About
Currently Head of Department, and on leave from my position as Associate Professor in the Department of International Studies and Interpreting. I am a media scholar with a doctorate in media studies from the University of Bergen. My Master and Bachelor degrees are from the University of Oslo. In addition, I have a degree in technical translation from the then Agder University College (currently University of Agder), and university pedagogics from the University of Oslo. Previously, I worked at the University of Bergen, the University of Oslo and at the International Summer School at the University of Oslo. Research interest include communication for social change; editorial cartoons in Southern Africa, and political satire in online media. Issues of gender, culture and media. Postcolonial theory. Popular culture. Eurovision Song Contest.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Media studies and journalism Women's and gender studies Cultural studies Humanities
Subject areas
Development aid Ethnography Feminist theory Popular Culture Qualitative methodologies Postcolonial theory and practice Youth culture Ethnic minorities Development studies Disapora Media and globalisation Media in southern Africa Medialisation of religion Reception studies HIV/AIDS and the media Eurovision Song Contest Political cartoons Development Studies Social media Communication for social change Cultural Studies
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Arntsen, Hilde ; Ekström, Ylva (2014). Finding One’s Feet in Modernity. Young Women and the Media in Dar es Salaam and Harare. Oloruntoba-Oju, Taiwo; Holst Petersen, Kirsten (Ed.). Culture and the Contemporary African. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
Arntsen, Hilde
(2010).
Committing journalism? A View of the Zimbabwean 2008 General Election as interpreted by news cartoons.
Communicare.
Vol. 29.
https://doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v29ised-1.1672
Arntsen, Hilde
(2006).
Researching popular culture.
Enghel, Florencia (Ed.).
Glocal Times.
Malmö University’s Master in Communication for Development.
http://www.glocaltimes.k3.mah.se/viewarticle.aspx?
Arntsen, Hilde (2005). Staging the Nation? Nation, Myth and Cultural Stereotypes in the International Eurovision Song Contest Finals in Estonia, Lativa and Norway. Bærug, RIchard (Ed.). The Baltic Media World. p. 145-157. The Baltic Media World/Det Norske Utenriksdepartement.
Arntsen, Hilde (2004). Comments on Stefan Jonsson's presentation. Nordicom Information. Vol. 26.
Arntsen, Hilde
(2004).
Comments on Stefan Jonsson's presentation.
Nordicom Review.
Vol. 25.
http://www.nordicom.gu.se/common/publ_pdf/134_069-
Arntsen, Hilde (1998). You've come a long way, baby? : some questions of gender representation in Zimbabwean women's magazines. Waldahl, Ragnar (Ed.). Perspectives on media, culture and democracy in Zimbabwe. p. 82-114. Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon, Oslo.
Arntsen, Hilde (1997). Representation of the "Other" in visual narrative : African journey and Neria. Drag, Marianne; Gecau, Kimani; Zhuwarara, Rino (Ed.). Media, democratization and identity. p. 98-115. University of Zimbabwe.
