Jo Helle-Valle:

Helle-Valle holds a dr. polit. in social anthropology from 1996 based on fieldwork in a local community in the Kalahari. He has also conducted fieldwork in Uganda and Ethiopia. For the last five years he has been working with digital media in Norway and is now the leader of the research group Digital Media at SIFO. He has published on a wide variety of topics, the latest and most relevant are "ICTs, domestication and language-games: a Wittgensteinian approach to media uses", together with Dag Slettemeås, in New Media & Society, 10(1): 45-66 (2008), and “Language-games, in/dividuals and media uses: What a practice perspective should imply for media studies”, in B. Bräuchler & J. Postill (eds.) Theorising Media and Practice. Oxford: Berghahn (2008). More...

Ardis Storm-Mathisen:

Storm-Mathisen has a cand. polit in sociologi from 1995, University of Oslo, and has since 1998 been working at SIFO on research areas related to teenage socialisation and consumption, particularly with respect to discourses of clothing, identity construction and the body. Her ph.d thesis accounts for methodological and theoretical issues in relation to such matters. She has since spring 2007 been engaged in SIFOs research group “Digital Media” and the project “Contextualizing Adolescents e-gaming”. Her present research interest is to apply a practice perspective in understanding how young people and their families deal with digital media, and how matters of gender and identity play into these dealings. More...

Ingrid Kjørstad:

Kjørstad is cand. polit. in sociology from the University of Oslo in 2000, with psychology and criminology included in the degree, and cultural - and web sociology as a speciality. She is currently working in the Digital Media research group at SIFO. Her main interest is in children and adolecents' relationship to new media, e.g. the Internet and computer games. Kjørstad has previously worked in projects related to consumer attitudes towards food and animal welfare in food production. Other areas of work include the use of Internet as marketplace, in particular related to the travel market. She will soon start a phd related to gender and ICT. More...

Siv Elin Ånestad:

Ånestad has a cand.polit degree in social anthropology combined with media and consumer studies from the University of Bergen. She has worked as a qualitative analyst in the market research firm Research International AS (2006-2008) and as a marketing consultant at the Norwegian publishing house Det Norske Samlaget AS (2005). Ånestad began at SIFO in April 2008, and is presently working on projects connected to online political engagement among youth, European labelling strategies and animal welfare. More...

Terje Rasmussen:

Rasmussen will from Nov. 1 2008 hold a Professor II title at SIFO and will work 20% with the DigiMedia group. Rasmussen is Professor of Media studies at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. He is former professor of Media studies (part time) at the Department of Information and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. He is educated at the University of Oslo, University of Bergen, University of California at Santa Cruz - in Sociology. Research interests are related 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...