Kort om
Oscar Westlund (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University, where he co- leads the OsloMet Digital Journalism Research Group. He holds secondary appointment at University of Gothenburg. Westlund specializes in digital journalism, fact-checking, platforms, media management, news consumption, and mobile media. Westlund is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital Journalism, and has also guest edited special issues for numerous other leading international journals. He is currently involved in several research projects focusing on misinformation.
Forskningsgrupper
Forskningsprosjekter
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The Source Criticism And Mediated Disinformation (SCAM)
Forskningsprosjektet vil utvikle ny kunnskap og metoder som er egnet til å oppdage og motvirke spredning av desinformasjon i demokratiske samfunn.
Publikasjoner og forskningsresultater
Vitenskapelige publikasjoner
Steensen, Steen; Kalsnes, Bente; Westlund, Oscar
(2023).
The limits of live fact-checking: Epistemological consequences of introducing a breaking news logic to political fact-checking.
New Media & Society
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https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231151
Ramsälv, Amanda; Ekstrom, Mats; Westlund, Oscar (2023). The epistemologies of data journalism. 18 s. New Media & Society .
Chua, Sherwin; Westlund, Oscar (2022). Platform Configuration: A Longitudinal Study and Conceptualization of a Legacy News Publisher’s Platform-Related Innovation Practices. Online Media and Global Communication. Vol. 1.
Shin, Don; Hameleers, Michael; Park, Yong Yin; Jeong nam, kim; Triell, Daniel; Diakopolous, Nicholas; Helberger, Natali; Lewis, Seth C.; Westlund, Oscar; Baumann, Sabine (2022). Countering Algorithmic Bias and Disinformation and Effectively Harnessing the Power of AI in Media. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly . Vol. 99.
Westlund, Oscar; Larsen, Rebekah; Graves, Lucas; Kavtaradze, Lasha; Steensen, Steen
(2022).
Technologies and Fact-Checking. A Sociotechnical Mapping.
Correia, Joao Carlos; Jeronimo, Pedro; Amaral, Inês (Red.).
Disinformations Studies: Perspectives from An Emerging Field. Chapter 7. s. 193-236.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3032844
Steensen, Steen; Belair-Gagnon, Valerie; Graves, Lucas; Kalsnes, Bente; Westlund, Oscar
(2022).
Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims.
Journalism Studies
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Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2022.2140446
Westlund, Oscar; Krøvel, Roy; Orgeret, Kristin (2022). Newsafety: Infrastructures, Practices and Consequences. Journalism Practice . Vol. 16.
Ekström, Mats; Ramsälv, Amanda; Westlund, Oscar (2021). Data-driven news work culture: Reconciling tensions in epistemic values and practices of news journalism. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism .
Westlund, Oscar; Ekström, Mats
(2021).
Critical Moments of Coordination in Newswork.
Journalism Practice
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Vol. 15.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3034769
Westlund, Oscar; Hermida, Alfred (2021). Data Journalism and Misinformation. Tumber, Howard; Waisbord, Silvio (Red.). The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism. 13. s. 142-150. Routledge.
