About
Research, teaching and dissemination in the field of media and journalism with a particular focus on media in conflict, freedom of speech, media’s societal role, and power relations. Dr. Art with her dissertation on public service broadcasting in post-apartheid South Africa. Awarded OsloMet's Dissemination Prize 2022.
Heading the research group MEKK – Media in War and Conflict, with Roy Krøvel. MEKK organizes annual Safety of Journalists conferences every first week in November. Please see: https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsgrupper/mekk Leading the NRC-funded project ‘Decoding Digital Media in African regions of Conflict’ (DD-MAC) with partners from the Netherlands, Ethiopia, Mali, and with Norwegian SIMULA (2021–2025). Leading the NORPART project 'Expanding Horizons in Media and Journalism studies' with partners in Tanzania, Uganda, Colombia and Nicaragua (2021–2025) and the Intpart project ‘Safety Matters’ on journalist safety, with partners in Brazil, South Africa, and the USA (2021–2025) with Roy Krøvel.
Research groups
Research projects
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Decoding digital media in African regions of conflict (DDMAC)
The key goal of DDMAC is to gather empirical evidence defining and demonstrating the use, spread, content, and agenda-setting role of social media in regions of conflicts in sub- Saharan Africa.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Orgeret, Kristin; Mutsvairo, Bruce (2022). Theorizing Journalism and the Global South. Allan, Stuart (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. Kapittel 47. Routledge.
Westlund, Oscar; Krøvel, Roy; Orgeret, Kristin (2022). Newsafety: Infrastructures, Practices and Consequences. Journalism Practice . Vol. 16.
Orgeret, Kristin (2021). Introduction: Reporting on Processes of Peace and Conflict. Orgeret, Kristin (Ed.). Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting. Introduction. Routledge.
Orgeret, Kristin (2021). Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting. ISBN: 9780367859008. 182 p. Routledge.
Orgeret, Kristin; Mutsvairo, Bruce; Ragnedda, Massimo (2021). Era or error of transformation? Assessing afrocentric attributes to digitalization. Information, Communication & Society .
Røsok-Dahl, Heidi; Orgeret, Kristin (2020). Sports Journalism, Interns and #MeToo – did anything change?. Journalistica .
Orgeret, Kristin; Tayeebwa, William (2020). Rethinking Safety of Journalists. Media and Communication . Vol. 8.
Selnes, Florence Namasinga; Orgeret, Kristin Skare (2020). Activism as political action in Uganda: The role of social media. Journal of African Media Studies . Vol. 12.
Orgeret, Kristin; Rønning, Helge (2020). Political communication in East Africa: an introduction. Journal of African Media Studies . Vol. 12.
Orgeret, Kristin; Selnes, Florence Namasinga (2020). Social media in Uganda: revitalising news journalism?. Media, Culture and Society . Vol. 42.
