I am interested in how media matter for democracy. In modern democratic societies, it is common to think that the media are key for the people's rule: The idea is that the media constitute the infrastructure for the public sphere, as channels and arenas where information about politics can be disseminated and discussed, and where the citizens can present their problems for the rulers. I am interested in how well this idea works in practice - at different times through history, with different media technologies, and under different regimes. 

In my current research, I study how media matter for democracy from a user perspective. For this purpose, I co-founded the Bergen Media Use Research group at our department, which i head together with Brita Ytre-Arne. In 2022, I was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to launch a new project called "Distributed and prepared. A new theory of citizens’ public connection networks in the age of datafication (PREPARE)".

In my PhD thesis, I studied how media policy in different countries facilitated such a role in the internet era through the regulation of publicly funded broadcasting institutions like the BBC and NRK. A main finding was that media policy, and the regulation of these institutions, did not acknowledge the features that make the web stand out from other media platforms, while at the same time these organisations operated as public service media across platforms. I later studied how such institutions used social media.

Together with colleagues at the University of Oslo and at our department, I have also analyzed media systems in the Nordic region. A key point has been to show what is often referred to as the Nordic welfare state model cannot be understood without concern for the media. 

I have also been interested in how social media like Twitter is used for political debate. With Anders Olof Larsson, I have worked on analyses of Twitter use during election campaigns in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. This collaboration also led to contributions to debates on research ethics and methods for internet research. The empirical analysis have among other things confirmed the hunch that attention is unevenly distributed online, and that it pays to have a position offline to get heard online.

I teach courses on media and democracy, media use, new media technologies, media policy, media institutions and media history.

The most recent master course I have taught are News use, online media and democracy and Advanced topic in media use research. I've also recently a course for exchange students on Norwegian media, and the introductory course to media and communication in our program.

I also supervise master students and PhD-candidates. Get in touch to discuss project ideas!

2023

• Moe, Hallvard; Lindtner, Synnøve Skarsbø; Ytre-Arne, Brita (2023). Polarisation and echo chambers? Making sense of the climate issue with social media in everyday life. (external link)
• Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (2023). Citizens’ news use during Covid-19 Concerns about misinformation and reliance on local news in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. (external link)
• Borchgrevink-Brækhus, Marianne; Moe, Hallvard (2023). The Burden of Subscribing: How Young People Experience Digital News Subscriptions. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2023). Operationalizing distribution as a key concept for public sphere theory. A call for ethnographic sensibility of different social worlds. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Ytre-Arne, Brita (2023). Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations. (external link)

2022

• Moe, Hallvard; Fladmoe, Audun; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti et al. (2022). Tillit til mediene. Falske nyheter og partiske journalister?. (external link)

2021

• Moe, Hallvard; Ytre-Arne, Brita (2021). The Democratic Significance of Everyday News Use: Using Diaries to Understand Public Connection over Time and beyond Journalism. (external link)
• Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (2021). Doomscrolling, Monitoring and Avoiding: News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown. (external link)
• Trattner, Christoph; Jannach, Dietmar; Motta, Enrico et al. (2021). Responsible media technology and AI: challenges and research directions. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Madsen, Ole Jacob (2021). Understanding digital disconnection beyond media studies. (external link)

2020

• Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (2020). Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation. (external link)
• Holst, Cathrine; Moe, Hallvard (2020). Deliberative systems theory and citizens’ use of online media: testing a critical theory of democracy on a high achiever. (external link)
• Lomborg, Stine; Dencik, Lina; Moe, Hallvard (2020). Methods for datafication, datafication of methods: Introduction to the Special Issue . (external link)
• Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Moe, Hallvard (2020). Enabling Cultural Policies? Culture, Capabilities and Citizenship. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Karppinen, Kari (2020). Operationalizing exposure diversity. (external link)
• Ytre-Arne, Brita; Syvertsen, Trine; Moe, Hallvard et al. (2020). Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2020). Distributed Readiness Citizenship: A Realistic, Normative Concept for Citizens’ Public Connection . (external link)

2019

• Moe, Hallvard (2019). Comparing Platform "Ranking Cultures" Across Languages: The Case of Islam on YouTube in Scandinavia. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2019). Why free news matters for social inequality. Comparing willingness to pay for news in the Nordic region. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Ytre-Arne, Brita et al. (2019). Informerte borgere? Offentlig tilknytning, mediebruk og demokrati. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Ytre-Arne, Brita; Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2019). Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump. (external link)
• Karppinen, Kari; Moe, Hallvard (2019). Text as Data I: Document Analysis. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2019). Wikipedia as an arena and source for the public: a scandinavian comparison of "Islam". (external link)

2018

• Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Moe, Hallvard (2018). Automatiserte versus selvrapporterte publikumspraksiser? Metodiske utfordringer med tv-metere og spørreundersøkelser. (external link)
• Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (2018). Approximately Informed, Occasionally Monitorial? Reconsidering Normative Citizen Ideals. (external link)

2017

• Lavik, Erlend; Moe, Hallvard; Gripsrud, Jostein (2017). Digitale tider. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti; Fladmoe, Audun (2017). Perceptions of journalistic bias: Party preferences, media trust and attitudes towards immigration. (external link)
• Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Moe, Hallvard (2017). A sociocultural approach to study public connection across and beyond media: The example of Norway. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; van den Bulck, Hilde (2017). Public service media, universality and personalisation through algorithms: mapping strategies and exploring dilemmas. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Lindtner, Synnøve Skarsbø; Moe, Hallvard et al. (2017). Liberalisering og differensiering. (external link)

2016

• Moe, Hallvard; Poell, Thomas; van Dijck, José (2016). Rearticulating audience engagement: social media and television. (external link)
• Larsson, Anders Olof; Moe, Hallvard (2016). From Emerging to Established? A Comparison of Twitter Use during Swedish Election Campaigns in 2010 and 2014. (external link)
• van den Bulck, Hilde; Moe, Hallvard (2016). Beyond the Buzz: Why Media Policy Researchers Should Study Teletext. (external link)
• Larsson, Anders Olof; Sjøvaag, Helle; Karlsson, Michael et al. (2016). Sampling Liquid Journalism. (external link)
• Syvertsen, Trine; Enli, Gunn; Mjøs, Ole Johan et al. (2016). The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in Times of Change. (external link)
• Karppinen, Kari; Moe, Hallvard (2016). What we talk about when talk about “media independence”. (external link)
• Sjøvaag, Helle; Stavelin, Eirik; Moe, Hallvard (2016). Continuity and change in public service news online: a longitudinal analysis of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. (external link)
• van den Bulck, Hilde; Moe, Hallvard (2016). Why Media Researchers Don't Care about Teletext. (external link)
• van den Bulck, Hilde; Moe, Hallvard (2016). Teletext in Europe. An Introductory Guide to the Book. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; van den Bulck, Hilde (2016). Teletext in Europe: From the Analog to the Digital Era. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; van den Bulck, Hilde (2016). Postscript: Lessons from analyses of a forgotten medium. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2016). Freedom of Information and Divides in the Digital Age. Teletext and Internet Use in Norway. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2016). Social Media. (external link)

2015

• Enli, Gunn; Moe, Hallvard (2015). Social Media and Election Campaigns - Key Tendencies and Ways Forward. (external link)
• Thomass, Barbara; Moe, Hallvard; D´Haenes, Leen (2015). Renewing the Public Service Media Remit. (external link)
• Skogerbø, Eli; Moe, Hallvard (2015). Twitter på tvers - koblinger mellom journalister og politikere. (external link)
• Larsson, Anders Olof; Moe, Hallvard (2015). Bots or journalists? News sharing on Twitter. (external link)
• Enli, Gunn; Moe, Hallvard (2015). Introduction: Social Media and Election Campaigns: Key Tendencies and Ways Forward. (external link)
• Larsson, Anders Olof; Moe, Hallvard (2015). Untangling a complex media system: A comparative study of Twitter-linking practices during three Scandinavian election campaigns. (external link)

2014

• Moe, Hallvard; van den Bulck, Hilde (2014). Comparing "Public Value" as a media policy term in Europe. (external link)
• Donders, Karen; Moe, Hallvard (2014). European State-Aid Control and PSB: Competition Policy Clashing or Matching with Public Interest Objectives?. (external link)
• Bruns, Axel; Moe, Hallvard (2014). Structural layers of communication on Twitter. (external link)
• Larsson, Anders Olof; Moe, Hallvard (2014). Twitter in politics and elections: insights from Scandinavia. (external link)
• Karppinen, Kari; Moe, Hallvard (2014). What We Talk about When We Talk about "The Market": Conceptual Contestation in Contemporary Media Policy Research. (external link)
• Syvertsen, Trine; Enli, Gunn; Mjøs, Ole Johan et al. (2014). The Media Welfare State. Nordic Media in the Digital Era. (external link)
• Larsson, Anders Olof; Moe, Hallvard (2014). Triumph of the underdogs? Comparing Twitter use by political actors during two Norwegian election campaigns. (external link)
• Mjøs, Ole Johan; Moe, Hallvard; Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2014). The functions of buzzwords: A comparison of 'Web 2.0' and 'telematics'. (external link)

2013

• Østbye, Helge; Helland, Knut; Larsen, Leif Ove et al. (2013). Metodebok for mediefag, 4. utgave. (external link)
• Karppinen, Kari; Moe, Hallvard (2013). A Critique of 'Media Governance'. (external link)
• Enli, Gunn; Moe, Hallvard; Sundet, Vilde Schanke et al. (2013). From fear of television to fear for television: five political debates about new technologies. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Larsson, Anders Olof (2013). Untangling a complex media system: A comparative study of Twitter-linking practices during three Scandinavian election campaigns. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Mjøs, Ole Johan (2013). The arm's length principle in Nordic public broadcasting regulation. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2013). Public Service Broadcasting and Social Networking Sites: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation on Facebook. (external link)
• Larsson, Anders; Moe, Hallvard (2013). Representation or Participation? Twitter use during the 2011 Danish Election Campaign. (external link)

2012

• Moe, Hallvard; Larsson, Anders Olof (2012). Twitterbruk under valgkampen 2011 (rapport). (external link)
• Karppinen, Kari; Moe, Hallvard (2012). What We Talk About When We Talk About Document Analysis. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2012). How to Preserve the Broadcating Licence Fee: The Case of Norway. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2012). Between Public Service and Commercial Venture: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation on the Web 1994-2000. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2012). Television, broadcasting, flow: key metaphors in online media theory?. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Larsson, Anders Olof (2012). Methodological and Ethical Challenges Associated with Large-Scale Analyses of Online Political Communication. (external link)
• Sjøvaag, Helle; Moe, Hallvard; Stavelin, Eirik (2012). Public service news on the web: a large-scale content analysis of the Norwegian broadcasting corporation's online news. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2012). Who participates and how? Twitter as an arena for public debate about the data retention directive in Norway. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2012). Det underforståtte i mediepolitikken. Eksempelet formidlingsplikt. (external link)
• van den Bulck, Hilde; Moe, Hallvard (2012). To test or not to test: Comparing the development of ex ante public service media assessments in Flanders and Norway. (external link)
• Larsson, Anders Olof; Moe, Hallvard (2012). Studying political microblogging: Twitter users in the 2010 Swedish election campaign. (external link)

2011

• Moe, Hallvard (2011). Defining public service beyond broadcasting: the legitimacy of different approaches. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard; Molander, Anders et al. (2011). The Public Sphere: Vol I-IV. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard; Molander, Anders et al. (2011). Introduction: Discovering the Public Sphere. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard; Molander, Anders et al. (2011). Introduction: The Future of the Public Sphere. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard; Molander, Anders et al. (2011). Introduction: The Cultural Public Sphere. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard; Molander, Anders et al. (2011). General Introduction. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard; Molander, Anders et al. (2011). Introduction: The Political Public Sphere. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2011). Mapping the Norwegian Blogosphere: Methodological Challenges in Internationalizing Internet Research. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Donders, Karen (2011). Ex Ante Tests in Europe. From Diverging Perspectives to Infinite Conclusions. (external link)
• Donders, Karen; Moe, Hallvard (2011). Exporting the Public Value Test. The Regulation of Public Broadcasters' New Media Services Across Europe. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Hovden, Jan F.; Moe, Hallvard (2011). Changing relations: Class, Education and Cultural Capital. (external link)

2010

• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard (2010). The digital public sphere : challenges for media policy. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard; Molander, Anders et al. (2010). The idea of the public sphere : a reader. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2010). Introduction to Chantal Mouffe. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2010). Introduction to Seyla Benhabib. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2010). Introduction to Bernhard Peters. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2010). Introduction to Section V: Current Challenges. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard; Molander, Anders et al. (2010). Editors' Introduction. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2010). Notions of the Public in Public Service Broadcasting Policy for the Digital Era. (external link)
• Gripsrud, Jostein; Moe, Hallvard (2010). Introduction: The Digital Public Sphere. Challenges for Media Policy. (external link)
• Enli, Gunn; Moe, Hallvard; Sundet, Vilde Schanke et al. (2010). TV - en innføring. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2010). Governing Public Service Broadcasting: ‘‘Public Value Tests’’ in Different National Contexts. (external link)
• Øvrebø, Olav Anders; Moe, Hallvard (2010). Nettmedier og offentligheten. Vox Publicas netthøring om NRK-plakaten. (external link)

2009

• Moe, Hallvard (2009). Between Supra-national Competition and National Culture? Emerging EU Policy and Public Broadcasters' Online Services. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Syvertsen, Trine (2009). Researching Public Service Broadcasting. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2009). Erfahrungen aus Großbritannien, Norwegen und Deutschland: Status und Perspektiven öffentlich-rechtlicher Onlinemedien. (external link)

2008

• Moe, Hallvard (2008). Commercial Services, Enclosure and Legitimacy. Comparing Contexts and Strategies for Public Service Media Funding and Development. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Syvertsen, Trine (2008). Researching Public Service Broadcasting. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2008). Public service broadcasting på internett? En komparativ analyse. (external link)
• Karppinen, Kari; Moe, Hallvard; Svensson, Jakob (2008). Habermas, Mouffe and Political Communication: A Case for Theoretical Eclecticism. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2008). Discussion Forums, Games and Second Life: Exploring the Value of Public Broadcasters' Marginal Online Activities. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2008). Morgendagens NRK: Allmennmedievirksomhet. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2008). Dissemination and dialogue in the public sphere: a case for public service media online. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard (2008). Public Service Media Online? Regulating Public Broadcasters' Internet Services - A Comparative Analysis. (external link)

2007

• Moe, Hallvard; Syvertsen, Trine (2007). Media Institutions as a Research Field: Three Phases of Norwegian Broadcasting Research. (external link)
• Moe, Hallvard; Syvertsen, Trine (2007). Media institutions as a research field three phases of Norwegian broadcasting research. (external link)

2005

• Moe, Hallvard (2005). Television, Digitalisation and Flow: Questioning the Promises of Viewer Control. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Ny bok i mai 2024: Metoder for å forstå mediebruk

2023-2027 "Distributed and prepared. A new theory of citizens’ public connection networks in the age of datafication (PREPARE)". PI. Funded by The European Research Council, Consolidator Grant.

2021-2025 "Media Use in Crisis Situations: Resolving Information Paradoxes, Comparing Climate Change and COVID-19". WP-leader. Funded by the Research Council of Norway, headed by Brita Ytre-Arne, Uni Bergen.

2021-2022 "Understanding those who don't pay for news". PI. Funded by the Norwegian Media Authority.

2021-2028 "MediaFutures: Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation". WP-co-leader. Funded by the Research Council of Norway, headed by Christoph Trattner, Uni Bergen. 

2020-2022 “Datafication, Media and Democracy: Transformation of news work in datafied society”. Supervisor, EU Marie Curie postdoc project with Ana Milolojevic.

2020-2021 "Freedom of Speech in Norway 2020-2022". Work package leader, funded by Freedom of Speech Foundation, headed by Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud, ISF. 

2019-2023 "Intrusive media, ambivalent users, and digital detox" (Digitox). Partner, funded by The Research Council of Norway, headed by Trine Syvertsen, Uni Oslo. Project website.

 

Past projects:

2016-2021 "Media, Culture and Public Connection: Freedom of Information in 'the Age of Big Data'" (MeCIn). Prosjektleder. Finansiert gjennom Norsk forskningsråds KULMEDIA-program. 

2016-2020 "The Immigration Issue in Scandinavian Public Spheres 1970-2015" (SCANPUB). Prosjektdeltager. Finansiert gjennom Norsk forskningsråds TOPPFORSK-program. Prosjektleder: Jostein Gripsrud. Project website.

2013-2014 "A Longitudinal Analysis of the NRK Online News”. Project manager, funded by Rådet for anvendt medieforskning. Cooperation with the group Measuring Online News Content (MONC).

2009-2012 "Online media participation and the transformation of the public sphere". Funded by the Research Council of Norway.

2008-2010 "Class, higher education, media use and cultural taste". w/Jostein Gripsrud and Jan Fredrik Hovden, funded by Rådet for anvendt medieforskning.

2004-2008 "Public Broadcasters, the Internet, and Democracy. Comparing Policy and Exploring Public Service Media Online". PhD project.

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