Terje Rasmussen
Professor of Media studies at the
Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo
Part time professor at National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO)
(My homepage in Norwegian is here)
Former professor of Media studies (part time) at the Department of Information and Media Studies at the University of Bergen
Research interests: the use and transformation of digital personal media in social networks, the sociological controversies that influence the Internet as a social force, the digitization and selection of culture in archives and museums, Internet governance, online journalism, transformations of the european public sphere
Head of the (since 1997) ongoing project The Social Transformation of The Internet, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The project ends in July 2007 and addresses the social, cultural and political forces which influence the development and future of the Internet.
Visiting scholar at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), in Florence, autumn 2007
Visiting scholar at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford winter and spring 2007
Former Head of the Ph.d programme in Media studies at the University of Oslo
Author and editor of several books on digital media, ethics, journalism and social theory (see publications).
Educated (sociology) at University of Oslo, University of Bergen, University of California at Santa Cruz.
Visiting Scholar at the University of Wollongong, Australia 1999-2000
Former Head of Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (1997-1999)
Born (in 1957) and raised in Oslo. Lives in Oslo with wife and two children
