My PhD-project is on digital disconnection and social inequalities among adolescents. The main objective is to understand for whom digital disconnection pertains; a core question being whether digital disconnection is a prevalent phenomenon across the social space or limited to the privileged. I also seek to understand what digital disconnection entails from the perspective of adolescents, including their strategies for disconnection, by using mainly qualitative research methods. 

The PhD-project is part of a larger Digitox-project: a collaboration between multiple research institutions that build on interdisciplinary insights from media studies, game studies and psychology to analyse digital disconnection and questions pertaining to the extensive uses of digital media in society.

Interview

• Agai, Mehri (2024). Unge vil ha pause fra skjermene. . (external link)
• Agai, Mehri (2024). Bruker Twitter-kopien Mastodon i stedet for Instagram og Facebook.. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri (2024). Forskerne er uenige: Bør aldersgrensen på sosiale medier økes?. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri (2024). Følelser og mental distansering fra sosiale medier. . (external link)
• Agai, Mehri (2024). Økende skjermbruk blant unge: Syver Johnsen i Ålesund bruker mobilen ni timer daglig.. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri (2023). Bytter ut smarttelefonen med "dumtelefon". (external link)
• Agai, Mehri (2023). Phubbing: telefonterroren folk begynner å få nok av. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri (2023). La solución de un colegio contra los móviles está en un sobre cerrado: ‘Ahora ya no tenemos que confiscar teléfonos’. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri (2023). Ukult å scrolle på mobilen?. (external link)
• Shekh Agai, Mehri (2022). Har ikke smarttelefon: - Det gir meg ingenting. Intervju, NRK P3 20.03 (MA). (external link)
• Shekh Agai, Mehri (2022). Ungdom som velger digital frakobling. Intervju, Helgemorgen NRK P2. 27.03. (MA). (external link)
• Agai, Mehri Shekh (2021). Skjermbruk og digital frakobling. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri Shekh (2021). Ingvil brukte ni timer på sosiale medier hver dag - så sa det stopp. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri Shekh (2021). Ungdom må få mindre pes for at de er (mye) på mobilen. Det mener en som forsker på frakobling og digital detox. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri Shekh (2021). Guro (23) har truffet flere hundre fra Bergen: - Jeg fikk sjokk da jeg skjønte alt de har sett på sosiale medier. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri Shekh (2020). Tilkoblet, men ikke tilstede. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri Shekh (2020). Slutta å følgje påverkarar, fekk det betre . (external link)

Lecture

• Shekh Agai, Mehri (2024). "Peeling back the layers: The onion model of youth’s digital disconnection explored through digital diaries". (external link)
• Shekh Agai, Mehri (2024). The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection.. (external link)
• Shekh Agai, Mehri (2024). Skjermens makt: Hvem har makt over tida di?. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri (2024). Skadelig innhold og farer: Hvordan beskytter vi barn på nett?. (external link)
• Spjeldnæs, Kari J.; Shekh Agai, Mehri (2022). Balancing digital connectivity from adolescence into the sixties. (external link)
• Syvertsen, Trine; Spjeldnæs, Kari J.; Shekh Agai, Mehri (2022). ICA Preconference: Digital Disconnection Studies Beyond Borders. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri Shekh (2021). Digital disconnection for whom?. (external link)
• Agai, Mehri Shekh (2021). Digital disconnection for whom? Global and social inequalities. (external link)

Academic article

• Jorge, Ana; Shekh Agai, Mehri; Dias, Patrícia et al. (2023). Growing out of overconnection: The process of dis/connecting among Norwegian and Portuguese teenagers. (external link)
• Bye, Hege Høivik; Solianik, Vera; Five, Martine et al. (2022). Stereotypes of Women and Men Across Gender Subgroups. (external link)
• Shekh Agai, Mehri (2022). Disconnectivity synced with identity cultivation: Adolescent narratives of digital disconnection. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Agai, Mehri Shekh; Spjeldnæs, Kari J. (2022). "Balancing digital connectivity in everyday life". (external link)
• Spjeldnæs, Kari J.; Agai, Mehri Shekh (2022). "The Beyond Border Perspectives in Balancing Digital Connectivity in Everyday Life". (external link)

Interview Journal

• Agai, Mehri Shekh (2021). Forsker frikjenner unges høye skjermbruk - Ikke alle kan kutte ut mobilen. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

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Academic lecture
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Conference paper

"Digitox: Intrusive media, ambivalent users, and digital detox". Research project (2019-2023) led by Trine Syvertsen, funded by the Norwegian Research Council. https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/digital-disconnection/