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Papers by Elisabeth Eide

Climatic Change, Nov 1, 2021

International Journal of Communication, Mar 15, 2012

This article reflects on the role of media in the re-imagination and reproduction (reconstruction... more This article reflects on the role of media in the re-imagination and reproduction (reconstruction) of Norwegian identities and communities with a particular focus on how young people within diasporas follow news on war and conflict in their (or their parents') countries of origin. The research employs focus groups with young people from the Pakistani, Afghan, and Tamil Diasporas, and also online surveys. The three groups share the experience of trying to build a life in another country (Norway), while their family and friends in the "homeland" experience political violence and civil war. We identify a notable sense of frustration and skepticism towards Norwegian media. The informants actively use international media and media from the homeland, and often find these more reliable and providing more relevant information than Norwegian media. They also voice a strong critique of the ways in which the media react when "the others" are victims of violence, and sev...

Making Transparency Possible

The article presents a best-practice guide for researchers interested in analyzing media communic... more The article presents a best-practice guide for researchers interested in analyzing media communication about climate change (MCCC). It has been written by six researchers with extensive experience of studying how the climate issue is covered by media from various perspectives, be they scientific, democratic, or ideological. The suggested "best practices" concern (a) how to design MCCC research; (b) various ways to investigate MCCC in terms of modalities such as issue-attention, framing, or visualization; and (c) comparative approaches. The intention is to share knowledge about what seems to "work" or "not work" in the case of MCCC, as well as to stimulate discussion about how research on MCCC should develop in the future.

Norsk medietidsskrift, 2003

Noen reportere har strukket seg langt for å få tak i sine historier. De har risikert liv og helse... more Noen reportere har strukket seg langt for å få tak i sine historier. De har risikert liv og helse, de har tatt avstand fra egne navn og identiteter. En reporter ble nesten voldtatt, en annen prøvekanin for den kjemiske industrien. De fleste vant berømmelse da de vendte tilbake til sine tidligere, privilegerte liv. De fikk mange lesere og til dels stor innflytelse i samfunnet. Men hva lærte de egentlig i sin Andre-identitet? Eller er det riktigere å spørre: Var arbeidet deres del av en avlæringsprosess? Fikk rollebyttet noen konsekvenser for dem som ble forlatt og fortsatt befant seg i en ikke-privile- gert posisjon?

Oxford Textbook of Migrant Psychiatry, 2021

Media play an important role in representing people with minority background, migrants and refuge... more Media play an important role in representing people with minority background, migrants and refugees. This chapter addresses how this representation may affect their lives and well-being in Europe, and more particularly in Norway. Currently, the multitude of media platforms seems to open up for increasing polarization in a fragmented public sphere. Simultaneously we witness an increased diversity of media actors, partially reflecting societal diversity. The levels of negative media representation of migrants, as well as serious threats and harassment, may contribute to individual withdrawals from the public sphere, and thus from democratic participation. Such representation may also enhance negative self-images and feelings of non-belonging and exclusion. Furthermore, a lack of media contextualization of the current migrant/refugee situation and the drivers behind it may encourage narratives where those suffering the consequences of war, conflict, and global inequality may be regarde...

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2020

Nordicom Review, 2006

This article explores how three different analytical approaches to texts may work together to a c... more This article explores how three different analytical approaches to texts may work together to a certain extent in a critical approach to journalistic representation, in this case of the “non-western” world. Focusing on short news items dealing with the nationalist uprising in Egypt in 1919, the texts are analysed using critical discourse analysis, but also inspired by Said’s Orientalism critique, Bourdieu’s field theory including the notion of journalism as an autonomous field, albeit with a weak autonomy.

Communication & langages, 2016

Norsk medietidsskrift, 2016

Nordicom Review Nordic Research on Media Communication, 2009

Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2014

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2013

This article analyses the mainstream press coverage of the terror in Norway post 22.07.2011 and d... more This article analyses the mainstream press coverage of the terror in Norway post 22.07.2011 and discusses how and in what context the concepts of freedom of expression and multiculturalism occur. The aim has been to map important discursive trends in the aftermath of the terror. A clear division between different victim positions is identified. One blames majority society for not granting enough space to extreme right wing views on Islam and diversity/ multiculturalism; another one sees the terror connected to a majority society that already has demonstrated a high degree of hostility towards migrants and Muslims. Thus, two different understandings of the status for freedom of expression in Norway occur, linked to differing positions on the diversity society.

Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2012

The International Journal of Press/Politics, 2011

This article presents an analysis of two major Norwegian newspapers’ coverage of a major transnat... more This article presents an analysis of two major Norwegian newspapers’ coverage of a major transnational media event—the Bali Climate Summit in December 2007. Climate Summits are seen as ample opportunities to study journalism at the global level and simultaneously the relation between global and local perspectives. It demonstrates how main national actors within the political field exercise their hegemony toward the press and that the Norwegian leaders in Bali are partly framed as global heroes. But it furthermore reveals how a critical scrutiny of Norway’s role as a major oil polluter emerges in the press in opposition to the hero framing. Thus, a distinction between different modes of journalistic domestication is made, which invites more critical scrutiny of Climate Change actors both within the confines of the nation-state and more globally. The investigation is based on textual analysis as well as framing theory—and on perspectives of hegemony and “good sense” within the journal...