Trine Syvertsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trine Syvertsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trine |
| FAMILY NAME | Syvertsen |
| SIGNATURE | SYVERTSEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3657-3551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
‘Beating tech with tech’
Taking breaks from digital connectivity has become a common practice but we still have limited knowledge of which approaches are used and who uses them. This article explores how technological measures are used to take temporary breaks from smartphones and digital media. Technological measures include silent and airplane mode, turning off notifications, deleting and setting time limits on apps, downloading disconnection apps, and using a simpler …
Theorizing dis/connection
Mobile connectivity fosters a 24/7 lifestyle that both benefits and burdens individuals. Digital well-being has emerged as a concept describing how persons balance these benefits and burdens. The concept of digital disconnection describes how people set limits to connectivity. Both concepts are currently studied in two fields of research, each dominated by different strands of theories. One strand is developing in mobile media studies: It uses th…
Slow tourism and digital disconnection
Framing digital disconnection
Most studies approach digital disconnection from an individualistic perspective, while this article explores organised efforts to facilitate digital detox experiences. The aim is to contribute a nuanced understanding of how offline initiatives are framed and the complex relationship between individual and collective action. The analysis shows how actions are triggered by personal experiences and respond to specific concerns within domains such as…
Disconnect to Reconnect! Self-help to Regain an Authentic Sense of Space Through Digital Detoxing
A typical call in contemporary self-help literature is to “look away from screens and enter the physical world.” Drawing on an empirical analysis of 15 self-help books, this chapter explores advice to reconnect with social and physical spaces by taking a break from digital technology. Digital detox is a relatively new term, but its ideological foundations are familiar from a long history of media and technology criticism. In the chapter, self-hel…
Digital Detox
Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, Trine Syvertsen explores the digital detox phenomenon and the politics of disconnection from invasive media. With a wealth of examples, the book demonstrates how self-regulation online is practiced and delves into how it has also become an expression of resistance in the 21st century.
Digital detox
A fascination for the authentic is pervasive in contemporary culture. This article discusses texts recommending digital detox and how these accentuate dilemmas of what it means to be authentically human in the age of constant connectivity. Digital detox can be defined as a periodic disconnection from social or online media, or strategies to reduce digital media involvement. Digital detox stands in a long tradition of media resistance and resistan…
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use
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…
From problem to solution? Why it is difficult to restrict the remit of public broadcasters
This article discusses the conditions for making policy change, and, more precisely, factors explaining why policy change is often hard to achieve even when key policy actors explicitly throw their weight behind it. It draws on a comparative analysis of two specific review processes in Britain and Norway, addressing the future remits of the public service broadcasters BBC and NRK. In both cases, the processes were initiated by governments explici…
The Media Welfare State
In 2014, Syvertsen, Enli, Mjøs, and Moe authored The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in a Digital Era to explore the specificities of Nordic media and the analogy between welfare state and media structures. In this short article, we point to how selected works challenge or extend the notions of a media welfare state beyond the original analysis. We begin by placing the work in a tradition of comparative and typology-generating scholarship and p…
Media policy for private media in the age of digital platforms
Digital platforms such as Google, Facebook and Netflix have caused a watershed moment not only for markets and businesses but also for media policy. Concerns about the US-based digital platforms’ impact on national media markets have grown among European media businesses as well as policy makers. Media policy research argues that small media markets are particularly vulnerable to global players and foreign influence, but that market size must be …
Media disruption and the public interest
Digitization, new entrants and the disruption of business models prompt concern about the media’s societal mission. The article investigates how media managers conceptualize societal responsibility in an era of turmoil. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with executive managers of private media companies in Norway and Flanders, the study reveals important differences in the definition of the public interest. While Flemish media managers empha…
The Welfare State and the Media System
This article aims to bridge the gap between media studies and welfare state studies. While media and communications systems are crucial elements in any society, these systems are often not included in studies of the welfare state. Through a discussion of five historical phases in the evolution of Scandinavian societies and media systems, from early democratization in the late 18th century through the ‘golden age’ of the welfare state to the prese…
Media Resistance
This book is open access under a CC BY license. New media divide opinion; many are fascinated while others are disgusted. This book is about those who dislike, protest, and try to abstain from media
Media Resistance
New media divide opinion: Many are fascinated while others are disgusted. This book is about those who dislike, protest, and try to abstain from media, both new and old. It explains why media resistance persists and answers two questions: What is at stake for resisters and how does media resistance inspire organized action? This book explores resistance across media, historical periods and national borders, from early mass media to current digita…
The End of Television—Again! How TV Is Still Influenced by Cultural Factors in the Age of Digital Intermediaries
This article discusses the impact of convergence and digital intermediaries for television as a medium, industry and political and cultural institution. There is currently widespread debate about the future of television and the impact of technological and market changes. Our argument is that the answer to what is happening to television cannot be adequately addressed on a general level; local and contextual factors are still important, and so is…
The Media Welfare State
A dynamic examination of the media industry in the Nordic countries during the transition to today's digital environment
Keeping Them and Moving Them
The article explores television scheduling in the phase of proliferation, a period following phases of monopoly and competition, characterized by a drastic multiplication of content, television channels, and new platforms. Based on interviews with professionals involved in scheduling and cross-platform promotion at Norway’s four main broadcasters, a sample study of actual cross-platform promotion, and relevant statistics for the Norwegian TV mark…
From Fear of Television to Fear for Television
New media technologies are often met with political and public ambivalence, as they are perceived to threaten established activities, values and institutions, as well as bring progress and improve political, cultural and social life. Taking the Norwegian history of television as an empirical case study, this article relates to an international research agenda focusing on the cultural political debates in the early phases of broadcast media. The a…
Citizens, Audiences,Customers and Players
The article discusses the relationship between broadcasters and their publics in light of the changes associated with competition, convergence arid digitalization. On the conceptual level, the article contrasts four ideal type perceptions of how television may serve its publics: 'citizens', 'audiences, 'custorners' arid players'. While publics, in the early days of broadcasting, wvere served more in their capacity as citizens, the view that the m…
Challenges to Public Television in the Era of Convergence and Commercialization
The question of whether public broadcasting should be sustained and protected is at the heart of current media policy debates in Europe. The main issue is whether traditional forms of regulation, including regulation protecting public communication and the media's social and cultural functions, are still relevant in the emerging digital media system. In this article, the situation of public television is discussed with reference to the Norwegian …
Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances
Programmes based on the experiences and emotions of ordinary people are an important feature of television schedules worldwide. So far, however, media researchers have done little to investigate the motives and experiences of those who lend their lives to such programmes. This article investigates the experiences of participants in one of the more traditional programme formats based on ordinary people: the television dating game. This article pre…
Stig Hjarvard
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost: The Privatization Of Scandinavian Broadcasting Trine Syvertsen Trine Syvertsen 1University of Oslo, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 1997, Pages 120–127, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1997.tb02697.x Published: 07 February 2006
Serving the public
Challenges to Public Television in the Era of Convergence and Commercialization
The question of whether public broadcasting should be sustained and protected is at the heart of current media policy debates in Europe. The main issue is whether traditional forms of regulation, including regulation protecting public communication and the media's social and cultural functions, are still relevant in the emerging digital media system. In this article, the situation of public television is discussed with reference to the Norwegian …
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use
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…
The End of Television—Again! How TV Is Still Influenced by Cultural Factors in the Age of Digital Intermediaries
This article discusses the impact of convergence and digital intermediaries for television as a medium, industry and political and cultural institution. There is currently widespread debate about the future of television and the impact of technological and market changes. Our argument is that the answer to what is happening to television cannot be adequately addressed on a general level; local and contextual factors are still important, and so is…
Citizens, Audiences,Customers and Players
The article discusses the relationship between broadcasters and their publics in light of the changes associated with competition, convergence arid digitalization. On the conceptual level, the article contrasts four ideal type perceptions of how television may serve its publics: 'citizens', 'audiences, 'custorners' arid players'. While publics, in the early days of broadcasting, wvere served more in their capacity as citizens, the view that the m…
Keeping Them and Moving Them
The article explores television scheduling in the phase of proliferation, a period following phases of monopoly and competition, characterized by a drastic multiplication of content, television channels, and new platforms. Based on interviews with professionals involved in scheduling and cross-platform promotion at Norway’s four main broadcasters, a sample study of actual cross-platform promotion, and relevant statistics for the Norwegian TV mark…
The Welfare State and the Media System
This article aims to bridge the gap between media studies and welfare state studies. While media and communications systems are crucial elements in any society, these systems are often not included in studies of the welfare state. Through a discussion of five historical phases in the evolution of Scandinavian societies and media systems, from early democratization in the late 18th century through the ‘golden age’ of the welfare state to the prese…
The Media Welfare State
In 2014, Syvertsen, Enli, Mjøs, and Moe authored The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in a Digital Era to explore the specificities of Nordic media and the analogy between welfare state and media structures. In this short article, we point to how selected works challenge or extend the notions of a media welfare state beyond the original analysis. We begin by placing the work in a tradition of comparative and typology-generating scholarship and p…
Media disruption and the public interest
Digitization, new entrants and the disruption of business models prompt concern about the media’s societal mission. The article investigates how media managers conceptualize societal responsibility in an era of turmoil. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with executive managers of private media companies in Norway and Flanders, the study reveals important differences in the definition of the public interest. While Flemish media managers empha…
From Fear of Television to Fear for Television
New media technologies are often met with political and public ambivalence, as they are perceived to threaten established activities, values and institutions, as well as bring progress and improve political, cultural and social life. Taking the Norwegian history of television as an empirical case study, this article relates to an international research agenda focusing on the cultural political debates in the early phases of broadcast media. The a…
Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances
Programmes based on the experiences and emotions of ordinary people are an important feature of television schedules worldwide. So far, however, media researchers have done little to investigate the motives and experiences of those who lend their lives to such programmes. This article investigates the experiences of participants in one of the more traditional programme formats based on ordinary people: the television dating game. This article pre…
Media policy for private media in the age of digital platforms
Digital platforms such as Google, Facebook and Netflix have caused a watershed moment not only for markets and businesses but also for media policy. Concerns about the US-based digital platforms’ impact on national media markets have grown among European media businesses as well as policy makers. Media policy research argues that small media markets are particularly vulnerable to global players and foreign influence, but that market size must be …
From problem to solution? Why it is difficult to restrict the remit of public broadcasters
This article discusses the conditions for making policy change, and, more precisely, factors explaining why policy change is often hard to achieve even when key policy actors explicitly throw their weight behind it. It draws on a comparative analysis of two specific review processes in Britain and Norway, addressing the future remits of the public service broadcasters BBC and NRK. In both cases, the processes were initiated by governments explici…
Public Television in Crisis
Despite profound similarities in the crises of public broadcasting policy in various European countries, the forces at play are different in each national setting. This article examines the debates in Norway and Britain and points to ways in which the public television institutions have responded to various demands. The sheer scale of the British broadcasting system has enabled it to meet wider demands and thus gain support from more television v…
Slow tourism and digital disconnection
Serving the public
Public Television in Crisis
Despite profound similarities in the crises of public broadcasting policy in various European countries, the forces at play are different in each national setting. This article examines the debates in Norway and Britain and points to ways in which the public television institutions have responded to various demands. The sheer scale of the British broadcasting system has enabled it to meet wider demands and thus gain support from more television v…
Serving the public
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost: The Privatization Of Scandinavian Broadcasting Trine Syvertsen Trine Syvertsen 1University of Oslo, Norway Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 47, Issue 1, March 1997, Pages 120–127, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1997.tb02697.x Published: 07 February 2006
Stig Hjarvard
Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances
Programmes based on the experiences and emotions of ordinary people are an important feature of television schedules worldwide. So far, however, media researchers have done little to investigate the motives and experiences of those who lend their lives to such programmes. This article investigates the experiences of participants in one of the more traditional programme formats based on ordinary people: the television dating game. This article pre…
Challenges to Public Television in the Era of Convergence and Commercialization
The question of whether public broadcasting should be sustained and protected is at the heart of current media policy debates in Europe. The main issue is whether traditional forms of regulation, including regulation protecting public communication and the media's social and cultural functions, are still relevant in the emerging digital media system. In this article, the situation of public television is discussed with reference to the Norwegian …
Citizens, Audiences,Customers and Players
The article discusses the relationship between broadcasters and their publics in light of the changes associated with competition, convergence arid digitalization. On the conceptual level, the article contrasts four ideal type perceptions of how television may serve its publics: 'citizens', 'audiences, 'custorners' arid players'. While publics, in the early days of broadcasting, wvere served more in their capacity as citizens, the view that the m…
Keeping Them and Moving Them
The article explores television scheduling in the phase of proliferation, a period following phases of monopoly and competition, characterized by a drastic multiplication of content, television channels, and new platforms. Based on interviews with professionals involved in scheduling and cross-platform promotion at Norway’s four main broadcasters, a sample study of actual cross-platform promotion, and relevant statistics for the Norwegian TV mark…
From Fear of Television to Fear for Television
New media technologies are often met with political and public ambivalence, as they are perceived to threaten established activities, values and institutions, as well as bring progress and improve political, cultural and social life. Taking the Norwegian history of television as an empirical case study, this article relates to an international research agenda focusing on the cultural political debates in the early phases of broadcast media. The a…
The Media Welfare State
A dynamic examination of the media industry in the Nordic countries during the transition to today's digital environment
The End of Television—Again! How TV Is Still Influenced by Cultural Factors in the Age of Digital Intermediaries
This article discusses the impact of convergence and digital intermediaries for television as a medium, industry and political and cultural institution. There is currently widespread debate about the future of television and the impact of technological and market changes. Our argument is that the answer to what is happening to television cannot be adequately addressed on a general level; local and contextual factors are still important, and so is…
Media Resistance
This book is open access under a CC BY license. New media divide opinion; many are fascinated while others are disgusted. This book is about those who dislike, protest, and try to abstain from media
Media Resistance
New media divide opinion: Many are fascinated while others are disgusted. This book is about those who dislike, protest, and try to abstain from media, both new and old. It explains why media resistance persists and answers two questions: What is at stake for resisters and how does media resistance inspire organized action? This book explores resistance across media, historical periods and national borders, from early mass media to current digita…
The Welfare State and the Media System
This article aims to bridge the gap between media studies and welfare state studies. While media and communications systems are crucial elements in any society, these systems are often not included in studies of the welfare state. Through a discussion of five historical phases in the evolution of Scandinavian societies and media systems, from early democratization in the late 18th century through the ‘golden age’ of the welfare state to the prese…
Media policy for private media in the age of digital platforms
Digital platforms such as Google, Facebook and Netflix have caused a watershed moment not only for markets and businesses but also for media policy. Concerns about the US-based digital platforms’ impact on national media markets have grown among European media businesses as well as policy makers. Media policy research argues that small media markets are particularly vulnerable to global players and foreign influence, but that market size must be …
Media disruption and the public interest
Digitization, new entrants and the disruption of business models prompt concern about the media’s societal mission. The article investigates how media managers conceptualize societal responsibility in an era of turmoil. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with executive managers of private media companies in Norway and Flanders, the study reveals important differences in the definition of the public interest. While Flemish media managers empha…
Digital Detox
Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, Trine Syvertsen explores the digital detox phenomenon and the politics of disconnection from invasive media. With a wealth of examples, the book demonstrates how self-regulation online is practiced and delves into how it has also become an expression of resistance in the 21st century.
Digital detox
A fascination for the authentic is pervasive in contemporary culture. This article discusses texts recommending digital detox and how these accentuate dilemmas of what it means to be authentically human in the age of constant connectivity. Digital detox can be defined as a periodic disconnection from social or online media, or strategies to reduce digital media involvement. Digital detox stands in a long tradition of media resistance and resistan…
Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use
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…
From problem to solution? Why it is difficult to restrict the remit of public broadcasters
This article discusses the conditions for making policy change, and, more precisely, factors explaining why policy change is often hard to achieve even when key policy actors explicitly throw their weight behind it. It draws on a comparative analysis of two specific review processes in Britain and Norway, addressing the future remits of the public service broadcasters BBC and NRK. In both cases, the processes were initiated by governments explici…
The Media Welfare State
In 2014, Syvertsen, Enli, Mjøs, and Moe authored The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in a Digital Era to explore the specificities of Nordic media and the analogy between welfare state and media structures. In this short article, we point to how selected works challenge or extend the notions of a media welfare state beyond the original analysis. We begin by placing the work in a tradition of comparative and typology-generating scholarship and p…
Disconnect to Reconnect! Self-help to Regain an Authentic Sense of Space Through Digital Detoxing
A typical call in contemporary self-help literature is to “look away from screens and enter the physical world.” Drawing on an empirical analysis of 15 self-help books, this chapter explores advice to reconnect with social and physical spaces by taking a break from digital technology. Digital detox is a relatively new term, but its ideological foundations are familiar from a long history of media and technology criticism. In the chapter, self-hel…
Framing digital disconnection
Most studies approach digital disconnection from an individualistic perspective, while this article explores organised efforts to facilitate digital detox experiences. The aim is to contribute a nuanced understanding of how offline initiatives are framed and the complex relationship between individual and collective action. The analysis shows how actions are triggered by personal experiences and respond to specific concerns within domains such as…
‘Beating tech with tech’
Taking breaks from digital connectivity has become a common practice but we still have limited knowledge of which approaches are used and who uses them. This article explores how technological measures are used to take temporary breaks from smartphones and digital media. Technological measures include silent and airplane mode, turning off notifications, deleting and setting time limits on apps, downloading disconnection apps, and using a simpler …
Theorizing dis/connection
Mobile connectivity fosters a 24/7 lifestyle that both benefits and burdens individuals. Digital well-being has emerged as a concept describing how persons balance these benefits and burdens. The concept of digital disconnection describes how people set limits to connectivity. Both concepts are currently studied in two fields of research, each dominated by different strands of theories. One strand is developing in mobile media studies: It uses th…
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