Steen Steensen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4863887 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steen Steensen |
| PRENOMES | Steen |
| SOBRENOME | Steensen |
| ASSINATURA | STEENSEN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2675-1817 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 343 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Flattening the and news
This article examines how platformisation reshapes topical diversity across news outlet types in Norway. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling and diversity indices on more than 220,000 articles from 22 national, regional, local and niche outlets, it compares content published on proprietary websites with that on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. The findings reveal a ‘flattening’ of the news agenda on social media. While distinct…
Navigating Platform Dependency
This article examines how Norwegian newsrooms attempt to secure editorial autonomy while engaging with social media platforms. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 16 newsroom actors and two weeks of field observation, it explores how editorial strategies are enacted through everyday practices. Using a strategy-as-practice perspective, we identify four approaches to social media publishing – the Negotiator, the Preserver, the Adapter, and the W…
What Is the Problem with Misinformation? Fact-checking as a Sociotechnical and Problem-Solving Practice
Misinformation is a complex and global problem of social and technical dimensions. It is a problem that is exacerbated and sought to be solved by using diverse technologies. It is also a problem that flourishes on platforms and can lead to partnerships with platform companies. These sociotechnical dimensions of misinformation as a problem involve different actors. Some actors create or contribute to the problem, while others perceive it as their …
Playing the Mainstream Game. A Language-Game Analysis of “Mainstream” as a Possible Boundary Object in Journalism Studies
“Mainstream media” and “mainstream journalism” have become significant concepts in political, popular, and academic discourse in recent years. They are key in how media, communication, and journalism scholars have been, and continue to be, concerned with relational dimensions in their work. However, the meaning of the word “mainstream” is often taken for granted. How and by whom this concept is used among media, communication, and journalism scho…
Dealing With Covid-19 in Casual Democracies
This article reports findings from an in-depth, autoethnographic study of local communities in Denmark and England left behind by local journalism. The study was conducted during—and is thematically framed by—the Covid-19 pandemic, and it investigates how news, information, and deliberation related to this crisis were facilitated in the communities. The article embarks from ideas of informed citizenship and problems of misinformation and free spe…
The Relevance of Technology to Information Verification
Growing concerns about disinformation have led to the development of new digital tools and systems designed for journalists' verification and fact-checking needs.Despite these technological developments, research has demonstrated that emerging technologies are not utilised as often and are not as highly valued as industry narratives suggest.There are indications that the typical journalist values traditional skills such as writing and interviewin…
The limits of live fact-checking
This article analyses the novel form of live political fact-checking, as performed by the Norwegian fact-checking organisation Faktisk.no during the Norwegian parliamentary election campaign in 2021. The aim of the study was to investigate the epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking. Through methods of participatory observation, interviews and textual analysis, the study finds that Faktisk.no u…
Considering Interinstitutional Visibilities in Combating Misinformation
This introduction to the special issue “Fighting Fakes: News publishers, fact-checkers, platform companies, and policymaking” argues that the institutionalization of interactions related to misinformation is central to scholarly understandings of the visibility and structural inequalities of institutionalized efforts to fighting fakes. We look at the ways that contributors of this special issue have shown how materialities, institutions, practice…
Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims
This article presents a hermeneutical epistemology for the assessment and production of truth-claims in journalism. This epistemology is based on Gadamer’s functional hermeneutics, and it advances the concept of source criticism as an alternative to other practices and understandings of information verification in journalism. The article argues that source criticism is a better approach to bridge the gap between news and truth in journalism in a …
The definitions
This chapter explores current debates on how to define both digital journalism and digital journalism studies. Digital journalism is a phenomenon and practice of selecting, interpreting, editing, and distributing news about public affairs, it is linked to digital technologies and has symbiotic relationship with its audiences. The chapter argues it is important to see digital journalism studies as an interdisciplinary field in its own right, rathe…
The introduction
This chapter outlines four key premises for digital journalism studies: 1) a massive shift in revenue streams because advertisers have largely migrated to the platform companies, and publishers developed subscription revenues; 2) an increased emphasis on audience metrics and analytics in the journalism sector; 3) shifting patterns of distribution in which platform companies non-proprietary to institutions of journalism have gained dominance; and …
The assumptions
Digital journalism scholarship has been, and still is, often normatively framed within a discourse of crises or a discourse of technological optimism. This normativity is often hidden or taken-for-granted, in statements like “journalism is in crises” or “technology has much to offer journalism”, which build on assumptions of external influences or opportunities affecting journalism and oftentimes fail to recognise the agency of journalism and its…
The methodologies
This chapter explores the wealth of methods used in digital journalism studies, which includes some methods originating from information science and computer science. Digital journalism studies pays some attention to advancing content analysis with computational methods. Opportunities in how to accumulate and analyse data are explored not only for content analysis, but also for network analysis reflecting the increasingly networked nature of news…
The futures
This final chapter offers some conclusions and directions for future research which are all rooted in a need to scrutinise the connections between scholarship, sector, and society. The chapter discusses how the scholarship of digital journalism studies relates to the sector of journalism, specifically if the scholarship should be for or about the journalism sector. Then the chapter briefly summarise the key takeaways from the preceding chapters o…
The technologies
The two most dominant thematic clusters of research published in Digital Journalism are technology and platforms. This chapter features a review of the technology-oriented research in digital journalism studies. Within the technology thematic cluster, there are three key themes of research: 1) Data journalism, 2) Analytics and metrics, and 3) Algorithms and automation. These three themes show that this interdisciplinary field has turned towards s…
The theories
This chapter is devoted to the role of theory in digital journalism studies. It discussed a range of different theories adopted and used and what roles theory play. Digital journalism studies draws upon theories from a wide array of fields and disciplines, and scholars are willing to experiment with new theoretical framings, especially from science and technology studies. However, there is a degree of path-dependency related to adoptions of theor…
The platforms
This chapter focuses on the second most dominant thematic cluster of research published in Digital Journalism : platforms. The chapter differentiates between platforms (like social media and search engines) and digital devices (desktop, smartphones, tablets, and others). The chapter introduced a wealth of research into platforms, which mostly has involved the study of social media platforms in Western contexts. Even though Facebook and WhatsApp a…
(Against a) Theory of Audience Engagement with News
Audience engagement has become a key concept in contemporary discussions on how news companies relate to the public and create sustainable business models. These discussions are irrevocably tied to practices of monitoring, harvesting and analyzing audience behaviours with metrics, which is increasingly becoming the new currency of the media economy. This article argues this growing tendency to equate engagement to behavioural analytics, and study…
What is Digital Journalism Studies
What is Digital Journalism Studies? delves into the technologies, platforms, and audience relations that constitute digital journalism studies' central objects of study, outlining its principal theories, the research methods being developed, its normative underpinnings, and possible futures for the academic field.The book argues that digital journalism studies is much more than the study of journalism produced, distributed, and consumed with the …
Journalism Theory
This chapter aims at unmasking the nature of journalism studies through the ways in which it makes use of, and partly develops, theory. Journalism studies is a multidisciplinary field of academic inquiry. As such, it employs theory from a wide range of academic disciplines and traditions, and—as its object of study changes—is in constant search of new ways of understanding what journalism is. Like social and political theory, cultural theory occu…
What Does Digital Journalism Studies Look Like
This article analyses the characteristics of digital journalism studies through an empirical investigation of all articles published in the journal Digital Journalism, from its launch in 2013 to issue 6, 2018. The aim of the analysis is to identify dominant themes and degrees of diversity and interdisciplinary in digital journalism studies, and to identify biases and blind spots. The article is based on analysis of keywords, abstracts and referen…
Journalism’s epistemic crisis and its solution
Journalism in many cultures is today in an epistemic crisis. The mains drivers of this crisis are discourses of disinformation and the general datafication of society, which combined render dubious the ways in which journalism assesses sources and information in its production of knowledge. Basic journalistic competencies related to information literacy—which constitute a key prerequisite for journalism’s ability to establish trust, authority and…
The Routledge Companion To Media and Humanitarian Action
This chapter examines how key communicators understand and evaluate opportunities and challenges of using social media in risk and crisis situations. We have conducted semi-structured interviews with several risk and crisis communicators with different tasks and functions. Interviewees range from crisis information managers and communicators supporting first responders, to journalists and journalist advisors. Interviewees give their views on opti…
The Intimization of Journalism
Deconstructing Digital Journalism Studies
This chapter discusses the formation and state of digital journalism studies as a field of research. It provides an overview of the emergence of this field of research and discusses its interdisciplinarity as well as assesses its standing and possible blind spots. The chapter explains how digital journalism studies has evolved from being dominated by a discourse of revolution, via evolution, to a discourse of deconstruction, which currently domin…
Online Journalism and the Promises of New Technology
Research about online journalism has been dominated by a discourse of technological innovation.\nThe ‘‘success’’ of online journalism is often measured by the extent to which it utilizes\ntechnological assets like interactivity, multimedia and hypertext. This paper critically examines\nthe technologically oriented research about online journalism in the second decade of its\nexistence. The aim is twofold. First, to investigate to what degree onli…
What is Digital Journalism Studies
What is Digital Journalism Studies? delves into the technologies, platforms, and audience relations that constitute digital journalism studies' central objects of study, outlining its principal theories, the research methods being developed, its normative underpinnings, and possible futures for the academic field.The book argues that digital journalism studies is much more than the study of journalism produced, distributed, and consumed with the …
(Against a) Theory of Audience Engagement with News
Audience engagement has become a key concept in contemporary discussions on how news companies relate to the public and create sustainable business models. These discussions are irrevocably tied to practices of monitoring, harvesting and analyzing audience behaviours with metrics, which is increasingly becoming the new currency of the media economy. This article argues this growing tendency to equate engagement to behavioural analytics, and study…
What's Stopping Them
Findings in recent research suggest that online journalism is much less innovative than many researchers and scholars predicted a decade ago. Research into online journalism has, however, been biased towards a focus on online news journalism, thereby neglecting the magnitude of new styles and genres that are currently emerging online. In this paper the findings of a longitudinal ethnographic case study of the development of a section for feature …
What Does Digital Journalism Studies Look Like
This article analyses the characteristics of digital journalism studies through an empirical investigation of all articles published in the journal Digital Journalism, from its launch in 2013 to issue 6, 2018. The aim of the analysis is to identify dominant themes and degrees of diversity and interdisciplinary in digital journalism studies, and to identify biases and blind spots. The article is based on analysis of keywords, abstracts and referen…
The shaping of an online feature journalist
This article explores the professional role and normative demands of online feature journalists. Through a longitudinal ethnographic case study of the work practices of feature journalists in the Norwegian online newspaper dagbladet.no, the article uncovers how the normative demands of a new professional role are negotiated within the online newsroom of a newspaper. It further reveals how the role of journalists is shaped by two axes: a historica…
Journalism’s epistemic crisis and its solution
Journalism in many cultures is today in an epistemic crisis. The mains drivers of this crisis are discourses of disinformation and the general datafication of society, which combined render dubious the ways in which journalism assesses sources and information in its production of knowledge. Basic journalistic competencies related to information literacy—which constitute a key prerequisite for journalism’s ability to establish trust, authority and…
The Featurization of Journalism
Feature journalism has developed from being an insignificant supplement to news journalism to a family of genres that today dominates newspapers. The present article explores the growing importance of feature journalism and attempts to understand its social function, how it has changed and why it has become so important. Based on an analysis of influential textbooks on feature journalism, the paper argues that feature journalism has traditionally…
Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims
This article presents a hermeneutical epistemology for the assessment and production of truth-claims in journalism. This epistemology is based on Gadamer’s functional hermeneutics, and it advances the concept of source criticism as an alternative to other practices and understandings of information verification in journalism. The article argues that source criticism is a better approach to bridge the gap between news and truth in journalism in a …
Cozy Journalism
In recent years applications like CoveritLive have diffused with great speed throughout online newsrooms. Such technologies create an interface where audience participation and journalistic reporting potentially merge into a text-production system marked by a high degree of immediacy and interactivity. This paper investigates the consequences of such practices for the professional ideology of journalism. What norms and ideals do journalists who i…
What is the matter with newsroom culture? A sociomaterial analysis of professional knowledge creation in the newsroom
This article presents a study of what affects professional knowledge creation when journalism students have their periods of internship in legacy, yet highly digitized newsrooms. A total of 16 Norwegian j-students are interviewed and 30 internship reports analysed in order to detect the different actors – both humans and non-humans – that matter when students learn through practice in such newsrooms. Through this analysis, this article aims at un…
The limits of live fact-checking
This article analyses the novel form of live political fact-checking, as performed by the Norwegian fact-checking organisation Faktisk.no during the Norwegian parliamentary election campaign in 2021. The aim of the study was to investigate the epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking. Through methods of participatory observation, interviews and textual analysis, the study finds that Faktisk.no u…
Conversing the audience
This paper argues that conversation analysis (CA) has much to offer studies of online interactions and, particularly, online interactive journalism. CA provides a methodological opportunity to closely investigate the structure of public discourse in new media platforms, and power relations between journalists and audiences in instances of interactive journalism. The paper introduces CA and discusses how it may be combined with other methods in or…
The Routledge Companion To Media and Humanitarian Action
This chapter examines how key communicators understand and evaluate opportunities and challenges of using social media in risk and crisis situations. We have conducted semi-structured interviews with several risk and crisis communicators with different tasks and functions. Interviewees range from crisis information managers and communicators supporting first responders, to journalists and journalist advisors. Interviewees give their views on opti…
What Is the Problem with Misinformation? Fact-checking as a Sociotechnical and Problem-Solving Practice
Misinformation is a complex and global problem of social and technical dimensions. It is a problem that is exacerbated and sought to be solved by using diverse technologies. It is also a problem that flourishes on platforms and can lead to partnerships with platform companies. These sociotechnical dimensions of misinformation as a problem involve different actors. Some actors create or contribute to the problem, while others perceive it as their …
Dialogue as a Journalistic Ideal
Discussions and practices related to participatory and interactive journalism emphasize the dialogical aspects of journalism. However, throughout history, the idea of dialogue in journalism has taken a variety of forms. This paper places dialogue as a journalistic ideal under scrutiny. Our aim is twofold: first, we map out the development and different functions of the ideal in some decisive eras in the history of journalism and in the current co…
Online Feature Journalism
Although online journalism is still dominated by breaking news coverage, new genres are emerging that differentiate it more and more from old media journalism. This article explores the emergence of feature journalism in online newspapers. Through comparative qualitative text analysis of feature journalism in the US online newspaper palmbeachpost.com and the Norwegian online newspaper dagbladet.no, two widely different approaches to the productio…
What's Stopping Them
Findings in recent research suggest that online journalism is much less innovative than many researchers and scholars predicted a decade ago. Research into online journalism has, however, been biased towards a focus on online news journalism, thereby neglecting the magnitude of new styles and genres that are currently emerging online. In this paper the findings of a longitudinal ethnographic case study of the development of a section for feature …
The shaping of an online feature journalist
This article explores the professional role and normative demands of online feature journalists. Through a longitudinal ethnographic case study of the work practices of feature journalists in the Norwegian online newspaper dagbladet.no, the article uncovers how the normative demands of a new professional role are negotiated within the online newsroom of a newspaper. It further reveals how the role of journalists is shaped by two axes: a historica…
Online Journalism and the Promises of New Technology
Research about online journalism has been dominated by a discourse of technological innovation.\nThe ‘‘success’’ of online journalism is often measured by the extent to which it utilizes\ntechnological assets like interactivity, multimedia and hypertext. This paper critically examines\nthe technologically oriented research about online journalism in the second decade of its\nexistence. The aim is twofold. First, to investigate to what degree onli…
The Featurization of Journalism
Feature journalism has developed from being an insignificant supplement to news journalism to a family of genres that today dominates newspapers. The present article explores the growing importance of feature journalism and attempts to understand its social function, how it has changed and why it has become so important. Based on an analysis of influential textbooks on feature journalism, the paper argues that feature journalism has traditionally…
Cozy Journalism
In recent years applications like CoveritLive have diffused with great speed throughout online newsrooms. Such technologies create an interface where audience participation and journalistic reporting potentially merge into a text-production system marked by a high degree of immediacy and interactivity. This paper investigates the consequences of such practices for the professional ideology of journalism. What norms and ideals do journalists who i…
Conversing the audience
This paper argues that conversation analysis (CA) has much to offer studies of online interactions and, particularly, online interactive journalism. CA provides a methodological opportunity to closely investigate the structure of public discourse in new media platforms, and power relations between journalists and audiences in instances of interactive journalism. The paper introduces CA and discusses how it may be combined with other methods in or…
Theories of Journalism in a Digital Age
This special issue introductory article investigates contemporary notions of theory in journalism studies. Many scholars have argued that we need better ways of conceptualising what journalism is and how it develops in a digital age. There is, however, a lack of knowledge regarding what the theoretical trends within the interdisciplinary domain of journalism studies are today and to what extent contemporary inquiries into journalism are framed by…
Dialogue as a Journalistic Ideal
Discussions and practices related to participatory and interactive journalism emphasize the dialogical aspects of journalism. However, throughout history, the idea of dialogue in journalism has taken a variety of forms. This paper places dialogue as a journalistic ideal under scrutiny. Our aim is twofold: first, we map out the development and different functions of the ideal in some decisive eras in the history of journalism and in the current co…
Theories of Journalism in a Digital age
This special issue introductory article investigates contemporary notions of theory in journalism studies. Many scholars have argued that we need better ways of conceptualising what journalism is and how it develops in a digital age. There is, however, a lack of knowledge regarding what the theoretical trends within the interdisciplinary domain of journalism studies are today and to what extent contemporary inquiries into journalism are framed by…
The Intimization of Journalism
Deconstructing Digital Journalism Studies
This chapter discusses the formation and state of digital journalism studies as a field of research. It provides an overview of the emergence of this field of research and discusses its interdisciplinarity as well as assesses its standing and possible blind spots. The chapter explains how digital journalism studies has evolved from being dominated by a discourse of revolution, via evolution, to a discourse of deconstruction, which currently domin…
What is the matter with newsroom culture? A sociomaterial analysis of professional knowledge creation in the newsroom
This article presents a study of what affects professional knowledge creation when journalism students have their periods of internship in legacy, yet highly digitized newsrooms. A total of 16 Norwegian j-students are interviewed and 30 internship reports analysed in order to detect the different actors – both humans and non-humans – that matter when students learn through practice in such newsrooms. Through this analysis, this article aims at un…
The Routledge Companion To Media and Humanitarian Action
This chapter examines how key communicators understand and evaluate opportunities and challenges of using social media in risk and crisis situations. We have conducted semi-structured interviews with several risk and crisis communicators with different tasks and functions. Interviewees range from crisis information managers and communicators supporting first responders, to journalists and journalist advisors. Interviewees give their views on opti…
Journalism’s epistemic crisis and its solution
Journalism in many cultures is today in an epistemic crisis. The mains drivers of this crisis are discourses of disinformation and the general datafication of society, which combined render dubious the ways in which journalism assesses sources and information in its production of knowledge. Basic journalistic competencies related to information literacy—which constitute a key prerequisite for journalism’s ability to establish trust, authority and…
Journalism Theory
This chapter aims at unmasking the nature of journalism studies through the ways in which it makes use of, and partly develops, theory. Journalism studies is a multidisciplinary field of academic inquiry. As such, it employs theory from a wide range of academic disciplines and traditions, and—as its object of study changes—is in constant search of new ways of understanding what journalism is. Like social and political theory, cultural theory occu…
What Does Digital Journalism Studies Look Like
This article analyses the characteristics of digital journalism studies through an empirical investigation of all articles published in the journal Digital Journalism, from its launch in 2013 to issue 6, 2018. The aim of the analysis is to identify dominant themes and degrees of diversity and interdisciplinary in digital journalism studies, and to identify biases and blind spots. The article is based on analysis of keywords, abstracts and referen…
The definitions
This chapter explores current debates on how to define both digital journalism and digital journalism studies. Digital journalism is a phenomenon and practice of selecting, interpreting, editing, and distributing news about public affairs, it is linked to digital technologies and has symbiotic relationship with its audiences. The chapter argues it is important to see digital journalism studies as an interdisciplinary field in its own right, rathe…
The introduction
This chapter outlines four key premises for digital journalism studies: 1) a massive shift in revenue streams because advertisers have largely migrated to the platform companies, and publishers developed subscription revenues; 2) an increased emphasis on audience metrics and analytics in the journalism sector; 3) shifting patterns of distribution in which platform companies non-proprietary to institutions of journalism have gained dominance; and …
The assumptions
Digital journalism scholarship has been, and still is, often normatively framed within a discourse of crises or a discourse of technological optimism. This normativity is often hidden or taken-for-granted, in statements like “journalism is in crises” or “technology has much to offer journalism”, which build on assumptions of external influences or opportunities affecting journalism and oftentimes fail to recognise the agency of journalism and its…
The methodologies
This chapter explores the wealth of methods used in digital journalism studies, which includes some methods originating from information science and computer science. Digital journalism studies pays some attention to advancing content analysis with computational methods. Opportunities in how to accumulate and analyse data are explored not only for content analysis, but also for network analysis reflecting the increasingly networked nature of news…
The futures
This final chapter offers some conclusions and directions for future research which are all rooted in a need to scrutinise the connections between scholarship, sector, and society. The chapter discusses how the scholarship of digital journalism studies relates to the sector of journalism, specifically if the scholarship should be for or about the journalism sector. Then the chapter briefly summarise the key takeaways from the preceding chapters o…
The technologies
The two most dominant thematic clusters of research published in Digital Journalism are technology and platforms. This chapter features a review of the technology-oriented research in digital journalism studies. Within the technology thematic cluster, there are three key themes of research: 1) Data journalism, 2) Analytics and metrics, and 3) Algorithms and automation. These three themes show that this interdisciplinary field has turned towards s…
The theories
This chapter is devoted to the role of theory in digital journalism studies. It discussed a range of different theories adopted and used and what roles theory play. Digital journalism studies draws upon theories from a wide array of fields and disciplines, and scholars are willing to experiment with new theoretical framings, especially from science and technology studies. However, there is a degree of path-dependency related to adoptions of theor…
The platforms
This chapter focuses on the second most dominant thematic cluster of research published in Digital Journalism : platforms. The chapter differentiates between platforms (like social media and search engines) and digital devices (desktop, smartphones, tablets, and others). The chapter introduced a wealth of research into platforms, which mostly has involved the study of social media platforms in Western contexts. Even though Facebook and WhatsApp a…
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