The Facebook rejecters

Why are people leaving Facebook and what kind of reactions do they receive from their surroundings? That’s some of the topics I’ve written about in an article about new social media research for the Norwegian weekly, Morgenbladet.  The article is here (in Norwegian), but I’ll also add it below with some additional links.   Hva: Forskning på hvorfor folk … Continue reading »

Looking for the right tool to do research on open Facebook pages

I’m interested in doing research on open Facebook pages, but haven’t quite found the tool I need. Maybe you are able to help me out? As part of the research project I’m part of (Social media and agenda setting project in election campaigns), I’m looking into different ways to analyze and compare likes, shares, number of … Continue reading »

Boka “Revolusjon 2.0″ og Aftenpostens anmeldelse

Revolusjoner var enklere før, da telte man døde kropper og halshogginger,  ikke antall ”liker” og visninger av YouTube-videoer som i dag.  Men det er på høy tid at vi venner oss til at ”teknikaliteter” også er en del av vår tids revolusjoner. 2. juli kunne vi lese om ”Nettrevolusjon og brutal virkelighet” i Aftenposten (ikke … Continue reading »

”Dette bildet skal på Face” – om nettvett i 2012

Hva er egentlig god nettvett i 2012? Jeg spurte dem som har nettvett i tastefingrene: 12 – og 13 år gamle jenter. ”Det er ikke så mye mobbing på nett”, mente mange av jentene da jeg spurte om de kjente til mobbing på nett. Ved en tilfeldighet kom jeg i dag i kontakt med en … Continue reading »

Følg sporene mine

Vi avskyr overvåkning, men vi legger igjen flere digitale spor enn noensinne, de fleste frivillige. (Another Norwegian article, this time from Morgenbladet a week ago. It’s about surveillance vs. digital footsteeps we voluntarily leave behind). Dagens mest romantiske mail mottatt: «Jeg hadde tenkt til å fri, men så var du ikke online på MSN.» Denne … Continue reading »

Velgerne vant årets digitale valgkamp

Det er mye vi kan si om politikernes internettinnsats, men la oss glemme det nå. (Denne artikkelen står på trykk i dagens utgave av Morgenbladet. Fordi man ikke kan diskutere på Morgenbladets sider, legger jeg den ut for kommentarer her. Apology to my international readers, this is an article I’ve written for the weekly Morgenbladet … Continue reading »

A tribute to the good tech people in Brussels

My head has been stuck in boxes for several days after my family’s move from Brussels, Belgium to Oslo, Norway, so not much time for blogging lately. But as I’m taking a break from the moving chaos, I wanted to give a huge tribute to some of the great people with an online presence that … Continue reading »

The European Parliament’s experience with social media – a post election reflection

As the night was approaching and the last votes were counted on June 7, the final day of the European Parliament ( EP) election, you could read Twitter updates in 22 different languages from EP’s official Twitter accounts. Or debate the outcome with people from all over Europe on EPs Facebook page. (This text is … Continue reading »

Masculine Facebook and feminin Twitter – or was it the other way around?

Are there any gender differences in online behaviour and why so? That’s the topic in an article at CNNMoney, even though it never discusses gender differences on Twitter and Facebook (annoying when the title is “Men are from Facebook, women are from Twitter?”). However, I forgot that when I saw that my good friend Mary … Continue reading »

How political are political Facebook groups?

Another blog in my little mini-series, Social media for social change.The two previous were about the Twitter storm that hit Moltemyr skole and the social media/fundraising event Twestival. We do know that people use Facebook for all kinds of activities, raising money to cancer sick children (started by the sister of a friend of mine), … Continue reading »

Three social media developments: Bild, European Citizens’ Consultations and Norwegian Facebook debate

Bildt, Germany’s largest newspaper, is partnering up with Lidl to sell cheap digital cameras to citizen journalists; EU has released a new citizen “portal”; Norwegian debate: can journalists be “fan” of politicians on Facebook? Bild wants to expand by using citizen journalists. According to Herald Tribune, potential Bild-citizen journalists can buy a digital camera at … Continue reading »

The Atheist Bus and the web campaign behind it

A blogger friend of mine, Jon Worth, has been part in kicking off this fantastic campaign in the UK, the Atheist Bus. What started as a wild idea in a Guardian column written by Ariane Sherine (who also has a blog), became realistic after a photoshop mockup and lots of entusiastic pledges in the pledgebank, … Continue reading »

Facebook as a film

You can’t get enough of Facebook? Or is Facebook “so yesterday” that it makes you puke? I’m still on Facebook and like it, even though I don’t spent so much time there anymore. But I got really surprised when I saw that Aaron Sorkin (who created the fantastic West Wing) is making a film about … Continue reading »

Forbidden to use Wikipedia and Facebook as sources

Agence France Presse (AFP) has banned journalist from using Facebook and Wikipedia as sources. Here is what the agency’s London bureau chief told a Lord’s Committee Wednesday: “Pierre Lesourd said that internal rules that governed the entire organisation prevented journalists from relying on many new ‘virtual’ sources for news. ‘We have internal rules that are … Continue reading »