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.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Research groups
Research projects
Completed 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
de Bruijn, Mirjam; Mutsvairo, Bruce; Bruls, Luca; Langguth, Johannes;
Orgeret, Kristin Skare
;
Badji, Samba Dialimpa
; Moges, Mulatu Alemayehu;
Schroeder, Daniel Thilo
(2025).
“Aren’t we all journalists?” Citizen journalism, disinformation and the weaponization of social media in conflict torn Mali.
Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884924131274
Mutsvairo, Bruce; Orgeret, Kristin (2025). OrgeretThe Palgrave Handbook of Global Digital Journalism. Palgrave Macmillan.
Orgeret, Kristin
(2025).
Why 2024 was the deadliest year on record for reporters.
The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/the-international-lega
de Bruijn, Mirjam; Mutsvairo, Bruce; Bruls, Luca; Cisse, Modibo Galy; Langguth, Johannes;
Orgeret, Kristin
;
Badji, Samba Dialimpa
;
Moges, Mulatu Alemayehu
; Schröder, Daniel Thilo
(2025).
“Aren’t we all journalists?” Citizen journalism, disinformation and the weaponization of social media in conflict torn Mali.
Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241312743
Orgeret, Kristin
; Mutsvairo, Bruce
(2024).
Powering Forward with New Approaches to Studying Digital Journalism.
Orgeret, Kristin; Mutsvairo, Bruce (Ed.).
The Palgrave Handbok of Global Digital Journalism. p. 1-13.
Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59379-6.
Orgeret, Kristin ; Mutsvairo, Bruce (2024). The Palgrave Handbok of Global Digital Journalism. ISBN: 3031593790. 450 p. Palgrave Macmillan.
Orgeret, Kristin
; Badji, Samba Dialimpa; Mutsvairo, Bruce
(2024).
An Exploratory Study of Fact-Checking Practices in Conflict and Authoritarian Contexts.
Media and Communication.
Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.8698
Westlund, Oscar ; Krøvel, Roy ; Orgeret, Kristin Skare (2024). Journalism and Safety. An Introduction to the Field. ISBN: 9781032705750. Taylor & Francis.
Orgeret, Kristin (2024). Frihet, likhet og – likestilling?. Aukrust, Kjerstin; Rieker, Pernille (Ed.). Franske tilstander Forstå det moderne Frankrike. p. 180-202. Universitetsforlaget.
Schroeder, Daniel Thilo
; de Bruijn, Mirjam; Bruls, Luca;
Moges, Mulatu Alemayehu
;
Badji, Samba Dialimpa
; Fritz, Noémie; Cisse, Modibo Galy; Langguth, Johannes; Mutsvairo, Bruce;
Orgeret, Kristin Skare
(2023).
Social media in the Global South: A Network Dataset of the Malian Twittersphere.
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities.
https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.11246
