Jan Fredrik Hovden
Biographic Data
| ID | 316299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Fredrik Hovden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan Fredrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Hovden |
| SIGNATURE | HOVDEN J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9133-5580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The space of immigrant discourse in the European press: Lessons from the "refugee crisis"
In this article we offer a new analysis of two never previously combined datasets on press coverage of the “refugee crisis” in Europe in 2015. Consisting of twenty-nine newspapers from eleven countries, the data provides an unprecedented sample of the European press in the time of crisis. Using forty-six characteristics of frames, agents, aids and protective measures mentioned in the articles, we demonstrate an innovative analytic approach, where…
The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism
Pierre Bourdieu argued for the existence of general properties and even laws of social fields. In contrast to spaces of class relations and patterns of cultural lifestyles, however, almost no systematic comparative research exists on the homologies of national social fields of a more specialised nature. Also, the large majority of research is done on Western countries, raising concerns about the relevance of the concept for less differentiated so…
Worlds apart. On class structuration of citizens’ political and public attention and engagement in an egalitarian society
This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's political sociology for a statistical study of the complex interrelationship between Norwegian citizens’ attention and engagement in the world of politics and broader public debate, and how such public lifestyles align with social structures. Using multiple factor analysis the article provides a broad mapping of citizens’ use of media and culture, participation in civil society and politics, and attitudes t…
The Immigration Issue and the vox Populi: Letters to the Editor in six Scandinavian Newspapers 1970–2016
Letters to the editor are argued to be a staple of the public sphere and, by providing regular citizens with a platform to voice their concerns to a large audience, a central democratic function of a liberal press. However, the actual weight given by the press to citizens’ deliberation on issues and the contribution of these letters in terms of content is still little researched, and historical and comparative studies are largely absent. In this …
Operationalizing exposure diversity
The concept of exposure diversity, the diversity of information that people actually access and use, has recently gained prominence in media policy debates. This aspect of media diversity, however, remains difficult to define, measure or implement in actual policy. In this article, we propose an empirical approach that operationalizes exposure diversity in terms of news and current affairs providers in the media repertoire of different social gro…
Role Orientations: Journalists’ Views on Their Place in Society
Identity, Empathy and Argument: Immigrants in Culture and Entertainment Journalism in the Scandinavian Press
Cultural and entertainment journalism deals with aesthetic experiences, advice on cultural consumption, as well as reflection and debate on ethical and moral humanistic issues. Does this sub-field of journalism systematically represent immigrants and integration differently than the other news and commentary articles? Comparing immigration discourse in a representative sample of six Scandinavian newspapers between 1970 and 2016 using content anal…
Increasingly Controversial, Cultural, and Political: The Immigration Debate in Scandinavian Newspapers 1970–2016
Jan Fredrik Hovden & Hilmar Mjelde*Jan Fredrik Hovden is Professor of media studies in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway. Email: Hilmar Mjelde (corresponding author) is post doctor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway
Distinctions in the media welfare state: Audience fragmentation in post-egalitarian Sweden
This study draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture in order to shed new light on the ongoing fragmentation of media audiences and users. We use a multiple correspondence analysis on national survey data (n = 1604) collected in Sweden in 2015–2016 to (1) create a statistical representation of the contemporary Swedish class structure and proceed to (2) analyze the distribution of a broad range of media practices and media preferences in tha…
The cultural journalist around the globe: A comparative study of characteristics, role perceptions, and perceived influences
This article presents a global-comparative study of journalists reporting about art and culture, that is, cultural journalists. In the literature, this particular group is said to be different from other types of journalists, because their professional work is guided more by an aesthetic logic than a news logic. Until now, however, this difference has mainly been studied in national contexts. Applying a global-comparative perspective by using dat…
A Welfare State of Mind: Nordic journalists’ conception of their role and autonomy in international context
The development of journalism in the Nordic countries has been shaped by two interconnected ideologies: the welfare state and democratic corporatism. International reviews have repeatedly emphasized the similarities of the media systems in these countries. However, less work has been done on the professional identity of individual journalists working within these systems. In this article, the similarities and differences between journalists’ prof…
Doubly Dominated: Cultural journalists in the fields of journalism and culture
Based on comprehensive surveys in 2005 and 2013 among journalists, professional critics, and artists in Norway, this article analyses the cultural journalists' position within the fields of journalism and culture. Although increasingly adhering to journalistic ideals and becoming more similar to other journalists through education and social recruitment, cultural journalism is still not the place to gain prestige and honour in the journalistic fi…
Høgt og lågt i Stortinget og departementa - Kulturbruk og kulturorientering hjå dei norske politisk-administrative elitane
To Intervene or be Neutral, to Investigate or Entertain: National and intranational factors in the formation of Nordic journalism students' role perceptions
Through a series of surveys of Nordic journalism students in 2005, 2008 and 2012 (N = 4665 respondents from 30 institutions in five countries), this article investigates the differences in students' role perceptions and their link to national, institutional and personal factors. After discussing some methodological challenges for comparative survey studies of journalists and journalism students, the major differences in students' role perceptions…
A Journalistic Cosmology
Can Norwegian journalism be meaningfully understood as constituting a social field in Pierre Bourdieu ́s sense? And if so, how did this field emerge historically, and what is its fundamental structure? Following a structural history of the rise of journalism in Norway, a model of this field in 2005 is sketched through correspondence analysis using survey data on Norwegian journalists and editors. The analysis suggest a bipolar structure: a first …
Changing relations: Class, education and cultural capital
The Nordic Journalists of Tomorrow: An Exploration of First Year Journalism Students in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
The present article summarizes the findings of a survey among first-year journalism students in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The survey covers a wide array of subjects including social recruitment, motivation for studying journalism, preferences regarding future journalistic working life, views on the role of journalism in society, attitudes toward the profession, journalistic ideals and ideas about what are the most important traits for …
Journalists in the Making: Findings from a longitudinal study of Norwegian journalism students
This article examines Norwegian journalism students’ views about their profession and education at different phases in their career and also outlines the social background of the new generation of journalists. The article presents key findings from several surveys of students conducted at the two most popular and prestigious journalism schools in Norway between 2000 and 2004. The main aim is to investigate any development in attitudes to differen…
Public policy and administration in a vulnerable society: Regulatory reforms initiated by a Norwegian commission
The aims are to give a contribution to a more enlightened and articulated framework for designing safety and rescue institutions and regulatory regimes in a post-modern vulnerable society. The discussions are based on a case study of a Governmental report on ‘A vulnerable society’ (Norway), and the main points at issue in the follow-up public debate. The main points at issue discussed are: (1) problem identification and definition, (2) principles…
Management and culture: The third age of safety. A review of approaches to organizational aspects of safety, health and environment
A Welfare State of Mind: Nordic journalists’ conception of their role and autonomy in international context
The development of journalism in the Nordic countries has been shaped by two interconnected ideologies: the welfare state and democratic corporatism. International reviews have repeatedly emphasized the similarities of the media systems in these countries. However, less work has been done on the professional identity of individual journalists working within these systems. In this article, the similarities and differences between journalists’ prof…
Journalists in the Making: Findings from a longitudinal study of Norwegian journalism students
This article examines Norwegian journalism students’ views about their profession and education at different phases in their career and also outlines the social background of the new generation of journalists. The article presents key findings from several surveys of students conducted at the two most popular and prestigious journalism schools in Norway between 2000 and 2004. The main aim is to investigate any development in attitudes to differen…
Increasingly Controversial, Cultural, and Political: The Immigration Debate in Scandinavian Newspapers 1970–2016
Jan Fredrik Hovden & Hilmar Mjelde*Jan Fredrik Hovden is Professor of media studies in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway. Email: Hilmar Mjelde (corresponding author) is post doctor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway
The Nordic Journalists of Tomorrow: An Exploration of First Year Journalism Students in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
The present article summarizes the findings of a survey among first-year journalism students in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The survey covers a wide array of subjects including social recruitment, motivation for studying journalism, preferences regarding future journalistic working life, views on the role of journalism in society, attitudes toward the profession, journalistic ideals and ideas about what are the most important traits for …
The cultural journalist around the globe: A comparative study of characteristics, role perceptions, and perceived influences
This article presents a global-comparative study of journalists reporting about art and culture, that is, cultural journalists. In the literature, this particular group is said to be different from other types of journalists, because their professional work is guided more by an aesthetic logic than a news logic. Until now, however, this difference has mainly been studied in national contexts. Applying a global-comparative perspective by using dat…
A Journalistic Cosmology
Can Norwegian journalism be meaningfully understood as constituting a social field in Pierre Bourdieu ́s sense? And if so, how did this field emerge historically, and what is its fundamental structure? Following a structural history of the rise of journalism in Norway, a model of this field in 2005 is sketched through correspondence analysis using survey data on Norwegian journalists and editors. The analysis suggest a bipolar structure: a first …
Changing relations: Class, education and cultural capital
Doubly Dominated: Cultural journalists in the fields of journalism and culture
Based on comprehensive surveys in 2005 and 2013 among journalists, professional critics, and artists in Norway, this article analyses the cultural journalists' position within the fields of journalism and culture. Although increasingly adhering to journalistic ideals and becoming more similar to other journalists through education and social recruitment, cultural journalism is still not the place to gain prestige and honour in the journalistic fi…
Distinctions in the media welfare state: Audience fragmentation in post-egalitarian Sweden
This study draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture in order to shed new light on the ongoing fragmentation of media audiences and users. We use a multiple correspondence analysis on national survey data (n = 1604) collected in Sweden in 2015–2016 to (1) create a statistical representation of the contemporary Swedish class structure and proceed to (2) analyze the distribution of a broad range of media practices and media preferences in tha…
Identity, Empathy and Argument: Immigrants in Culture and Entertainment Journalism in the Scandinavian Press
Cultural and entertainment journalism deals with aesthetic experiences, advice on cultural consumption, as well as reflection and debate on ethical and moral humanistic issues. Does this sub-field of journalism systematically represent immigrants and integration differently than the other news and commentary articles? Comparing immigration discourse in a representative sample of six Scandinavian newspapers between 1970 and 2016 using content anal…
Worlds apart. On class structuration of citizens’ political and public attention and engagement in an egalitarian society
This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's political sociology for a statistical study of the complex interrelationship between Norwegian citizens’ attention and engagement in the world of politics and broader public debate, and how such public lifestyles align with social structures. Using multiple factor analysis the article provides a broad mapping of citizens’ use of media and culture, participation in civil society and politics, and attitudes t…
Operationalizing exposure diversity
The concept of exposure diversity, the diversity of information that people actually access and use, has recently gained prominence in media policy debates. This aspect of media diversity, however, remains difficult to define, measure or implement in actual policy. In this article, we propose an empirical approach that operationalizes exposure diversity in terms of news and current affairs providers in the media repertoire of different social gro…
Public policy and administration in a vulnerable society: Regulatory reforms initiated by a Norwegian commission
The aims are to give a contribution to a more enlightened and articulated framework for designing safety and rescue institutions and regulatory regimes in a post-modern vulnerable society. The discussions are based on a case study of a Governmental report on ‘A vulnerable society’ (Norway), and the main points at issue in the follow-up public debate. The main points at issue discussed are: (1) problem identification and definition, (2) principles…
The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism
Pierre Bourdieu argued for the existence of general properties and even laws of social fields. In contrast to spaces of class relations and patterns of cultural lifestyles, however, almost no systematic comparative research exists on the homologies of national social fields of a more specialised nature. Also, the large majority of research is done on Western countries, raising concerns about the relevance of the concept for less differentiated so…
Management and culture: The third age of safety. A review of approaches to organizational aspects of safety, health and environment
Public policy and administration in a vulnerable society: Regulatory reforms initiated by a Norwegian commission
The aims are to give a contribution to a more enlightened and articulated framework for designing safety and rescue institutions and regulatory regimes in a post-modern vulnerable society. The discussions are based on a case study of a Governmental report on ‘A vulnerable society’ (Norway), and the main points at issue in the follow-up public debate. The main points at issue discussed are: (1) problem identification and definition, (2) principles…
Journalists in the Making: Findings from a longitudinal study of Norwegian journalism students
This article examines Norwegian journalism students’ views about their profession and education at different phases in their career and also outlines the social background of the new generation of journalists. The article presents key findings from several surveys of students conducted at the two most popular and prestigious journalism schools in Norway between 2000 and 2004. The main aim is to investigate any development in attitudes to differen…
The Nordic Journalists of Tomorrow: An Exploration of First Year Journalism Students in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
The present article summarizes the findings of a survey among first-year journalism students in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The survey covers a wide array of subjects including social recruitment, motivation for studying journalism, preferences regarding future journalistic working life, views on the role of journalism in society, attitudes toward the profession, journalistic ideals and ideas about what are the most important traits for …
Changing relations: Class, education and cultural capital
A Journalistic Cosmology
Can Norwegian journalism be meaningfully understood as constituting a social field in Pierre Bourdieu ́s sense? And if so, how did this field emerge historically, and what is its fundamental structure? Following a structural history of the rise of journalism in Norway, a model of this field in 2005 is sketched through correspondence analysis using survey data on Norwegian journalists and editors. The analysis suggest a bipolar structure: a first …
Høgt og lågt i Stortinget og departementa - Kulturbruk og kulturorientering hjå dei norske politisk-administrative elitane
To Intervene or be Neutral, to Investigate or Entertain: National and intranational factors in the formation of Nordic journalism students' role perceptions
Through a series of surveys of Nordic journalism students in 2005, 2008 and 2012 (N = 4665 respondents from 30 institutions in five countries), this article investigates the differences in students' role perceptions and their link to national, institutional and personal factors. After discussing some methodological challenges for comparative survey studies of journalists and journalism students, the major differences in students' role perceptions…
Doubly Dominated: Cultural journalists in the fields of journalism and culture
Based on comprehensive surveys in 2005 and 2013 among journalists, professional critics, and artists in Norway, this article analyses the cultural journalists' position within the fields of journalism and culture. Although increasingly adhering to journalistic ideals and becoming more similar to other journalists through education and social recruitment, cultural journalism is still not the place to gain prestige and honour in the journalistic fi…
A Welfare State of Mind: Nordic journalists’ conception of their role and autonomy in international context
The development of journalism in the Nordic countries has been shaped by two interconnected ideologies: the welfare state and democratic corporatism. International reviews have repeatedly emphasized the similarities of the media systems in these countries. However, less work has been done on the professional identity of individual journalists working within these systems. In this article, the similarities and differences between journalists’ prof…
Distinctions in the media welfare state: Audience fragmentation in post-egalitarian Sweden
This study draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture in order to shed new light on the ongoing fragmentation of media audiences and users. We use a multiple correspondence analysis on national survey data (n = 1604) collected in Sweden in 2015–2016 to (1) create a statistical representation of the contemporary Swedish class structure and proceed to (2) analyze the distribution of a broad range of media practices and media preferences in tha…
The cultural journalist around the globe: A comparative study of characteristics, role perceptions, and perceived influences
This article presents a global-comparative study of journalists reporting about art and culture, that is, cultural journalists. In the literature, this particular group is said to be different from other types of journalists, because their professional work is guided more by an aesthetic logic than a news logic. Until now, however, this difference has mainly been studied in national contexts. Applying a global-comparative perspective by using dat…
Role Orientations: Journalists’ Views on Their Place in Society
Identity, Empathy and Argument: Immigrants in Culture and Entertainment Journalism in the Scandinavian Press
Cultural and entertainment journalism deals with aesthetic experiences, advice on cultural consumption, as well as reflection and debate on ethical and moral humanistic issues. Does this sub-field of journalism systematically represent immigrants and integration differently than the other news and commentary articles? Comparing immigration discourse in a representative sample of six Scandinavian newspapers between 1970 and 2016 using content anal…
Increasingly Controversial, Cultural, and Political: The Immigration Debate in Scandinavian Newspapers 1970–2016
Jan Fredrik Hovden & Hilmar Mjelde*Jan Fredrik Hovden is Professor of media studies in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway. Email: Hilmar Mjelde (corresponding author) is post doctor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway
Operationalizing exposure diversity
The concept of exposure diversity, the diversity of information that people actually access and use, has recently gained prominence in media policy debates. This aspect of media diversity, however, remains difficult to define, measure or implement in actual policy. In this article, we propose an empirical approach that operationalizes exposure diversity in terms of news and current affairs providers in the media repertoire of different social gro…
Worlds apart. On class structuration of citizens’ political and public attention and engagement in an egalitarian society
This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu's political sociology for a statistical study of the complex interrelationship between Norwegian citizens’ attention and engagement in the world of politics and broader public debate, and how such public lifestyles align with social structures. Using multiple factor analysis the article provides a broad mapping of citizens’ use of media and culture, participation in civil society and politics, and attitudes t…
The Immigration Issue and the vox Populi: Letters to the Editor in six Scandinavian Newspapers 1970–2016
Letters to the editor are argued to be a staple of the public sphere and, by providing regular citizens with a platform to voice their concerns to a large audience, a central democratic function of a liberal press. However, the actual weight given by the press to citizens’ deliberation on issues and the contribution of these letters in terms of content is still little researched, and historical and comparative studies are largely absent. In this …
The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism
Pierre Bourdieu argued for the existence of general properties and even laws of social fields. In contrast to spaces of class relations and patterns of cultural lifestyles, however, almost no systematic comparative research exists on the homologies of national social fields of a more specialised nature. Also, the large majority of research is done on Western countries, raising concerns about the relevance of the concept for less differentiated so…
The space of immigrant discourse in the European press: Lessons from the "refugee crisis"
In this article we offer a new analysis of two never previously combined datasets on press coverage of the “refugee crisis” in Europe in 2015. Consisting of twenty-nine newspapers from eleven countries, the data provides an unprecedented sample of the European press in the time of crisis. Using forty-six characteristics of frames, agents, aids and protective measures mentioned in the articles, we demonstrate an innovative analytic approach, where…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Media studies (15 works) · Media Studies and Communication (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Media and Politics (12 works) · Social science (11 works) · Journalism (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works)