Selected Publications

2025

Akhtar, S. (2025). Together through technology: next of kin’s use of technology to maintain social connection with nursing home residents in Ageing and Society. Ageing and society, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X25000054
Frisli, S. (2025). Semi-supervised self-training for COVID-19 misinformation detection: analyzing Twitter data and alternative news media on Norwegian Twitter. Journal of Computational Social Science, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42001-025-00367-x
He, B., Homburg, V. & Halvorsen, R. (2025). Implementation of e-government initiatives: a case study of accessibility upgrades in Chinese municipal government websites. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1108/TG-09-2024-0223
Haldar, M., Bavngaard, M. V., Nordtug, M. & Røsvik, K. (2025). In Livsløpets barndom og alderdom. E. Brodtkorb & M. Rugkåsa (Eds.), Mellom mennesker og samfunn: sosiologi og sosialantropologi for helse- og sosialprofesjonene. Gyldendal.
Johannessen, L. E. F., Rasmussen, E. B. & Haldar, M. (2025). Five Misconceptions About Interview Modes or: How to Improve Our Thinking About Face-to-Face Versus Remote Interviewing. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251317808
Kozica, B & Malmberg-Heimonen, I.(2025). Factors and consequences of information and communication technologies in social work practice: a literature review. European Social Work Research, 3(1), 86.103. https://doi.org/10.1332/27551768Y2025D000000030

2024

Atanasova, A., Eckhardt, G. M., & Laamanen, M. (2024). Platform cooperatives in the sharing economy: How market challengers bring change from the margins. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.
Askheim, C., Engebretsen, E., & Haldar, M. (2024). Living happily alone in Plato’s cave? On loneliness, technology and the metaphysics of presence. Medical Humanities.
Baugerud, G. A., Johnson, M. S., Dianiska, R., Røed, R. K., Powell, M. B., Lamb, M. E., Hassan, S. Z., Sabet, S., Hicks, S. A., Salehi, P., Riegler, M. A., Halvorsen, P., & Quas, J. (2024). Using an AI-based avatar for interviewer training at Children’s Advocacy Centers: Proof of concept. Child Maltreatment.
Charitsis, V., & Laamanen, M. (2024). When digital capitalism takes (on) the neighbourhood: Data activism meets place-based collective action. Social Movement Studies.
Dahle, M. S., Dralega, C. A., & Mainsah, H. (2024). Video gaming and parents’ mediation strategies in a Norwegian context. In M. S. Dahle & G. S. Meyer (Eds.), Danning i digitale praksiser. Digital danning i barnehage, skole, hjem og fritid (pp. 187–204). Fagbokforlaget.
Dulsrud, A., & Francesca, F. (2024). Digital Food Provisioning in Times of Multiple Crises: How Social and Technological Innovations Shape Everyday Consumption Practices. Palgrave Macmillan.
Eckhardt, G. M., Atanasova, A., Laamanen, M., & Kittinger-Rosanelli, C. (2024). Responsible Platforms: Aiming for Social Value Rather than Scale. NIM Marketing Intelligence Review.
He, B., Halvorsen, R., Ding, P., & Zhang, W. (2024). Decentralization and its impacts on disability service delivery in China: An example of providing accessible government websites. In S. D. Biswas, C. G. Sambo, & S. Pellissery (Eds.), The politics of welfare in the global south (pp. 176–204). Oxford University Press.
Høydal, Ø. S., Finne, J., & Malmberg-Heimonen, I. (2024). The framing of educational digitalization: A scoping review of empirical studies. European Journal of Education.
Hughes, G., Moore, L., Hennessy, M., Ananiassen Sandset, T., Jentoft, E., & Haldar, M. (2024). What kind of a problem is loneliness? Representations of connectedness and participation from a study of telepresence technologies in the UK. Frontiers in Digital Health.
Johannessen, L. E. F., & Rasmussen, E. B. (2024). Intervjuer på Teams og telefon: Hva slags data gir medierte intervjuer? In A. B. Leseth, M. Mangset, T. H. Nordberg, & H. M. Ihlebæk (Eds.), Tett på profesjon, arbeid og politikk: Kvalitative metodeutfordringer og verktøy for å løse dem (pp. 69–89). Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Jentoft, E. E., Sandset, T. J. A., & Haldar, M. (2024). Problematizing loneliness as a public health issue: An analysis of policy in the United Kingdom. Critical Policy Studies.
Laamanen, M., & Mikołajewska-Zając, K (2024). Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment. Information, Communication & Society.
Larsson, K. K., & Haldar, M. (2024). Activation by technology: Young people’s use of digital tools provided by the government. Journal of Comparative Social Work.
Minas, R., Pötzsch, T., Blomberg-Kroll, H., Gubrium, E., Rugkåsa, M., & Skotte, P. S. (2024). Virtual exchange in a Nordic context: New pedagogical strategies for improving digital interaction between Nordic social work students. Routledge.
Nordtug, M. & Haldar, M. (2024). The technology multiple: The robot avatar substituting for the ill body. New media & society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241304658
Salehi, P., Hassan, S. Z., Baugerud, G. A., Powell, M., Sinkerud Johnson, M., Johansen, D., Sabet, S., Riegler, M. A., & Halvorsen, P. (2024). A theoretical and empirical analysis of 2D and 3D virtual environments in training for child interview skills. IEEE.

2023

Finne, J., Sadeghi, T., Løberg, I. B., Bakkeli, V., Sehic, B., & Thørrisen, M. M. (2023). Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study – Finne – Social Policy & Administration – Wiley Online Library. Social Policy and Administration.
Haldar, M. Skjermet av skjermen: En beretning om gjensidig beskyttelse mellom eldre og deres pårørende: Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift: Vol 40, No 2-3 (idunn.no). Nytt norsk tidsskrift.
Helle-Valle, J. & Storm-Mathisen, A. (2023). Domestication theory: reflections from the Kalahari. In Hartmann, M. (ed). The Routledge Handbook of Media and technology Domestication, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Media-and-Technology- Domestication/Hartmann/p/book/9781032184142
Hughes G., Rybczynska-Bunt, S., Shasha’h, S., Greene, S., Shaw, S., & Greenhalgh, T. (2023). Protocol: How can people with social care needs be supported through processes of digital care navigation to access remote primary care? A multi-site case study in UK general practice of remote care as the ‘new normal’. — Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. National Institute for Health and Care Research, University of Oxford.
Jentoft, E. E. (2023). Frontiers | Technology and older adults in British loneliness policy and political discourse (frontiersin.org). Frontiers in Digital Health.
Jentoft, E. E. & Haldar, M. (2023). Panacea or poison? Exploring the paradoxical problematizations of loneliness, technology and youth in Norwegian and UK policymaking | Emerald Insight. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
Johannessen, L. E. F. (2023). Anticipated affordances: Understanding early reactions to new technologies – Lars EF Johannessen, 2023 (sagepub.com). New Media & Society.
Johannessen, L. E. F. (2023). Interaction rituals and technology: A review essay – ScienceDirect. Poetics.
Johannessen, L. E. F., Nordtug, M., & Haldar, M. (2023). Full article: Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings (tandfonline.com) Information, Communication & Society.
Johannessen, L. E. F., Rasmussen, E. B., & Haldar, M. (2023). Full article: Educational purity and technological danger: understanding scepticism towards the use of telepresence robots in school (tandfonline.com). British Journal of Sociology of Education.
Nordtug, M., & Haldar, M. (2023). Ethics beyond the checklist: Fruitful dilemmas before, during, and after data collection. Qualitative Inquiry.
Nordtug, M. & Johannessen, L. E. F. (2023). The social robot? Analyzing whether and how the telepresence robot AV1 affords socialization – Maja Nordtug, Lars EF Johannessen, 2023 (sagepub.com). Convergence.
Rasmussen, E. B. & Johannessen, L. E. F. (2023). Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology – Rasmussen – 2023 – Sociology Compass – Wiley Online Library. Sociology Compass.
Rasmussen, E. B., Johannessen, L. E. F., & Rees, G. (2023). Diagnosing by anticipation: Coordinating patient trajectories within and across social systems – Rasmussen – Sociology of Health & Illness – Wiley Online Library. Sociology of Health & Illness.
Stinessen-Brekne, E. T. (2023). #Instukids – Institusjonsungdoms fortellinger om seg selv på TikTok. Selvpresentasjon, felleskap og systemkritikk. Masteroppgave i Familiebehandling, Institutt for sosialfag, OsloMet.
Teigen, H. M. F., Paupini, C., & Mainsah, H. (2023). Intra-Acting With Technology During Remote Fieldwork in Homes: Curating Video Interviews and Drawing Methods – Helene F Teigen, Cristina Paupini, Henry Mainsah, 2023 (sagepub.com). International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

2022

Dralega, C. A., Katuwal, Y. B., & Mainsah, H. (2022). COVID-19 Lockdown, Information Access and Use Among African Diaspora in Norway. In COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication (pp. 197-213). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Dulsrud, A. & Bygstad, B. (2022). Digital ecosystems as social institutions: exploring the role of consumption through four research streams of digital ecosystems in: Consumption and Society Volume 1 Issue 1 (2022) (bristoluniversitypressdigital.com). Consumption and Society.
Egeland, C. Ingelsrud, M. H. & Pedersen, E. (2022). Fremmedgjort på hjemmekontor? | Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift (idunn.no). Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift.
Greenhalgh, T., Ladds, E., Wieringa, S., Hughes, G., Moore, L., Papoutsi, C., Rosen, R., Wherton, J., Rushforth, A., Rybczynska-Bunt, S., & Shaw, S. (2022). Why do GPs rarely do video consultations? qualitative study in UK general practice – PubMed (nih.gov). The British Journal of General Practice.
Hebrok, M. & Mainsah, H. (2022). Skinny as a Bird: Design fiction as a vehicle for reflecting on food futures – ScienceDirect. Futures: The Journal of Policy, Planning and Futures Studies.
Hughes, G., Moore,L., Maniatopoulos,G., Wherton,J., Wood, G.W., GreenhalghT., & ShawS. (2022). Theorising the shift to video consulting in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of a mixed methods study using practice theory – PubMed (nih.gov). Social Science & Medicine.
Husain, L., Greenhalgh, T., Hughes, G., Finlay, T., & Wherton, J. (2022). Desperately Seeking Intersectionality in Digital Health Disparity Research: Narrative Review to Inform a Richer Theorization of Multiple Disadvantage – PubMed (nih.gov). Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Johannessen, L. E. F., Rasmusen, E. B., & Haldar, M. (2022). Full article: Student at a distance: exploring the potential and prerequisites of using telepresence robots in schools (tandfonline.com). Oxford Review of Education.
Kvakic, M. & Wærdahl, R. (2022). Full article: Trust and Power in the Space Between Visibility and Invisibility. Exploring Digital and Social Media Practices in Norwegian Child Welfare Services (tandfonline.com). European Journal of Social Work.
Mainsah, H., Slade, E., Slettemeås, D., Southerton, D. K., & Storm-Mathisen, A. (2022). Full article: Methodological innovations and challenges of research on digitally connected homes: an introduction (tandfonline.com). Digital Creativity.
Nordtug, M. (2022). How Perceptions of Responsibility and Affective Consequences Influence Parents’ Digital Media Engagement in Relation to Human Papillomavirus Vaccination – Maja Nordtug, 2022 (sagepub.com). Qualitative Health Research.
Nordtug, M., Hvidt, E. A., Lüchau, E. C., & Grønning, A. (2022). General Practitioners’ Experiences of Professional Uncertainties Emerging from the Introduction of Video Consultations in General Practice: Qualitative Study – PubMed (nih.gov). JMIR Formative Research.
O’Reilly, J., Unt, M., Halvorsen, R., Schoyen, M. A., Verdin, R., Rosalu, T., & Ibanez, Z. “Locked In Transition: Youth labour markets during COVID-19 in the UK, Norway, Estonia and Spain”. In S. Börner and M. Seeleib-Kaiser (eds.). European Social Policy and the Covid-19 Pandemic, Oxford University Press, Chapter 6.
Paupini, C., Teigen, H. M. F., & Habib, L. M. A. (2022). Full article: A change of space: implications of digital fieldwork in connected homes during the COVID-19 pandemic (tandfonline.com). Digital creativity.
Paupini, C., van der Zeeuw, A., & Teigen, H. M. F. (2022). Trust in the institution and privacy management of Internet of Things devices. A comparative case study of Dutch and Norwegian households – ScienceDirect. Technology in society.
Prøitz, L., Langeland, F., Steinnes, K. K., & Mainsah, H. (2022). Hybride maskuliniteter og hatideologi på nett:: en litteraturgjennomgang om incels i et feministisk medievitenskapelig perspektiv: Norsk medietidsskrift: Vol 29, No 2 (idunn.no). Norsk Medietidsskrift.
Raymond, C. E., Morrison, A., & Mainsah, H. N. (2022). Framing scenario thinking in a mode of futures by design inquiry. DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. DRS Digital Library – DRS Biennial Conference Series: Framing scenario thinking in a mode of futures by design inquiry (designresearchsociety.org).
Rosen, R., Wieringa, S., Greenhalgh, T., Leone, C., Rybczynska-Bunt, S., Byng, R., Hughes, G., Moore, L., Shaw, S., & Wherton, J. (2022) Clinical risk in remote consultations in general practice: findings from in-COVID-19 pandemic qualitative research – PubMed (nih.gov). BJGP Open.
Sanchez B. C. & Mainsah, H. (2022). Detained through a Smartphone (degruyter.com): Deploying Experimental Collaborative Visual Methods to Study the Socio-Technical Landscape of Digital Confinement. Digital Culture & Society.
Teigen, H. M. F.., Steinnes, K. K., & Goldschmidt-Gjerløw, B. (2022). Ungdom og kroppspress i sosiale medier. In B. Goldschmidt-Gjerløw, K. G. Eriksen & M. K. Jore, (eds.). Kontroversielle, emosjonelle og sensitive tema i skolen, pp. 149-168. Universitetsforlaget.
Wherton, J., Greenhalgh, T., Hughes, G., & Shaw, S. (2022). The Role of Information Infrastructures in Scaling up Video Consultations During COVID-19: Mixed Methods Case Study Into Opportunity, Disruption, and Exposure – PubMed (nih.gov). Journal of Medical Internet Research.

2021

Bidonde, J., Meneses-Echavez, J. F., Asare, B., Chola, L., Gad, M., Heupink, L. F., Peacocke, E., Ackon, A., Dolphyne, A. K., Ruiz, F., Sæterdal, I. M., Espeland, A. L., Skjønsberg, E.-E., & Johansen, M. (2022). Developing a tool to assess the skills to perform a health technology assessment | BMC Medical Research Methodology | Full Text (biomedcentral.com). BMC Medical Research Methodology.
Greenhalgh, T., Rosen, R., Shaw, S.E., Byng, R., Faulkner, S. Finlay, T. Grundy, E., Husain, L., Hughes, G., Leone, C., Moore, L., Papoutsi, C., Catherine Pope, C., Rybczynska-Bunt, S., Rushforth, A., Wherton, J., Wieringa, S., & Wood, G. W. (2021). Planning and Evaluating Remote Consultation Services: A New Conceptual Framework Incorporating Complexity and Practical Ethics – PubMed (nih.gov). Frontiers in digital health.
He, B. & Halvorsen, R. (2021). Digital Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities in China Under COVID-19: How Far Has China Come? (hep.com.cn). Frontiers of Law in China.
Høydal, Ø. S. & Haldar, M. (2021). Full article: A tale of the digital future: analyzing the digitalization of the norwegian education system (tandfonline.com). Critical Policy Studies.
Johannessen, L. E. F., Engebretsen, E., Hughes, G., Greenhalgh, T., Köhler-Olsen, J., Rasmussen, E. B., & Haldar, M. (2021). Protocol for ‘virtual presence’: a qualitative study of the cultural dialectic between loneliness and technology | BMJ Open. BMJ Open.
Köhler-Olsen, J., Rasmussen, E. B., Johannessen, L. E. F. & Haldar, M. (2021). Deltakelse og verdighet: – et kritisk-konstruktivt perspektiv på medborgerskap og personvern i nærværsteknologienes tid: Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift: Vol 38, No 1-2 (idunn.no) [Participation and dignity – a critical-constructive perspective on citizenship and privacy in the age of presence technologies.] Nytt norsk tidsskrift.
Larsson, K. K., & Haldar, M. (2021). Can Computers Automate Welfare? Norwegian Efforts to Make Welfare Policy More Effective | Journal of Extreme Anthropology (uio.no). Journal of Extreme Anthropology.
Lynch, J., Hughes, G., Papoutsi, C., Wherton, J., & A’Court, C. (2021). “It’s no good but at least I’ve always got it round my neck”: A postphenomenological analysis of reassurance in assistive technology use by older people – ScienceDirect. Social Science and Medicine.
Løberg, I. B. & Egeland, C. (2021). Full article: ‘You get a completely different feeling’ – an empirical exploration of emotions and their functions in digital frontline work (tandfonline.com). European Journal of Social Work.
Nordtug, M. (2021). Oralizations in e-mail consultations: A study of general practitioners’ use of non-verbal cues in written doctor–patient communication | Intellect (intellectdiscover.com). Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies.
Nordtug, M. (2021). Who knows best? Health risks and digital media engagement in Discourses relating to human papillomavirus vaccination – Nordtug – 2021 – Sociology of Health & Illness – Wiley Online Library. Sociology of Health and Illness.
Nordtug, M., Brøgger, M. N., & Møller, J. E. (2021). “Therefore, I would like an allergy test”: Responsibly conducting a healthy body though the e-consultation platform | MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research (tidsskrift.dk). MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research.
Rasmussen, E. B., Askheim, C., Oppedal, B., & Haldar, M. (2021). Varm teknologi mot ensomhet blant eldre?: En skriptanalyse av kommunikasjonsløsningen Komp: Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning: Vol 62, No 4 (idunn.no) [Warm technology against loneliness among the elderly? A script analysis of the communication solution KOMP.] Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.
Shaw, S. E., Hughes, G., Wherton, J., Moore, L., Rosen, R., Papoutsi, C., Rushforth, A., Morris, J., Wood, G. W., Faulkner, S., & Greenhalgh, T. (2021). Achieving Spread, Scale Up and Sustainability of Video Consulting Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Findings From a Comparative Case Study of Policy Implementation in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland – PMC (nih.gov). Frontiers in Digital Health.
Slettemås, D. & Storm-Mathisen, A. (2021). Digitalisert forbruk. In T. Ø. Jensen, E. Jacobsen, M. W. Knudsen, & G. E. Schjelderup (eds.). Forbrukersosiologi, s. 447-474, Fagbokforlaget.
Steinnes, K. K. & Teigen, H. M. F. (2021). Livsstil til salgs: om influensermarkedsføring på sosiale medier og hvordan ungdom påvirkes | Nordisk tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning (idunn.no). Nordisk tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning.
Teigen, H. M. F. & Steinnes, K. K. (2021). «– Det er lett å se hvilke kjønn reklamer er ment for. Det er ikke noe mellomting»: En studie av ungdoms fortolkning av kjønn i reklame på sosiale medier | Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning (idunn.no). Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.

2020

Breit, E. M. A, Egeland, C., Løberg, I. B. & Røhnebæk, M. (2020). Digital coping: How frontline workers cope with digital service encounters. Social Policy & Administration, 55(5), 833-847. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12664
Bygstad, Bendik; Dulsrud, Arne (2020). Digital Ecosystems as a Unit of Scientific Analysis. A Sociological Investigation. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2020.698
Kuldova, T. Ø.(2020). Imposter Paranoia in the Age of Intelligent Surveillance: Policing Outlaws, Borders and Undercover Agents. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 4(1), 45-73. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.7813
Köhler-Olsen, J.(2020). Den digitale rettighetshaveren : Når tilgang til økonomiske og sosiale rettigheter går via pc-en. In S. E. Schütz, R. Aarli & H. S. Aasen, (Eds.), Likestilling, barn og velferd. Rettsfelt i utvikling (p. 93-108). Gyldendal Juridisk.
Storm-Mathisen, A. & Helle-Valle, J.(2020). Botswana’s digital revolution: What’s in it? In J. Helle-Valle & A. Storm-Mathisen (Eds.), Media Practices and Changing African Socialities – Non-Media-Centric Perspectives (p. 60-90). Berghahn Books.
Søraa, R. A., Nyvoll, P. S., Grønvik, K. B. & Serrano, A. (2020) Children’s perceptions of social robots: a study of the robots Pepper, AV1 and Tessa at Norwegian research fairs. AI & Society, 31(1), 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-00998-w