• Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment 

      Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Dahl, John Magnus Ragnhildson (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Entertainment programming is an important means for public service media (PSM) to address minority audiences, and to fulfill their social mission vis-à-vis these groups. We argue that these efforts are plagued by a thin ...
    • Enabling Cultural Policies? Culture, Capabilities and Citizenship 

      Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Moe, Hallvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This article mobilizes the capabilities approach to offer a new and empirically grounded critical perspective on how cultural policy should promote citizenship to audiences. The capabilities approach posits that public ...
    • Sivilsamfunn og integrering. En kunnskapsoppsummering 

      Eimhjellen, Ivar; Espegren, Astrid; Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (Rapport fra Senter for forskning på sivilsamfunn og frivillig sektor, Research report, 2021)
      I denne rapporten gir vi en oversikt over eksisterende forskningsbasert kunnskap fra Norge og andre nordiske land om sivilsamfunn og integrering. Oversikten er utarbeidet med utgangspunkt i publikasjoner fra Senter for ...
    • Towards a critical understanding of data visualisation in democracy: a deliberative systems approach 

      Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Engebretsen, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Data and data visualisations – in the forms of graphs, charts and maps – are becoming an increasingly important feature of social, public and political life. Yet within existing scholarship, the democratic significance of ...