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.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Library and information science Media studies and journalism
Research groups
Research projects
Completed research projects
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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.
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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.
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
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.
20 p.
Journalism Studies.
Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2024.2357316
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
Ramsälv, Amanda; Ekstrom, Mats;
Westlund, Oscar
(2023).
The epistemologies of data journalism.
18 p.
New Media & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221150439
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.
https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231151436
Bélair-Gagnon, Valérie; Larsen, Rebekah; Graves, Lucas; Westlund, Oscar (2023). Knowledge Work in Platform Fact-Checking Partnerships. 20 p. International Journal of Communication. Vol. 17.
Silva-Rodríguez, Alba; Sixto-García, José; Rodríguez-Vázquez, Ana-Isabel;
Westlund, Oscar
(2023).
Models for Mobile Communication and Effects on the Boundaries of Journalism.
Negreira-Rey, María-Cruz; Vázquez-Herrero, Jorge; Sixto-García, José; López-García, Xosé (Ed.).
Blurring Boundaries of Journalism in Digital Media
New Actors, Models and Practices. p. 201-213.
Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43926-1_14
Belair-Gagnon, Valerie; Larsen, Rebekah; Graves, Lucas;
Westlund, Oscar
(2023).
Knowledge Work in Platform Fact-Checking Partnerships.
International Journal of Communication.
Vol. 17.
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19851
Steensen, Steen
; Belair-Gagnon, Valerie; Graves, Lucas;
Kalsnes, Bente
;
Westlund, Oscar
(2022).
Journalism and Source Criticism. Revised Approaches to Assessing Truth-Claims.
Journalism Studies.
Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2022.2140446
