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SFI MediaFutures is a world-class research centre based in Bergen’s Media City, dedicated to developing responsible AI-driven media technology for ethical and effective user engagement, content production, and audience understanding, in collaboration with leading national and international media and research partners.
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MediaFutures welcomes Wolftech Broadcast Solutions as a new partner
We are delighted to announce that Wolftech Broadcast Solutions is joining the MediaFutures consortium and will be contributing to Work Package 3 – Media Content Production & Analysis.
One Year of MediaFutures: A Review.
2021 has yet been another year of transition and adaptation, as we continued to navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite many challenges, MediaFutures delivered impactful research, innovation and high-quality work. We thank everyone who has contributed to MediaFutures’ success over this past year. Allow us to share with you some highlights and news stories, chronicling the Centre’s growth and achievements in 2021.
Meet the Team. Interview with Researcher Erik Knudsen
In Meet the Team series we introduce our audience to the brilliant people working at MediaFutures. Get to know us better by discovering who we are and what we do.
This week we are interviewing Erik Knudsen, researcher in Work Package 1 – Understanding Media Experiences.
Meet the Team. Interview with PhD Candidate Ayoub El Majjodi.
In Meet the Team series we introduce our audience to the brilliant people working at MediaFutures. Get to know us better by discovering who we are and what we do.
This week we are interviewing Ayoub El Majjodi, PhD candidate, associated with Work Package 2 – User Modeling, Personalization & Engagement.
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Bridging AI and Behavior Change (ABC)
Bridging AI and Behavior Change (ABC)
Arctic Frontiers 2026 – Turn of the Tide
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2025
Offline in the Closet, Online and Out, then Offline, Out and Proud: The Online/Offline-ness of Teenager's Queer Worldmaking Book Chapter
In: Reynolds, Rachel R.; Pajé, Dacia; Medina, Sienna; Gigante, John (Ed.): Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era, Chapter 15, pp. 14, Routledge, 2025.
Teen Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices: In the Palm of their Hands Book
Palgrave MacMillan, 2025.
Understanding news experience: The resonance between content, practices, and situatedness in everyday life Journal Article
In: Journalism, 2025.
2024
Branding or visual storytelling? How legacy media use visual journalism to reach young people in the age of digitalization Journal Article
In: Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, pp. 1-24, 2024.
2023
Modeling news recommender systems’ conditional effects on selective exposure: evidence from two online experiments Best Paper Journal Article
In: Journal of Communication , 2023.
Understanding How News Recommender Systems Influence Selective Exposure Conference
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) RecSys ’23, 2023.
Topical Preference Trumps Other Features in News Recommendation: A Conjoint Analysis on a Representative Sample from Norway Conference
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) RecSys ’23, 2023.
The Burden of Subscribing: How Young People Experience Digital News Subscriptions Journal Article
In: Journalism Studies , 2023.
How Rally-Round-the-Flag Effects Shape Trust in the News Media: Evidence from Panel Waves before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis Journal Article
In: Political Communication, 2023.
Monitoring the infection rate: Explaining the meaning of metrics in pandemic news experiences Journal Article
In: Journalism , 2023.
2021
Framing Protest in Online News and Readers’ Comments: The Case of Serbian Protest “Against Dictatorship” Journal Article
In: International Journal of Communication, vol. 15, no. 21, pp. 82-102, 2021, (Pre SFI).
2020
Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation Journal Article
In: Media, Culture & Society, 2020, (Pre SFI).
Changing news use. Unchanged news experiences? Book
Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 9780367485788, (Pre SFI).
Operationalizing exposure diversity. Journal Article
In: European Journal of Communication, pp. 1-2, 2020, (Pre SFI).
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities. Journal Article
In: New Media and Society, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 1715–1732, 2020, (Pre SFI).
Changing News Use. Unchanged news experiences? Book
1st, Routledge, London & New York, 2020, ISBN: 9781003041719, (Pre SFI).
Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective. Journal Article
In: Communication Theory, vol. 0, no. C, pp. 1-19, 2020, ISSN: 1050–3293, (Pre SFI).
Methods for datafication, datafication of methods: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal Article
In: European Journal of Communication, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 203-212, 2020, (Pre SFI).
Deliberative systems theory and citizens’ use of online media: testing a critical theory of democracy on a high achiever. Journal Article
In: Political Studies, pp. 1-18, 2020, (Pre SFI).
2019
Distributed Readiness Citizenship: A Realistic, Normative Concept for Citizens’ Public Connection. Journal Article
In: Communication Theory, 2019, ISSN: 1050–3293, (Pre SFI).
Journalism, Audiences and News Experience Book Chapter
In: Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin; Hanitzsch, Thomas (Ed.): Chapter 25, pp. 389-405, Routledge, 2nd, 2019, ISBN: 9781315167497, (Pre SFI).
2018
Approximately Informed, Occasionally Monitorial? Reconsidering Normative Citizen Ideals. Journal Article
In: International Journal of Press/Politics, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 227–246, 2018, (Pre SFI).
Hierarchy of influences on transitional journalism–Corrupting relationships between political, economic and media elites Journal Article
In: European Journal of Communication, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 37-56, 2018, (Pre SFI).
The Future of Audiences: A Foresight Analysis of Interfaces and Engagement Book
1st, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-319-75637-0, (Pre SFI).
2016
The Future of Journalism as a System, Profession and Culture: The Perception of Journalism Students Journal Article
In: Media Research, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 83-105, 2016, (Pre SFI).
“Practicing Audience-Centred Journalism Research.” Book Chapter
In: Witschge, T.; Anderson, C. W.; Domingo, D.; Hermida, A. (Ed.): Chapter 36, pp. 546-561, Sage, 55 City Road, London, 2016, ISBN: 9781473906532, (Pre SFI).
2014
Checking, sharing, clicking and linking: Changing patterns of news use between 2004 and 2014. Journal Article
In: Digital Journalism, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 664-679, 2014, ISSN: 2167-0811, (Pre SFI).
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