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#NORA Research Seminar: Nordic Trends in Communication Research

Thursday

May

Starts:13:00, 5 May 2022
Ends:17:00, 5 May 2022
Location:BI Campus Oslo
Contact:#NORA (nora@bi.no)

In this one-day seminar we will get together to discuss ongoing research projects and jointly work on pathways for further developing caproate communication research across the Nordic region.

The seminar is attended by researchers from Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. Research projects to be discussed include work on prospects and challenges in the digitalization of communication as well as on crisis resilience during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Schedule:

12.45 – 13.00
Arrival at room A2 – 070
13.00 – 13.05
Welcome
13.05 – 13.40
Project A: Trade associations as crisis managers in Denmark and Norway during COVID-19: Internal, external, and extra-communication with members. Bang, Isaksson, Frandsen & Johansen
13.40 – 14.15
Project B: Participatory communicative practices as a condition for sense of inclusion among first-year students. Preliminary findings from the Mentor program research project. Brøgger, Wiik & Sonnenschein
14.15 – 14.25
Coffee break
14.25 – 15.00
Project C: Calling Siri a grumpy f*cker: The study of incivility towards AI versus human service agents. Maltseva Reiby & van Gils
15.00 – 15.35
Project D: Service-innovation to improve organizational resilience in times of crisis. Solvoll
15.35 – 15.40
Colloquium wrap-up
15.40 – 16.00
Break (coffee, tea & snacks served)
16.00 – 17.00
Closing Keynote. NordForsk as facilitator of Nordic research collaboration, and the added value created in Nordic research collaboration.Arne Flåøyen, Director of NordForsk
17.00 – 19.00
Break
19.00 – 22.00
Diner Restaurant Happolati, St. Olavs Plass 2, 0165 Oslo

Speakers

Arne Flåøyen is since 2018 the director of NordForsk. NordForsk is the research funding organisation of the Nordic Council of Ministers. NordForsk funds research in all disciplines and work closely with the national research funding organisations in the Nordic Region.

Winni Johansen (Ph.D.) is a professor of Corporate Communication in the Department of Management, at Aarhus University, and adjunct professor at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo.

Benedicte Brøgger holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oslo, Department of Social Anthropology from 2001. Her research experience includes several long-term field works in South-East Asia and a number of R&D-projects in companies and organizations in Norway.

Kateryna Maltseva Reiby is Associate Professor of Marketing at Oslo New University College. Kateryna researches how humans interact with digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, wearables and internet platforms. In her research, she focuses on how these technologies shape people's experiences, relationships with other people, as well as people's self-understanding. Kateryna holds a PhD from BI Norwegian Business School.