Kort om
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.
Forskningsgrupper
Forskningsprosjekter
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The Source Criticism And Mediated Disinformation (SCAM)
Forskningsprosjektet vil utvikle ny kunnskap og metoder som er egnet til å oppdage og motvirke spredning av desinformasjon i demokratiske samfunn.
Publikasjoner og forskningsresultater
Vitenskapelige publikasjoner
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 s.
Journalism Studies.
Vol. 25.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2024.2357316
Olsen, Ragnhild Kr.; 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
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.
18 s.
Information, Communication & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2353783
Ramsälv, Amanda; Ekstrom, Mats;
Westlund, Oscar
(2023).
The epistemologies of data journalism.
18 s.
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://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19851
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 (Red.).
Blurring Boundaries of Journalism in Digital Media
New Actors, Models and Practices. s. 201-213.
Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43926-1_14
Bélair-Gagnon, Valérie; Larsen, Rebekah ; Graves, Lucas; Westlund, Oscar (2023). Knowledge Work in Platform Fact-Checking Partnerships. 20 s. International Journal of Communication. Vol. 17.
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
Westlund, Oscar
;
Larsen, Rebekah
; Graves, Lucas; Kavtaradze, Lasha;
Steensen, Steen
(2022).
Technologies and Fact-Checking. A Sociotechnical Mapping.
Correia, Joao Carlos; Jeronimo, Pedro; Amaral, Inês (Red.).
Disinformations Studies: Perspectives from An Emerging Field. s. 193-236.
Labcom Communication & Arts.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3032844
Chua, Sherwin;
Westlund, Oscar
(2022).
Platform Configuration: A Longitudinal Study and Conceptualization of a Legacy News Publisher’s Platform-Related Innovation Practices.
30 s.
Online Media and Global Communication.
Vol. 1.
https://doi.org/10.1515/omgc-2022-0003
