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Faculty of Social Sciences
Birgir Guðmundsson
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Media studies
Political communication
Media history
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Courses 2025 - 2026
STJ0176090
Political Science Analysis
LOK0772150
B.A. Thesis in Social Studies
FJR0176120
Journalism and Democracy
Education
2021
University of Iceland, Doktorspróf Political Communication
Research
2026
Politicians’ Monitoring of Public Opinion.
Book chapter
2025
Vaccine Hesitancy and Health Inequalities among Immigrants during COVID-19 in Iceland.
Book chapter
2024
Íslenskir blaðamenn í breyttum heimi.
Journal article
2024
Iceland’s media policy and the Nordic media welfare model:.
Book chapter
2023
Iceland.
Book chapter
2022
Af lífi og sál.
Book
2022
Fyllt inn í útlínur fjölmiðlasögunna.
Book chapter
2021
Political parallelism in Iceland.
Journal article
2021
Covid-19 och de nordiska nyhetsmedierna: Island.
Report
2021
Sýnileiki eða hillufóður.
Book chapter
2020
ICELANDIC NEWSROOMS IN A PANDEMIC MODE.
Journal article
2020
Félagsleg og pólitísk þátttaka innflytjenda á Íslandi.
Book chapter
2019
Logics of the Icelandic Hybrid Media System.
Journal article
2019
Politics, marketing and social media in the 2018 local elections in Iceland.
Journal article
2019
Social Media – A Vehicle for Personalisation in Politics? Political communication before the 2017 parliamentary elections in Iceland.
Journal article
2018
Media in a microstate.
2017
Journalistic professionalism in Iceland: A framework for analysis and an assessment.
Journal article
2016
State of the fourth estate.
Journal article
2016
New Media - Opportunity for New and Small Parties? Political Communication before the Parliamentary Elections in Iceland in 2013
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Journal article
2016
Í hörðum slag : íslenskir blaðamenn II.
Book
2015
Icelandic Journalists & the Question of Professionalism.
Journal article
2015
Monika Djerf-Pierre & Mats Ekström, A history of Swedish Broadcasting - Communicative ethos, genres and institutional change (Göteborg: Nordicom, 2013).
Journal article
2015
Norðurslóðir í íslenskum fjölmiðlum.
Journal article
2015
Self Censorship among Icelandic Journalists
.
Journal article
2015
Umræðuvettvangur íslenskra dagblaða: „Götublaðavæðing“ og einsleitni.
Journal article
2014
New Realities of Political Communications in Iceland and Norway.
Journal article
2014
Pólitísk boðmiðlun í héraði og á landsvísu.
Journal article
2014
Regaining Iceland for the Catholic Church in the mid-19th CenturyNo title.
Journal article
2014
Regaining Iceland for the catholic church in the mid-19th century.
Journal article
2014
The North Pole Mission in Iceland 1857 - 1858.
Journal article
2013
A Politically Commercial Media System.
Journal article
2013
Nýir miðlar – ný stjórnmál? Pólitísk boðmiðlun fyrir alþingiskosningarnar 2013.
Journal article
2013
Vægi atkvæða og pólitískt jafnrétti.
Journal article
2012
"Karlson" - A Stasi "Kontakt Person". An episode of Iceland’s Cold War legacy.
Journal article
2012
Cornelius Castoriadis: A Society Adrift. Interviews & Debates 1974-1997 (translated by Helen Arnold; New York: Fordham University Press, 2010).
Journal article
2012
Félagsvísindadeild.
2012
Icelandic newspapers in light of Sparks' model of different types of press.
Journal article
2012
Leiðsögn um lýðræði í sveitarfélögum.
Book
2012
Umræðuvettvangur íslenskra dagblaða með hliðsjón af greiningarramma Colin Sparks; Umræðuvettvangur íslenskra dagblaða með hliðsjón af greiningarramma Colin Sparks; Icelandic newspapers in light of Sparks’ model of different types of press.
Journal article
2011
Towards a digital adolescent society? The social structure of the Icelandic adolescent blogosphere.
Journal article
2011
Íslensk dagblöð fyrir og eftir hrun.
2010
Frá flokksmiðlum til Fésbókar : boðskipti stjórnmálabaráttunnar fyrir sveitarstjórnakosningar 2010; Frá flokksmiðlum til Fésbókar. Boðskipti stjórnmálabaráttunnar fyrir sveitarstjórnakosningar 2010.
2010
Social responsibility and the freedom of the press.
Journal article
2010
Social responsibility and the freedom of the press.
2010
Stjórnlagaþing, fjölmiðlar og frambjóðendur. Rannsókn á kynningarmálum frambjóðenda fyrir stjórnlagaþingskosningar 2010.
Journal article
2009
Trust Derived From History - a Study of the Codes of Practice for News of the Icelandic Public Broadcasting Company, RUV.
Journal article
2008
Á sumarskóm í desember : Ísland í skýrslum austurþýsku öryggislögreglunnar Stasi.
Journal article
2007
Draumsalinn.
2007
Dómur fallinn! : Bubbadómur og áhrif hans á dagleg störf blaðamanna.
Journal article
2007
Fyrsta sjónvarp á Íslandi : sjónvarp á Akureyri 1934-1936.
Journal article
2007
Fyrsta sjónvarp á Íslandi : sjónvarp á Akureyri 1934-1936.
2007
Hrafnkell Lárusson. Í óræðri samtíð með óvissa framtíð. Íslensk sveitarblöð og samfélagsbreytingar um aldamótin 1900 [ritdómur].
Journal article
2007
Tilkoma ókeypis dagblaðs - breyttur veruleiki?
2007
Vettvangur draumanna.
2007
Íslenskir blaðamenn : sjónarmið handhafa blaðamannaskírteina 1-10 á 110 ára afmæli Blaðamannafélags Íslands.
Book
2007
Þjóðsöngurinn er víst skemmtilegur.
2006
The role of local media in sustaining viability in rural and smaller regional communities in Iceland.
2004
Miðjan er undir iljum þínum : héraðsfréttablöð & nærfjölmiðlun á nýrri öld.
Book
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