Oyvind Okland (ICS)

Bergtorasvei 1

4633 KRISTIANSAND

00-47-47641847

Oyvind.okland@mediehogskolen.no

EDUCATION

Trinity Evangelical International University, PhD, “Globalization, Media and Youth Culture: Young people in Vennesla, Norway between the local and the global.”

University of Bergen, Norway, MA in Philosophy, 1986

WARDS, HONORS, ACHIEVEMENTS

2009 Project director for”Young Somalian immigrants in Kristiansand in Norway”, funded by the Council for Applied Media Research

2007 Supervisor for 4 Master theses in Journalism at University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE

Missiology, Social Science, Media Science, Journalism, Intercultural Communication.

SIGNIFICANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication, Assistant Professor, 1998-present

Danvik Folk High School, Principal/Academic Dean 1996-1998  

Wycliffe Bible Translators Norway, Director, 1987-1996.

Nordborg High School, Teacher, 1984-1987

PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

2009, “President Obama as a symbol of globalization”, a  chronicle in Fædrelandsvennen.

2008, "Intercultural Communication in Mission: a Tool or a Goal? Missionary  Methodology in View of Developments in Intercultural Communication" in Missions to the World:  Communi-nicating the Gospel in the 21^st Century. Essays in Honor of Knud Jørgensen. Oxford: Regnum.

2008, "Youth in Ghana between the local and the global" paper presented at the Nordic Youth Research presentation at the NYRIS conference in Lillehammer, Norway.

2005, “Lutaburger: Digitally Based Intercultural Communication Between Students in Norway and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities”, Presentation at a “Realizing student Potential Conference”, at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.

2003, “Vennesla  youth in tension between the local and the global”. Presentations at the Nordic Intercultural Conference in Kristiansand.

2001, “Analysis of Dialogue”, in www.strategicnetwork.org

2001, “The Internet & the Quest for universal Information Access”, in

International Communication Bulletin, 3-4, p 32-43.

1995, “Linguistics and Bible Translation” in Language News, No 3.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Nordic Media Researcy Society,  2003-present, Nordic Intercultural Conference, 2001-present

FACULTY REFERENCES

Dr.Robert J.Priest, Director ICS;  Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Dr.Lars Dahle, Principal Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication