Brita Ytre-Arne
Media studies professor, University of Bergen. News avoidance, technology in everyday life, media and climate change, qualitative methods. OA book: Media Use in Digital Everyday Life. emerald.com/insight/publication…
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneInterested in joining a vibrant hub for research on human and societal consequences of digital communication and datafication? We're hiring a new TT assistant professor at Center for Tracking & Society in Copenhagen: jobportal.ku.dk/tenure-track...
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneNew @ijoc-usc.bsky.social CFP on Distributed Citizenship! How do we share democratic chores across platforms, networks and infrastructures? www4.uib.no/en/research/... Timeline: ✏️Abstracts: 15 Dec 2025 🏛️Workshop in Bergen (March 2026) 📝Papers: 31 May 2026 #commsky #polisky
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneWhat is it like to be a young man in the age of the smartphone? 📱👨 Book launch with John Magnus Dahl 5.Sept at @sfimediafutures.bsky.social! @britaytrearne.bsky.social @erikknudsen.bsky.social @ozlemtonnesen.bsky.social @emiliestronen.bsky.social @hildesak.bsky.social www.uib.no/en/infomedia...
- We are hiring a postdoc! Looking for a scholar interested in doing qualitative research on news experiences and perceptions of AI, to join the Imagine project and Media use research group in Bergen #CommSky
- 🚨 Postdoc opportunity in Bergen! Join the IMAGINE project to explore how Norwegians experience AI in media. Qualitative case study, critical perspectives, and a great research team including @britaytrearne.bsky.social & @erikknudsen.bsky.social awaits! 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadl: 7.8
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneWhat does #LocalNews have to do with #parenting and raising #children? Our brand 🆕 paper from The Leverhulme Trust #news #use study shows #parents use local news as anchors ⚓️, escape 🪜, as a lens 🔭, and news use as a site of parenting labour 🧑🧑🧒🧒. #OpenAccess now journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneInterested in vulnerability in research on datafied media experiences, digital societies & algorithms? Join our seminar on Digital Vulnerabilities on April 3rd! Organized by @janniehartley.bsky.social & @hildesak.bsky.social, host: @britaytrearne.bsky.social 's MUCS project #commsky
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneDet er 8. mars og jeg er inne for å minne kvinner på at det pågår et arbeid for å gi deg mer arbeid. Bak ideer om "sløsing" og "effektivisering" rigges det til at du skal få deg en stadig større ubetalt deltidsjobb, der du utstyres med gaffateip og blir overlatt til å redde velferdstaten med DYI
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneWe #standupforscience2025 at the University of Bergen! Look how many people showed up just at a couple hours notice. To our colleagues in the USA: we support you and we hope you have courage to show up for today's demonstrations for science all over the USA and the world: standupforscience2025.org
- From our research on news experiences, Hallvard Moe and I have a book contract with @brisunipress.bsky.social to write "Too much news: Understanding information overload in digital society". We will discuss news in the attention economy, in the permacrisis, and in everyday life. Forthcoming in 2026.
- Kjekt med positiv omtale av metodeboken vår i Norsk medietidsskrift! "Metoder for å forstå mediebruk" er tilgjengelig fra Universitetsforlaget til en ok pris, og klar for pensumlister og for store og små prosjekter.
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- Reposted by Brita Ytre-Arne- Når klima gjennomsyrer «alt» kan det føles overbelastende og forvirrende, og det blir vanskelig å gripe hva saken egentlig handler om, sier min kollega Solveig om klimanyheter. Ny forskning fra MUCS-prosjektet! @britaytrearne.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social
- Publication news: We analyzed how Norwegian audiences perceive climate change as a news topic, and found intangibility: Climate change is less integrated in news habits, and lacking demarcations and spatiotemporal grounding. Out now in Environmental Communication! @uibcet.bsky.social #CommSky
- In the next phase of the study, we used real and recent examples of climate news with different anchoring and visuals, to explore sensemaking in depth. Also out today, in Journalism! #CommSky @solveighk.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social
- New article on how news experiences resonate in everyday life, from my good colleague Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus, now out in Journalism! #CommSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneHow audiences follow news on climate change? This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Read here: buff.ly/4jwvTNG 7 findings in thread
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-Arne" #DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies", edited by @janniehartley.bsky.social et al., is an excellent book about the ways data practices shape society and the constellations of people in it. #AskeXmas 12/24 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/datapublics
- Congratulations to @profranjanadas.bsky.social on this brilliant book which is officially out in the world today! #CommSky
- It’s publication day!! Thrilled that my new monograph - #Parents talking #Algorithms: Navigating #Datafication and #Family life in #Digital societies is now published. Thanks to the fab testimonial writers and to BUP! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/parenting-in...
- Still a few days left to apply! ✨
- Interested in perceptions of AI? We are hiring a PhD candidate for our new project IMAGINE, to work with @erikknudsen.bsky.social on citizen panel data. Fully funded, good working conditions and a supportive research environment in beautiful Bergen! #CommSky
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneThe first entry in #AskeXmas: "The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection", edited by @krisalbris.bsky.social, @annekaun.bsky.social, and others. A whole book about the cultural pushback against the thorough digitalization of modern life. www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publicati... 1/24
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-Arne'Tis the season to be wiser. Bringing back a tradition, I'll do an #AdventCalendar with one piece of freely available media/comm/journalism research each day until Christmas. I'll try to keep it relevant behond the academy. Hashtag (to follow or block): #AskeXmas 0/24
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneWe’re organising a PhD summer school at the Centre for Digital Narrative here in Bergen (@cdn-bergen.bsky.social) 10-14th June - here’s some early info, the full call for participation will be out by December 20th! www.uib.no/en/cdn/17442...
- Tomorrow Mehri Agai will defend her PhD thesis on digital ambivalence amongst youth. The thesis includes four papers that develop different perspectives on digital disconnection. Looking forward to listening to inspiring discussions! academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneUnique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️ Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social. Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile. 📆: deadline February 17! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneWhy do journalists migrate from X to Bluesky? That's the research question I want to answer. Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min. Everyone, please share the link. Thanks! forms.office.com/e/34znxF45rG
- Reposting the starter pack of starter packs for new media scholars arriving!
- 👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬 Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4uat://did:plc:dh43h45aumaaa4wxzejvfbaj/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lajeqrmaxo2m
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- Interested in perceptions of AI? We are hiring a PhD candidate for our new project IMAGINE, to work with @erikknudsen.bsky.social on citizen panel data. Fully funded, good working conditions and a supportive research environment in beautiful Bergen! #CommSky
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneMany are overwhelmed by the amount of news. But when we asked 270 media leaders globally, more said that their company's focus is on maximising attention than being respectful of their audience's time. From our annual Trends and Predictions report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-m...
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-Arne👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬 Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4uat://did:plc:dh43h45aumaaa4wxzejvfbaj/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lajeqrmaxo2m
- Reposted by Brita Ytre-ArneI've started building an eclectic starter pack of accounts that make the internet a happy, fun, inspiring place - but I need your help! Please reply with your favourite curated accounts - from farming to found photos, obscure etymology, music & LGBTQ history - I'm not fussy. go.bsky.app/NkKNkeLat://did:plc:ykqs3q3k6ruazpy2rshlenqz/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lazbwpdahq2p
- Join our friendly and supportive research environment in Bergen, Norway, to research perceptions of AI in media. Please tell students looking for a fully funded PhD with salary and good conditions! #CommSky
- Vacancy! Our friends in Bergen are looking for a PhD candidate for the Citizen Perceptions of AI in Everyday Media Life project. It's a 3-yrs position focused on surveys. It's in the company of @britaytrearne.bsky.social and others. It's *good". Deadline: Dec 10. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
- What do people really think about AI, and how are perceptions changing as new technologies become part of everyday media experiences? So happy that The Research Council of Norway will support our new project IMAGINE, looking into folk theories of AI over the next four years. #CommSky
- I am at #ECREA2024 in Ljubljana and it is just so nice to meet people! I presented on news satiation this morning, and my colleagues will present tomorrow from our study on how people make sense of climate change news.
- Disconnection scholars and others interested in digital media have been waiting for this one: The Digital Backlash anthology is out! Fully open access, with work by excellent people! #CommSky
- The Journalism Studies special issue “Understanding News Avoidance: Paradoxes, Problems, and Priorities” is finally out! Introduction by @kimandersen.bsky.social @benjamintoff.bsky.social & me, and 10 original resarch articles by excellent authors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjos20/2... #CommSky
- In the intro, we present a systematic review of existing research and discuss what we (don't) know about news avoidance @kimandersen.bsky.social @benjamintoff.bsky.social #CommSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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