Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Ytre-Arne, Brita"
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Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue
Lomborg, Stine; Ytre-Arne, Brita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Over the past decade, scholarly interest in “digital disconnection” and related concepts has grown in media and communication studies, and in related disciplines. The idea of digital disconnection explicitly references ... -
Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective
Ytre-Arne, Brita; Das, Ranjana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article develops a conceptualization of audience agency in the face of datafication. We consider how people, as audiences and users of media and technologies, face transforming communicative conditions, and how these ... -
Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump
Moe, Hallvard; Ytre-Arne, Brita; Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article investigates sense-making processes of news audiences when faced with destabilizing global events. The destabilizing event is Trump’s 2016 election win, which we study from the perspective of audiences far ... -
Citizens’ news use during Covid-19 Concerns about misinformation and reliance on local news in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden
Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (Chapter, 2023)This chapter analyses how citizens in four Nordic countries navigated the complex information environment during the Covid-19 pandemic, where news from various sources mixed with abundant information across digital platforms. ... -
The Democratic Significance of Everyday News Use: Using Diaries to Understand Public Connection over Time and beyond Journalism
Moe, Hallvard; Ytre-Arne, Brita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article argues that journalism scholars should strive to understand the democratic significance of everyday news use, and that such an interest requires us to tackle some methodological and conceptual challenges. We ... -
Doomscrolling, Monitoring and Avoiding: News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown
Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper analyzes news use during the COVID-19 pandemic, asking how people balance between conflicting needs for information and disconnection in an extraordinary situation. We analyze empirical data from a qualitative ... -
Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation
Ytre-Arne, Brita; Moe, Hallvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article draws on the framework of “folk theories” to analyze how people perceive algorithms in the media. Taking algorithms as a prime case to investigate how people respond to datafication in everyday media use, we ... -
Intrusive media and knowledge work: how knowledge workers negotiate digital media norms in the pursuit of focused work
Karlsen, Faltin; Ytre-Arne, Brita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article analyses how knowledge workers experience and reflect upon intrusions from digital media in the pursuit of focused work. As a multitude of digital media technologies have become integral to working life, ... -
Kvalitativt metodeverksted: Studentaktiv metodelæring for ferske bachelorstudenter i medievitenskap
Ytre-Arne, Brita (UPED-skrift, Working paper, 2017)Rapporten omhandler en intervensjon i undervisningen i kvalitativ metode på bachelorgraden i medievitenskap. Undervisningen ble lagt om ved at mesteparten av tradisjonelle forelesninger og veiledningsmøter ble erstattet ... -
Mammaforum som politisk debattarena. En analyse av nettdebatt om velferdsstaten
Ytre-Arne, Brita (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Motherhood forums as arenas for political debate – An analysis of online discussions about the welfare state. This article analyses online debate in a popular Norwegian discussion forum for mothers, a forum in which ... -
Media use in changing everyday life: How biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection
Ytre-Arne, Brita (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article analyses how changing life situations affect media use, conceptualized as a question of how biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection. To answer this question, the ... -
Media Use in Digital Everyday Life
Ytre-Arne, Brita (Book; Peer reviewed, 2023) -
Medierepertoar i forandring - da koronapandemien kom til Norge
Syvertsen, Trine; Ytre-Arne, Brita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Nedstengingen 12 mars 2020 førte med seg drastiske endringer i hverdagsliv og mediebruk. Basert på en kvalitativ undersøkelse med 552 respondenter, analyserer artikkelen endringer i medierepertoar i de første dramatiske ... -
Monitoring the infection rate: Explaining the meaning of metrics in pandemic news experiences
Dahl, John Magnus Ragnhildson; Ytre-Arne, Brita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forward questions of what citizens need and want from journalism in a global crisis. In this article, we analyse one particular aspect of pandemic news experiences: Preoccupation with ... -
Polarisation and echo chambers? Making sense of the climate issue with social media in everyday life
Moe, Hallvard; Lindtner, Synnøve Skarsbø; Ytre-Arne, Brita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article analyses how people use social media to make sense of climate change, exploring climate issues as part of everyday communication in media-saturated societies. Building on prominent themes in the environmental ... -
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations
Moe, Hallvard; Nærland, Torgeir Uberg; Ytre-Arne, Brita (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This short paper discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations, contributing with a sequential typology outlining the three phases ritual check-in, shocked immersion and regained ... -
Sportsrettigheter og kringkasting - En analyse av TV 2s fotballsatsing
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Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities
Moe, Hallvard; Ytre-Arne, Brita; Syvertsen, Trine; Karlsen, Faltin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article explores implications of the central position of the smartphone in an age of constant connectivity. Based on a qualitative study of 50 informants, we ask how users experience and handle temporal ambivalences ... -
Women’s magazines and their readers. Experiences, identity and everyday life
Ytre-Arne, Brita (Doctoral thesis, 2012-02-24)In this thesis I explore women's magazine reading as a media experience. I ask how regularreaders of women's magazines experience these publications, and how these experiences canbe related to readers’ everyday lives and ...