@benteka
Professor of Political Communication, Department of Communication, Kristiania University College, Oslo. Researching and teaching on topics related to democracy, digital media and politics, platforms, disinformation.
«These filtering systems, including those used by Facebook, Meta, and Google, effectively delegate our information access to external forces rather than relying on personal critical reasoning. www.forbes.com/sites/hessie...?
Nok et eksempel på at Trump inspirerer andre autoritære leder. www.politico.eu/article/geor...
Should be a very timely topic: Special issue in New Media & Society: A Brave New Democracy. The impact of Social Media, Algorithms and AI on politics & citizenship. Deadline February 5th. heyzine.com/flip-book/ea...
Useful word to understand these days
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy
snl.no/oligarki
“A social media platform’s dream is completely automated moderation that they, one, don’t have to take responsibility for and, two, don’t have to pay anyone for,” said Mr. Mahadevan, the director of MediaWise. “So Community Notes is the absolute dream of these people" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/t...
Regulation matters
Zuckerberg will soon "get rid of" fact-checkers across Meta platforms. He massively confuses fact-checking with "censorhip" 👇. Seems Meta will soon become the same cesspool of hate and misinformation as X. Well done Mark - more BlueSky users incoming!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The key thing to understand about Meta without guard rails is that, when they allowed their platform to exist without any content controls in Myanmar under an extremist leader, it was used to directly enable a genocide. Zuckerberg knows that its level of threat. www.amnesty.org/en/location/...
Iceland will have an EU referendum by 2027 - exciting news also for Norway. Will it finally start a new EU debate in Norway? www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
What are the main challenges for the researchers studying citizen-produced political text? Data collection difficulties, steep learning curve, and more.
Read more in our piece with a wonderful OPTED team of Amanda Haraldsson, @michelesdv.bsky.social, @benteka.bsky.social, and Karolina Koc-Michalska.
Now this. Other European politicians he has shown support for are Farage, Salvini.
Always interesting to listen to Pippa Norris (and Ezra Klein). Here, a very intersting episode about why the far right is thriving in so many countries. podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/t...
NordMedia's Call for Submissions in now open! Odense August 13.-15.
nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...
Deadline for all submission types and abstracts is February 28th.
I would be extra glad if you would consider submitting something to the PolCom division (9)
nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-co...
Meta and Google so far have basically held a duopoly on social media political advertising. This is bound to become a monopoly once Google has stopped carrying political ads (at least officially, we know that political ads still occur on platforms where they are banned).
Graph from my dissertation.
A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter
mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Very very honestly, the best thing that ever happened for Bluesky was that Jack Dorsey quit in a huff and took his increasingly weird, faux-democratic worldview with him. 🚮
This platform's gone from strength to strength since his dark shadow lifted. 🌞
This chart is pretty insane. More of an overnight social/political-type shift than typical tech adoption imo: techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/b...
European Parliament will use TikTok for EU electoral campaign despite ban www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
Media law reform poses major test for Tusk as PiS fights back euobserver.com/rule-of-law/...
EU Commission launches investigation of X, also for lack of researcher data access:
"The investigation concerns suspected shortcomings in giving researchers access to X's publicly accessible data as mandated by Article 40 of the DSA, as well as shortcomings in X's ads repository."
rb.gy/itv4s5
This is a topic we have been working on since 2020 in the SCAM project (Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation), read more here: uni.oslomet.no/scam/
(Cont.) The contradictions between established routines in the newsroom and the demand for renewal of journalistic methods can be sorted under two themes: strategy vs. practice and proximity vs. distance to the field and sources.
(Cont.)We investigated this in three Norwegian newsrooms in connection with the 2021 election and our findings show a discrepancy between the alleged potential of the new technologies and the everyday practice of newswork and fact-checking – also in the digitally advanced Norwegian media industry.
New article from Reidun J. Samuelsen, me and Steen Steensen on journalism, disinformation and fact-checking. How do journalists check digital information?
Read the full article in Journalism Practice, the article is openly available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
«A map by the United Nations' humanitarian affairs office, relying on the health ministry's data, shows that more than 3,600 people — roughly one-third of the total — were killed in areas where Israel has told civilians in northern Gaza to escape to.»
Apple suspends all advertising on X/Twitter, joining IBM, Lionsgate and the European Commission
Yes, it is here! Looking forward to read, @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social, Daniel and Bruce!
«Deepfake detection tools, he said, “provide a false solution to a much more complex and difficult-to-solve problem.” www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/b...
