Young voters, social media and political engagement

How are new media habits impacting political engagement among young voters? I’ve written (in Norwegian) about a Swedish research article with some interesting findings regarding political interest and engagement for the Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet   Hva: En ny, ambisiøs svensk studie ser på hvordan alder og medievaner påvirker politisk engasjement.  Hvem: Ungdommers politiske interesse blir positivt påvirket av sosiale … Continue reading →

Thanks to open public data and datajournalism, we got a diploma!

Datajournalism can be done with small resources in local newspapers. And you can even be awarded a diploma!  Yeah, a datajournalism project I did  last summer together with the regional newspaper Sunnmørsposten got honorable mention and diploma at Norwegian Online News Association (NONA) yesterday! You can read all about the prizes and the diplomas here, as … Continue reading →

The big picture – online Norwegians and changing media habits

This is how it looks like – the percentage of people accessing internet in Norway on a daily basis, represented by age groups from 2000-2012. Pretty amazing historic development, right? I created this graph via Statistics Norway, where you can create your own tables and graphs. Update: I just had to add this as well, the … Continue reading →

Open data and open access – what society loses when knowledge is offline

Reflections about open access and open data – a talk I gave at the Go Open Conference in Tromsø, March 5.  Thanks for inviting me to Tromsø for Go Open Arctic Forum. It’s a great honour to be here in this distinguished company.  Kind of embarrased to say, but it’s the first time I’m this … Continue reading →