Ole J. Mjøs
Position
Professor, Media Studies
Affiliation
Research
Ole J. Mjøs is Professor in Media Studies and author. He specializes in the fields of international communication and global media, focusing on the media and communications industries.
Ole's forthcoming research monograph, Schibsted: The Digital Transformation of a Nordic Giant, will be published as part of Routledge's series Global Media Giants, in May 2025.
His latest book is titled An Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). The book review in the European Journal of Communications states: "The book makes a strong contribution to the contemporary domain of knowledge on global media by drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches to illustrate the diversity of media systems around the world." (25 August, 2023)
Ole is co-author of The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era (University of Michigan Press, 2014). The book review in the European Journal of Communications concludes: "The book will likely become a standard reference for researchers and students who work with media in this region, and that will be well-deserved." (8 February, 2016).
He is also sole author of the research monographs Music, Social Media and Global Mobility (Routledge, 2012), and Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks (Routledge, 2010).
Ole’s work has appeared in journals such as Media, Culture and Society, First Monday, International Communication Gazette, and Communication Research and Practice.
He is member of the international advisory board of the academic journal Global Media and Communication, and elected member of the International Council of the International Association for Media and Communications Research, 2024-2028.
Ole has been a visiting researcher at the Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, UK, and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
His previous practical experience in the media and creative sector includes work in television documentary production, and contributions on many records within the wide genre of electronic music.
Ole received his PhD in Media and Communications from University of Westminster, UK, and an MA in Transnational Communications and the Global Media, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Publications
Academic article
- Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Mjøs, Ole Johan (2020). Research director, colleague, schoolmaster? Preferred and experienced supervising styles of PhD-Students at four faculties.. (external link)
- Enli, Gunn; Syvertsen, Trine; Mjøs, Ole Johan (2018). The welfare state and the media system: The role of media and communications in the evolution and transformation of Scandinavian welfare states. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2015). International communication and global media: continuety of critical concerns. (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)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2011). Marriage of convenience? Public service broadcasters’ cross-national partnerships in factual television. (external link)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- Syvertsen, Trine; Enli, Gunn; Mjøs, Ole Johan et al. (2016). The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in Times of Change. (external link)
- Moe, Hallvard; Mjøs, Ole Johan (2013). The arm's length principle in Nordic public broadcasting regulation. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2010). News corporation’s MySpace.com and the digital challenges to audiovisual regulations. (external link)
Academic monograph
- Syvertsen, Trine; Enli, Gunn; Mjøs, Ole Johan et al. (2014). The Media Welfare State. Nordic Media in the Digital Era. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2011). Music, Social Media and Global Mobility. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2010). Media globalization and the discovery channel networks. (external link)
Academic lecture
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2013). Global Social Media and the Challenge to European Audiovisual Regulatory Frameworks. (external link)
- Syvertsen, Trine; Enli, Gunn; Mjøs, Ole Johan et al. (2013). The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Era of Globalization. (external link)
- Syvertsen, Trine; Enli, Gunn; Mjøs, Ole Johan et al. (2013). The Media Welfare State: The Informational, Cultural and Democratic Safety Net of the Nordic Model?. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2013). Defining and studying the relationship between media and globalization. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2012). Social Media: New Spaces for Global Mobility?. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2011). Rethinking Localization in the Era of Global Social Media. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2010). Discovery Channel and the Factual Television Genre: Using ‘the Spectacular’ to reach a global and local television audience. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2010). Music, Social Media, and Global Mobility. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan (2010). Music, Social Media, and Global Mobility. (external link)
- Mjøs, Ole Johan; Moe, Hallvard; Sundet, Vilde Schanke (2010). The Functions of Buzzwords: A Comparison of Web 2.0 and Telematics. (external link)