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Oscar Westlund

Oscar Westlund

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 48, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: S438
Phone
  • Office: +47 672 38 836
E-mail
  • oscar.westlund@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

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.

Research groups

Research projects

Completed research projects

  • The Epistemologies of Digital News Production

    The project studies journalists’ concrete judgments, handling of sources and data, and their overall knowledge-producing activities in distinct stages of the news production process that ultimately lead to news publishing.

  • The Source Criticism And Mediated Disinformation (SCAM)

    The SCAM project will identify the main challenges related to the ways in which technology and platforms affect the distribution of disinformation in public spheres and ways to detect and counter it.

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Westlund, Oscar ; Krøvel, Roy ; Orgeret, Kristin Skare (2024). Journalism and Safety. An Introduction to the Field. ISBN: 9781032705750. Taylor & Francis.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032705750

Westlund, Oscar ; Belair-Gagnon, Valerie; Graves, Lucas; Larsen, Rebekah; Steensen, Steen (2024). What Is the Problem with Misinformation? Fact-checking as a Sociotechnical and Problem-Solving Practice. Journalism Studies. Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2024.2357316

Westlund, Oscar ; Merja, Myllylahti; Chua, Sherwin (2024). Platform Business Poses Risks for News Publishers. Eldridge, Scott A.; Cheruiyot, David; Banjac, Sandra; Swart, Joëlle (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies. p. 216-225. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5194365

Orgeret, Kristin Skare; Westlund, Oscar ; Krøvel, Roy (2024). Journalism and Safety Digital Threats, Professional Fragilities, and Safety Cultures. ISBN: 9781032881942. 324 p. Taylor & Francis.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3994107

Westlund, Oscar ; Krøvel, Roy; Orgeret, Kristin Skare (2024). Journalism and Safety: An Introduction to the Field. ISBN: 9781032702940. 324 p. Taylor & Francis.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4923496

Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine ; Tenenboim, Ori; Hess, Kristy; Westlund, Oscar ; Linden, Carl-Gustav; Broersma, Marcel (2024). Platform paradoxes and public service media legitimacy: a cross-national study. Information, Communication & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2353783

Linden, Carl-Gustav; Villi, Mikko; Westlund, Oscar (2024). The (mobile) news ecosystem milestone. Pavlik, John (Ed.). Milestones in digital journalism. p. 89-107. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003316152-6

Ramsälv, Amanda; Ekstrom, Mats; Westlund, Oscar (2023). The epistemologies of data journalism. New Media & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221150439

Belair-Gagnon, Valerie; Larsen, Rebekah; Graves, Lucas; Westlund, Oscar (2023). Knowledge Work in Platform Fact-Checking Partnerships. International Journal of Communication. Vol. 17.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3102040

Bélair-Gagnon, Valérie; Larsen, Rebekah; Graves, Lucas; Westlund, Oscar (2023). Knowledge Work in Platform Fact-Checking Partnerships. International Journal of Communication. Vol. 17.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3112639



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Research reports

Westlund, Oscar (2018). "Sweden" Reuters Institute Digital News Report. 140 p. Reuters Institute Digital News Report.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3897142

Andreasson, Torbjörn; Ghersetti, Marina; Pettersson, Jesper; Rolandsson, Bertil; Røsæg, Erling; Westlund, Johan Oscar Andreas (2017). Tolv trender i ett digitalt samhälle - SOMCRISC rapport 1. 125 p. Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4882839

Andreasson, Torbjörn; Ghersetti, Marina; Pettersson, Jesper; Rolandsson, Bertil; Røsæg, Erling; Westlund, Johan Oscar Andreas (2017). Fyra samhällsscenarier för framtida kriskommunikation - SOMCRISC rapport 2. 77 p. Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4881139



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Dissemination

Westlund, Oscar ; Boyles, Jan Lauren; Guo, Lei; Saldaña, Magdalena; Salaverría, Ramón; Thomson, T.J.; Wu, Shangyuan (2025). Digital Journalism (Studies): An Agenda for the Future. Digital Journalism.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2474530

Westlund, Oscar ; Krøvel, Roy ; Orgeret, Kristin Skare (2024). Introduction to the Practice and State of Journalism amid Dangerous Times. Westlund, Oscar; Krøvel, Roy; Orgeret, Kristin Skare (Ed.). Journalism and Safety. An Introduction to the Field. Taylor & Francis.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032705750

Westlund, Oscar ; Saldaña, Magdalena (2024). A Transforming Digital Journalism Editorial Team Calls for a Tribute and a Welcome. Digital Journalism. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2024.2309090

Frantsvåg, Jan Erik; Westlund, Oscar ; Aaen-Stockdale, Craig (2023). Vi har forlatt redaksjonsrådet i Publications. Khrono.no.
https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28896

Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine ; Tenenboim, Ori; Hess, Kristy; Westlund, Oscar ; Linden, Carl-Gustav; Broersma, Marcel (2023). Embracing paradoxes: Platform discourses and legitimacy building in public service media - A cross-national study. Stavanger - Münster Group meeting 29-30 November 2023. University of Münster and University of Stavanger.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5160603

Olsen, Ragnhild Kristine ; Tenenboim, Ori; Westlund, Oscar ; Hess, Kristy; Linden, Carl-Gustav; Broersma, Marcel (2023). Conflicts of Interests: A Cross-National Study of Public Service Media institutions’ Discourse Constructions About Platforms. 73rd Annual ICA Conference. International Communication Association.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3512837

Duffy, Andrew; Westlund, Oscar (2022). Mobility, Smartphones and News. Allan, Stuart (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism. p. 170-178. Routledge.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4870300

Belair-Gagnon, Valerie; Larsen, Rebekah; Graves, Lucas; Westlund, Oscar (2022). There is Cap: Platforms-Fact-Checkers Cross Sector Partnerships. 9th European Communication Conference . ECREA.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4188920

Hess, Kristy; Jnr, Edson Tandoc; Westlund, Oscar (2022). Editorial: Digital Journalism Studies, Its Core and Periphery. Digital Journalism. Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2033630

Westlund, Oscar ; Bélair-Gagnon, Valérie; Graves, Lucas; Larsen, Rebekah; Steensen, Steen (2022). What is the Problem with Misinformation? Fact-checking as a problem-solving practice. 9th European Communication Conference . ECREA.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4869733



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