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Rolf Werenskjold

Institutt for kommunikasjon

Professor

Rolf Werenskjold er professor i medievitenskap ved Avdeling for mediefag, Høgskulen i Volda, Norge. 
Han har en doktorgrad i medievitenskap og journalistikk fra Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon ved Universitetet i Oslo, Norge. Han er historiker og medieforsker og har publisert studier om media og protester i 1968, moderne amerikansk historie, norske medier og den spanske borgerkrigen. Han er ekspert på norsk utenriksjournalistikk, og arbeider for tiden med et prosjekt som setter søkelyset på Nordiske og Baltiske mediers dekning av Sovjetunionen/Russland og Øst-Europe under og etter den kalde krigen.

Han har vært medredaktør for flere internasjonale bøker, inkludert Media and Revolt. Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present (2014), The Nordic Media and the Cold War (2015) og Media and the Cold War in the 1980s. Between Star Wars and Glasnost (2018). Hans nyeste publikasjoner inkluderer Ekko fra Spania. Den spanske borgerkrigen i norsk offentlighet, 1936-39 (2019), Norwegian Defence and Security Policy: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in the 1950s (2022) og Politisk sensur med en silkehånd: Tysk stormaktspress og norsk politisk sensur 1914-1940 (2023). Han har vært medredaktør og forfatter i en rekke spesialnummere av norske og internasjonale tidsskrifter; Om Spies in Scandinavia i tidsskriftet Journal of Scandinavian Cinema (2019); Dissent and Dissidents in Central and Eastern European Film i tidsskriftet Historical Film, Radio, and Television (2021). Det siste var norsk mediehistorisk tidsskrifts spesialnummer om Nordisk utenriksjournalistikk i det lange 20. århundre (2022). 

Werenskjold er medlem av styret for Norsk mediehistorisk forening. Han har også vært medlem av Norsk nasjonalt fagråd for medievitenskap, samt Management Committee og Core Group for det europeiske forskningsprogrammet Cost Action: New Exploratory Phase in Research on East European Cultures of Dissent 2017-2022. Han er for tiden medlem av redaksjonsrådet for The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
 

Research

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Scientific articles and book chapters

Politisk sensur med silkehånd: Tysk stormaktspress og norsk politisk sensur 1914–1940
Published 2023 by Rolf Werenskjold, Øystein Pedersen Dahlen

Presse, PR og politikk. Utenriksdepartementets pressekontor 1919–1924
Published 2022 by Øystein Pedersen Dahlen, Rolf Werenskjold

Bibliografi: The Spanish Civil War in a Nordic Perspective
Published 2022 by Hans Fredrik Dahl, Rolf Werenskjold

Ottar Odland: radiomannen og utenrikskorrespondenten, 1953–1987
Published 2022 by Rolf Werenskjold

Dissent and dissidents in central and eastern european film
Published 2021 by Bjørn Sørenssen, Rolf Werenskjold, Tobias Hochscherf

German Pressure: Spy Films and Political Censorship in Norway, 1914-40.
Published 2019 by Rolf Werenskjold

Haakon Lie og Spaniafilmene : bruken av dokumentarfilmer om den spanske borgerkrigen i Norge 1936–39
Published 2017 by Rolf Werenskjold

Norges første lydfilmavis, Verden Rundt : ""begivenheter fra alle verdens kanter""
Published 2016 by Rolf Werenskjold

Det globale 1968-opprøret i pressefoto
Published 2009 by Rolf Werenskjold, Erling Sivertsen

Erik Loe og utenriksavdelingen i Arbeiderbladet, 1949-1989
Published 2008 by Rolf Werenskjold

The Dailies in Revolts
Published 2008 by Rolf Werenskjold

Hans Lauritz Hanssen: Utenrikskommentator og utenrikskorrespondent i Morgenposten og Aftenposten, 1945 til 1976
Published 2007 by Rolf Werenskjold

Utenriksjournalisten Ingebrigt Løberg
Published 2006 by Rolf Werenskjold

Ytringsfrihet i Volda
Published 2003 by Paul Bjerke, Rolf Werenskjold

Ytringsfrihet i Volda
Published 2001 by Rolf Werenskjold, Paul Bjerke

De som måtte betale prisen
Published 2000 by Rolf Werenskjold

Dokumentar eller propaganda?
Published 2000 by Rolf Werenskjold

Den amerikanske valgkampen er i gang
Published 2000 by Rolf Werenskjold

Nordmenn i fangenskap
Published 2000 by Rolf Werenskjold

Bildene som sjokkerer
Published 2000 by Rolf Werenskjold

Et globalt terrornettverk
Published 1999 by Rolf Werenskjold

Hillarys versjon : bokmelding av "Levende historie" av Hillary Rodham Clinton
Published 1999 by Rolf Werenskjold

Al Qaida et globalt terrornettverk
Published 1999 by Rolf Werenskjold

Offentlig opinion og amerikansk utenrikspolitikk
Published 1998 by Rolf Werenskjold

Geilomøtets partipolitiske ambisjoner
Published 1988 by Rolf Werenskjold

Partiet Høgre og konservatismen
Published 1988 by Rolf Werenskjold

Pariet Høgre og språksynet deira
Published 1988 by Rolf Werenskjold

Geilomøtet, prestene og kirkeorganisasjonen
Published 1987 by Rolf Werenskjold

En Atlantisk revolusjon? : del III
Published 1985 by Rolf Werenskjold

En Atlantisk revolusjon? : del II
Published 1985 by Rolf Werenskjold

En Atlantisk revolusjon? : del I
Published 1985 by Rolf Werenskjold

Geilomøtets partipolitiske ambisjoner : del III
Published 1984 by Rolf Werenskjold

Geilomøtets partpolitiske ambisjoner : del II
Published 1984 by Rolf Werenskjold

Geilomøtet, prestene og kirkeorganisasjonen
Published 1983 by Rolf Werenskjold

Other works

Knowledge communities in the Nordic and Baltic coverage of the Soviet Union and Russia
Published 2023 by Birgitte Kjos Fonn, Rolf Werenskjold

Norwegian Defence and Security Policy: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in the 1950s
Published 2022 by Øystein Pedersen Dahlen, Rolf Werenskjold

Den politiske karikaturens historie - Norsk og Internasjonal visuell journalistikk en temperaturmåler på ytringsfrihetens kår.
Published 2021 by Rolf Werenskjold

Amerikansk politikk fra Watergate til Black Lives Matter. Innledningsforedrag til filmen Alle presidentens menn.
Published 2020 by Rolf Werenskjold

Norsk utenriksjournalistikk
Published 2020 by Rolf Werenskjold

Dissenting Forms – Seminar on Dissenting Eastern European Film Cultures
Published 2019 by Rolf Werenskjold

Contextualizing JSCA's Special Issue on Spies and Counter-Intellegence.
Published 2019 by Rolf Werenskjold, Tobias Hochscherf

Ekko fra Spania. Den spanske borgerkrigen i norske offentlighet
Published 2019 by Hans Fredrik Dahl, Bernt Hagtvet, Rolf Werenskjold
Publisher: Dreyer Forlag A/S

Spy films and political censorship in Norway in the 1930s.
Published 2019 by Rolf Werenskjold

Editorial
Published 2019 by Rolf Werenskjold, Tobias Hochscherf

Balansekunst i uoversiktlig farvann
Published 2018 by Sigrun Farstad Gregori, Rolf Werenskjold
Publisher: Høgskulen i Volda

Women for peace: The march from Stockholm to Moscow and Minsk 1982.
Published 2018 by Rolf Werenskjold

En visuell propagandakrig? Bildematerialet i norsk presse om den spanske borgerkrigen 1936-39.
Published 2018 by Rolf Werenskjold

Media and the Cold War in the 1980s: Between Star Wars and Glasnost
Published 2018 by Henrik G. Bastiansen, Martin Klimke, Rolf Werenskjold
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

The Cold War Reporters: The Norwegian Foreign-News Journalists and Foreign-News Correspondents, 1945–1995
Published 2018 by Jan Fredrik Hovden, Rolf Werenskjold

Introduction: Mapping the Role of the Media in the late Cold War
Published 2018 by Henrik G. Bastiansen, Martin Klimke, Rolf Werenskjold

Around the World: The First Norwegian Newsreel, 1930–1941
Published 2018 by Rolf Werenskjold

Spania, Spania. Håkon Lie og den første norske dokumentarfilmen om borgerkrigen i Spania.
Published 2016 by Rolf Werenskjold

Framing of Audiovisual News. How Media Present and Manipulate the News.
Published 2016 by Rolf Werenskjold, Thomas Lewe

Cold War films - The Man who saved the World
Published 2015 by Rolf Werenskjold

Aftenposten legger ned London-kontoret. Etter 70 år vil ikke avisen lenger ha egen korrespondent i den britiske hovedstaden.
Published 2015 by Rolf Werenskjold

The Norwegian Foreign News Journalists and Foreign News Correpondents during the Cold War
Published 2014 by Jan fredrik Hovden, Rolf Werenskjold

Photos in Frames or Frames in Photos? The Global 1968 Revolts in Three Norwegian Dailies
Published 2014 by Rolf Werenskjold, Erling Sivertsen

Introduction : Media and Protest Movements
Published 2014 by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen, Rolf Werenskjold

Media and Revolt. Strategies and Performances from the 1960's to the Present
Published 2014 by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen, Rolf Werenskjold
Publisher: Berghahn Books

Media and the Cold War Conference Cartoon Film
Published 2014 by Rolf Werenskjold, Andres Mänd, Dave King

Moderators panel discussions: Meet the Press. Foreign News during the Cold War. Kjell Dragnes (Aftenposten), Kari Grete Alstad (NRK) og Hans Wilhelm Steinfeld (NRK). International Conference Media and the Cold War 1975-1991
Published 2014 by Rolf Werenskjold, Martin Klimke

Exhibition: Political Cartoons U.S. and Sovjet leaders published by Aftenposten 1975-1991
Published 2014 by Rolf Werenskjold, Thomas Lewe

The Norwegian Foreign News System during the Cold War
Published 2013 by Rolf Werenskjold

Cold lines: The Cold War in Political Cartoons in Aftenposten 1980-1984
Published 2013 by Rolf Werenskjold, Erling Sivertsen

Journalistikk som fortolkningfellesskap. Rammer – dagsorden – makt. En begrepsavklaring
Published 2012 by Rolf Werenskjold

Opprørske Aftenposten
Published 2012 by Rolf Werenskjold

That’s the Way it is? Medienes rolle i proteståret 1968
Published 2012 by Rolf Werenskjold

USA i norske medier
Published 2012 by Rolf Werenskjold

Chronology of Events of Protest in Europe 1968
Published 2011 by Rolf Werenskjold

The revolution will be televised : the global 1968 revolts on Norwegian television news
Published 2011 by Rolf Werenskjold

Symbolske avisforsider preger tiårsmarkeringen
Published 2011 by Rolf Werenskjold

Reporting the Cold War from Washington D.C. 1981-1985: The Norwegian Radio and Television News: A case study
Published 2011 by Rolf Werenskjold

Osama Bin Laden er død : ekspertar fryktar auka terrorfare
Published 2011 by Rolf Werenskjold

A Chronology of the Global 1968 Protest
Published 2010 by Rolf Werenskjold
Publisher: Høgskulen i Volda

68-opprøret i media
Published 2010 by Rolf Werenskjold

Det amerikanske presidentvalget
Published 2008 by Rolf Werenskjold

Photos in frames - or frames in photos Framing photos in black and white - the global 1968 revolts in three Norwegian dailies
Published 2008 by Rolf Werenskjold, Erling Sivertsen

The revolution will not be televised? : conference reader
Published 2008 by Erling Sivertsen, Rolf Werenskjold
Publisher: Avdeling for mediefag, Høgskulen i Volda

1968-opprøret i norske massemedier
Published 2007 by Rolf Werenskjold

Utenriksjournalistikk: Vindu mot verden eller speilbilde av oss selv?
Published 2007 by Rolf Werenskjold

The Dailies in Revolts : the Global 1968 revolts in Major Norwegian Newspapers
Published 2007 by Rolf Werenskjold

Foreign News and historical research - the year 1968
Published 2006 by Rolf Werenskjold

Foreign News in Dagsrevyen in 1968 : a quantitative analyses of the global 1968 revolutions in NRK Dagsrevyen
Published 2006 by Rolf Werenskjold

Foreign News in Dagsrevyen in 1968: a Quantitative Analysis of the Global 1968 Revolutions in Norwegian Television
Published 2006 by Rolf Werenskjold

May 1968 as a Global Media event
Published 2006 by Rolf Werenskjold

"One World - Few Voices" - Det globale 1968-opprøret i utenriksinnslagene i NRK Dagsrevyen
Published 2005 by Rolf Werenskjold

Om opptøyer på slutten av 1970-tallet
Published 2005 by Rolf Werenskjold

Parting Waters - The 1968-revolution in the United States
Published 2004 by Rolf Werenskjold

1968-opprøret - globalt og lokalt
Published 2004 by Rolf Werenskjold

Om Paris-opprøret i mai 1968
Published 2004 by Rolf Werenskjold

1968-opprøret, mediene og Øst-Europa
Published 2004 by Rolf Werenskjold

Det amerikanske presidentvalget
Published 2004 by Rolf Werenskjold

Det amerikanske presidentvalget
Published 2004 by Rolf Werenskjold

The Media and Audiovisual Archives: The year 1968. Social and political changes in Eastern Europe evaluated by using sound and moving images of the events of the year 1968. The impact of media in a time of political conflicts and the importance of audiovisual archives to make a description of the events for historical studies - and what is the contribution of the films made at the time of the events compared to the written reports
Published 2004 by Rolf Werenskjold

An open window to the world: reception of the global and the local 1968 revolutions in the norwegian public and media
Published 2003 by Rolf Werenskjold

Ungdomsopprøret i 1968. 5-timers foredrag om ungdomskultur
Published 2002 by Rolf Werenskjold

Cowboy og Indianer
Published 2001 by Rolf Werenskjold

Thranitten, bakermester, stortingsmann og fyrvokter Hans Henrik Wærenskjold (1820-1909) : fra småborger til middelklasse
Published 2000 by Rolf Fossum Werenskjold

Bildene som har endret historien Intervjuet handler om fotografier og bilder som har endret historien, og kom i stand i kjølvannet av de avslørende fotografiene av amerikanske soldaters sadisitiske behandling av irakiske fanger som preget alle medier i begynnelsen av mai
Published 2000 by Rolf Werenskjold

Slekten Werenskkjold-Wærnschiold 1625-1999 : den vestre linje
Published 1999 by Rolf Fossum Werenskjold
Publisher: Historisk institutt, Høgskulen i Volda