Erik Knudsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4394045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erik Knudsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Knudsen |
| SIGNATURE | KNUDSEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7046-9424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Drivers of News Sharing: How Context, Content, and User Features Shape Sharing Decisions on Facebook
What makes people share political news on Facebook? Prior studies have identified how different features predict audiences’ likelihood to share news on social media – the so-called shareworthiness of news. However, we still know very little about the relative contributions of these different features for predicting why people decide to share news. We extend the literature by using an experimental design that can compare the relative importance of…
The Impact of Climate Change on Lifestyle Journalism
How do journalists conceive of covering climate change from a lifestyle perspective? Do they think reporting on climate and lifestyle should provide their audiences with advice and solutions for how to make climate friendly choices? We address these questions through a survey among Norwegian journalists and editors with questions about their experience with reporting on climate and lifestyles, their evaluation of the importance of journalism on c…
Modeling news recommender systems’ conditional effects on selective exposure: Evidence from two online experiments
Under which conditions do news recommender systems (NRSs) amplify or reduce selective exposure? I provide the Recommender Influenced Selective Exposure framework, which aims to enable researchers to model and study the conditional effects of NRSs on selective exposure. I empirically test this framework by studying user behavior on a news site where the choice environment is designed to systematically influence selective exposure. Through two prer…
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 …
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis
In this study, we extend the literature on the rally 'round the flag phenomenon, that is, that international crises tend to cause an increase in citizens' approval of political institutions. We advance this literature and highlight its relevance for political communication research in three ways: 1) by theorizing and empirically testing two arguments for why rally effects should extend to trust in the news media on the institutional level, 2) by …
Disentangling the Influence of Recommender Attributes and News-Story Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment on Exposure and Sharing Decisions on Social Networking Sites
While news outlets still play an important role as a source of news, people increasingly receive their political information and news from social networking sites (SNSs). This study extends the literature on exposure and sharing decisions on SNSs by exploring how different attributes shape such decisions, how the two decision types differ, and by disentangling the role played by personal news recommendations and shared news stories on SNSs. As SN…
How the public understands news media trust: An open-ended approach
Despite the central role that ordinary citizens play as ‘trustors’ (i.e. the actor that places trust) in the literature on news media trust, prior quantitative studies have paid little attention to how ordinary citizens understand and define news media trust. Here, trust tends to be studied from a researcher-defined – rather than an audience-defined – perspective. To address this gap, we investigate how the public describes news media trust in th…
Affective Polarization in Multiparty Systems? Comparing Affective Polarization Towards Voters and Parties in Norway and the United States
A growing body of comparative studies on partisan hostility – a phenomenon known as affective polarization – is providing evidence that partisan affective polarization is generally no greater in the United States than it is in many European multiparty systems. This article takes the comparative literature on affective polarization one step further by presenting the first comparative study on affective polarization that simultaneously uses, compar…
Beyond the Limits of Survey Experiments: How Conjoint Designs Advance Causal Inference in Political Communication Research
This paper calls attention to what is arguably the most notable advancement in survey experiments over the last decade: conjoint designs. The benefit of conjoint design is its capacity to study and compare the causal effects of several dimensions simultaneously. Although survey experiments have long been a preferred method for assessing causal effects, the method falls short when studying multidimensional causal relations.Researchers face a trade…
When politicians go native: The consequences of political native advertising for citizens’ trust in news
Declining revenues from offline and online ads has led publishers to pursue new avenues, such as native advertising: camouflaging ads as news. Critics of native advertising claim that this form of advertising blurs the boundaries between editorial and commercial content, and can reduce the audiences’ trust in editorial content. However, little research has assessed the possible effects of native ads on audiences’ trust in news. With an experiment…
Eyes and narrative perspectives on a story: A practice-led exploration of the use of eyes and eye lines in fiction film
Eyes and eye lines are one of the key ways in which the perspective on a story is established in figurative narrative fiction cinema. As such, the eyes and the use of eyes by a performer need as much creative and technical attention as shot composition, sound, production design and editing. Rather than thinking of the eyes of a performer as a subservient aspect of a projected performance, often driven by the dominance of dialogue-action delivery,…
Prerequisites for Assessing Whether to Engage in Collaborative Software Development in a Government Setting
This article discusses a systematic process to determine whether to engage in collaborative software development of desktop applications in a government setting. Section One discusses collaboration and collaborative development. Then, after assessment of the strengths and weaknesses, a development team should have a better understanding for choosing a program-specific solution for collaborative development. Section Two assesses whether the condit…
JMP/Salford Symposium: Peer review and dissemination of practice-led research
Heart of Gold: Fact and mysticism in documentary form A research report
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Doctorate by media practice: A case study
Creation and I, me and my work: A personal account of relations between film, film-maker and teaching
(2003). Creation and I, me and my work. Journal of Media Practice: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 107-114
The Syrian‐Israeli political impasse: A study in conflict, war and mistrust
In order to understand fully why a Syrian‐Israeli peace agreement has yet to be made, it is imperative to be aware of the dimensions of the conflict, war and mistrust that have been at the root of the Syrian‐Israeli diplomatic impasse. The apparent inability for Syrians and Israelis to live in peaceful co existence pre dates the 1948 Arab‐Israeli war. Mutual animosity certainly increased with the 1967 Israeli occupation and consequent annexation …
Fear Eats the Soul: Working with Creative Content and Purpose in Media Practice Education
The paper aims to outline the importance of linking personal experience with craft skills and creative expression, specifically through one or two educational approaches. The argument is that any profound learning of media skills and creative expression can only happen in the context of an awareness of purpose, and that if purpose does not stretch beyond simply getting a job—in what is after all a fickle business—then practitioners will be doing …
Affective Polarization in Multiparty Systems? Comparing Affective Polarization Towards Voters and Parties in Norway and the United States
A growing body of comparative studies on partisan hostility – a phenomenon known as affective polarization – is providing evidence that partisan affective polarization is generally no greater in the United States than it is in many European multiparty systems. This article takes the comparative literature on affective polarization one step further by presenting the first comparative study on affective polarization that simultaneously uses, compar…
Beyond the Limits of Survey Experiments: How Conjoint Designs Advance Causal Inference in Political Communication Research
This paper calls attention to what is arguably the most notable advancement in survey experiments over the last decade: conjoint designs. The benefit of conjoint design is its capacity to study and compare the causal effects of several dimensions simultaneously. Although survey experiments have long been a preferred method for assessing causal effects, the method falls short when studying multidimensional causal relations.Researchers face a trade…
How the public understands news media trust: An open-ended approach
Despite the central role that ordinary citizens play as ‘trustors’ (i.e. the actor that places trust) in the literature on news media trust, prior quantitative studies have paid little attention to how ordinary citizens understand and define news media trust. Here, trust tends to be studied from a researcher-defined – rather than an audience-defined – perspective. To address this gap, we investigate how the public describes news media trust in th…
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis
In this study, we extend the literature on the rally 'round the flag phenomenon, that is, that international crises tend to cause an increase in citizens' approval of political institutions. We advance this literature and highlight its relevance for political communication research in three ways: 1) by theorizing and empirically testing two arguments for why rally effects should extend to trust in the news media on the institutional level, 2) by …
When politicians go native: The consequences of political native advertising for citizens’ trust in news
Declining revenues from offline and online ads has led publishers to pursue new avenues, such as native advertising: camouflaging ads as news. Critics of native advertising claim that this form of advertising blurs the boundaries between editorial and commercial content, and can reduce the audiences’ trust in editorial content. However, little research has assessed the possible effects of native ads on audiences’ trust in news. With an experiment…
The Syrian‐Israeli political impasse: A study in conflict, war and mistrust
In order to understand fully why a Syrian‐Israeli peace agreement has yet to be made, it is imperative to be aware of the dimensions of the conflict, war and mistrust that have been at the root of the Syrian‐Israeli diplomatic impasse. The apparent inability for Syrians and Israelis to live in peaceful co existence pre dates the 1948 Arab‐Israeli war. Mutual animosity certainly increased with the 1967 Israeli occupation and consequent annexation …
Fear Eats the Soul: Working with Creative Content and Purpose in Media Practice Education
The paper aims to outline the importance of linking personal experience with craft skills and creative expression, specifically through one or two educational approaches. The argument is that any profound learning of media skills and creative expression can only happen in the context of an awareness of purpose, and that if purpose does not stretch beyond simply getting a job—in what is after all a fickle business—then practitioners will be doing …
The Syrian‐Israeli political impasse: A study in conflict, war and mistrust
In order to understand fully why a Syrian‐Israeli peace agreement has yet to be made, it is imperative to be aware of the dimensions of the conflict, war and mistrust that have been at the root of the Syrian‐Israeli diplomatic impasse. The apparent inability for Syrians and Israelis to live in peaceful co existence pre dates the 1948 Arab‐Israeli war. Mutual animosity certainly increased with the 1967 Israeli occupation and consequent annexation …
Doctorate by media practice: A case study
Creation and I, me and my work: A personal account of relations between film, film-maker and teaching
(2003). Creation and I, me and my work. Journal of Media Practice: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 107-114
JMP/Salford Symposium: Peer review and dissemination of practice-led research
Heart of Gold: Fact and mysticism in documentary form A research report
Social cues, such as eye gaze and pointing fingers, can increase the prioritisation of specific locations for cognitive processing. A previous study using a manual reaching task showed that, although both gaze and pointing cues altered target prioritisation (reaction times [RTs]), only pointing cues affected action execution (trajectory deviations). These differential effects of gaze and pointing cues on action execution could be because the gaze…
Prerequisites for Assessing Whether to Engage in Collaborative Software Development in a Government Setting
This article discusses a systematic process to determine whether to engage in collaborative software development of desktop applications in a government setting. Section One discusses collaboration and collaborative development. Then, after assessment of the strengths and weaknesses, a development team should have a better understanding for choosing a program-specific solution for collaborative development. Section Two assesses whether the condit…
Eyes and narrative perspectives on a story: A practice-led exploration of the use of eyes and eye lines in fiction film
Eyes and eye lines are one of the key ways in which the perspective on a story is established in figurative narrative fiction cinema. As such, the eyes and the use of eyes by a performer need as much creative and technical attention as shot composition, sound, production design and editing. Rather than thinking of the eyes of a performer as a subservient aspect of a projected performance, often driven by the dominance of dialogue-action delivery,…
When politicians go native: The consequences of political native advertising for citizens’ trust in news
Declining revenues from offline and online ads has led publishers to pursue new avenues, such as native advertising: camouflaging ads as news. Critics of native advertising claim that this form of advertising blurs the boundaries between editorial and commercial content, and can reduce the audiences’ trust in editorial content. However, little research has assessed the possible effects of native ads on audiences’ trust in news. With an experiment…
Beyond the Limits of Survey Experiments: How Conjoint Designs Advance Causal Inference in Political Communication Research
This paper calls attention to what is arguably the most notable advancement in survey experiments over the last decade: conjoint designs. The benefit of conjoint design is its capacity to study and compare the causal effects of several dimensions simultaneously. Although survey experiments have long been a preferred method for assessing causal effects, the method falls short when studying multidimensional causal relations.Researchers face a trade…
Disentangling the Influence of Recommender Attributes and News-Story Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment on Exposure and Sharing Decisions on Social Networking Sites
While news outlets still play an important role as a source of news, people increasingly receive their political information and news from social networking sites (SNSs). This study extends the literature on exposure and sharing decisions on SNSs by exploring how different attributes shape such decisions, how the two decision types differ, and by disentangling the role played by personal news recommendations and shared news stories on SNSs. As SN…
How the public understands news media trust: An open-ended approach
Despite the central role that ordinary citizens play as ‘trustors’ (i.e. the actor that places trust) in the literature on news media trust, prior quantitative studies have paid little attention to how ordinary citizens understand and define news media trust. Here, trust tends to be studied from a researcher-defined – rather than an audience-defined – perspective. To address this gap, we investigate how the public describes news media trust in th…
Affective Polarization in Multiparty Systems? Comparing Affective Polarization Towards Voters and Parties in Norway and the United States
A growing body of comparative studies on partisan hostility – a phenomenon known as affective polarization – is providing evidence that partisan affective polarization is generally no greater in the United States than it is in many European multiparty systems. This article takes the comparative literature on affective polarization one step further by presenting the first comparative study on affective polarization that simultaneously uses, compar…
Modeling news recommender systems’ conditional effects on selective exposure: Evidence from two online experiments
Under which conditions do news recommender systems (NRSs) amplify or reduce selective exposure? I provide the Recommender Influenced Selective Exposure framework, which aims to enable researchers to model and study the conditional effects of NRSs on selective exposure. I empirically test this framework by studying user behavior on a news site where the choice environment is designed to systematically influence selective exposure. Through two prer…
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 …
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis
In this study, we extend the literature on the rally 'round the flag phenomenon, that is, that international crises tend to cause an increase in citizens' approval of political institutions. We advance this literature and highlight its relevance for political communication research in three ways: 1) by theorizing and empirically testing two arguments for why rally effects should extend to trust in the news media on the institutional level, 2) by …
The Impact of Climate Change on Lifestyle Journalism
How do journalists conceive of covering climate change from a lifestyle perspective? Do they think reporting on climate and lifestyle should provide their audiences with advice and solutions for how to make climate friendly choices? We address these questions through a survey among Norwegian journalists and editors with questions about their experience with reporting on climate and lifestyles, their evaluation of the importance of journalism on c…
Drivers of News Sharing: How Context, Content, and User Features Shape Sharing Decisions on Facebook
What makes people share political news on Facebook? Prior studies have identified how different features predict audiences’ likelihood to share news on social media – the so-called shareworthiness of news. However, we still know very little about the relative contributions of these different features for predicting why people decide to share news. We extend the literature by using an experimental design that can compare the relative importance of…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works)