My postdoctoral project, conducted within the MUCS project, investigates the experiences of individuals with limited digital technology proficiency. In a society where many services are digitalised, it is important to understand how such users, particularly older adults, organise their daily lives, access information, and participate in societal activities. This research explores the experience and implications of being on the verge of digital exclusion. I employ ethnographic methods to gain insight into the perspectives of those who are marginalised by ongoing digital societal developments.

In 2022, I defended my doctoral thesis, ‘Social network sites as arenas for public discourse: perception, participation and experience’, which examined how social media is experienced as public arenas and how users perceive both their own and others’ participation. This research was affiliated with the MeCIn project, which culminated in the publication of Informed Citizens? Media Use, Democracy and Public Attachment.

2025

• Hilde Sakariassen (2025). Multidimensional digital vulnerability among older adults. (external link)

2017

• Hilde Sakariassen (2017). Søker faste nyhetssider/Nettavis trumfer google. (external link)
• Hilde Sakariassen; Brita Ytre-Arne (2017). Mer enn ekkokamre og falske nyheter. (external link)
• Hilde Sakariassen; Hallvard Moe; Jan Fredrik Hovden (2017). Nyhetsbruk i rask endring. (external link)
• Hilde Sakariassen (2017). Why Norwegian media lead the world in digital subscriptions. (external link)
• Hilde Sakariassen (2017). Why so quiet: Exploring self-censorship in and silence in the digital public sphere. (external link)

2019

• Hallvard Moe; Jan Fredrik Hovden; Brita Ytre-Arne et al. (2019). Informerte borgere? Offentlig tilknytning, mediebruk og demokrati. (external link)

2023

• Hilde Sakariassen (2023). USER EXPERIENCE OF ONLINE SPACES FOR INEXPERIENCED OLDER ADULTS (ONLINE). (external link)

2024

• Hilde Sakariassen; Brita Ytre-Arne (2024). Transferred expectations of human presence: Folk theories among older adults who are inexperienced users of online services. (external link)

2021

• Hilde Sakariassen (2021). Women's emotion work on Facebook: Strategic use of emotions in public discourse. (external link)
• Hilde Sakariassen; Irene Costera Meijer (2021). Why so quiet? Exploring inhibition in digital public spaces. (external link)

2022

• Gudmund Ågotnes; Anne Karin Larsen; Inger Helen Midtgård et al. (2022). Symposium: Kollektiv mobilisering og kollektive arbeidsformer. Profesjoner og praksis i møte med nye samfunnsutfordringer.. (external link)
• Hilde Sakariassen (2022). Facebook as a public arena for women: infringing on democratic ideals and a cause of worry. (external link)

2020

• Hilde Sakariassen (2020). A digital public sphere: Just in theory or a perceived reality for users of social network sites?. (external link)

2018

• Hilde Sakariassen (2018). A digital public sphere; just a theory, or perceived reality for users of social media?. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.