Selected Publications

A record of the work

The works listed here represent a selection of manuscripts, dissertations, articles, and books I have edited over the course of my career. In edited volumes, my work typically encompassed contributing chapters rather than the volume as a whole.

Featured works

Audun Engelstad

"Looking at Norway — Netflix Originals and Regional Identity"

In Spicer, Barton & Genders, eds., The Politics of Place. Palgrave Studies in European Communication Research and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.

Alnæs, Tollerud Bull, Hausken & Østby Sæther, eds.

Media Seas and the Blue Humanities: Studies of the High North Atlantic

Routledge, 2025 · Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo

Liv Hausken

"Photorealism versus Photography: AI-generated Depiction in the Age of Visual Disinformation"

Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 2024 · PHOTOFAKE project

Arild Fetveit

"Uncanny (Inter)Mediality and Photo Futures"

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 24, 2023

Jun Liu & Jingyi Zhao

"More Than Plain Text: Censorship Deletion in Chinese Social Media"

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2021, pp. 18–31

Susanne Sæther & Synne Tollerud Bull, eds.

Screen Space Reconfigured

Amsterdam University Press / Routledge, 2020

Routledge / National Library of Norway

Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA: A Historical Exploration of Identity

Routledge, 2019

Marit Grøtta

Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics: The Gaze of the Flâneur and 19th-Century Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Hellum & Aasen, eds.

Women's Human Rights: CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law

Cambridge University Press, 2013

D. Rothstein

"The Hostile Brothers: Judaism and Christianity"

Psychological Perspectives, 54(4), 488–497, 2011

Lev Manovich

"Alan Kay's Universal Media Machine"

In Fetveit & Stald, eds., Northern Lights, Vol. 5. University of Copenhagen, 2007.

Manovich is among the most influential theorists of digital culture and new media

Linda Williams

Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson

Princeton University Press, 2001

Edited first and second drafts of the manuscript

Arild Fetveit

"Reality TV in the Digital Era: A Paradox in Visual Culture"

Media, Culture and Society, 21:6, November 1999, pp. 787–804

One of the most-cited early essays on reality television and digital media

Stefan Helmreich

Anthropology Inside and Outside the Looking-Glass Worlds of Artificial Life

Doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, 1997

Later published as Silicon Second Nature (UC Press) · Winner, 2001 Diana Forsythe Prize

Monographs & Edited Volumes

Alnæs, Tollerud Bull, Hausken & Østby Sæther, eds. Media Seas and the Blue Humanities. Routledge, 2025.
Susanne Sæther & Synne Tollerud Bull, eds. Screen Space Reconfigured. Amsterdam University Press / Routledge, 2020.
Sverdljuk, Joranger, Jackson & Kivisto. Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA. Routledge, 2019.
Marit Grøtta. Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics: The Gaze of the Flâneur and 19th-Century Media. Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Hellum & Aasen, eds. Women's Human Rights: CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Liv Hausken, ed. Thinking Media Aesthetics: Media Studies, Film Studies and the Arts. Peter Lang, Berlin, 2013. Open Access.
Derman & Kaarhus, eds. In the Shadow of a Conflict: Crisis in Zimbabwe and its Effects in Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia. Weaver Press, 2012–13.
Eivind Røssaak, ed. The Archive in Motion: New Conceptions of the Archive in Contemporary Thought and New Media Practices. National Library of Norway / Novus Press, 2010.
Arild Fetveit & Gitte Stald, eds. Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook, Vol. 5 — Digital Aesthetics and Communication. University of Copenhagen, 2007.
Linda Williams. Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson. Princeton University Press, 2001. First and second draft manuscript.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Audun Engelstad. "Looking at Norway — Netflix Originals and Regional Identity." In Spicer, Barton & Genders, eds., The Politics of Place. Palgrave Studies in European Communication Research and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.
Liv Hausken. "Photorealism versus Photography: AI-generated Depiction in the Age of Visual Disinformation." Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 2024.
Arild Fetveit. "Uncanny (Inter)Mediality and Photo Futures." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 24, 2023.
Jun Liu & Jingyi Zhao. "More Than Plain Text: Censorship Deletion in Chinese Social Media." Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2021, pp. 18–31.
Arild Fetveit. "The Uncanny Mediality of the Photographic GIF." NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 7.1, 2018, pp. 45–65.
Jun Liu. "Mobile Phones, Social Ties and Collective Action Mobilization in China." Acta Sociologica, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2017, pp. 213–27. doi.org/10.1177/0001699316660596
Jun Liu. "Digital Media, Cycle of Contention, and Sustainability of Environmental Activism: The Case of Anti-PX Protests in China." Mass Communication and Society, Vol. 19, No. 5, 2016, pp. 604–26.
Karen Modesta Olsen. "The Power of Workers." Employee Relations: The International Journal, Vol. 38, Issue 3, 2016, pp. 390–405. doi.org/10.1108/ER-10-2014-0121
Jun Liu. "Communicating beyond Information? Mobile Phones and Mobilization to Offline Protests in China." Television & New Media, Vol. 16, No. 6, 2015, pp. 503–20.
Arild Fetveit. "Death, Beauty, and Iconoclastic Nostalgia: Precarious Aesthetics and Lana Del Rey." MediaRep, 2015.
Kristin Vold Lexander. "Analyzing multilingual text-messaging in Senegal." In Sebba, Mahootian & Jonsson, eds., Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing. Routledge, 2011.
D. Rothstein. "The Hostile Brothers: Judaism and Christianity." Psychological Perspectives, 54(4), 488–497, 2011.
Anders Sundnes Løvlie. "Annotative Locative Media and G-P-S: Granularity, Participation and Serendipity." Computers and Composition, 2011.
Ib Bondebjerg. "Coming to Terms with the Past: Post-'89 Strategies in German Film Culture." Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Vol. 1, Issue 1, March 2010.
Ib Bondebjerg. "Behind the Headlines: Documentaries, the War on Terror and Everyday Life." Studies in Documentary Film, Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2010.
Eivind Røssaak. "Affects and Medium: Re-imagining Media Differences through Bill Viola's The Quintet of the Astonished." New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2009.
Arild Fetveit. "Convergence by Means of Globalized Remediation." Northern Lights Vol. 5, 2007.
Lev Manovich. "Alan Kay's Universal Media Machine." In Fetveit & Stald, eds., Northern Lights, Vol. 5. University of Copenhagen, 2007.
Arild Fetveit. "Figures of Sensation: Between Still and Moving Images." In Wanda Strauven, ed., The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded. Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
Arild Fetveit. "Anti-essentialism and Reception Studies: In Defense of the Text." Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2001.
Arild Fetveit. "Reality TV in the Digital Era: A Paradox in Visual Culture." Media, Culture and Society, 21:6, November 1999, pp. 787–804.
Jun Liu. "Mobile Communication, Popular Protests and Citizenship in China." Modern Asian Studies.
Brynjar Olafsson & Gisli Thorsteinsson. "Examining Design and Craft Education in Iceland." FORMakademisk, Oslo.
Anne Krogstad & Aagoth Storvik. "Images of Female Politicians in France and Norway." American Sociological Review. University of Oslo / Institute for Social Research.
Judith L. White & Jill Fischer. "Embodied Imagination." Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming.

Dissertations & Theses

Melissa Kim Corter. Who Carries Our Darkness? Psychopathy and the Western Shadow. Doctoral dissertation in Jungian and Archetypal Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2026.
Christian Brunold. "Essays on Technological Progress in East Asia." Doctoral dissertation, 2014.
Martha Velez. Athena's Armor / Aphrodite's Amor: Mythopoesis of the American Latina Puerto Rican Women's Identity Through the Lens of Depth Psychology, Santeria and Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Doctoral thesis in mythology, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2011.
Eivind Røssaak. Negotiating Immobility: The Moving Image and the Arts. Doctoral dissertation, University of Oslo, 2007.
Ranghild Tronstad. On Questing and Character Performance in the Multi-User Dungeon Tubmud. Doctoral dissertation, University of Oslo, 2005.
Arild Fetveit. Multiaccentual Cinema: Between Documentary and Fiction. Doctoral dissertation, University of Oslo, 2003.
Stefan Helmreich. Anthropology Inside and Outside the Looking-Glass Worlds of Artificial Life. Doctoral dissertation, Stanford University, 1997. Later published as Silicon Second Nature (UC Press). Winner, 2001 Diana Forsythe Prize.
Anne Hege Strand. The Welfare State Matters: Changes in Economic Welfare after Partnership Dissolution in Norway and Britain. Doctoral thesis in sociology, University of Bergen.
Kjetil Mujezinovic Larsen. The Applicability of International Human Rights Law in UN-Authorised Peace Operations. Doctoral dissertation, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.

Scientific & Medical Research

Braunfels & Elias. "Further Unbundling Institutions." NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 13/2016. SSRN 2854122
Karen Modesta Olsen. "The Power of Workers." Employee Relations: The International Journal, Vol. 38, Issue 3, 2016, pp. 390–405. doi.org/10.1108/ER-10-2014-0121
Ingvill Rasmussen & Åste Hagen. "Facilitating Students' Individual and Collective Knowledge Construction through Microblogs." International Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 72, 2015, pp. 149–161. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2015.04.014
Baste, Oftedal, Møllerløkken, Mild & Moen. "Prospective Study of Pregnancy Outcomes after Parental Cell Phone Exposure: the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study." Epidemiology, Vol. 26, No. 4, July 2015, pp. 613–21. doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000293
Hellesø, Melby & Hauge. "Implications of Observing and Writing Field Notes through Different Lenses." Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, Vol. 8, April 2015, pp. 189–97. doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S82107
Asokan, Myrseth & Kosinski. "Effect of Pt and Fe Catalysts in the Transformation of Carbon Black into Carbon Nanotubes." Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Vol. 81, 2015, pp. 106–115. doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2015.02.006

"Kiersten Johnson has provided her superb language skills to secure flow and readability in the chapters written by the non-native English speakers."

Susanne Ø. Sæther

Editor, Screen Space Reconfigured · co-editor, Media Seas and the Blue Humanities

"I need to thank Kiersten Leigh Johnson for being assiduous in her attention to my language and argument."

Arild Fetveit

Research lead, PHOTOFAKE · author, Multiaccentual Cinema