Lene Heiselberg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 283610 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lene Heiselberg |
| NOMBRES | Lene |
| APELLIDO | Heiselberg |
| FIRMA | HEISELBERG L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9992-696X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
We’re lucky to have them
Volunteer Journalism (VJ) refers to journalism produced by organized community groups of non-professionals. It is distinct from traditional and citizen journalism, and its audience perspectives remain underexplored. This study examines how audiences of six VJ outlets engage with and perceive VJ based on 21 in-depth interviews conducted across Denmark, India, and the United States. Based on a thematic qualitative data analysis, the results reveal …
Growing up with misinformation
This mixed-methods study explores how children aged 5–12 years experience and respond to perceived misinformation on social media. Drawing on mobile ethnographic data and a survey of 401 Danish children, the research shows that children perceive misinformation as a frequent part of their digital lives, especially on platforms such as YouTube. Children encounter diverse forms of misleading content—from playful videos to harmful challenges and fake…
“I Think It’s Exciting and Frightening at the Same Time”
This study explores audience sentiments toward generative artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism by analyzing in-depth qualitative interviews with Danish news consumers. Findings show that while the users acknowledge AI’s potential to improve efficiency and writing quality—and are sometimes delighted by the prospects—they emphasize the need for a human journalist in the loop. Many are concerned about AI replacing human journalists; some fear …
Children and digital misinformation
Children around the world are increasingly left to navigate digital information on their own, yet research on their encounters with online misinformation remains limited. This scoping review identifies existing peer-reviewed literature on children and digital misinformation, analyzes its methodological approaches and key findings, and highlights areas for future studies, such as research in regions of the Global South. After searching four databa…
CoPro interviewing
Purpose This study proposes CoPro interviewing as a participatory method in qualitative research and examines its value in audience research and journalistic practice. Design/methodology/approach The study takes a qualitative approach, drawing on the concepts of proxy interviewing (Cammett, 2013) and structured facilitation tools like concept cards (Sutton, 2011). A case study of a Danish media company illustrates the implementation of CoPro inte…
Affective Storytelling for Video News
The transition from traditional flow television to streaming services has created a media landscape in which traditional news outlets are in intense competition with entertainment content. This paper argues for optimizing news for streaming through the affective structure of news narration. We compared flow TV news with a novel narrative structure, the Batman Affective Structure (BAS). The BAS strategically places an emotional peak at the news me…
Volunteer Journalism
The Context-Dependent Demand for Watchdog Journalism
The watchdog role is central to the democratic legitimacy of journalism and is also perceived as an essential part of journalists' role performance by the public.So far, the expectations on journalists' watchdog role performance have been studied as a static concept resulting in limited knowledge of the underlying dynamics in audience demand and expectations for this type of journalism.We argue that the demand for watchdog journalism is dynamic a…
Local journalism and its audience
Local media outlets are merging, cutting jobs, or closing, due to a loss in audiences and in advertising revenues in an era of digitalization of information environments. This development raises the question how local media outlets can respond to the ongoing digitalization of information environments to retain or even regain audiences and, hereby, their attractiveness for advertisers. This study uses a mixed methods audience research approach to …
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms
This paper points out the main opportunities and challenges when qualitative data collection (both in-depth interviews and focus groups) is transferred from an in-person setting to a video conferencing platform. Online video research interviews (OVRI) permit an overcoming of limitations in in-person interviews such as access to participants, time, expense, and a potential impact of the researcher's physical presence during data collection on the …
“There Must be Room for Critical Questions, but … ”
In this article, we study how journalists may discursively balance their different and, at times, conflicting roles in the emergence phase of a health crisis in order not to violate news audience respondents’ sense of decorum , i.e., propriety or appropriateness in a communication situation. Based on 21 in-depth interviews with Danish news users about the questions posed by journalists to politicians and public officials in the emergence phase of…
Host Qualities
This article empirically identifies and conceptualises listener expectations of podcast hosts based on a general and open research question concerning which expectations podcast listeners have for podcast hosts. From an explorative empirical study of 20 online focus group interviews with Danish radio- and podcast listeners, the article concludes that the expectations of podcast hosts are grouped into three categories: knowledge, storytelling, and…
Affektiv polarisering i Norden – en oversikt
En åpen og opplyst offentlig samtale er en forutsetning for et velfungerende demokrati. Dette idealet fordrer at borgere i stor grad tolererer meningsmotstandere fremfor å utvikle fiendtlige holdninger til dem man er uenig med. En rekke studier fra USA har imidlertid vist at borgere i økende grad er fiendtlig innstilt til velgere de er politisk uenig med (Iyengar et al., 2019). Dette fenomenet er kjent som affektiv polarisering. Noen studier har …
Automated News Reading in the Neural Age
Automated journalism is rapidly developing in the news industry. Among the most recent and promising technological potentials are neural voices, i.e., text-to-speech technology powered by neural networks. Based on a reception analysis with in-depth qualitative interviews (N = 12), this study explores how Danish radio listeners receive a full news broadcast read by a neural voice and perceive the credibility of the neural reader and the news conte…
Methodological Innovation in Industry-based Journalism Research
Since the media industry, due to a constantly developing media landscape, demands rapid and regular innovation of empirical methods, methodological innovation become a more compelling problem in industry compared to academic journalism research. This paper exemplifies methodological innovation in industry journalism research by means of a case study: NeuroJour, an industry pilot research project focusing on brain processing of digital journalism.…
Following the viewers
Intelligent design af fokusgrupper - om metodisk design af fokusgrupper og menneskets forskellige intelligenser
Når man arbejder professionelt med at gennemføre kvalitative mini- og fokusgruppeanalyser, kan det ikke undgås, at man som moderator indimellem tænker: Hvorfor deltager hun ikke? Hvad kan jeg gøre for at inkludere hende i diskussionen? Ofte skyldes nogle deltageres manglende engagement, at mini- eller fokusgruppens metodiske design favoriserer de deltagere, som har en fremtrædende verbalsproglig intelligens, og samtidig ekskluderes de, der har an…
Local journalism and its audience
Local media outlets are merging, cutting jobs, or closing, due to a loss in audiences and in advertising revenues in an era of digitalization of information environments. This development raises the question how local media outlets can respond to the ongoing digitalization of information environments to retain or even regain audiences and, hereby, their attractiveness for advertisers. This study uses a mixed methods audience research approach to …
Host Qualities
This article empirically identifies and conceptualises listener expectations of podcast hosts based on a general and open research question concerning which expectations podcast listeners have for podcast hosts. From an explorative empirical study of 20 online focus group interviews with Danish radio- and podcast listeners, the article concludes that the expectations of podcast hosts are grouped into three categories: knowledge, storytelling, and…
The Context-Dependent Demand for Watchdog Journalism
The watchdog role is central to the democratic legitimacy of journalism and is also perceived as an essential part of journalists' role performance by the public.So far, the expectations on journalists' watchdog role performance have been studied as a static concept resulting in limited knowledge of the underlying dynamics in audience demand and expectations for this type of journalism.We argue that the demand for watchdog journalism is dynamic a…
Intelligent design af fokusgrupper - om metodisk design af fokusgrupper og menneskets forskellige intelligenser
Når man arbejder professionelt med at gennemføre kvalitative mini- og fokusgruppeanalyser, kan det ikke undgås, at man som moderator indimellem tænker: Hvorfor deltager hun ikke? Hvad kan jeg gøre for at inkludere hende i diskussionen? Ofte skyldes nogle deltageres manglende engagement, at mini- eller fokusgruppens metodiske design favoriserer de deltagere, som har en fremtrædende verbalsproglig intelligens, og samtidig ekskluderes de, der har an…
Following the viewers
Methodological Innovation in Industry-based Journalism Research
Since the media industry, due to a constantly developing media landscape, demands rapid and regular innovation of empirical methods, methodological innovation become a more compelling problem in industry compared to academic journalism research. This paper exemplifies methodological innovation in industry journalism research by means of a case study: NeuroJour, an industry pilot research project focusing on brain processing of digital journalism.…
Automated News Reading in the Neural Age
Automated journalism is rapidly developing in the news industry. Among the most recent and promising technological potentials are neural voices, i.e., text-to-speech technology powered by neural networks. Based on a reception analysis with in-depth qualitative interviews (N = 12), this study explores how Danish radio listeners receive a full news broadcast read by a neural voice and perceive the credibility of the neural reader and the news conte…
Transforming Qualitative Interviewing Techniques for Video Conferencing Platforms
This paper points out the main opportunities and challenges when qualitative data collection (both in-depth interviews and focus groups) is transferred from an in-person setting to a video conferencing platform. Online video research interviews (OVRI) permit an overcoming of limitations in in-person interviews such as access to participants, time, expense, and a potential impact of the researcher's physical presence during data collection on the …
“There Must be Room for Critical Questions, but … ”
In this article, we study how journalists may discursively balance their different and, at times, conflicting roles in the emergence phase of a health crisis in order not to violate news audience respondents’ sense of decorum , i.e., propriety or appropriateness in a communication situation. Based on 21 in-depth interviews with Danish news users about the questions posed by journalists to politicians and public officials in the emergence phase of…
Host Qualities
This article empirically identifies and conceptualises listener expectations of podcast hosts based on a general and open research question concerning which expectations podcast listeners have for podcast hosts. From an explorative empirical study of 20 online focus group interviews with Danish radio- and podcast listeners, the article concludes that the expectations of podcast hosts are grouped into three categories: knowledge, storytelling, and…
Affektiv polarisering i Norden – en oversikt
En åpen og opplyst offentlig samtale er en forutsetning for et velfungerende demokrati. Dette idealet fordrer at borgere i stor grad tolererer meningsmotstandere fremfor å utvikle fiendtlige holdninger til dem man er uenig med. En rekke studier fra USA har imidlertid vist at borgere i økende grad er fiendtlig innstilt til velgere de er politisk uenig med (Iyengar et al., 2019). Dette fenomenet er kjent som affektiv polarisering. Noen studier har …
Volunteer Journalism
The Context-Dependent Demand for Watchdog Journalism
The watchdog role is central to the democratic legitimacy of journalism and is also perceived as an essential part of journalists' role performance by the public.So far, the expectations on journalists' watchdog role performance have been studied as a static concept resulting in limited knowledge of the underlying dynamics in audience demand and expectations for this type of journalism.We argue that the demand for watchdog journalism is dynamic a…
Local journalism and its audience
Local media outlets are merging, cutting jobs, or closing, due to a loss in audiences and in advertising revenues in an era of digitalization of information environments. This development raises the question how local media outlets can respond to the ongoing digitalization of information environments to retain or even regain audiences and, hereby, their attractiveness for advertisers. This study uses a mixed methods audience research approach to …
“I Think It’s Exciting and Frightening at the Same Time”
This study explores audience sentiments toward generative artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism by analyzing in-depth qualitative interviews with Danish news consumers. Findings show that while the users acknowledge AI’s potential to improve efficiency and writing quality—and are sometimes delighted by the prospects—they emphasize the need for a human journalist in the loop. Many are concerned about AI replacing human journalists; some fear …
Children and digital misinformation
Children around the world are increasingly left to navigate digital information on their own, yet research on their encounters with online misinformation remains limited. This scoping review identifies existing peer-reviewed literature on children and digital misinformation, analyzes its methodological approaches and key findings, and highlights areas for future studies, such as research in regions of the Global South. After searching four databa…
CoPro interviewing
Purpose This study proposes CoPro interviewing as a participatory method in qualitative research and examines its value in audience research and journalistic practice. Design/methodology/approach The study takes a qualitative approach, drawing on the concepts of proxy interviewing (Cammett, 2013) and structured facilitation tools like concept cards (Sutton, 2011). A case study of a Danish media company illustrates the implementation of CoPro inte…
Affective Storytelling for Video News
The transition from traditional flow television to streaming services has created a media landscape in which traditional news outlets are in intense competition with entertainment content. This paper argues for optimizing news for streaming through the affective structure of news narration. We compared flow TV news with a novel narrative structure, the Batman Affective Structure (BAS). The BAS strategically places an emotional peak at the news me…
We’re lucky to have them
Volunteer Journalism (VJ) refers to journalism produced by organized community groups of non-professionals. It is distinct from traditional and citizen journalism, and its audience perspectives remain underexplored. This study examines how audiences of six VJ outlets engage with and perceive VJ based on 21 in-depth interviews conducted across Denmark, India, and the United States. Based on a thematic qualitative data analysis, the results reveal …
Growing up with misinformation
This mixed-methods study explores how children aged 5–12 years experience and respond to perceived misinformation on social media. Drawing on mobile ethnographic data and a survey of 401 Danish children, the research shows that children perceive misinformation as a frequent part of their digital lives, especially on platforms such as YouTube. Children encounter diverse forms of misleading content—from playful videos to harmful challenges and fake…
Sociology (11 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Journalism (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Media studies (6 obras) · Media Studies and Communication (6 obras) · Media Influence and Health (4 obras) · Public relations (4 obras) · Advertising (3 obras)