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Jo Helle-Valle

Jo Helle-Valle

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 42, 0167 Oslo
  • Office number: Q7053
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 488 84 188
  • Office: +47 672 37 127
E-mail
  • jo.helle-valle@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Jo Helle-Valle is Professor in Development Studies at OsloMet. He holds a Dr. polit. in social anthropology (from 1996), based on fieldwork in a local community in the Botswana part of the Kalahari. He has also conducted fieldwork in Uganda and Ethiopia, and has been a Visiting Scholar in Oxford, Gaborone and Vancouver. From 2015 to 2016 he was a Visiting Professor at Harvard.
He has published on a wide variety of topics, on issues relating both to Africa (politics, globalisation, change, gender) and to media. He is currently the PI of the research project New media practices in a changing Africa, financed by the Research Council of Norway (FriPro) and with partners from Harvard, LSE, University of Cape Town, University of Botswana, University of Birmingham and the University of Oslo.

Field of study

Globalization   Quanitative research methods   Ethnicity   Nationalism   Qualitative methods   New Media   Gender and Gender studies   Development studies   Media in southern Africa   Gender and ICT   Visual Theory   Ontology   African politics   Gender and sexuality   Ethnographic fieldwork   African economy

Research groups

Research projects

Completed research projects

  • New media practices in a changing Africa

    The project starts from two significant facts: relatively consistent economic growth in Africa over two decades, and a digital media revolution during the same period.

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Helle-Valle, Jo ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (2023). Domestication theory. Reflections from the Kalahari. Hartmann, Maren (Ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Media and Technology Domestication. p. 162-177. Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003265931

Helle-Valle, Jo ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (2020). Media Practices and Changing African Socialities - Non-Media-Centric Perspectives. ISBN: 9781789206616. 250 p. Berghahn Books.
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Helle-ValleMed

Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Helle-Valle, Jo (2020). Botswana’s digital revolution: What’s in it?. Helle-Valle, Jo; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (Ed.). Media Practices and Changing African Socialities - Non-Media-Centric Perspectives. p. 60-90. Berghahn Books.

Helle-Valle, Jo ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (2020). Introduction: A Social Science Perspective on Media practices in Africa – Social Mechanisms, Dynamics and Processes. Helle-Valle, Jo; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (Ed.). Media Practices and Changing African Socialities - Non-Media-Centric Perspectives. p. 1-32. Berghahn Books.

Helle-Valle, Jo (2020). From No Media to All Media: Domesticating New Media in a Kalahari Village. Helle-Valle, Jo; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (Ed.). Media Practices and Changing African Socialities - Non-Media-Centric Perspectives. Berghahn Books.

Helle-Valle, Jo (2019). Advocating causal analyses of media and social change by way of social mechanisms. Journal of African Media Studies. Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.1386/jams.11.2.143_1

Jacobsen, Eivind; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Tangen, Karl-Fredrik; Helle-Valle, Jo (2018). Markedsføring - samfunnsvitenskapelige perspektiver. Storm-Mathisen, Ardis; Jacobsen, Eivind; Tangen, Karl-Fredrik; Helle-Valle, Jo (Ed.). Markedsføring og forbrukerne – samfunnsvitenskapelige blikk. p. 11-22. Universitetsforlaget.

Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Jacobsen, Eivind; Tangen, Karl-Fredrik; Helle-Valle, Jo (2018). Markedsføring og forbrukerne – samfunnsvitenskapelige blikk. ISBN: 9788215025919. 217 p. Universitetsforlaget.
https://www.universitetsforlaget.no/nettbutikk/mar

Helle-Valle, Jo ; Borchgrevink, Axel (2018). Household histories and methodological triangulation. Forum for Development Studies. Vol. 45.
https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2016.1260049

Helle-Valle, Jo ; Mjaaland, Mari (2018). Reklame i nettaviser – et leserperspektiv. Storm-Mathisen, Ardis; Jacobsen, Eivind; Tangen, Karl-Fredrik; Helle-Valle, Jo (Ed.). Markedsføring og forbrukerne – samfunnsvitenskapelige blikk. p. 170-184. Universitetsforlaget.



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Research reports

Slettemeås, Dag ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Helle-Valle, Jo (2017). RFID in Society – Preparing for the Internet of Things. Final Report & Summary. (Deliverable 4 of 4). ISBN: 9788270634675. 45 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.

Slettemeås, Dag ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Helle-Valle, Jo (2017). RFID in Society – Preparing for the Internet of Things. Case Analyses & Evaluation (Deliverable 2 of 4). ISBN: 9788270634651. 74 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.

Slettemeås, Dag ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Helle-Valle, Jo (2017). RFID in Society - Preparing for the Internet of Things. Case Criteria & Selection. (Deliverable 1 of 4). ISBN: 9788270634644. 57 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.

Slettemeås, Dag ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Helle-Valle, Jo (2017). RFID in Society – Preparing for the Internet of Things. Handbook of Methods. (Deliverable 3 of 4). ISBN: 9788270634668. 83 p. Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus.

Rasmussen, Terje; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Frugård, Marcela; Helle-Valle, Jo Helge (2013). Forbruks- og livsstilsjournalistikk i NRK: En studie av Forbrukerinspektørene (FBI) og Puls sett i lys av NRKs allmennkringkastingsforpliktelser. ISBN: 9788270634460. 135 p. Statens institutt for forbruksforskning.
http://www.sifo.no/files/file78929_fagrapport_3-20

Slettemeås, Dag ; Helle-Valle, Jo Helge (2012). Smarttelefon og bruk av mobilbaserte tjenester blant norske forbrukere. 46 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.

Bucher, Taina; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Helle-Valle, Jo (2009). Ungdom, Politikk og Internett. En akademisk refleksjon over norsk ungdoms samfunnsdeltakelse og politiske engasjement online. 66 p. Statens institutt for forbruksforskning.
http://sifo.no/files/file75201_oppdragsrapport_2-2

Slettemeås, Dag ; Helle-Valle, Jo Helge ; Borch, Anita (2007). Consuming Digital Adventure-Oriented Media in Everyday Life. Final Report. 78 p. Statens institutt for forbruksforskning.

Helle-Valle, Jo Helge (2007). Time and media consumption in Norwegian families. ISBN: 9788270634132. 57 p. Statens institutt for forbruksforskning.
http://www.sifo.no/files/file69293_fagrapport_2007

Slettemeås, Dag ; Helle-Valle, Jo Helge (2003). Forbrukere og utviklingen av bredbånd i Norge - fra borger til kunde?. 102 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.



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Dissemination

Engen, Bård Ketil ; Helle-Valle, Jo ; Giæver, Tonje Hilde ; Karstensen, Steinar ; Steier, Rolf Erik Jorgenson ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (2023). Planlagt og gjennomført fakultetsseminar om digitalisering på fakultet for lærerutdanning on internasjonale studier (DIGILUI). Oversikt og forskning på digitalisering ved fakultet. Forskningsgruppene: Digitale Læringsarenaer, Bærekraft og Teknologi i Arbeid og Læring, Utvikling,Makt og ulikhet og Små barn, store byer: b.h.kvaliteter, ulikheter, kommunikative kompleksiteter..

Helle-Valle, Jo ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (2023). Domestication Theory: Reflections from the Kalahari. Revisiting domestication (of media and technology). Book launch and symposium. Berlin University of the Arts.

Helle-Valle, Jo (2019). New media and development in Africa. Kongokveld. JOIN good forces.

Helle-Valle, Jo (2019). Ny virkelighet, nye medier, ny antropologi?. Fagdag. Universitetet i Tromsø.

Storm-Mathisen, Ardis ; Slettemeås, Dag ; Helle-Valle, Jo (2018). Beredskap, sårbarhet og digitaliseringens paradokser - oppsummering av funn fra Homeriskprosjektet. Homerisk sluttseminar. Forsbruksinstituttet SIFO og Norsk Teknisk Museum.

Helle-Valle, Jo ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (2018). How can new media contribute to development? A case. Researching Media in Africa. Network seminar.. OsloMet.

Helle-Valle, Jo (2018). Media culture in Africa? A practice-ethnographic approach. Researching Media in Africa at Oslo Metropolitan University. OsloMet.

Helle-Valle, Jo (2018). Internet in the Kalahari. NORAD-seminar .

Helle-Valle, Jo (2017). Botswana youth debating gender relationships on Facebook. ASA annual conference. African Studies Association.

Helle-Valle, Jo (2017). New media pratices in a Changing Africa, FriPro, NFR. Utviklingsstudier 30 år, HiOA - åpent seminar. HiOA.



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