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.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Social anthropology Social sciences
Subject areas
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
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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
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 ; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (2020). Media Practices and Changing African Socialities - Non-Media-Centric Perspectives. ISBN: 978-1-78920-661-6. 250 p. Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Helle-ValleMed
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: 978-82-15-02591-9.
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.
