Einar Thorsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Einar Thorsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Einar |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorsen |
| SIGNATURE | THORSEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7126-7293 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sourcing UK Covid-19 News: An Analysis of Sourcing Patterns of 15 UK News Outlets Reporting on Covid-19 Across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
How a health emergency is defined and presented through the news media matters for public understanding and health outcomes. Previous studies have endeavored to identify the patterns of news sourcing in crisis coverage, specifically the interplay between political sources and health expert sources, but yielded inconclusive results. This study analyses the types and roles of actors (those entities mentioned in a story) and sources cited in news co…
Patterns of Journalistic Role Performance during Public Health Crises: Covering Covid-19 in the UK
While journalism scholarship has long been exploring how journalistic role performance ("JRP" thereafter) varies in different scenarios, seldom have studies captured how JRP during public health crises reflects the all-around influence of such crises on journalism practice.To fill the gap, our study examined the patterns of JRP in UK news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.We draw on a content analysis of 4,184 news stories from 15 UK national new…
Theorising disaster communities: Global dimensions and their local contexts
This article posits an expanded conceptualisation of disaster communities. It extends previous research on disaster and media ecology by reflecting broader understandings of disaster but articulates a new analytical framework that recognises both their global dimensions and local contexts. When theorising disaster communities, we present a framework that unpacks the social, institutional and mediated points of connection that are characteristic o…
Diversifying environmental volunteers by engaging with online communities
Environmental volunteering can benefit participants and nature through improving physical and mental well‐being while encouraging environmental stewardship. To enhance achievement of these outcomes, conservation organizations need to reach different groups of people to increase participation in environmental volunteering. This paper explores what engages communities searching online for environmental volunteering. We conducted a literature review…
Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities
EndMaleGuardianship: Women’s rights, social media and the Arab public sphere
This study examines the online communicative dynamics between women and men during the Saudi women’s rights campaign to end male guardianship, which unfolded on Twitter. We analysed 2.7 million tweets with the #EndMaleGuardianship hashtag over a 7-month period quantitatively and 150,245 of these qualitatively to examine the extent to which Twitter shapes and facilitates cross-gender communication, and how this helped engender new spaces for expre…
Fantasy, Pragmatism and Journalistic Socialisation: UK Journalism Students’ Aspirations and Motivations
Despite the sustained growth in journalism as a choice of degree path for young people, our understanding of students’ aspirations and motivations remains relatively underdeveloped. At the same time, journalism careers appear increasingly uncertain, as the industry responds to digitalisation and convergence. In this mixed-methods study – employing 35 interviews and a survey of 837 UK journalism students – we ask what areas of journalism do studen…
Citizen Journalism at The Margins
Amidst burgeoning literature on citizen journalism, we still know relatively little about how and why genuinely marginalised groups seek to use this form of reporting to challenge their exclusion. In this article, we aim to address this gap by analysing two UK citizen journalism initiatives emanating from The Big Issue Foundation, a national homeless organisation, and Access Dorset, a regional charity for disabled and elderly people. These case s…
WikiLeaks and Whistle-blowing
WikiLeaks and Whistle-blowing: The Framing of Bradley Manning
Inquiries into freedom of expression and the rights of the press frequently highlight examples where ordinary individuals have taken it upon themselves to leak information to a journalist with the aim of exposing corruption, maleficence, or injustice. Hollywood films have contributed to a certain mythology surrounding whistle-blowing. All the President’s Men’s (1976) depiction of the covert informant “Deep Throat” in the Watergate scandal is an e…
Blogging on the ice: Connecting audiences with climate-change sciences
Scientists working in Antarctica have recognized the need to counteract problems associated with mainstream media’s treatment of the climate-change crisis. For this reason, several of them have assumed the role of citizen journalists in order to report on the effects of global warming first-hand. More specifically, they have chosen to communicate directly with the general public through official or personal blogs. In so doing they are capitalizin…
Journalism, public service and BBC News Online
Journalistic objectivity redefined? Wikinews and the neutral point of view
Wikinews is a news website which allows anyone with internet access to publish and edit journalistic content directly on its site without prior authorization or registration. This article examines the way in which Wikinews contributors negotiate its 'neutral point of view' policy, which differs from the traditional sense of journalistic objectivity in the way that it is both defined and implemented. The study encompasses a detailed review of 2332…
EndMaleGuardianship: Women’s rights, social media and the Arab public sphere
This study examines the online communicative dynamics between women and men during the Saudi women’s rights campaign to end male guardianship, which unfolded on Twitter. We analysed 2.7 million tweets with the #EndMaleGuardianship hashtag over a 7-month period quantitatively and 150,245 of these qualitatively to examine the extent to which Twitter shapes and facilitates cross-gender communication, and how this helped engender new spaces for expre…
Citizen Journalism at The Margins
Amidst burgeoning literature on citizen journalism, we still know relatively little about how and why genuinely marginalised groups seek to use this form of reporting to challenge their exclusion. In this article, we aim to address this gap by analysing two UK citizen journalism initiatives emanating from The Big Issue Foundation, a national homeless organisation, and Access Dorset, a regional charity for disabled and elderly people. These case s…
Fantasy, Pragmatism and Journalistic Socialisation: UK Journalism Students’ Aspirations and Motivations
Despite the sustained growth in journalism as a choice of degree path for young people, our understanding of students’ aspirations and motivations remains relatively underdeveloped. At the same time, journalism careers appear increasingly uncertain, as the industry responds to digitalisation and convergence. In this mixed-methods study – employing 35 interviews and a survey of 837 UK journalism students – we ask what areas of journalism do studen…
Journalistic objectivity redefined? Wikinews and the neutral point of view
Wikinews is a news website which allows anyone with internet access to publish and edit journalistic content directly on its site without prior authorization or registration. This article examines the way in which Wikinews contributors negotiate its 'neutral point of view' policy, which differs from the traditional sense of journalistic objectivity in the way that it is both defined and implemented. The study encompasses a detailed review of 2332…
Patterns of Journalistic Role Performance during Public Health Crises: Covering Covid-19 in the UK
While journalism scholarship has long been exploring how journalistic role performance ("JRP" thereafter) varies in different scenarios, seldom have studies captured how JRP during public health crises reflects the all-around influence of such crises on journalism practice.To fill the gap, our study examined the patterns of JRP in UK news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.We draw on a content analysis of 4,184 news stories from 15 UK national new…
Journalistic objectivity redefined? Wikinews and the neutral point of view
Wikinews is a news website which allows anyone with internet access to publish and edit journalistic content directly on its site without prior authorization or registration. This article examines the way in which Wikinews contributors negotiate its 'neutral point of view' policy, which differs from the traditional sense of journalistic objectivity in the way that it is both defined and implemented. The study encompasses a detailed review of 2332…
Journalism, public service and BBC News Online
WikiLeaks and Whistle-blowing
WikiLeaks and Whistle-blowing: The Framing of Bradley Manning
Inquiries into freedom of expression and the rights of the press frequently highlight examples where ordinary individuals have taken it upon themselves to leak information to a journalist with the aim of exposing corruption, maleficence, or injustice. Hollywood films have contributed to a certain mythology surrounding whistle-blowing. All the President’s Men’s (1976) depiction of the covert informant “Deep Throat” in the Watergate scandal is an e…
Blogging on the ice: Connecting audiences with climate-change sciences
Scientists working in Antarctica have recognized the need to counteract problems associated with mainstream media’s treatment of the climate-change crisis. For this reason, several of them have assumed the role of citizen journalists in order to report on the effects of global warming first-hand. More specifically, they have chosen to communicate directly with the general public through official or personal blogs. In so doing they are capitalizin…
Citizen Journalism at The Margins
Amidst burgeoning literature on citizen journalism, we still know relatively little about how and why genuinely marginalised groups seek to use this form of reporting to challenge their exclusion. In this article, we aim to address this gap by analysing two UK citizen journalism initiatives emanating from The Big Issue Foundation, a national homeless organisation, and Access Dorset, a regional charity for disabled and elderly people. These case s…
EndMaleGuardianship: Women’s rights, social media and the Arab public sphere
This study examines the online communicative dynamics between women and men during the Saudi women’s rights campaign to end male guardianship, which unfolded on Twitter. We analysed 2.7 million tweets with the #EndMaleGuardianship hashtag over a 7-month period quantitatively and 150,245 of these qualitatively to examine the extent to which Twitter shapes and facilitates cross-gender communication, and how this helped engender new spaces for expre…
Fantasy, Pragmatism and Journalistic Socialisation: UK Journalism Students’ Aspirations and Motivations
Despite the sustained growth in journalism as a choice of degree path for young people, our understanding of students’ aspirations and motivations remains relatively underdeveloped. At the same time, journalism careers appear increasingly uncertain, as the industry responds to digitalisation and convergence. In this mixed-methods study – employing 35 interviews and a survey of 837 UK journalism students – we ask what areas of journalism do studen…
Media, Journalism and Disaster Communities
Diversifying environmental volunteers by engaging with online communities
Environmental volunteering can benefit participants and nature through improving physical and mental well‐being while encouraging environmental stewardship. To enhance achievement of these outcomes, conservation organizations need to reach different groups of people to increase participation in environmental volunteering. This paper explores what engages communities searching online for environmental volunteering. We conducted a literature review…
Theorising disaster communities: Global dimensions and their local contexts
This article posits an expanded conceptualisation of disaster communities. It extends previous research on disaster and media ecology by reflecting broader understandings of disaster but articulates a new analytical framework that recognises both their global dimensions and local contexts. When theorising disaster communities, we present a framework that unpacks the social, institutional and mediated points of connection that are characteristic o…
Patterns of Journalistic Role Performance during Public Health Crises: Covering Covid-19 in the UK
While journalism scholarship has long been exploring how journalistic role performance ("JRP" thereafter) varies in different scenarios, seldom have studies captured how JRP during public health crises reflects the all-around influence of such crises on journalism practice.To fill the gap, our study examined the patterns of JRP in UK news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.We draw on a content analysis of 4,184 news stories from 15 UK national new…
Sourcing UK Covid-19 News: An Analysis of Sourcing Patterns of 15 UK News Outlets Reporting on Covid-19 Across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
How a health emergency is defined and presented through the news media matters for public understanding and health outcomes. Previous studies have endeavored to identify the patterns of news sourcing in crisis coverage, specifically the interplay between political sources and health expert sources, but yielded inconclusive results. This study analyses the types and roles of actors (those entities mentioned in a story) and sources cited in news co…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Journalism (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works)