18 projects

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KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Eidsborg rock – production and trade of whetstone in the Viking Age

Hell is to cut with a dull knife—to harvest with a blunt scythe or to fight with an unsharpened sword. By the 9th century, the ‘hell-averting’ whetstones from Eidsborg, Telemark, are found in Viking Age towns and centres throughout Northern Europe. Paradoxically, less is known about the surplus p...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Museums and Textiles in Trondheim

n the project Museums and Textiles in Trondheim (MUTE), we ask ourselves how the way we archive, describe, talk about, and exhibit textile objects determines their fate in art history. Throughout the history of modern art, which coincides in time with the establishment of the public museums in ...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Understanding diversity patterns, speciation, and biogeography of shallow-water marine organisms in the Atlantic realm

Since Charles Darwin, scientists have debated how new species form in the ocean. The challenge lies in the fact that marine organisms can often disperse widely — fish can swim across large distances, and larvae drift with currents — and the ocean appears to lack the kind of physical barriers that...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

The New Sámi Renaissance: Nordic Colonialism, Social Change and Indigenous Cultural Policy

Despite the fact that Indigenous peoples all over the world continue to face colonial and extractive policies which threaten their land-based livelihoods and existence as peoples, at the same time interest in, and even appreciation of, indigenous cultures and identities seems to be growing. This ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

The datafication of communicative power: Towards an independent media policy for Norways digital infrastructures

The project maps the digital infrastructure in Norway, the aim of which is to strengthen Norwegian deliberative society. The infrastructures on which media, democracy and public administration relies is increasingly reliant on digital structures dominated by international, private actors. Much of...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Rogaland

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Global Natives? Serving young audiences on global media platforms

Global platforms such as YouTube, Snapchat, TikTok and Netflix dominate the media lives of Norwegian teenagers. Global Natives studies whether the media habits of teens mark a generational shift, where teens will not adapt the media habits of older generations. National media organizations raise ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

PHOTOFAKE – Visual Disinformation, the Digital Economy and the Epistemology of the Camera Image

Our democracies are challenged by false news and disinformation. The new digital media-world, where it is easy for everyone to publish what they may wish, undermines the status of the free press and opens for more disinformation to enter our lives. Researchers have examined many aspects of false ...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Political Dynamics of the Cultural Sector

This project was premised on the assumption that developments in cultural policy are premised on forms of interest-based politics that at work in the cultural sector. The aim of the project was to generate new knowledge about these political dynamics and how they shape developments within the sec...

Awarded: NOK 11.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

KULTURTEMA-KULTURTEMA

Crowdfunding in the Culture Sector: Adoption, Effects and Implications

The culture sector is experiencing several challenges such as cuts in public funding and increased competition for donors and sponsors. Crowdfunding - obtaining funding from large audiences, where each backer provides a relatively small amount - has therefore become a promising new business model...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Rapids and backwaters. Adapting fast and slow to a digital cultural turn.

This project has investigated how digitization has affected different types of value creation in the cultural sector, and how regulation, copyright and cultural policy have adapted to the digital production and distribution of culture. What do we know about cultural production in the digital cult...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Telemark

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation

The project Source Criticism and Mediated Disinformation (SCAM) has developed new knowledge and methods that are suitable for detecting and countering the spread of disinformation in democratic societies. Disinformation, such as fake news, conspiracy theories, propaganda, and media manipulation, ...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Media competition and media policy

The aim of the project is to analyze how technological progress and digitization can lead to qualitative changes in media market competition and effective media policy. Furthermore, we analyze how different access to information can affect everything from consumer journalism to the media's politi...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Music on demand: Economy and copyright in a digitised cultural sector

The use of digital media technology has fundamentally changing the ways in which cultural content, such as music and film, is produced and distributed, and the opportunities for earning revenue. This project har united scholars in media, music, economics and copyright in its interdisciplinary ana...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Disruptive Change and New Media Policies: A Field Approach

Digitization, globalization, and deregulation have contributed to media systems undergoing a period of profound change, which alters production, distribution and consumption of media content. The project's goal has been to provide knowledge about the consequences of such disruptive changes, an...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

The ALM-field, Digitilization and The Public Sphere

The major results in this Project can be summarized in the following Points: 1, We have identified a seeming Paradox: The comprehensive digitilization in society in general, seems to generate a need for physical meeting places. 2, Users of Libraries, Archives and museums are to a large extent u...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Media Use, Culture and Public Connection: Freedom of Information in "The Age of Big Data" (MeCIn)

The project "Media Use, Culture and Public Connection: Freedom of Information in the 'Age of Big Data'" (MeCIn) researches how citizens in Norway exercise and experiences their freedom of information, and which roles the media and cultural arenas have for people's relations to the public sphere a...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2021

Location: Vestland

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Cultural Heritage Mediascapes: Innovation in knowledge and communication practices

Producing, archiving, and mediating digital cultural heritage in ways that are relevant for a changing European population is a vital mission and an important societal challenge. The project Cultural Heritage Mediascapes: Innovation in Knowledge and Communication Practices (Mediascapes) has studi...

Awarded: NOK 13.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2021

Location: Oslo

KULMEDIA-Kultur- og mediesektoren

Digitization and Diversity - Potentials and challenges for diversity in the culture and media sector

The consequences of digitization for diversity are ambivalent and complex; new services and platforms are at once increasing and decreasing diversity. Techno-cultural diversity has definitely increased since the start of digitization; new technological formats and an ever richer infrastructur...

Awarded: NOK 14.7 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Oslo