Helle Sjøvaag

Homepage: http://sjovaaghelle.wordpress.com/

Title: Post doctor

Phone: +47 55 58 90 21

Cellphone: +47 984 41 989 SMS

E-mail: Helle.Sjovaag@infomedia.uib.no

Visiting address: Fosswinckelsgt. 6

Room number: 517

Journalism, news, online media, media economy, media regulation.

Research area: News, journalism, new media, news market, media structures, ownership, television, newspapers, online media, media regulation, sports rights.

Helle holds a PhD and Masters degree from the department, has worked as a research assistant, and has held a position as research consultant at Infomedia.

Publications in Cristin

ARTICLES:

Sjøvaag, Helle (2014) "Homogenisation or Differentiation? The Effects of Consolidation in the Regional Newspaper Market", Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1018/1461670X.2014.885275

Sjøvaag, Helle (2014) “The Principles of Regulation and the Assumption of Media Effects”, Journal of Media Business Studies, Special Issue on Nordic media policy, 11 (1).

Sjøvaag, Helle & Stavelin, Eirik (2014) “The Methodology of Online News Analysis: A Quantitative Approach to Ephemeral Media”, in Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies: Research Methods in Media Studies, Volume 7, Blackwell, pp. 475-497.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2013) “Journalistic Autonomy: Between Structure, Agency and Institutions”, Nordicom Review, Vol. 34, Special issue: New Nordic Journalism Research, pp. 155-166.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2013) “The Meaning and Function of Journalistic Ideology”, in Trivundža, Ilija Tomanić et al (eds.) Past, Future and Change: Contemporary Analysis of Evolving Media Scapes, University of Ljubljana Press: Ljubljana, pp. 135-146.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2012) “Journalistisk ideology: Profesjonsgrenser under press” [“Journalistic Ideology: Professional Boundaries under Pressure”], in Eide, Martin; Larsen, Leif Ove & Sjøvaag, Helle (eds). Nytt på nett og brett: Journalistikk i forandring [Journalism in Transition], Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2012) “Revenue and Branding Strategy in the Norwegian News Market: The Case of TV 2 News Channel”, Nordicom Review, 33 (1), pp. 53-66.

Sjøvaag, Helle & Stavelin, Eirik (2012) “Web Media and the Quantitative Content Analysis: Methodological Challenges in Measuring Online News Content”, Convergence, First published 7 February, DOI: 10.1177/1354856511429641.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2011) “Amateur Images and Journalistic Authority”, in Pantti, Mervi & Andén-Papadopoulos, Kari (eds.) Amateur Images and Global News, Britol, UK: Intellect.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2011) “Regulating Commercial Public Service Broadcasting: A Case Study of the Marketization of Norwegian Media Policy”, International Journal of Cultural Policy. First published 31 May 2011, iFirst, DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2011.573851 

Sjøvaag, Helle, Moe, Hallvard & Stavelin, Eirik (2011) “Public Service News on the Web: A Large-Scale Content Analysis of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s Online News”, Journalism Studies, 13 (1), First published 18 May 2011, iFirst, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2011.578940. 

Sjøvaag, Helle (2010) “Samfunnskontraktens opphav og ideologiske funksjon”, in Roppen, Johann & Allern, Sigurd (red.) Journalistikkens samfunnsoppdrag, Oslo: Høyskoleforlaget.

Elgesem, Dag; Hallvard Moe; Helle Sjøvaag; Eirik Stavelin; Maren Agdestein; Joachim Laberg; Linn Lorgen; og Gyri S. Losnegaard (2010) NRKs nyhetestilbud på Internett i 2009, Bergen: Institutt for informasjons- og medievitenskap

Bridge, John & Sjøvaag, Helle (2010) “Amateur Images in the Professional News Stream”, in Gripsrud, Jostein (ed.) Relocating Television, London: Routledge

Sjøvaag, Helle (2010) "The Reciprocity of Journalism's Social Contract: The political-philosophical foundations of journalistic ideology", Journalism Studies, 11 (6), 874-888.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2009) “Objektivitetens slagmark: Krigsjournalistiske nyorienteringer” [“War Journalistic Reorientations”], in Eide, Martin (ed.) (2009) Journalistiske Nyorienteringer [Journalistic Reorientations], Scandinavian Academic Press, Oslo.

Moe, Hallvard & Sjøvaag, Helle (2009) "The Challenges of Comparing Media Systems - An Interview with Daniel C. Hallin". Journal of Global Mass Communication, 1 (3-4), 132-141

Sjøvaag, Helle; Moe, Hallvard (2009) "From Fermentation to Maturity? Reflections on Media and Communication Studies. An Interview with Todd Gitlin, Jostein Gripsrud & Michael Schudson". International Journal of Communication 2009 ;Volum 3. s. 130-139

Sjøvaag, Helle (2008) "War and Media: Interview with Daniel C. Hallin". Vox Publica [Internett] 02.01.2008

Sjøvaag, Helle (2006) "Det problematiske engasjement: Journalister i yrkesideologiens gråsoner". Replikk : tidsskrift for human- og samfunnsvitenskap 2006 (21) s. 70-77

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

Sjøvaag, Helle (2014) "Localism in Print and Online News: A Comparison of Chain Newspapers across Regional Markets", Local Journalism around the World, Reuters Institute, Oxford University, 27-28 February, Oxford.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2013) “The Effect of Ownership on Content: Schibsted and the Consolidating Newspaper Market in Norway”, The Future of Journalism 12-13 September 2013, Cardiff.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2013) “The Principles of Regulation and the Assumption of Media Effects”, Nordmedia, HiOA, Oslo 8-11 august.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2013) “Journalistic Autonomy: Between Structure, Norms and Institutions”, in Allern, Sigurd, Nordic Network Seminar, 29-30 May, Stockholm.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2012) The Premium Market as a Structuring Factor in the Television Sector: Exclusive Football Rights and Media Ownership in the Nordic Region, European Communication Conference, ECC12, ECREA, Istanbul 24-27 October 2012.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2012) The Effects of Ownership on Content: Schibsted and the Regional Newspaper Market, Norsk Medieforskerkonferanse, Kristiansand 18-19 October 2012.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2012) The Impact of Structural Shifts on Journalism: Newspaper Consolidation in the Scandinavian Media Landscape, Matters of Journalism: Understanding Professional Challenges and Dilemmas, University of Gdansk, Poland, 14-15 September 2012.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2011) Shifting Business Models and Journalism’s Professional Ideology, The Future of Journalism Conference 2011, Cardiff University, UK, 8-9 September 2011.

Sjøvaag, Helle (2011) Journalistic Ideology and Professional Boundary Work: Shifting Business Models and the Role of the Classic News Ideals, NordMedia 2011, Akureyri, Iceland, 11-13 August 2011.

Sjøvaag, Helle; Moe, Hallvard and Stavelin, Eirik (2011) "Public Service News on the Web: A Large-Scale Content Analysis of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s Online News", International Communication Association annual conference, ICA, Boston, USA, 25-30 May 2011

Sjøvaag, Helle (2010) "User-Generated Content and Journalistic Authority: Amateur Images and Narrative Strategies in Terror Coverage", The Sociology of Journalism: Traditions and New Perspectives, Master Class, FMKJ, University of Copenhagen 17-18 November 2010

Sjøvaag, Helle (2010) “The Value of Being Public Service: Commercial Public Service Broadcasting and the Case of TV 2 in Norway”, European Communication Conference, ECREA, Hamburg 12-15. October 2010

Sjøvaag, Helle (2010) "The News Channel and the Digital News Market: The Future Revenues of Broadcast Journalism", Journalism’s Next Top Model Conference, University of Westminster, London. 08.06.10

Sjøvaag, Helle (2009) "Legitimacy as News Market Strategy: TV 2 News Channel’s Ideological Narrative", The 19^th Nordic Conference for Media and Communication Research, Karlstad, Sweden, 13.08.09 - 15.08.09

Sjøvaag, Helle (& John Bridge) (2009) "Amateur Images in the Professional News Stream". Top Paper Award, ICA International Communication Association Conference, Chicago, 21.05.09 - 24.05.09

Sjøvaag, Helle (2008) "The Social Contract and the Reciprocity of Contractual Obligations". ECREA European Communication Conference, Barcelona, 25-28.11. 2008

Sjøvaag, Helle. (2008) "Journalism and the Social Contract: The Fourth Estate and the Reciprocity of Contractual Obligations". 13. Medieforskerkonferanse; 30-31.10 2008

Sjøvaag, Helle; Bridge, John. (2008) "From Professional to Amateur: Digital Images and the Logic of the News Narrative". Television and the Digital Public Sphere; 22-24.10

 

Master Thesis: "Attached or Detached? Subjective Methods in War Journalism".

Sjøvaag’s postdoctoral research project "The Impact of Structural Shifts on the News" asks how structural changes in the media landscape affect media ownership, and again how ownership influences content. The project looks at the Norwegian newspaper market, specifically investigating the strategies of Schibsted. The project belongs under the NRC-funded Journalistic Reorientations project.

Sjøvaag is affiliated with the research project Responding to Welfare State Services: An Analysis of Users, Media and Public Services, funded by the Research Council's VAM programme, and led by Dag Arne Christensen at Rokkan Centre. 

Sjøvaag is member of an ongoing project investigating the online news strategy of the public service braodcaster NRK, Measuring Online News Content.

Sjøvaag has also received funding from Fellesløftet for a project entitled Diversity in the Norwegian News Media Landscape: A Hybrid Method for Evaluating Media Policy. The aim of the project is to evaluate the effect of media policy and regulation on the diversity of the Norwegian news landscape. Regulations subject to evaluation include ownership restrictions, direct press support and protection of public service broadcasting. Norwegian media legislation assumes media diversity to support freedom of speech. As such, this project will collect large quantities of data from national, regional and local news outlets and analyse pluralism of journalistic output in print, online, mobile and broadcast media. The data will comprise in excess of 30 newspapers published across the country, and will include radio and television broadcasting. The project will result in analyses of diversity levels in the Norwegian news market across ownership structures, publication platforms and regions and involves content, agenda setting mechanisms and sources and voices present in the news. The scale of data required for this analysis requires new methods for processing media content that will be developed in the intersection between media studies and information science.

The project will launch towards the end of 2014.

Journalistic Reorientations (NRC-project)

Responding to Welfare State Services (NRC project)

Measuring Online News Content (MONC)

The Journalism Research Group

The Media, ICT and Cultural Policy Research Group

Digicult: Democracy and the Digitization of Audio-Visual Culture