Brandtzæg

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Contact: email: pbb at sintef.no  or cell  +47 9280 6546

 

 

 

 

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Work experience:

Petter Bae Brandtzaeg holds a PhD in Communications and Media studies and has been researching Internet usage for more than 13 years, in particular with a focus on social media and the social implications of different types of usage.

He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF ICT in Oslo, Norway, where he is directing the research project, delTA (2011-2015) on civic engagement in social media among youth.

He has worked on various projects, academically funded as well as for the EC (e.g.CITIZEN MEDIA, EuKidsOnline, i2i) and for a range of companies, including several international collaborations. He is also part of various research networks (COST294-MAUSE, User Centric Media Cluster and Media, Online Community Research Network, Democracy and European Culture (MEDEC)). He was a visiting scholar at New York University, from 2010 to 2011.

Main interests:

  • Social media, with a focus on Facebook
  • Motivations of partipacipation in social media
  • User centered design (UCD)
  • Social implications of different types of online usage such as, digital divide, social capital and privacy
  • User behavior and user types in new media

Publications

He has more than 40 publications, and done in the last five years over 100 presentations both at international and national conferences.  See his CV for more information or his author profile in Google Scholar. Cited/interviewed in newspapers, television and radio more than 500 times (e.g.  El Pais, BBC News, ACM Tech News and main news papers in Norway).

Recent publications: 

  1. Brandtzæg, P.B. (2012). Social networking sites: their users and social implications – a longitudinal study. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 17(4), 467-488
  2. Brandtzæg, P.B., Følstad, A., Mainsah, H., (2012).  Designing for youth civic engagement in social media. In the proceedings of the IADIS Web Based Communities and Social Media 2012 (WBC 2012) Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. [Awarded as the Conference Best Paper].
  3. Karahasanović, A., Brandtzæg, P.B., Lüders, M., Pelt, M., & Van Den Broeck, M. (2012). Designing collaborative writing applications for children. In the proceedings of the IADIS Web Based Communities and Social Media 2012 (WBC 2012) Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
  4. Brandtzæg, P.B. (2012). Understanding cyber behavior in Europe (pp.  1234-1249). In Yan, Z (Ed). Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior. IGI Global. Albany NY. USA.
  5. Endestad, T., Heim, J. Kaare, B., Torgersen, L., & Brandtzæg, P.B. (2011). Media User Types among Young Children and Social Displacement. Nordicom Review.1(30), 17-30.
  6. Brandtzæg, P.B, Heim,J. & Karahasanovic, A (2011). Understanding the new digital divide - A typology of Internet users in Europe. International Journal of Human Computer Studies.69(3): 123-138
  7. Brandtzæg, P.B., & Heim, J. (2011). A Typology of  Social Networking Sites Users. International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC.), 7(1), 28-51.
  8. Brandtzæg, P.B., Lüders, M., & Skjetne, J. H. (2010). Too many Facebook “friends”? Content sharing and sociability versus the need for privacy in social network sites. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 26(11), 1006-1030
  9. Brandtzæg, P. B. (2010). Towards a unified Media-User Typology (MUT): A meta-analysis and review of the research literature on media-user typologies. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(5),940-956
  10. Brandtzæg, P.B., Heim, J., & Kaare, B. (2010). Bridging and Bonding in Social Network Sites – Investigating Family-Based Capital. International Journal of Web Based Communities 6(3), 231-353.
  11. Brandtzæg, P.B & Heim, J. (2009). Why people use social networking sites. Proceedings of the HCI International 2009. San Diego, CA, USA, 19-24 July. In  A.A. Ozok and P. Zaphiris (Eds.): Online Communities, LNCS. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 143–152.
  12. Brandtzæg, P.B, Staksrud, E, Hagen, I., & Wold, T. (2009). Norwegian children’s experiences of cyberbullying in different technological platforms. Journal of Children and Media 3(4),349-365.
  13. Brandtzæg, P. B., & Heim, J. (2009). Children’s Electronic Gaming Content Preferences and Psychosocial Factors – Is there a connection? Nordicom Review 30(2), 69-87. 
  14. Karahasanović, A., Brandtzæg, P.B., Vanattenhoven, J. Lievens, B., Nielsen, T. K. & Pierson, J. (2009). Ensuring Etiquette, Trust, and Privacy when developing Web 2.0 Applications. Computer 42(6), 42-49
  15. Brandtzæg, P.B., & Roibás, A.C. (Eds) (2009). Enabling elderly users to create and share self authored multimedia content. Special Issue of Computers in Human Behavior, 25 (3):  597–792
  16. Karahasanović, A., Brandtzæg, P.B., Heim, J., Lüders, M., Vermeir, L., Pierson, J., Lievens, B., Vanattenhoven, J., & Jans, G. (2009). Co-Creation and User-Generated Content –  Elderly People’s User Requirements. Computers in Human Behavior, 25(3): 655-679
  17. Brandtzæg, P.B. (2009). Privat 2.0. Mot økt åpenhet og ønsket nettsynlighet. [Privacy 2.0. Towards greater openness and desired visibility]. Delte meninger – Om nettets sosiale side. Heidi Grande Røys (Red) (pp. 194-213.) Universitetsforlaget. Oslo, Norway, pp. 194-213.  The complete book is available online:  www.deltemeninger.no
  18. Brandtzæg, P. B., & Heim, J. (2009). Explaining Participation in Online Communities. (Eds) Brian Whitworth and Aldo de Moor. Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems (pp. 167-182). Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference). New York, USA.
  19. Brandtzæg, P.B. & Lüders, M. (2008). eBorger 2.0. Den alminnelige borger som leverandør av offentlig informasjon?  SINTEF report  ISBN: 978-82-14-04655-7
  20. Brandtzæg, P.B. & Lüders, M. (2008). eCitizen 2.0: the Ordinary Citizen as a Supplier of Public-Sector Information. SINTEF report, ISBN: 978-82-14-04655-7. Available Online: http://hellotxt.com/l/G6gh
  21. Brandtzæg, P.B., & Heim, J. (2008). ”Jeg liker ikke voldsspill” – En studie av norske barns spillinnholdspreferanser og psykososiale faktorer. Nordicom Information. 30 (1), 77-85.
  22. Staksrud, E., Brandtzæg, P.B., Hagen, I., & Wold, T. (2008). Electronic bullying and harassment in a high use and high risk country. ECREA’s 2nd European Communication Conference “Communication Policies and Culture in Europe” in Barcelona, 25th to 28th November 2008. ISBN: 978-84-490-2570-6
  23. Verde, 0., Karahasanović, A.,  Bruynooghe, B., Van Herreweghe, H., Van Den Broeck, M.,   Brandtzæg, P.B.,  Vermeir, L., Vanattenhoven, J. (2008). Talhonia: empowering collaborative storytelling. NEM Summit 2008 – Towards Future Media Internet. Palais du Grand Large – Saint-Malo, France. October 13-15, 2008. Eurescom – the European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications – GmbH. ISBN: 9783000259784
  24. Brandtzæg, P.B., Heim, J., & Kaare, B.H.  (2008). A study of user motivation and family-based capital among online community users in Norway. InP. Kommers (Eds.) Proceedings of the IADIS Conference of Web-Based Communities. Amsterdam, Netherlands. IADIS press, pp. 21-30, 8-10, July, 2008. ISBN: 978-972-8924-65-2. [Awarded as the Conference Best Paper].
  25. Følstad, A., Brandtzæg, P.B., & Heim, J. (2008).The Impact of End-user Characteristics on End-users’ Experience of e-Government Services for the General Public. In P. Kommers, P. Isaias (Eds.) Proceedings of the IADIS international conference e-Society 2008. IADIS Press, pp. 9-15. ISBN: 978-972-8924-55-3. Algarve, Portugal, 9-12. April, 2008
  26. Heim, J., Karahasanović, A., Brandtzæg, P.B (2008). Capturing user requirements and feedback for Web 2.0 applications by a norm-based questionnaire toolset. In the proceedings of new approaches to requirements elicitation. The NordiCHI’08 workshop: New approaches to requirements elicitation. TAPIR, Trondheim, pp. 25-32. ISBN 978-82-519-2394-1
  27. Obrist, M., Geerts, D., Brandtzæg, P. B., and Tscheligi, M. (2008). Design for creating, uploading and sharing user generated content. In CHI ’08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 – 10, 2008). CHI ’08. ACM, New York, NY, 2391-2394. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1358628.1358692
  28. Geerts, D., Obrist, M., Tscheligi, M., and Brandtzæg, P. B. (2007). Supporting non-professional users in the new media landscape. In CHI ’07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA, USA, April 28 – May 03, 2007). CHI ’07. ACM, New York, NY, 2849-2852. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240866.1241093
  29. Heim, J., Brandtzæg, P. B., Endestad, T., Kaare, B. H., & Torgersen, L. (2007). Children’s Usage of Media Technologies and Psychosocial Factors. New Media & Society 9 (3), 425-454.
  30. Kaare, B. H., Brandtzæg, P. B., Endestad, T., & Heim, J. (2007). In the Borderland Between Family orientation and Peer-culture: The Use of Communication Technologies among Norwegian Tweens. New Media & Society 9 (4), 603-624.
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