Torgeir Uberg Nærland
Biographic Data
| ID | 319002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Torgeir Uberg Nærland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Torgeir Uberg |
| FAMILY NAME | Nærland |
| SIGNATURE | NÆRLAND T U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8802-7501 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Media poverty: Understanding mediated public connection in everyday conditions of deprivation
This article is concerned with how life in poverty affects people’s possibility to enact citizenship through their use of the media. More specifically, it examines the varying preconditions for impoverished citizen’s mediated public connection. Whereas empirical studies into this area are few overall, conceptual approaches have a limited grasp on the many-faceted nature of poverty-induced disconnection and its embeddedness in everyday life. This …
News Avoidance and Poverty: Intersectional Marginalization in the Norwegian “Media Welfare State”
Based on interviews with 41 informants, this article presents an analysis of whether, how and why everyday news use is constrained by everyday conditions of poverty in the "media welfare state" of Norway.While prior news avoidance studies indicate that socioeconomically disadvantaged citizens are among the groups in society who use little or no news daily, the relationship between news media habits and precarious life conditions is largely unexpl…
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations
This short paper discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations, contributing with a sequential typology outlining the three phases ritual check-in, shocked immersion and regained stability. Theoretically, we draw on classical contributions to media studies and sociology, particularly the concepts of ritual communication and ontological security. Empirically, we build on qualitative interview studies with …
Towards a critical understanding of data visualisation in democracy: A deliberative systems approach
Data and data visualisations – in the forms of graphs, charts and maps – are becoming an increasingly important feature of social, public and political life. Yet within existing scholarship, the democratic significance of data visualisations has thus far received minimal attention. This article offers a first systematic attempt to make sense of and scrutinise the role of data visualisation in democracy. We apply deliberative systems theory in the…
Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment
From pleasure to politics: Five functions of watching TV-series for public connection
This article addresses the question of how engagement with fictional entertainment can enable audiences to function as citizens. It argues that existing theoretical perspectives assume spurious links between the use of fictional entertainment and politics. This article mobilizes the theoretical perspective of public connection to show how audience’s engagement with fictional entertainment can forge manifest links to the sphere of politics. The ar…
Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump
This article investigates sense-making processes of news audiences when faced with destabilizing global events. The destabilizing event is Trump’s 2016 election win, which we study from the perspective of audiences far removed: in the Nordic region. Asking how we can understand shifts in the balance between the informational and ritual aspects of news over time, we study how journalism matters when ordinary practices are suddenly uprooted, and in…
Fictional Entertainment and Public Connection: Audiences and the Everyday Use of TV-series
This study explores how audience’s everyday use of fictional entertainment may facilitate public connection. Whereas the public connection perspective thus far primarily has been employed in the study of audience’s use of factual media, this study, first, conceptually updates the notion of public connection and develops a framework sensitized to capture the significance also of audience’s use of TV-series. Second, based on large-scale qualitative…
Altogether now? Symbolic recognition, musical media events and the forging of civic bonds among minority youth in Norway
Drawing upon interviews with a group of minority youth in Norway, this study argues that recognition theory offers a valuable yet neglected perspective through which we can identify and understand key social and civic dimensions of minority audiences’ media reception. Empirically, the study concentrates on the reception of musical media events in which hip hop artists and performances were prominent. Through empirical examples, this article illus…
Colonising the academy? Organisational mediatisation and public research institutions in Norway
Public research institutions increasingly find themselves operating in a media environment. At the same time there is a growing body of research finding that public institutions and organisations are undergoing processes of mediatisation, which potentially threaten their autonomy. Based on interviews with communication staff at six major Norwegian universities and research centres, this study explores the extent to which these institutions have a…
From Musical Expressivity to Public Political Discourse Proper: The Case of Karpe Diem in the Aftermath of the Utøya Massacre
Musical communication is widely understood to be too elusive and abstract to have any discernible significance for political public discourse. However, in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre there have been several instances where hip hop music and performances have been subjected to politicised debate in the Norwegian public sphere. Based on a qualitative case study of the media reception of the Norwegian hip hop group Karpe Diem, this study fin…
Rhythm, rhyme and reason: Hip Hop Expressivity as Political Discourse
Using Norwegian hip hop as an example, this article argues that public sphere theory offers a fruitful theoretical framework in which to understand the political significance of music. Based on a musical and lyrical analysis of Lars Vaular's 'Kem Skjøt Siv Jensen' (Who Shot Siv Jensen) - a song that recently became the subject of extensive public political discourse in Norway - this article first highlights how the aesthetic language specific to …
Documentary in a Culture of Clearance: A Study of Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Copyright and Fair Use Among Norwegian Documentary Makers
Copyright law is a mechanism for regulation of production and dissemination of cultural products. In documentary storytelling, reuse of copyrighted material such as footage and music is of great importance. This requires filmmakers to get permission from right holders, obtain a license, or invoke fair use under copyright law. As most documentarians must handle copyright issues in production, copyright law is influencing the practice of documentar…
Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment
Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump
This article investigates sense-making processes of news audiences when faced with destabilizing global events. The destabilizing event is Trump’s 2016 election win, which we study from the perspective of audiences far removed: in the Nordic region. Asking how we can understand shifts in the balance between the informational and ritual aspects of news over time, we study how journalism matters when ordinary practices are suddenly uprooted, and in…
Fictional Entertainment and Public Connection: Audiences and the Everyday Use of TV-series
This study explores how audience’s everyday use of fictional entertainment may facilitate public connection. Whereas the public connection perspective thus far primarily has been employed in the study of audience’s use of factual media, this study, first, conceptually updates the notion of public connection and develops a framework sensitized to capture the significance also of audience’s use of TV-series. Second, based on large-scale qualitative…
News Avoidance and Poverty: Intersectional Marginalization in the Norwegian “Media Welfare State”
Based on interviews with 41 informants, this article presents an analysis of whether, how and why everyday news use is constrained by everyday conditions of poverty in the "media welfare state" of Norway.While prior news avoidance studies indicate that socioeconomically disadvantaged citizens are among the groups in society who use little or no news daily, the relationship between news media habits and precarious life conditions is largely unexpl…
From pleasure to politics: Five functions of watching TV-series for public connection
This article addresses the question of how engagement with fictional entertainment can enable audiences to function as citizens. It argues that existing theoretical perspectives assume spurious links between the use of fictional entertainment and politics. This article mobilizes the theoretical perspective of public connection to show how audience’s engagement with fictional entertainment can forge manifest links to the sphere of politics. The ar…
Altogether now? Symbolic recognition, musical media events and the forging of civic bonds among minority youth in Norway
Drawing upon interviews with a group of minority youth in Norway, this study argues that recognition theory offers a valuable yet neglected perspective through which we can identify and understand key social and civic dimensions of minority audiences’ media reception. Empirically, the study concentrates on the reception of musical media events in which hip hop artists and performances were prominent. Through empirical examples, this article illus…
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations
This short paper discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations, contributing with a sequential typology outlining the three phases ritual check-in, shocked immersion and regained stability. Theoretically, we draw on classical contributions to media studies and sociology, particularly the concepts of ritual communication and ontological security. Empirically, we build on qualitative interview studies with …
Rhythm, rhyme and reason: Hip Hop Expressivity as Political Discourse
Using Norwegian hip hop as an example, this article argues that public sphere theory offers a fruitful theoretical framework in which to understand the political significance of music. Based on a musical and lyrical analysis of Lars Vaular's 'Kem Skjøt Siv Jensen' (Who Shot Siv Jensen) - a song that recently became the subject of extensive public political discourse in Norway - this article first highlights how the aesthetic language specific to …
Documentary in a Culture of Clearance: A Study of Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Copyright and Fair Use Among Norwegian Documentary Makers
Copyright law is a mechanism for regulation of production and dissemination of cultural products. In documentary storytelling, reuse of copyrighted material such as footage and music is of great importance. This requires filmmakers to get permission from right holders, obtain a license, or invoke fair use under copyright law. As most documentarians must handle copyright issues in production, copyright law is influencing the practice of documentar…
Rhythm, rhyme and reason: Hip Hop Expressivity as Political Discourse
Using Norwegian hip hop as an example, this article argues that public sphere theory offers a fruitful theoretical framework in which to understand the political significance of music. Based on a musical and lyrical analysis of Lars Vaular's 'Kem Skjøt Siv Jensen' (Who Shot Siv Jensen) - a song that recently became the subject of extensive public political discourse in Norway - this article first highlights how the aesthetic language specific to …
From Musical Expressivity to Public Political Discourse Proper: The Case of Karpe Diem in the Aftermath of the Utøya Massacre
Musical communication is widely understood to be too elusive and abstract to have any discernible significance for political public discourse. However, in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre there have been several instances where hip hop music and performances have been subjected to politicised debate in the Norwegian public sphere. Based on a qualitative case study of the media reception of the Norwegian hip hop group Karpe Diem, this study fin…
Colonising the academy? Organisational mediatisation and public research institutions in Norway
Public research institutions increasingly find themselves operating in a media environment. At the same time there is a growing body of research finding that public institutions and organisations are undergoing processes of mediatisation, which potentially threaten their autonomy. Based on interviews with communication staff at six major Norwegian universities and research centres, this study explores the extent to which these institutions have a…
Altogether now? Symbolic recognition, musical media events and the forging of civic bonds among minority youth in Norway
Drawing upon interviews with a group of minority youth in Norway, this study argues that recognition theory offers a valuable yet neglected perspective through which we can identify and understand key social and civic dimensions of minority audiences’ media reception. Empirically, the study concentrates on the reception of musical media events in which hip hop artists and performances were prominent. Through empirical examples, this article illus…
Fictional Entertainment and Public Connection: Audiences and the Everyday Use of TV-series
This study explores how audience’s everyday use of fictional entertainment may facilitate public connection. Whereas the public connection perspective thus far primarily has been employed in the study of audience’s use of factual media, this study, first, conceptually updates the notion of public connection and develops a framework sensitized to capture the significance also of audience’s use of TV-series. Second, based on large-scale qualitative…
Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump
This article investigates sense-making processes of news audiences when faced with destabilizing global events. The destabilizing event is Trump’s 2016 election win, which we study from the perspective of audiences far removed: in the Nordic region. Asking how we can understand shifts in the balance between the informational and ritual aspects of news over time, we study how journalism matters when ordinary practices are suddenly uprooted, and in…
From pleasure to politics: Five functions of watching TV-series for public connection
This article addresses the question of how engagement with fictional entertainment can enable audiences to function as citizens. It argues that existing theoretical perspectives assume spurious links between the use of fictional entertainment and politics. This article mobilizes the theoretical perspective of public connection to show how audience’s engagement with fictional entertainment can forge manifest links to the sphere of politics. The ar…
Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment
Towards a critical understanding of data visualisation in democracy: A deliberative systems approach
Data and data visualisations – in the forms of graphs, charts and maps – are becoming an increasingly important feature of social, public and political life. Yet within existing scholarship, the democratic significance of data visualisations has thus far received minimal attention. This article offers a first systematic attempt to make sense of and scrutinise the role of data visualisation in democracy. We apply deliberative systems theory in the…
News Avoidance and Poverty: Intersectional Marginalization in the Norwegian “Media Welfare State”
Based on interviews with 41 informants, this article presents an analysis of whether, how and why everyday news use is constrained by everyday conditions of poverty in the "media welfare state" of Norway.While prior news avoidance studies indicate that socioeconomically disadvantaged citizens are among the groups in society who use little or no news daily, the relationship between news media habits and precarious life conditions is largely unexpl…
Ritual check-in, shocked immersion, regained stability: A sequential typology of news experiences in crisis situations
This short paper discusses people’s news experiences before, during and after societal crisis situations, contributing with a sequential typology outlining the three phases ritual check-in, shocked immersion and regained stability. Theoretically, we draw on classical contributions to media studies and sociology, particularly the concepts of ritual communication and ontological security. Empirically, we build on qualitative interview studies with …
Media poverty: Understanding mediated public connection in everyday conditions of deprivation
This article is concerned with how life in poverty affects people’s possibility to enact citizenship through their use of the media. More specifically, it examines the varying preconditions for impoverished citizen’s mediated public connection. Whereas empirical studies into this area are few overall, conceptual approaches have a limited grasp on the many-faceted nature of poverty-induced disconnection and its embeddedness in everyday life. This …
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