Media Impact in the Public Service Sector

• Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Fredriksson, Magnus; Pallas, Josef & Houlberg Salomonsen, Heidi (2020). Under the influence of politics: Mediatisation and politico-administrative systems in Scandinavia. Nordic Journal of Media Studies. 2(1), s. 85–96. doi: 10.2478/njms-2020-0008. Vis sammendrag

  This conceptual article extends three ongoing scholarly debates on the mediatisation of politics – the risk of media centrism, the tendency to see mediatisation as a linear process, and the preoccupation with elected officials. We argue for the need to identify, foreground, and systematise non-media dimensions of mediatisation processes. We also argue that actors encounter mediatisation as a set of dynamic ideas rather than a fixed logic. With a focus on government agencies and a comparison of the politico-administrative systems in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, this article gives certain attention to politicisation, autonomy, and accountability and suggests that the degree of freedom granted to agencies in Denmark and Norway is relatively limited compared with agencies in Sweden. Consequently, we present two propositions: 1) agencies in Denmark and Norway are less inclined to mediatise, whereas 2) Swedish government agencies will more likely mediatise and show conformity with widely accepted norms regarding media.

• Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Schillemans, Thomas & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2020). Media and Bureaucracy: Investigating Media Awareness Amongst Civil Servants. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2019). Social bureaucracy? The integration of social media into government communication. Communications. s. 1–22. doi: 10.1515/commun-2019-2074.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2018). Mediated Agency, Blame Avoidance and Institutional Responsibility: Government Communication in a Personalised Media Landscape. Scandinavian Political Studies. 41(2), s. 210–232. doi: 10.1111/1467-9477.12117.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2017). Patient narratives: Health journalists’ reflections, dilemmas and criticism of a compelling journalistic tool. I Fonn, Birgitte Kjos; Hornmoen, Harald; Hyde-Clarke, Nathalie & Hågvar, Yngve Benestad (Red.), Putting a Face on it: Individual Exposure and Subjectivity in Journalism. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. s. 235–256. doi: 10.23865/noasp.28.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2017). Serving the Media Ministers: A Mixed Methods Study on the Personalization of Ministerial Communication. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 22(4), s. 411–430. doi: 10.1177/1940161217720772. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The personalization of politics has received much attention in both the political science and political communication literature, but the focus has almost entirely been on party leaders and prime ministers. This study investigates the personalization of ministerial communication in Norway, a type of decentralized personalization. It combines a survey of communication workers; in-depth interviews with politicians, communication workers, political reporters, and top-level civil servants; and ethnographic observation inside a ministry. The article goes beyond media-centered perspectives and identifies several potential drivers and barriers to personalization processes. Based on our mixed methods approach, we find that ministerial communication in Norway is strongly centered on the minister in both reactive media management and the proactive promotion of the minister and new policies. This decentralized personalization is driven by both demands from the media and the strategic adaptation by political and administrative actors within ministries. Based on the rich empirically grounded insights, the article discusses how the interplay between the logic of the contemporary commercial news media, political ambitions, internal administrative ambitions, and changes in executive government shapes the personalization of ministerial communication, and illuminates how these multiple drivers of personalization are mutually reinforcing.

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• Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer & Stoltenberg, Christina Hoelgaard (2018). Mediepåvirkning i offentlig sektor : Resultat- og dokumentasjonsrapport. Institutt for samfunnsforskning. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Rapporten dokumenterer og gjengir hovedfunnene fra spørreundersøkelsene om mediepåvirkning sendt ut til ledere, saksbehandlere og kommunikasjonsansatte i departementene, og i direktorater, ombud og tilsyn høsten 2015 og våren 2016.

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• Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Fredriksson, Magnus; Kolltveit, Kristoffer & Pallas, Josef (2021). Public Bureaucracies. I Skogerbø, Eli; Ihlen, Øyvind; Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard & Nord, Lars W. (Red.), Power, communication, and politics in the Nordic countries. Nordicom. s. 325–345. doi: %2010.48335/9789188855299-16.
• Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Karlsen, Rune & Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2020). Conceptualizing Communication Professionals in Public Bureaucracies: Ideal Types and Empirical Application.
• Kolltveit, Kristoffer; Figenschou, Tine Ustad & Karlsen, Rune (2018). Communication workers in ministries: Strategic links between politics and administration.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2018). Den haltende valsen: Kilder og journalister i et medielandskap i sterk endring, .
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2018). Sosialt byråkrati? Kommunikasjon i et hybrid medielandskap .
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2018). Sluttrapport for forskningsprosjektet Media Impact in the Public Service Sector (2014-2018).
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2017). Dual Personalization: Government communication in an emotional media landscape.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Karlsen, Rune; Kolltveit, Kristoffer & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2017). Media influence on bureaucratic decision-making: Evidence from Norway and the Netherlands.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2017). Helsebyråkratiets bevisste bruk av media.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2017). Sosial byråkrati? Innovasjon, prøving og feiling.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2017). Social bureucracies? Government communication beyond the news logic.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad (2017). Public sector communications and NGOs.
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2017). Sosialt byråkrati?
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Fredriksson, Magnus; Pallas, Josef & Houlberg, Heidi (2017). Mediatization in translation – the Nordic experience.

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