Seminars Wednesday September 28th
Instead of the regular seminars on Wednesday we will be attending an event about social media and the US election campaign at the National Library:
Please follow this link and choose attend if you are able to join: https://www.facebook.com/events/639667116201746/
What characterizes the 2016 presidential election campaigns in the US? How are the campaigns taking into use social media? What factors explains the celebrity politician Donald Trump? How does this year’s election campaigns differ from previous campaigns? And to what degree will the Norwegian political debate and future election campaigns be inspired by the Trump and Clinton campaigns?
The SAC-project (Social Media and Agenda-Setting in Election Campaigns) invites you to the seminar “Election Campaigns and Social Media” at the National Gallery, September 28th at 12 pm.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/639667116201746/
Program:
12:00-12:30 Free lunch
12:30-14:00 Academic talks (moderator: Hallvard Moe)
* Welcome, and short introduction of the project, by Gunn Enli (UiO)
* The Disintegration of Politics: Understanding the 2016 American election
By Jeanne Zaino (Iona College)
* Prejudice, Populism and Polarization: The 2016 American Presidential Election
By Kevin Wallsten (California State University, Long Beach)
* The Unbearable Whiteness of Being (Donald Trump)
By Christian Christensen (Stockholms Universitet)
* Analysing the Norwegian Twittersphere
By Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane)
14:15-15:30 Panel debate: American tendencies in the Norwegian election campaign 2017? (This will be held in Norwegian)
Hege Ulstein (Dagsavisen), Hans Petter Sj?li (VG), Hallvard Notaker (UiO), Tina Bru (The Conservative Party) and Ida Krag (communication manager, The Progress Party).
Moderator: Eli Skogerb? (UiO).
About the project: The SAC-project is an international research project. The project focused on how social media like Facebook and Twitter impacts on the agenda setting and the power hierarchies in democratic countries. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NFR)
Welcome!