Books

The most recent English-language books from Bergen Media Use Group.

Teen Boys and their Smartphones as Worldmaking Devices (2025)

What is it like to be a young man in the age of the smartphone? John Magnus Dahl's book is based on long-term ethnographic work, and shows how the phone is an important tool for creating the kind of social relationships boys see as important, and thus a way to increase freedom and agency in their own lives.

Media Use in Digital Everyday Life (2023)

Our everyday lives have changed since we got smartphones, but what has changed, and how? In this book, Professor Brita Ytre-Arne explores what has happened to the ways we navigate and structure our daily lives.

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Last updated: 17.09.2025