Prof. Brita Ytre-Arne

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title = {Monitoring the infection rate: Explaining the meaning of metrics in pandemic news experiences},

author = {John Magnus Ragnhildson Dahl and Brita Ytre-Arne},

url = {https://mediafutures.no/john-magnus-and-brita/},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-03},

journal = {Journalism },

abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forward questions of what citizens need and want from journalism in a global crisis. In this article, we analyse one particular aspect of pandemic news experiences: Preoccupation with monitoring metrics for COVID-19 infection cases, hospitalisations, and deaths, widely disseminated through journalistic news outlets. We ask why close monitoring of such metrics appeared meaningful to news users, and what these experiences can tell us about the role of journalism in the pandemic information environment. Our analysis draws on qualitative research conducted in Norway in 2020, finding users particularly devoted to monitoring metrics, both in early lockdown and during the second wave of COVID-19. To contextualize our findings, we draw on scholarship on emotional responses to data in the everyday, and on the social role of journalism. We argue that monitoring of infection rates is an expression of trust in the media as a provider of factual information, also expressed by those who are cynical towards other aspects of journalism, and we conceptualise this monitoring practice as a coping strategy to deal with the pandemic as an unknown and uncontrollable threat, involving difficult emotions of uncertainty and fear.},

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@article{Arne2020,

title = {Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation},

author = {Brita Ytre-Arne and Hallvard Moe},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-12-31},

journal = {Media, Culture & Society},

series = {TEST},

note = {Pre SFI},

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@article{Arne2020b,

title = {Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities.},

author = {Brita Ytre-Arne and Trine Syvertsen and Hallvard Moe and Faltin Karlsen },

url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1461444820913561},

doi = {10.1177/1461444820913561},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-09-03},

journal = {New Media and Society},

volume = {22},

number = {9},

pages = {1715–1732},

abstract = {This article explores implications of the central position of the smartphone in an age of constant connectivity. Based on a qualitative study of 50 informants, we ask how users experience and handle temporal ambivalences in everyday smartphone use, drawing on the concepts flow and responsibilization to conceptualize central dimensions of such ambivalences. The notion of conflicting flows illuminates how brief checking cycles expand at the expense of other activities, resulting in a temporal conflict experienced by users. Responsibilization points to how users take individual responsibility for managing such conflicting flows, and to how this practice is difficult and conflict-ridden. We conclude that while individual time management is often framed as the solution to temporal conflicts, such attempts at regulating smartphone use appear inadequate. Our conceptualization of temporal ambivalence offers a more nuanced understanding of why this is the case.},

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@article{Arne2020c,

title = {Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective.},

author = {Brita Ytre-Arne and Ranjana Das},

url = {https://watermark.silverchair.com/qtaa018.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAtAwggLMBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK9MIICuQIBADCCArIGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM-cFhCl8ql-5yUsJoAgEQgIICg0JoOiOVaCIdOstGjiiVpYuTKzqRfP7Hb1L0JBUB7TMpOQ5ya4v7afXtJvvTasi126A8qHSxK2rDZfeWFajUD34XXIbXVfimKI-a7-dZNYNjF6xn9p5OzsBABo10PuVtS5bHE4B3RSURKpRgGKXIyem7o-HzoTgKWKxJjRuOEVJNX4XjUC9-D9C7f8n3BItvYkMJqiX8NRSmuM3MI1MmhCjjtrUEOaURe-mCNKonobiYtkdoywElD9W7SG0ZQg9nigzcJmEH36Rbf3jzaGMMQhOsTv0NCAFwm52wxxeqt1jlSX6GmjMPmwTTmhZNGPE-sD0j3VZEfzqZNb5RqOBv2tih20z3kz2mBAU_25OlUThhSQ_G9-dNMVfVsuKMbo6TnS8EUotKdlWDmmenYUmQdHFx6KHA2mFn3j0AYyqz9Kolc2HeSSu4JJhZMZGHIUkNVC5c-GPPCzpO4D5pCT3pNw2d4mK037ziOWPOKcr29Ak2sJlQ05rcn4NovqBWrNIeRQRuhlVyNI7nr7bIXXFMwogvhFttUt3IxH68cYD6nNQ1Gbtl2BwygLseOwrwZA_6irZcqueVtAwqzMchowERFcKR8gMPKyDiDGPfbbKMNvqeHeIvemaQSLnfLM7Lfj9-OYtxOgF6CxZTrbOcCTUVpnvwTIZO1Oq2amSRBEb2lCORDiegqrxTitstUZ141VXW5bId94vwLuZqPoYA58nNcF0_2WzAOB69owF5B7D_ofDUTA2tBAhuvcvwKpAB5t_bhLDscuVfVGcYi5azd06oQ9PJWPV5EigzleuyHR57_cVyPpYkXe-PimZJ6iZzEhnmYZE0v9A_9F2LYm9dwfEryznsCog},

doi = {10.1093/ct/qtaa018},

issn = {1050–3293},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-08-24},

journal = {Communication Theory},

volume = {0},

number = {C},

pages = {1-19},

abstract = {This article develops a conceptualization of audience agency in the face of datafication. We consider how people, as audiences and users of media and technologies, face transforming communicative conditions, and how these conditions challenge the power potentials of audiences in processes of communication—that is, their communicative agency. To develop our conceptualization, we unpack the concept of audiences’ communicative agency by examining its foundations in communication scholarship, in reception theory and sociology, arguing that agency is understood as interpretative and relational, and applied to make important normative assessments. We further draw on emerging scholarship on encounters with data in the everyday to discuss how audience agency is now challenged by datafication, arguing that communicative agency is increasingly prospective in a datafied age. Thereby, we provide a theoretical conceptualization for further analysis of audiences in transforming communicative conditions.},

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@article{Arne2018,

title = {Approximately Informed, Occasionally Monitorial? Reconsidering Normative Citizen Ideals.},

author = {Brita Ytre-Arne and Hallvard Moe},

url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1940161218771903},

doi = {10.1177/1940161218771903},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-04-27},

journal = {International Journal of Press/Politics},

volume = {23},

number = {2},

pages = {227–246},

abstract = {This article identifies gaps between normative ideals and realistic accounts of news use in democracy today. Starting from the widespread but unrealistic ideal of the informed citizen, and its more realistic development through notions of the monitorial citizen, we analyze comprehensive qualitative data on news users’ experiences. We describe these news users as approximately informed, occasionally monitorial. This description emphasizes the limited, shifting, and partial figurations of societal information that citizens are able to obtain through their use of journalistic and social media, and thereby challenges normative ideals. How do monitorial ideals function when the citizens are only occasionally on guard? By zooming in on three key gaps between even a less demanding ideal and actual practices in news use, we underline the need to further reconceptualize our expectations of citizens’ news use.},

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