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Erik Knudsen

@erikknudsen.bsky.social
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Professor at University of Bergen🦉🇳🇴 and hobby photographer 📸 || Research: news use 📱📰/ AI and democracy 🤖🏛️/ online political communication 🗣️🔁/ trust 🤝⚖️/ surveyexperiments 🔀📊

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Lene Angelskår @lenange.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Want to apply for a #MSCA #postdoc grant w/Bergen Media Use Group? We're looking for scholars interested in how people connect to eachother & society through media @britaytrearne.bsky.social @joelleswart.bsky.social @tgrootkormelink.bsky.social @erikknudsen.bsky.social @janniehartley.bsky.social
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Interested in a Marie Curie fellowship with the Media Use Group? | UiB
Contact us by May 1st 2026 to discuss developing your proposal.
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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵
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Lene Angelskår @lenange.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
What is it like to be a young man in the age of the smartphone? 📱👨 Book launch with John Magnus Dahl 5.Sept at @sfimediafutures.bsky.social! @britaytrearne.bsky.social @erikknudsen.bsky.social @ozlemtonnesen.bsky.social @emiliestronen.bsky.social @hildesak.bsky.social www.uib.no/en/infomedia...
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Book Launch: Teen Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices
What is it like to be a young man in the age of the smartphone? Welcome to the launch of Teen Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices: In the Palm of Their Hands (John Magnus R. Dahl, Univer...
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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Today was the Young Academy of Norway board meeting, and it was so nice to host it at the Natural History Museum @uio.no on such a nice day in the botanical garden! @erikknudsen.bsky.social @haleydk.bsky.social
Young Academy of Norway board members outside building at NHM Oslo.
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Erik Knudsen @erikknudsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Det stemmer at Medieundersøkelsen i 2009 (den gang ledet av Frank Aarebrot) hadde et spm om det. Slik ser den fordelingen ut (minus de som svarer «ikke sikker»). Her er det imidlertid viktig å påpeke at n=42 som har svart at de jobber i presselosjen, så det er veldig små tall brutt ned på parti.
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Erik Knudsen @erikknudsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Figuren indikerer at journalister og redaktører som jobber med norsk politikk er noe nærmere Norsk befolkning (i snitt) enn det journalister og redaktører som IKKE jobber med politikk er.
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Erik Knudsen @erikknudsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Jeg har analyser av det også (som Floberghagen refererte til på #dax18). Jeg har delt journalister og redaktører opp etter om de svarte Ja/Nei på et spm om de jobber med Norsk politikk og sett på hvor de ulike utvalgene i snitt plasserer seg på en skala fra helt til venstre til helt til høyre:
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Erik Knudsen @erikknudsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Ja, det pleier å være en del av den årlige debatten. FrP er riktignok underrepresentert (sammenlignet med befolkningen) for både (fagorganiserte) journalister og redaktører, men Venstre er f.eks. overrepresentert blant redaktørene i utvalget, så det er noen nyanser her.
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Erik Knudsen @erikknudsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Vi spør medlemmer i Redaktørforeningen også.
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Lene Angelskår @lenange.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨 Postdoc opportunity in Bergen! Join the IMAGINE project to explore how Norwegians experience AI in media. Qualitative case study, critical perspectives, and a great research team including @britaytrearne.bsky.social & @erikknudsen.bsky.social awaits! 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadl: 7.8
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Media Studies: Citizens, AI and news experiences (281032) | University of Bergen
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Media Studies: Citizens, AI and news experiences (281032), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025
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Erik Knudsen @erikknudsen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
«Overdreven skepsis» hadde nok vært mer presist. Mitt viktigste poeng var imidlertid at jeg ikke er overbevist om at det er alder som driver forskjellen i studien. Metastudien bygger *ikke* på studier med tilfeldig utvalg, så de eldre deltakerne er nok mer digitalt kompetente enn det eldre flest er.
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Mark Boukes @markboukes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
My latest article is published in the Journal of Communication! "Deliberation in online political talk: How do satire, regular news, and partisan news differ in interactivity, diversity, rationality, and incivility?" Open-access: https//doi.org/10.... Thank you to all those that contributed!
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Özlem Demirkol Tønnesen @ozlemtonnesen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Sitting in my first experience of a public PhD defence of a kickass researcher and a good friend 🫶❤️
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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New article in Journal of Communication looking at changes to trust in news across 46 countries in the last 10 years. Trust in news declined in just over half of countries. It decreased more in countries where TV news use has declined, and/or where social media news use has grown. A thread:
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The link between changing news use and trust: longitudinal analysis of 46 countries
Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count
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Brita Ytre-Arne @britaytrearne.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Interested in perceptions of AI? We are hiring a PhD candidate for our new project IMAGINE, to work with @erikknudsen.bsky.social on citizen panel data. Fully funded, good working conditions and a supportive research environment in beautiful Bergen! #CommSky
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PhD position in media studies - IMAGINE (270652) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD position in media studies - IMAGINE (270652), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
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Erik Knudsen @erikknudsen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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