Vilde Schanke Sundet
@vildess.bsky.social
Associate professor in media and communication at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). I study media industries, platforms, creators, fans, and television. Project leader of GLOBAL NATIVES.
2 x fully funded PhD positions available at the Department of Journalism and Media Communication, OsloMet, Norway. Deadline: February 13, 2026 www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...
PhD Fellowship positions in Journalism and Media Studies
Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with 23,000 students and over 2,600 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students and conduct...
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ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This article by @vildess.bsky.social draws on interviews with twenty Norwegian #media executives to explore strategies for reaching young #audiences, identifying three common strategies for engaging #youth. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Shameless self-promotion: I have a new article out on media industry strategies for reaching youth. The article identifies three common strategies for engaging youth, conceptualised as the three Ps: Platform, Profile, and People. Open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Conceptualising Youth Media Strategies: Balancing Platforms, Profiles, and People
Young people’s media consumption has shifted from traditional mass media towards social media, fostering an industry view of youth as a “lost generation” and promoting media organisations to broade...
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Please read and share: the Potsdam Call on Autonomous Weapon Systems (potsdamcall.dgdg.blog) We risk losing the principle that only humans—not machines—should make life-and-death decisions. The call urges prevention of a future where machines are authorised to kill without human judgment.
The Potsdam Call on Autonomous Weapon Systems – Potsdam, August 4, 2025
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❤️ SKAM (straks) 10 år! ❤️ Favorittpodkast møter favorittserie når Seriesnakk med Torkil Risan går gjennom alle de ikoniske øyeblikkene i SKAM. 4 episoder ute, 5 episoder kommer. Med Julie Andem, Mari Magnus, Lisa Teige, Carl Martin Eggesbø med flere radio.nrk.no/podkast/seri...
Marika Lüders and I have a new article out, where we explore youth entertainment in a world of abundance and the challenge to domestic media. Open access!
This is happening across so many of our major media institutions. Such hyper-commercialized media institutions are structurally prone to this kind of political economic pressure where profit imperatives trump democratic needs. Instead of ringing alarm bells, they are toning down their coverage.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.Disney and ABC News have reportedly asked the hosts of “The View” to tone down their political rhetoric
💥PUBLICATION ALERT: Influencer autonomy: Navigating authenticity, agencies, and algorithms Co-written with Kari Steen-Johnsen and Mads Møller Andersen as part of a special issue on influencers, edited by Mette Mortensen and Anne Jerslev sciendo.com/article/10.2...
Shout out to GLOBAL NATIVES team star Marika Lüders, who has a new publication on teen and entertainment media in New Media & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this." Interview ⤵️
Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
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At the Nordic AI in Media Summit, newsroom leaders gathered to talk “liquid content,” European tech sovereignty, and the death of the article page. www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/nord...
“The article will die, should die, but storytelling will not”: Notes from the Nordic AI in Media Summit
Topics included model building, "liquid content," and European tech sovereignty.
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My latest book, After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-first Century is now available from NYU Press. Some thoughts here on why I wrote it and what I’m up to. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-af...
Why 'After Mass Media'?
After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-first Century explores how the changes in the business of television over the last 30 years tie to changes in the content made. The book...
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I feel so proud to announce that my first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - will be published in March 2025, by @ucpress.bsky.social 🫶🏼
Hello I've decided to use Blue Sky now. In unrelated news, my book 'Influencer Creep' will be published with University of California press in October 2025. It's about the ways influencer culture has transformed creative work. Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...
