Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Ytre-Arne, Brita"

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 ...

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 ...