Twitter – ikke for folket

I amerikansk valgkamp brukes Twitter primært for å påvirke medienes dagsorden, ikke for å nå «vanlige» velgere. (Article for the Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet about an article written by Daniel Kleiss, «Seizing the moment: The presidental campaigns’ use of Twitter during the 2012 electoral cycle») Hva: Forskning på presidentkandidatenes strategiske bruk av Twitter under valgkampen i 2012. … Continue reading →

“Of course we are on Facebook” – academic article accepted

Yeah! An article my colleague Anders Olof Larsson and I have co-written is accepted for publication in the European Journal of Communication! It is about the use of Facebook and Twitter among Norwegian and Swedish politicians, and here is the abstract: While plenty of research has provided important insights into the uses of the Internet by politicians … Continue reading →

Fløy en liten blåfugl

Når Twitter blir brukt som kilde, kan det endre forholdet mellom journalister og kilder. (Article for the Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet about the use of tweets as sources in Dutch and British newspapers, based on an article by Marcel Broesma and Todd Graham.) Journalister og Twitter har inngått ekteskap. Få år etter at Twitter startet opp i 2006, … Continue reading →

Medienes svekkede portvaktmakt

Den «norsk-svenske»-debatten demonstrerer en ny hybrid mediesituasjon (Article for the Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet about a Norwegian-Swedish debate and the “The Hybrid Media System”, book by Andrew Chadwick) Hva: Boken ”The Hybrid Media System” Hvem: Andrew Chadwick, professor i politisk kommunikasjon, Royal Holloway, University of London. Betydning: Det hybride mediesystemet er en teori for å forstå hvordan politisk … Continue reading →

Feilslutning om følgere

Selv med én million følgere er ikke de største Twitter-personlighetene garantert innflytelse. (Article for the Norwegian weekly Morgenbladet about the influence on Twitter, measured either as number followers, retweets or @mentions based on the article «Measuring User Influence on Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy») Hva: Selv med én million følgere er ikke de største Twitter-personlighetene garantert innflytelse. Aktiviteten … Continue reading →

Digital oppgang for Miljøpartiet De Grønne

I hele august har meningsmålingene vist tydelig fremgang for Miljøpartiet De Grønne (MDG). Den oppturen har vi også sett i sosiale medier. Det er verdt å ta en titt på tallene bak valgkampens store overraskelse, jeg begynner med Facebook. I denne sammenhengen bruker jeg verktøyet Fanbooster for å sammenligne aktiviteten rundt ulike politiske Facebook-sider, her ser … Continue reading →

Noen Twitter-tall fra #nrkvalg

Det ble trøkk på #nrkvalg i kveld, 1909 Twitter-brukere sendte ut 2996 tweets på hashtagen under NRKs partilederdebatt. Jeg tester ut tjenesten Twitonomy for å få en oversikt over hvordan ulike hashtag’er (#) og brukere blir omtalt på Twitter. Dersom du fulgte med på debatten på tv og samtidig sjekket Twitter, kunne strømmen til tider … Continue reading →

Norges mest aktive Twitter-politikere over tid

 Twitter har etablert seg som et attraktivt kommunikasjonsverktøy for mennesker over hele verden, også politikere, og vi har sett på hvilke av stortingspolitikerne og statsrådene i regjeringen som er mest aktive brukere av Twitter. Som i den forrige bloggposten jeg skrev om de mest aktive politikerne på Facebook, så ser vi denne gangen på aktivitet over … 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 →

The new politics of the 21st century

I liked this quote from Timonty Garton Ash’ article in the Guardian yesterday: Twitter counts more than armouries in this new politics of people power: Probably the single most important thing the US state department has done for Iran recently was to contact Twitter over the weekend, to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that could … Continue reading →

My article from 2005 about Iranian bloggers

It has been incredible to follow the developments in Iran over the internet the last few days. Iran’s disputed presidental election has fired up one of the wildest social media protests I’ve ever seen. Within minutes, thousands of tweets are posted on the #iranelection and earlier tonight, I came across these amazing images from the … 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 →

Break a leg @jensstoltenberg!

Today, a tweeting Prime Minister made me happy. Not because of something political he wrote, but because Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian Prime Minister was about to go out running, in a public race (Holmenkollenstaffetten). He is part of the team at the Prime Minister’s Office, and he’s running the last leg of the relay race. … Continue reading →

Waterboarded 183 times and the blogger who uncovered the exact number

On April 19, we could read in the New York Times that Khaled Sheik Mohammed (self-described planner of September 11)  was waterboarded 183 times in one month. I think waterboarding is horrible torture, but that is not the point here. The point is that NYTimes reporters were not the ones who uncovered the exact number … Continue reading →

Smell my Twitter farts or follow my campaign – different ways of using Twitter

What is the point of Twitter? To get updates when this guy farts? Or when the baby of this woman kicks? Okay, I laughed, that’s how simple I am. But seriously, this Eastern, Norwegian blogs have been filled with well-written posts about how Twitter can be useful, in a political context. All of these are … Continue reading →

New site for Europatweets

I wrote recently about how you can follow tweets from politicians in the American Congress, British politicians at Westminister, Swedish politicians at Riksdagen and Danish politicians at Folketinget. Now, you can also follow tweets from MEPs, Members of the European Parliament, created by Belgian Xavier, whom I recently met, and two others. The German politician … Continue reading →

Revealing my oh so very secret Twitter network

Here are my Twitter friends and their connections to me, via Mailena. People are moving in and out of circles all the time, depending on how much we talk to each other. By double-clicking on other people’s graphs, you can see their networks. Neat! (Via Kristine Lowe). I also like some of the other features: … Continue reading →