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ID4154310
NAMEHelle Sjøvaag
GIVEN NAMESHelle
FAMILY NAMESjøvaag
SIGNATURESJØVAAG H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Stavanger
ORCID0000-0001-6737-8129
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS212
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX9
  • The whiteboard method: A qualitative approach to studying media technologies

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Ragnhild Kr Olsen et al.•ARTICLE•Media Industries•2025

    Understanding technological developments in the media industries and their application and regulation can be a challenge for qualitative social science research because technology tends to require the insights of experts such as computer programmers and engineers. This article describes a method for accessing media technologists’ expert knowledge by using the whiteboard to create think-aloud, collaborative, and co-creative sessions designed to ar…

  • Lagging Behind”? Metagovernance Strategies Regulating Digital Backbone Infrastructure

    Open Access•Ann Karin T Holmen, Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Information Polity•2025•References: 17

    This paper explores the power dynamics in digital backbone infrastructure in Norway, focusing on the diversity of actors involved. The digital backbone infrastructure includes tangible items like satellites, data centers, content delivery networks, and underwater cables. The handling of sensitive data and threats to national security may escalate if this vital infrastructure is not regulated, controlled, and coordinated. Given the intricate relat…

  • Dimensions of data quality in smart cities datafication

    Open Access•Carl Chineme Okafor, Raul Ferrer-Conill et al.•ARTICLE•The Information Society•2025•References: 60

  • Datafying citizens: Third-party trackers and data-as-payment in government infrastructure

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Cornelia Brantner et al.•ARTICLE•Nordicom review/NORDICOM review•2025•References: 6

    Scandinavians are among the most datafied citizens in the world. With its digitalised welfare states, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish e-governance infrastructures collect massive amounts of data about citizens as they search for jobs, apply for building permits, and check school calendars. In this article, we analyse the use of third-party trackers ( n = 2,761) on Scandinavian municipal websites ( n = 745) between 2007–2023. Mobilising the theoret…

  • Artificial intelligence and the dawn of an algorithmic divide

    Open Access•Maximilian Eder, Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Communication•2024

    Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms reshape news curation and consumption. Against this background, previous research has been focused on divides between groups regarding access to such digital technologies. Disparities in awareness and knowledge of AI across socio-demographic groups seem to persist, potentially leading to an algorithmic divide. Despite this situation, there is still limited research into such a…

  • Delivering content: Modular broadcasting technology and the role of content delivery networks

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Ragnhild Kr Olsen et al.•ARTICLE•Telecommunications Policy•2024

    Television distribution has changed profoundly over the past 10–15 years. Now increasingly geared towards streaming, broadcasting's value chain hinges on content delivery networks (CDNs) to reach audiences. CDNs are important for content quality, as they constitute the part of the chain that stores and transmits data from broadcasters to the end-user. In this article, we investigate what this value chain shift means for television distribution in…

  • Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Raul Ferrer Conill et al.•ARTICLE•Digital Journalism•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    News organisations are growing increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures for the distribution of news, AI implementation, and management of data. In this article, we argue that this dependency goes beyond the level of platforms, reaching into the internet backbone infrastructures that transmit, peer, deliver and host data on which journalism relies. Using Norway as a case, we map the actors involved in the subsea cable sectors, internet e…

  • Datafied Societies: Digital Infrastructures, Data Power, and Regulations

    Open Access•Raul Ferrer Conill, Helle Sjøvaag et al.•ARTICLE•Media and Communication•2023

    The datafication and platformization of social processes further the overall shift from an open, public, and decentralized internet towards a private and siloed realm that establishes power asymmetries between those who provide data and those who own, trade, and control data. The ongoing process of datafying societies embraces the logics of aggregation and automation that increasingly negotiate transactions between markets and social entities, in…

  • Political Viewpoint Diversity in the News: Market and Ownership Conditions for a Pluralistic Media System

    Open Access•Marcel Garz, M Ots et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2023•References: 23

    The assumption that ownership has an effect on the diversity of news is based on the forms of control that ownership allows and the market conditions in which ownership is exercised. In this study, we perform a large-scale analysis of the Swedish newspaper market, surveying 130 newspapers and parliamentary speeches over a period of six years (2014–2019), to substantiate to what extent market and for-profit ownership forms impact political viewpoi…

  • You Should Read This Study! It Investigates Scandinavian Social Media Logics ☝

    Mario Haim, Michael Karlsson et al.•ARTICLE•Digital Journalism•2021

    In order to reach its audiences, journalism regularly turns to social media to promote its articles. This study sets out to ascertain competing communicative logics of Facebook posts as opposed to article teasers on news outlets’ websites. We look at Scandinavian news outlets as a most-similar three-country case with at least a third of all news consumers regularly using Facebook for news. The study builds on an extensive data collection of all S…

  • Toward ‘Cultures of Engagement’? An exploratory comparison of engagement patterns on Facebook news posts

    Open Access•Raul Ferrer Conill, Michael Karlsson et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 27

    Information production, dissemination, and consumption are contingent upon cultural and financial dimensions. This study attempts to find cultures of engagement that reflect how audiences engage with news posts made by either commercial or state-owned news outlets on Facebook. To do so, we collected over a million news posts ( n = 1,173,159) produced by 482 news outlets in three Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) and analyzed ov…

  • Risk perception in newspaper chains: Threats, uncertainties and corporate boundary work

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Thomas Owren•ARTICLE•Journalism•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    This article presents an analysis of risk perception among chain newspaper CEOs in Scandinavia. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the analysis finds that risk is perceived in relation to public trust, corporate expansion and contentious government regulation. We discuss these themes in relation to their uncertainty, and the potential gains and losses that accompany them. The aim of the study is to sharpen the distinction between risk…

  • Strategic and Organisational fit in Corporate News Markets: A Principal-agent Approach to Studying Newspaper Mergers

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Thomas Owren et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2020•References: 21

    This article analyses strategic and organisational fit in corporate newspaper mergers in the context of the digitalisation of local newspaper markets. Using the 2019 acquisition of Nordsjø Media by Amedia in Norway as case, we analyse how eight editors-in-chief perceive the process of incorporating small, low-frequency, print-oriented monopolistic newspapers into one of Scandinavia’s largest newspaper chains. The semi-structured interviews were a…

  • Journalism Between the State and the Market

    Helle Sjøvaag•BOOK•Journalism Between the State and…•2019

    Using the Nordic media model as an empirical backdrop, Journalism Between the State and the Market defines and analyzes journalism’s fundamental problem: its shifting location between the state and the market. This book examines how this distance is decreasing as journalism steps closer to both the market (algorithmically monetizing audiences) and the state (lobbying governments for subsidies and attacking public service broadcasting). The book a…

  • Rethinking Research Methods in an Age of Digital Journalism

    Michael Karlsson, Helle Sjøvaag•BOOK•Rethinking Research Methods in an…•2018

  • Is public service broadcasting a threat to commercial media

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Truls Pedersen et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2018•Cited by: 10•References: 11

    This article asks to what extent public service broadcasting’s online news service resembles that of commercial media. The context of this inquiry is claims of ‘out-crowding’ facing public service broadcasters across Europe. In Norway, commercial players in this debate accuse the public service broadcaster, NRK, of being too similar to competitors in the private sector for commercial operators to attain sustainable revenues in the online realm. T…

  • Female Voices in the News: Structural Conditions of Gender Representations in Norwegian Newspapers

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Truls Pedersen et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism & Mass Communication…•2018•Cited by: 10•References: 29

    The article presents a hybrid analysis combining manual content analysis of 9,131 sources in 5,544 news stories across 75 publications, with computational gender recognition producing 551,102 names from 320,228 articles across 125 newspapers. The article investigates the significance of structural features for the presence of women in the news. Results show female sources are only equal to men as ordinary citizens and children, and only in lifest…

  • In Search of Journalism Funding: Scenarios for future media policy in Norway

    Helle Sjøvaag, Arne H Krumsvik•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    Digitization has caused disruption in the traditional business model of the news media. Policy implementation in the media sector is therefore increasingly raised as an economic question, involving concern for the ability of legacy media to serve as independent platforms for public deliberation. While media policy traditionally tends to focus on unwanted developments (i.e. local monopolies, ownership concentration, etc.), the side-effect often re…

  • Hard news/soft news

    Helle Sjøvaag•CHAPTER•Boundaries Of Journalism•2015

    This chapter addresses the hierarchy of journalistic genres, the boundary struggles that exist between legitimate forms of news, and how to protect the boundaries of the journalistic profession to encounter the economic field. The boundary between hard and soft news is the dividing line that separates one of the strongest dichotomies of news production. Within the sociological approach to news, journalism is often described as a broad practice ra…

  • Continuity and Change in Public Service News Online: A longitudinal analysis of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

    Helle Sjøvaag, Eirik Stavelin et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 14

    This article presents a longitudinal big data analysis of the online news provision of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). Comparing data from 2009 with data from 2013 (approximately 150,000 news items), the analysis assumes a hybrid methodological approach combining human and computer coding to enquire about longitudinal trends in online journalism as produced by a public service institution in a competitive market. The analysis finds …

  • Introducing the Paywall: A case study of content changes in three online newspapers

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2015•Cited by: 36•References: 6

    The article presents a longitudinal and comparative quantitative content analysis of the paywall strategies of three Norwegian online newspapers. The article analyses the open and closed content profiles of Aftenposten, Bergens Tidende and Stavanger Aftenblad before and after the walls were erected, and the content put behind the wall with the content open to the public free of charge, by comparing one week of data from each paper from 2012, 2013…

  • Media innovations: A multidisciplinary study of change

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2014•Cited by: 29

    Innovation is about change, and media products and services are changing. The processes of production and distribution of media are changing. The ownership and financing of media are changing. The roles of users are changing. And our ideas about media are changing.This book argues that innovation theory provides better tools for media researchers who wish to understand and explain current developments in the media landscape – tools that not only …

  • Homogenisation or Differentiation: The effects of consolidation in the regional newspaper market

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2014•Cited by: 26•References: 6

    This paper considers the effects of consolidation on the content of regional newspapers in Norway. A case study investigates how the Norwegian media company Schibsted influences the content of its four regional newspapers Aftenposten, Fædrelandsvennen, Stavanger Aftenblad and Bergens Tidende. The aim is to establish the extent to which levels of pluralism are reducing as a result of consolidation strategies. Schibsted's cost-cutting measures init…

  • The Methodology of Online News Analysis: A Quantitative Approach to Ephemeral Media

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Eirik Stavelin•CHAPTER•2013

    This chapter describes a new method for analyzing online news employing both human and computer coding and based on a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative measures. The chapter illustrates how the method was used to perform a content analysis of the full online news output of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ( NRK ) for the year 2009 ( n = 74430). It explains how the approach was developed, describes the problems we encountered alo…

  • Journalistic Autonomy: Between Structure, Agency and Institution

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Nordicom review/NORDICOM review•2013•Cited by: 47•References: 29

    This article investigates the concept of autonomy within the journalistic institution. A review of the literature reveals that journalist autonomy is restricted at the political, economic and organisational levels of news production, negotiated at the editorial level, and exercised at the level of practice. The article addresses the limits of professional autonomy, aiming for a wider contextualisation of the question to analyse the factors that r…

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  • Journalistic Autonomy: Between Structure, Agency and Institution

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Nordicom review/NORDICOM review•2013•Cited by: 47•References: 29

    This article investigates the concept of autonomy within the journalistic institution. A review of the literature reveals that journalist autonomy is restricted at the political, economic and organisational levels of news production, negotiated at the editorial level, and exercised at the level of practice. The article addresses the limits of professional autonomy, aiming for a wider contextualisation of the question to analyse the factors that r…

  • Introducing the Paywall: A case study of content changes in three online newspapers

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2015•Cited by: 36•References: 6

    The article presents a longitudinal and comparative quantitative content analysis of the paywall strategies of three Norwegian online newspapers. The article analyses the open and closed content profiles of Aftenposten, Bergens Tidende and Stavanger Aftenblad before and after the walls were erected, and the content put behind the wall with the content open to the public free of charge, by comparing one week of data from each paper from 2012, 2013…

  • Media innovations: A multidisciplinary study of change

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2014•Cited by: 29

    Innovation is about change, and media products and services are changing. The processes of production and distribution of media are changing. The ownership and financing of media are changing. The roles of users are changing. And our ideas about media are changing.This book argues that innovation theory provides better tools for media researchers who wish to understand and explain current developments in the media landscape – tools that not only …

  • Homogenisation or Differentiation: The effects of consolidation in the regional newspaper market

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2014•Cited by: 26•References: 6

    This paper considers the effects of consolidation on the content of regional newspapers in Norway. A case study investigates how the Norwegian media company Schibsted influences the content of its four regional newspapers Aftenposten, Fædrelandsvennen, Stavanger Aftenblad and Bergens Tidende. The aim is to establish the extent to which levels of pluralism are reducing as a result of consolidation strategies. Schibsted's cost-cutting measures init…

  • The Reciprocity of Journalism's Social Contract: The political-philosophical foundations of journalistic ideology

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2010•Cited by: 18•References: 1

    This article traces the political-philosophical background of journalism's social contract metaphor. The social contract of the press finds its professional ideal in the intersection between republican and liberal philosophies originating with the classical philosophies of Rousseau, Locke and Hobbes. From these origins, the mechanism of contractual reciprocity is appropriated to the relationship between journalism and its audiences to expose hidd…

  • Public Service News on the Web: A large-scale content analysis of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's online news

    Helle Sjøvaag, Hallvard Moe et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2011•Cited by: 14•References: 25

    This article provides an empirical basis for discussions of public service news on the Web. Through innovative use of computer-assisted data gathering and structuring, and a combination of quantitative methods, we present the results from a large-scale analysis of the online news content of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK. The study reveals not only specifics of the online news genre, but also the dual role of NRK as a public service …

  • Continuity and Change in Public Service News Online: A longitudinal analysis of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

    Helle Sjøvaag, Eirik Stavelin et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 14

    This article presents a longitudinal big data analysis of the online news provision of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). Comparing data from 2009 with data from 2013 (approximately 150,000 news items), the analysis assumes a hybrid methodological approach combining human and computer coding to enquire about longitudinal trends in online journalism as produced by a public service institution in a competitive market. The analysis finds …

  • Is public service broadcasting a threat to commercial media

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Truls Pedersen et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2018•Cited by: 10•References: 11

    This article asks to what extent public service broadcasting’s online news service resembles that of commercial media. The context of this inquiry is claims of ‘out-crowding’ facing public service broadcasters across Europe. In Norway, commercial players in this debate accuse the public service broadcaster, NRK, of being too similar to competitors in the private sector for commercial operators to attain sustainable revenues in the online realm. T…

  • Female Voices in the News: Structural Conditions of Gender Representations in Norwegian Newspapers

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Truls Pedersen et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism & Mass Communication…•2018•Cited by: 10•References: 29

    The article presents a hybrid analysis combining manual content analysis of 9,131 sources in 5,544 news stories across 75 publications, with computational gender recognition producing 551,102 names from 320,228 articles across 125 newspapers. The article investigates the significance of structural features for the presence of women in the news. Results show female sources are only equal to men as ordinary citizens and children, and only in lifest…

  • Toward ‘Cultures of Engagement’? An exploratory comparison of engagement patterns on Facebook news posts

    Open Access•Raul Ferrer Conill, Michael Karlsson et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 27

    Information production, dissemination, and consumption are contingent upon cultural and financial dimensions. This study attempts to find cultures of engagement that reflect how audiences engage with news posts made by either commercial or state-owned news outlets on Facebook. To do so, we collected over a million news posts ( n = 1,173,159) produced by 482 news outlets in three Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) and analyzed ov…

  • Risk perception in newspaper chains: Threats, uncertainties and corporate boundary work

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Thomas Owren•ARTICLE•Journalism•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    This article presents an analysis of risk perception among chain newspaper CEOs in Scandinavia. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the analysis finds that risk is perceived in relation to public trust, corporate expansion and contentious government regulation. We discuss these themes in relation to their uncertainty, and the potential gains and losses that accompany them. The aim of the study is to sharpen the distinction between risk…

  • Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Raul Ferrer Conill et al.•ARTICLE•Digital Journalism•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    News organisations are growing increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures for the distribution of news, AI implementation, and management of data. In this article, we argue that this dependency goes beyond the level of platforms, reaching into the internet backbone infrastructures that transmit, peer, deliver and host data on which journalism relies. Using Norway as a case, we map the actors involved in the subsea cable sectors, internet e…

  • In Search of Journalism Funding: Scenarios for future media policy in Norway

    Helle Sjøvaag, Arne H Krumsvik•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    Digitization has caused disruption in the traditional business model of the news media. Policy implementation in the media sector is therefore increasingly raised as an economic question, involving concern for the ability of legacy media to serve as independent platforms for public deliberation. While media policy traditionally tends to focus on unwanted developments (i.e. local monopolies, ownership concentration, etc.), the side-effect often re…

  • Regulating commercial public service broadcasting: A case study of the marketization of Norwegian media policy

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    This article looks at the issues facing the regulation of commercial public service broadcasting in Norway. A document analysis of the 2010 renegotiation process to renew TV 2’s public service licence illuminates how a general marketization affects the regulation of the television sector. This process comments on Hallin and Mancini’s model of democratic corporatism in the Nordic countries regarding the power of the state to regulate private media…

  • The Reciprocity of Journalism's Social Contract: The political-philosophical foundations of journalistic ideology

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2010•Cited by: 18•References: 1

    This article traces the political-philosophical background of journalism's social contract metaphor. The social contract of the press finds its professional ideal in the intersection between republican and liberal philosophies originating with the classical philosophies of Rousseau, Locke and Hobbes. From these origins, the mechanism of contractual reciprocity is appropriated to the relationship between journalism and its audiences to expose hidd…

  • Regulating commercial public service broadcasting: A case study of the marketization of Norwegian media policy

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    This article looks at the issues facing the regulation of commercial public service broadcasting in Norway. A document analysis of the 2010 renegotiation process to renew TV 2’s public service licence illuminates how a general marketization affects the regulation of the television sector. This process comments on Hallin and Mancini’s model of democratic corporatism in the Nordic countries regarding the power of the state to regulate private media…

  • Public Service News on the Web: A large-scale content analysis of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's online news

    Helle Sjøvaag, Hallvard Moe et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2011•Cited by: 14•References: 25

    This article provides an empirical basis for discussions of public service news on the Web. Through innovative use of computer-assisted data gathering and structuring, and a combination of quantitative methods, we present the results from a large-scale analysis of the online news content of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK. The study reveals not only specifics of the online news genre, but also the dual role of NRK as a public service …

  • The Methodology of Online News Analysis: A Quantitative Approach to Ephemeral Media

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Eirik Stavelin•CHAPTER•2013

    This chapter describes a new method for analyzing online news employing both human and computer coding and based on a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative measures. The chapter illustrates how the method was used to perform a content analysis of the full online news output of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation ( NRK ) for the year 2009 ( n = 74430). It explains how the approach was developed, describes the problems we encountered alo…

  • Journalistic Autonomy: Between Structure, Agency and Institution

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Nordicom review/NORDICOM review•2013•Cited by: 47•References: 29

    This article investigates the concept of autonomy within the journalistic institution. A review of the literature reveals that journalist autonomy is restricted at the political, economic and organisational levels of news production, negotiated at the editorial level, and exercised at the level of practice. The article addresses the limits of professional autonomy, aiming for a wider contextualisation of the question to analyse the factors that r…

  • Media innovations: A multidisciplinary study of change

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2014•Cited by: 29

    Innovation is about change, and media products and services are changing. The processes of production and distribution of media are changing. The ownership and financing of media are changing. The roles of users are changing. And our ideas about media are changing.This book argues that innovation theory provides better tools for media researchers who wish to understand and explain current developments in the media landscape – tools that not only …

  • Homogenisation or Differentiation: The effects of consolidation in the regional newspaper market

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2014•Cited by: 26•References: 6

    This paper considers the effects of consolidation on the content of regional newspapers in Norway. A case study investigates how the Norwegian media company Schibsted influences the content of its four regional newspapers Aftenposten, Fædrelandsvennen, Stavanger Aftenblad and Bergens Tidende. The aim is to establish the extent to which levels of pluralism are reducing as a result of consolidation strategies. Schibsted's cost-cutting measures init…

  • Hard news/soft news

    Helle Sjøvaag•CHAPTER•Boundaries Of Journalism•2015

    This chapter addresses the hierarchy of journalistic genres, the boundary struggles that exist between legitimate forms of news, and how to protect the boundaries of the journalistic profession to encounter the economic field. The boundary between hard and soft news is the dividing line that separates one of the strongest dichotomies of news production. Within the sociological approach to news, journalism is often described as a broad practice ra…

  • Continuity and Change in Public Service News Online: A longitudinal analysis of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

    Helle Sjøvaag, Eirik Stavelin et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Studies•2015•Cited by: 12•References: 14

    This article presents a longitudinal big data analysis of the online news provision of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). Comparing data from 2009 with data from 2013 (approximately 150,000 news items), the analysis assumes a hybrid methodological approach combining human and computer coding to enquire about longitudinal trends in online journalism as produced by a public service institution in a competitive market. The analysis finds …

  • Introducing the Paywall: A case study of content changes in three online newspapers

    Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2015•Cited by: 36•References: 6

    The article presents a longitudinal and comparative quantitative content analysis of the paywall strategies of three Norwegian online newspapers. The article analyses the open and closed content profiles of Aftenposten, Bergens Tidende and Stavanger Aftenblad before and after the walls were erected, and the content put behind the wall with the content open to the public free of charge, by comparing one week of data from each paper from 2012, 2013…

  • In Search of Journalism Funding: Scenarios for future media policy in Norway

    Helle Sjøvaag, Arne H Krumsvik•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    Digitization has caused disruption in the traditional business model of the news media. Policy implementation in the media sector is therefore increasingly raised as an economic question, involving concern for the ability of legacy media to serve as independent platforms for public deliberation. While media policy traditionally tends to focus on unwanted developments (i.e. local monopolies, ownership concentration, etc.), the side-effect often re…

  • Rethinking Research Methods in an Age of Digital Journalism

    Michael Karlsson, Helle Sjøvaag•BOOK•Rethinking Research Methods in an…•2018

  • Is public service broadcasting a threat to commercial media

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Truls Pedersen et al.•ARTICLE•Media Culture & Society•2018•Cited by: 10•References: 11

    This article asks to what extent public service broadcasting’s online news service resembles that of commercial media. The context of this inquiry is claims of ‘out-crowding’ facing public service broadcasters across Europe. In Norway, commercial players in this debate accuse the public service broadcaster, NRK, of being too similar to competitors in the private sector for commercial operators to attain sustainable revenues in the online realm. T…

  • Female Voices in the News: Structural Conditions of Gender Representations in Norwegian Newspapers

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Truls Pedersen et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism & Mass Communication…•2018•Cited by: 10•References: 29

    The article presents a hybrid analysis combining manual content analysis of 9,131 sources in 5,544 news stories across 75 publications, with computational gender recognition producing 551,102 names from 320,228 articles across 125 newspapers. The article investigates the significance of structural features for the presence of women in the news. Results show female sources are only equal to men as ordinary citizens and children, and only in lifest…

  • Journalism Between the State and the Market

    Helle Sjøvaag•BOOK•Journalism Between the State and…•2019

    Using the Nordic media model as an empirical backdrop, Journalism Between the State and the Market defines and analyzes journalism’s fundamental problem: its shifting location between the state and the market. This book examines how this distance is decreasing as journalism steps closer to both the market (algorithmically monetizing audiences) and the state (lobbying governments for subsidies and attacking public service broadcasting). The book a…

  • Strategic and Organisational fit in Corporate News Markets: A Principal-agent Approach to Studying Newspaper Mergers

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Thomas Owren et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism Practice•2020•References: 21

    This article analyses strategic and organisational fit in corporate newspaper mergers in the context of the digitalisation of local newspaper markets. Using the 2019 acquisition of Nordsjø Media by Amedia in Norway as case, we analyse how eight editors-in-chief perceive the process of incorporating small, low-frequency, print-oriented monopolistic newspapers into one of Scandinavia’s largest newspaper chains. The semi-structured interviews were a…

  • You Should Read This Study! It Investigates Scandinavian Social Media Logics ☝

    Mario Haim, Michael Karlsson et al.•ARTICLE•Digital Journalism•2021

    In order to reach its audiences, journalism regularly turns to social media to promote its articles. This study sets out to ascertain competing communicative logics of Facebook posts as opposed to article teasers on news outlets’ websites. We look at Scandinavian news outlets as a most-similar three-country case with at least a third of all news consumers regularly using Facebook for news. The study builds on an extensive data collection of all S…

  • Toward ‘Cultures of Engagement’? An exploratory comparison of engagement patterns on Facebook news posts

    Open Access•Raul Ferrer Conill, Michael Karlsson et al.•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 27

    Information production, dissemination, and consumption are contingent upon cultural and financial dimensions. This study attempts to find cultures of engagement that reflect how audiences engage with news posts made by either commercial or state-owned news outlets on Facebook. To do so, we collected over a million news posts ( n = 1,173,159) produced by 482 news outlets in three Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) and analyzed ov…

  • Risk perception in newspaper chains: Threats, uncertainties and corporate boundary work

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Thomas Owren•ARTICLE•Journalism•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 29

    This article presents an analysis of risk perception among chain newspaper CEOs in Scandinavia. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, the analysis finds that risk is perceived in relation to public trust, corporate expansion and contentious government regulation. We discuss these themes in relation to their uncertainty, and the potential gains and losses that accompany them. The aim of the study is to sharpen the distinction between risk…

  • Datafied Societies: Digital Infrastructures, Data Power, and Regulations

    Open Access•Raul Ferrer Conill, Helle Sjøvaag et al.•ARTICLE•Media and Communication•2023

    The datafication and platformization of social processes further the overall shift from an open, public, and decentralized internet towards a private and siloed realm that establishes power asymmetries between those who provide data and those who own, trade, and control data. The ongoing process of datafying societies embraces the logics of aggregation and automation that increasingly negotiate transactions between markets and social entities, in…

  • Political Viewpoint Diversity in the News: Market and Ownership Conditions for a Pluralistic Media System

    Open Access•Marcel Garz, M Ots et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2023•References: 23

    The assumption that ownership has an effect on the diversity of news is based on the forms of control that ownership allows and the market conditions in which ownership is exercised. In this study, we perform a large-scale analysis of the Swedish newspaper market, surveying 130 newspapers and parliamentary speeches over a period of six years (2014–2019), to substantiate to what extent market and for-profit ownership forms impact political viewpoi…

  • Artificial intelligence and the dawn of an algorithmic divide

    Open Access•Maximilian Eder, Helle Sjøvaag•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Communication•2024

    Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms reshape news curation and consumption. Against this background, previous research has been focused on divides between groups regarding access to such digital technologies. Disparities in awareness and knowledge of AI across socio-demographic groups seem to persist, potentially leading to an algorithmic divide. Despite this situation, there is still limited research into such a…

  • Delivering content: Modular broadcasting technology and the role of content delivery networks

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Ragnhild Kr Olsen et al.•ARTICLE•Telecommunications Policy•2024

    Television distribution has changed profoundly over the past 10–15 years. Now increasingly geared towards streaming, broadcasting's value chain hinges on content delivery networks (CDNs) to reach audiences. CDNs are important for content quality, as they constitute the part of the chain that stores and transmits data from broadcasters to the end-user. In this article, we investigate what this value chain shift means for television distribution in…

  • Capture Beyond the Platforms: The Material and Infrastructural Conditions for Digital Journalism

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Raul Ferrer Conill et al.•ARTICLE•Digital Journalism•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 18

    News organisations are growing increasingly dependent on digital infrastructures for the distribution of news, AI implementation, and management of data. In this article, we argue that this dependency goes beyond the level of platforms, reaching into the internet backbone infrastructures that transmit, peer, deliver and host data on which journalism relies. Using Norway as a case, we map the actors involved in the subsea cable sectors, internet e…

  • The whiteboard method: A qualitative approach to studying media technologies

    Open Access•Helle Sjøvaag, Ragnhild Kr Olsen et al.•ARTICLE•Media Industries•2025

    Understanding technological developments in the media industries and their application and regulation can be a challenge for qualitative social science research because technology tends to require the insights of experts such as computer programmers and engineers. This article describes a method for accessing media technologists’ expert knowledge by using the whiteboard to create think-aloud, collaborative, and co-creative sessions designed to ar…

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