Publications

Scientific publications from the Bergen Media Use Research Group.

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

How people make sense of climate issues in the news (external link) (2025) Hallvard Moe, Brita Ytre-Arne og Solveig Høegh-Krohn

Climate Change Is an Intangible News Topic: A Qualitative Analysis of Audience Perceptions (external link) (2025) Solveig Høegh-Krohn, Håvard Haarstad og Brita Ytre-Arne

Embrace or leave social media? On the viability of public service media organizations’ strategies facing platform power (external link) (2024) Hallvard Moe

“I feel like a peasant among goddesses”: Digital disconnection as affect and process among Norwegian youth (external link)  (external link)(2024) Mehri S. Agai

The Impact of Climate Change on Lifestyle Journalism (external link) (2024) Dag Elgesem, Erik Knudsen & Kjersti Fløttum

Jürgen Habermas. Den nye offentligheten: Strukturendring og deliberativ politikk (external link) (2024) Hallvard Moe

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

Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations (external link) (2023) Hallvard Moe, Torgeir Uberg Nærland, Brita Ytre-Arne

Operationalizing distribution as a key concept for public sphere theory. A call for ethnographic sensibility of different social worlds (external link) (2023) Hallvard Moe

Growing out of overconnection: The process of dis/connecting among Norwegian and Portuguese teenagers (external link) (2023) - Ana Jorge, Mehri S. Agai and Leonor Cunha-Vas Martinho 

Polarisation and echo chambers? Making sense of the climate issue with social media in everyday life (external link) (2023) - Hallvard Moe, Synnøve Skarbø Lindtner og Brita Ytre-Arne 

Citizens´news use during Covid-19: Concerns about misinformation and reliance on local news in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.  (external link) (2023) - Brita Ytre-Arne og Hallvard Moe 

Monitoring the infection rate: Explaining the meaning of metrics in pandemic news experiences (external link) (2023) - John Magnus Ragnhildson Dahl og Brita Ytre-Arne 

Disconnectivity synced with identity cultivation: adolescent narratives of digital disconnection (external link)(2022) - Mehri S. Agai 

Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaption of Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM (external link)(2022) - Dag Skarstein og Synnøve Skarbø Lindtner 

"Det er ikke plass til alt på internett": algoritmestyrte forsider og redaksjonelle vurderinger (external link) (2022) - Marianne Brochgrevink-Brækhus

"Well, That´s Just My Opinion": The Principle of Expression and the Public Debate (external link) (2022) - Ida Vikøren Andersen 

Playful recognition: Televition comedy and the politics of mediated recognition (external link) (2022) - John Magnus Ragnhildson Dahl og Torgeir Uberg Nærland 

How the public understands news media trust: An open-ended approach (external link) (2021) - Erik Knudsen, Stefan Dahlberg og Silje Nygaard

Understanding digital disconnection beyond media studies (external link) (2021) - Hallvard Moe and Ole Jacob Madsen

Privacy, energy, time and moments stolen: Social media experiences pushing towards disconnection (external link) (2021) - Trine Syvertsen and Brita Ytre-Arne

Towards responsible media recommendation (external link) (2021) - Mehdi Elahi, Dietmar Jannach, Lars Skjærven, Erik Knudsen et al. 

Why so quiet? Exploring inhibition in digital public spaces (external link) (2021) - Hilde Sakariassen og Irene Costera Meijer

Women's emotion work on Facebook: Strategic use of emotions in public discourse (external link) (2021) - Hilde Sakariassen

Offentlighetens livsstiler: Om deltagere og tilskuere i norske medieoffentligheten  (external link)(2021) - Jan Fredrik Hovden

Towards a critical understanding of data visualisation in democracy: a deliberative systems approach (external link) (2021) - Torgeir Uberg Nærland and Martin Engebretsen 

Advancing digital disconnection research: Introduction to the special issue (external link) (2021) - Stine Lomborg and Brita Ytre-Arne

Doomscrolling, Monitoring and Avoiding: News Use in COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown (external link) (2021) - Brita Ytre-Arne and Hallvard Moe

Intrusive media and knowledge work: how knowledge workers negotiate digital media norms in the pursuit of focused work (external link) (2021) - Faltin Karlsen and Brita Ytre-Arne

Nordic journalists’ conceptual roles and perceived influences - A European and inter-Nordic comparison (external link) (2021) - Jan Fredrik Hovden and Jari Väliverronen

Class and everyday media use: A case study from Norway (external link)(2021) - Jan Fredrik Hovden and Lennart Rosenlund

"Dårlige borgere? Arbeiderklassen i den moderne offentligheten." I Ljunggren og Nordli Hansen Arbeiderklassen. (external link) Oslo: Cappelen Damm. (2021) - Jan Fredrik Jovden 

How the public understands news media trust: An open-ended approach (external link)(2021) - Erik Knudsen, Stefan Dahlberg, Magnus Iversen, Mikeal Johannesson and Silje Nygaard 

Hostility online: Flaming, trolling, and the public debate (external link) (2021) - Ida Vikøren Andersen

The Democratic Significance of Everyday News Use: Using Diaries to Understand Public Connection over Time and beyond Journalism (external link) (2021) Hallvard Moe og Brita Ytre-Arne. 

From Wanderers to Strangers. The shifting space of Scandinavian immigration debate 1970–2016 (external link) (2020) - Jan Fredrik Hovden

Instead of the deliberative debate: How the principle of expression plays out in the news-generated Facebook discussion. (external link) (2020) - Ida V. Andersen

Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities (external link) (2020) - Brita Ytre-Arne, Trine Syvertsen, Hallvard Moe og Faltin Karlsen

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

Populism and popular culture: a case for identity-oriented research. In Krämer, B. & Holtz-Bacha, C. (eds) Perspectives on populism and the media. (2020) (external link) - Torgeir U. Nærland

Skriftlig protokolanalyse. Kapittel i Retorik og metode (2020) (external link) - Jens E. Kjeldsen, Eirik Vatnøy og Ida V. Andersen 


Affective Polarization in Multiparty Systems? Comparing Affective Polarization Towards Voters and Parties in Norway and the United States (external link) (2020) - Erik Knudsen 

Disentangling the Influence of Recommender Attributes and News-Story Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment on Exposure and Sharing Decisions on Social Networking Sites  (external link)(2020) - Mikael Poul Johannesson og Erik Knudsen  

Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective (external link) (2020) - Brita Ytre-Arne og Ranjana Das

Enabling Cultural Policies? Culture, Capabilities and Citizenship (external link) (2020) - Torgeir U. NærlandJan Fredrik Hovden og Hallvard Moe

Methods for datafication, datafication of methods (external link) (2020) - Stine Lomborg, Lina Dencik og Hallvard Moe

Deliberative Systems Theory and Citizens’ Use of Online Media (external link) (2020) - Cathrine Holst og Hallvard Moe 

Last updated: 13.06.2025