Rate My Professor Oddgeir Tveiten

Oddgeir Tveiten is a Professor in media studies at the University of Agder, Department of Global Development and Planning, Faculty of Social Sciences. Employed at the university since 2002, he began his tenure at the Institute for Political Science and Leadership before transitioning to his current department in 2009. His academic career includes prior roles as a senior researcher and information leader at the University of Oslo, first amanuensis at the University of Bergen and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and a 20% professorship in journalism and media studies at NLA University College from 2006 to 2023. Tveiten earned his PhD and MA degrees from the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication as a Fulbright scholar, where he co-edited the student newspaper Minnesota Daily and served as a teaching assistant. He has been a guest researcher at Stanford University's Department of Communication in 2008-2009 and 2014-2015, and has lectured internationally, contributing to MA journalism programs in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Rwanda.

Tveiten's research spans political communication, globalization studies, technology and society, and technology and learning, blending social scientific and humanistic approaches to media and culture. He leads the Future Learning Lab, an international research network established in 2015 focused on digital learning technologies and pedagogy. Key publications include the edited volume Smart Universities: Education’s Digital Future (Logos Verlag Berlin, 2017), Storyland: Journalistikk, makt og meningsdannelse (IJ-forlaget, 2009), and Nødvendige nyheter: perspektiv på journalistikkens globalisering (IJ-forlaget, 2006). Recent works feature 'Ethnicity as journalism paradigm: Polarization and political parallelism of Ethiopian news in transition' (Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, 2023) and 'Do Web-Based Pedagogical Tools Promote Self-Regulated Learning in University Students?' (INTED, 2018). He participated in the international 'Journalism in the New World Order' project on media coverage of conflicts and currently contributes to studies on global media coverage of US presidential elections. Tveiten has served on PhD and research committees for over 16 years at the University of Agder, faculty boards at the University of Bergen, editorial boards of research journals, and as secretary in the Norwegian Media Researchers' Association. He led the Communication Association Agder and developed communication strategies for cultural institutions.