their trust?".
By SIFO researchers Lisbet Berg, Dag Slettemeås and Harald Throne-Holst. Go to article website.
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Jan. 18, 2010 |
Media coverage on the SIFO report "Forbrukeres digitale mestring" (Digital competence among consumers): 1) Nrk.no: ”Sliter med bruksanvisningen” and 2) Tv2nyhetene.no: ”Én av ti er digital analfabet” |
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Jan. 14-15, 2010 |
2-day workshop at SIFO, with researchers from SIFO and Høgskolan i Halmstad. The workshop is financed by the Migranord network and seeks to explore ideas and application opportunities for projects related to digital media and immigrants/ethnicity. |
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Jan. 5, 2010 |
Ingrid Kjørstad's PhD-application has been accepted by the University of Oslo, Department of Media and Communication. Congratulations! |
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Jan. 4, 2010 |
SIFO press release on new report: "Forbrukeres digitale mestring: SIFO survey hurtigstatistikk 2009" (Digital competence among consumers). The report is based on survey data from the annual SIFO survey. Report to be found here. Article based on the report in VG, Jan. 2, 2010: ”- Kundene sårbare for svindel på nett”, s. 20 |
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Dec. 21, 2009 |
Article on the NRC webpage discussing the conference on digital gambling. Anita Borch comments on her PhD. |
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Dec. 16, 2009 |
Telenor presented their preliminary findings from a project on immigrants and media technologies at SIFO. |
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Dec. 14, 2009 |
Feature article in Dagbladet on mobile phone radiation, the consumers perspective and risk communication. By Dag Slettemeås, Lisbet Berg and Harald Throne-Holst: "Er mobiltelenfonen farlig?", Kronikk Dagbladet, 14. des. 2009, s. 51. |
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Dec. 10, 2009 |
Dag Slettemeås presented the RFID topic to the SIFO board: "RFID - konsekvenser for forbrukerne" (RFID - and consequences for consumers). Presentation here. |
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Nov. 25, 2009 |
The DigiMedia group has participated in the submission of three project applications to the NRC Verdikt programme, one internal and two externally administred. These proposals embrace all three Verdikt themes; social media, internet of things and mobile internet. Congratulations! Verdikt call to be found here. |
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Nov. 10, 2009 |
Jo Helle-Valle comments on mobile content services in Forbrukerrapporten, November 2009. See online version here. |
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Nov. 3, 2009 |
The book "Fobrukerens ansvar" (Consumer responsibility)is published by SIFO-researchers (and others), in celebration of SIFOs 70th anniversary. Jo Helle-Valle has written the chapter: "Si aldri nei til å gå ut med venner fordi du spiller på WoW", about online games, dicipline and communicationve contexts.
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Oct. 20, 2009 |
SIFOs Jubileumsseminar - "Forbruksforskning i tiden" will take place at the University of Oslo, Nov. 5-6, 2009. Jo Helle-Valle from DigiMedia will present on the topic: "Si aldri nei til å gå ut med venner fordi du spiller WoW”, Friday Nov. 6 at 11.30.
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Oct. 9, 2009 |
DigiMedia has received funding from MigraNord to conduct a workshop (with the University of Halmstad) to develop a research idea related to media, migration and ethnicity/race. The workshop will be held in January 2010 and will result in a research application.
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Oct. 9, 2009 |
Dag Slettemeås gave a presentation at the eCitizen 2009 (eBorgerseminaret 2009), arranged by Vox, on the theme: Forbrukerperspektivet;borgerne blir egne saksbehandlere og ekspeditører – ønsker vi det? Presentation available here. |
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Oct. 1, 2009 |
The DigiMedia group has so far this fall made two sketches to the VERDIKT program, one Phd-application to IMK-UiO, two applications to RAM, and one application to Migra-Nord to finance a workshop. Well done everyone! |
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Sep. 3, 2009 |
Anita Borch has contributed to the book Global Gambling. Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations, by writing the chapter "Balancing Rules: Gambling Consumption at Home". |
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Sep. 23, 2009 |
Dag Slettemeås gave a lecture at IMK (Department of media and communication -University of Oslo) to MA students on the information society - a consumer perspective (Informasjonssamfunnet - et forbrukerperspektiv). Presentation available here. Terje Rasmussen (IMK / SIFO) is heading the relevant course. |
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Sep. 2-5, 2009 |
Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen attended the ESA 2009 - 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association in Lisbon, Portugal. Helle-Valle presented at the "Consumption practices" session and Storm-Mathisen at the "Theorising Consumption" session. More on the conference here. |
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Jul. 21, 2009 |
Dag Slettemeås got the article RFID – the ‘next step’ in consumer-product relations, or Orwellian nightmare? Challenges for research and policy published online in Journal of Consumer Policy. |
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Jun. 24-26, 2009 |
The paper Mobile phones, risk and the EMF uncertainty problem: Where do consumers place their trust? was presented at the 4th international Consumer Sciences Research Conference, Consumer Voice and Representation, in Edinburgh. Dag Slettemeås has co-authored this paper together with Lisbet Berg and Harald Throne-Holst. More information here.
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Jun. 19, 2009 |
Latest media coverage: 11 new entries in various online and offline news media since April 2009, related to mobile phone radiation, and consumer power and social media. See media coverage section. |
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Jun. 1, 2009 |
New project: "Barn og unge som forbrukere av kommersielle digitale medietilbud" - (Children and youth as consumers of commercial digital media services). Start: June 1, 2009. End: December 31, 2009. Kjørstad and Ånestad from the DigiMedia group will work on the project - which is in collaboration with Forbrukerombudet. |
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Apr. 29-May 1, 2009 |
Ardis Storm-Mahisen presented a paper on contextualising adolecents' egaming at Media Culture in Change - 54th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association. (See conference section). |
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Apr. 22, 2009 |
Feature article in Aftenposten by Anita Borch. Theme: Online gambling addiction and the female burden. |
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Apr. 21, 2009 |
One-day Kick-off seminar at SIFO for the NOS-HS project Gendering ICT in everday life. The Nordic partnes, Tufte from CBS (Denmark) and Linderot from UIG (Sweden) participated. |
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Apr. 3, 2009 |
News article in Ny Tid on risk and information connected with the mobile radiation dilemma, specifically related to children and health risks. Dag Slettemeås is interviewed on the consumer perspective. |
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Apr. 1, 2009 |
New publication by Ingrid Kjørstad in HumanIT: "Taming the Game : Children’s Constructive Use of Social and Communicative Context When Playing Scary Computer Games". Human IT - Journal for Information Technology Studies as a Human Science, 10 (1), 60-79. To read the article, click here. |
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Mar. 18, 2009 |
SIFO participated in the IT-Funk "user forum" (Brukerforum). IT Funk is a NRC-funded project on ICT for the handicapped. Jo Helle-Valle presented ideas that could be developed into projects on elderly and ICT in particular. The presentation was called: ”Digital-TV: forbedret brukerdesign og -støtte for eldre – en prosjektidé.” (Digital-TV: improved user-design and -support for the elderly - a project idea". |
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Mar. 3, 2009 |
Dialogue meeting between the DigiMedia group and Forbrukerombudet on ICT/media related issues. Both parties informed about their prospective activities, and potential collaboration on specific topics was discussed. |
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Mar. 1, 2009 |
Ingrid Kjørstad is now back from maternity leave and will rejoin the DigiMedia group. She will soon start a phd on gender and ICT related to the NOS-HS project. Welcome back! |
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Feb. 27, 2009 |
Taina Bucher has her last day at SIFO today. She has worked on several project initiatives for the DigiMedia group and specifically on the RAM-project on youth and online participation. Bucher is now pursuing a PhD at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Good luck! |
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Jan. 30, 2009 |
The RAM-project on youth and politcal participation online, which was formally completed in 2008, has now presented two project reports: 1) Ungdoms samfunnsdeltakelse på internett - resultater skolekartlegging 2008 (Civic engagement of youth on the internet; report from a school survey 2008), by Benedicte Hauge and Ardis Storm-Mathisen - and 2) Ungdom, politikk og internett - en akademisk refleksjon over norsk ungdoms samfunnsdeltakelse og politiske engasjement online (Youth, politics and the internet; an academic refelction on youth's social involvement and political participation online) by Taina Bucher, Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle. The project reports were commented on in VG (04.02.2009) p. 18 and in Dagbladet (11.02.2009). Bucher presented the project and its findings at SIFO 11.02.2009, and at Forbrukerrådet 24.02.2009.
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Jan. 26, 2009 |
The DigiMedia group got NOS-HS funding (for 2009-2013) for the project proposal Gendering ICT in Everyday Life. A Comparative Study of Practices in Family and Extra Family Contexts. SIFO will be project leader and Jo Helle-Valle will manage the project. The project further involves a Nordic collaboration and a PhD. The Danish partner is the Center for Marketing Communication, Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - and the Swedish partner is The Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction, and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS), Department of Education, University of Göteborg (UIG). Congratulations!! |
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Jan. 23, 2009 |
The DigiMedia group got RAM funding (for 2009) for the research proposal Parabolens betydning for identifisering og tilhørighet blant innvandrere i Norge med fokus på innvandrerbarns kulturelle læring gjennom fjernsyn (The significance of satellite-TV for identification and belonging among immigrants in Norway, with focus on immigrant children's cultural learning through television). Congratulations! |
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Jan. 22, 2009 |
The SIFO project report Forbrukere i bredbånds- og TV-markedet (Consumers in the broadband and TV market) was presented on the SIFO website on January 22. The survey is part of a collaboration between the DigiMedia-project and the SIFO-survey project. The report is written by Dag Slettemeås. Findings from the report were commented on in Aftenposten(22.01), Teknofil (22.01), NRK (22.01), in a live broadcast by Radio Metro (23.01), and NITO (29.01). |
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Jan. 18, 2009 |
Debate article by Taina Bucher in Dagbladet; Politisk engasjement anno 2009 (Political activity in 2009). The article addresses the key issue of what it means to be politically and socially engaged in present day society. The article is partly based on findings from the RAM-project Ungdoms samfunnsdeltakelse online. (Online societal activity among youth). |
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Dec. 10, 2008 |
Terje Rasmussen presented the concept social capital at SIFO and its recent centrality in Social Science and other sciences. The concept was in this presentation linked to digital media as an arena for socal capital and as a foundation for knowledge and everyday actions in civil society, as well as in the consumer market.
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Nov. 28, 2008 |
Ardis Storm-Mathisen defended her PhD dissertation "Kontekstualisert mening – en diskursiv analyse av unges klær og identiteter" (Contextualized meaning - a discursive analysis of young people's clothes and identities) on November 28, at the University of Oslo. More... |
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Nov. 25-28, 2008 |
SIFO presented a poster and a paper at ECREA's 2nd European Communication Conference in Barcelona. The poster was presented by Jo Helle-Valle on the 27th (abstract and poster available) and the paper was presented by Dag Slettemeås on the 28th (abstract and paper available). In addition, SIFO Prof. II Terje Rasmussen from IMK, presented a paper on the 27th (abstract available). |
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Nov. 10-11, 2008 |
Senter for tverrfaglig kjønnsforskning (STK) (Centre for Gender Research), University of Oslo, held a two-day conference called "Kjønnsforskning Nå!" (Gender Research Now!). Jo Helle-Valle gave a talk on "gender as language-game". Siv Elin Ånestad and Ardis Storm-Mathisen from the DigiMedia group participated. |
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Nov. 10, 2008 |
The DigiMedia group has this fall managed to produce and deliver four project applications (five in 2008) to a range of external programs / financing sources such as NKS, RAM, NOS-HS and Fritt Ord. Well done to all those involved! |
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Nov. 5, 2008 |
Mini-seminar at SIFO with NOVA-researcher Guro Ødegaard on youth and political engagement. Title: Motløs ungdom? Nytt engasjement i et gammelt demokrati. Ødegaard is soon completeing her PhD on this subject and this seminar was relevant for both SIFO and NOVA in terms of exchanging perspectives. The seminar was particularly relevant for the DigiMedia-project on adolecents' societal activities online. |
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Nov. 1, 2008 |
Prof. Terje Rasmussen from IMK, UiO, starts his Prof. II position at SIFO on Nov. 1 and he will be part of DigiMedia - welcome! Terje Rasmussen's research interests relates to the use and transformation of digital personal media in social networks, the sociological controversies that influence the Internet as a social force, the digitization and selection of culture in archives and museums, Internet governance, online journalism, transformations of the european public sphere. More from the IMK website and from Terje's personal website |
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Oct. 28, 2008 |
Ardis Storm-Mathisen got her Phd accepted today! Congratulations Ardis! Her dissertation will be on November 28. 2008. More... |
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Oct. 24, 2008 |
New SIFO article! Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen has now published their article "Playing Computer Games in the Family Context" in the level 1 journal HumanIT. More... |
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Oct. 17, 2008 |
New SIFO publication! Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle has written the chapter "Media, Identity and Methodology : Reflections on Practice and Discourse" in the new edited book Mediated Crossroads: Identity, Youth Culture and Ethnicity. Theoretical and Methodological Challenges. More... |
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Oct. 15, 2008 |
Jo Helle-Valle presents "What is practice theory" at SIFO. Helle-Valle frames practice theory in terms of ontological aspects and in terms of analytical aspects. This presentation is one outcome of the DigiMedia group's workshop on practice theory.
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Oct. 13, 2008 |
Cooperation meeting with Forbrukerombudet (FO) on common areas of interest related to the field of ICT, digital media and consumer aspects. |
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Sept. 1, 2008 |
New feature article in Aftenposten, by Dag Slettemeås: "Vår tids strålekilde" (The radiation source of our time). This article led to a series of other news articles, as well as comments in radio and television. More... |
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Aug. 29, 2008 |
TV2 - "TV2 Hjeler Deg" - on TV-channel packages and consumer satisfaction. Dag Slettemeås commented the FTI-survey results for 2008 that Lisbet Berg is responsible for. More... |
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Aug. 20-21, 2008 |
Two-day DigiMedia-seminar: The DigiMedia group got together for two full days to brainstorm and to make a strategy for what the group should focus on in the near future on how this should be approached. |
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June 18, 2008 |
Dag Slettemeås presents his PhD-project "Domesticating media technology - domesticating home?" at SIFO; background, theory, method and progress. More about the project at IMKs website. |
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June 27, 2008 |
DigiMedia launches it's new project website! This website will be an integral part of the DigiMedia-project, in the sense that it functions as a comprehensive information source, a reference and project development tool, a document archive / database, a meeting-point for scholars, and as a pool of ideas for future project development. It is also a "marketing tool" to make visible to a wider audience the research efforts conducted within the group.
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June 6, 2008 |
DigiMedia initiates it's first meeting of the practice theory workshop. This workshop is not part of a particular project but aims at developing a pragmatic methodology/research tool, based on practice theory perspectives, which can be used for studying media and technology use in everyday life. More...
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April 11, 2008 |
DigiMedia's Dag Slettemeås presents his PhD-project at the IMK-initiated PhD seminar, Isegran, Fredrikstad (9-11 april). More... |
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March 27, 2008 |
DigiMedia's Dag Slettemeås presents a paper at the IMK method workshop with Sonia Livingstone (LSE). More... |
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March 13, 2008 |
Ingrid Kjørstad temporarily leaves the group due to maternity leave. She will be back in 2009! More about Ingrid... |
