Espen Ytreberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 449450 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Espen Ytreberg |
| PRENOMES | Espen |
| SOBRENOME | Ytreberg |
| ASSINATURA | YTREBERG E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2164-9362 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 193 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Temporal technologies of epidemics
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely been made sense of as a crisis However, using crisis as a temporal-analytical category arguably obscures the complexity of the different temporalities at work in the pandemic. In this article, we examine how the pandemic outbreak led to numerous acts of synchronisation and de-synchronisation-between humans and viruses, between social groups and even between historical ages. In order to make sense of the temporal …
Media and Events in History
The Rise of Health
The emergence of key concepts in Reinhart Koselleck's sense has been much discussed in conceptual history, but mainly for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The article documents a post-World War II emergence of the concept of health, from relative anonymity to becoming a key concept, comparable to concepts such as politics, democracy, and culture. While previous research has emphasized conceptual mobility, this article focuses on conceptua…
After supersynchronisation
The multiple nature of time has by now been well established across a wide range of scholarly traditions in the humanities and social sciences. The article takes that insight as a starting point, in order to discuss the tools, work, sites and contestations involved in common temporal frameworks and structures that cross and join together time's multiplicities. We thus articulate and discuss key components of synchronisation, a concept with signif…
A Human Interest Economy
This article explores how personal experience in the form of human interest stories has become a road to visibility, legitimacy, and impact for organizational actors and interest groups. Focusing on news media representations of health, where patients and their experiences with disease play an increasingly central role across media platforms, the article theorizes the hierarchies and dilemmas of a “human interest economy” in which ordinary people…
This Tragically Obscured Summer’
The summer of 1928 was marked by two internationally reported and disastrous events involving two polar explorers: the crash and rescue of Umberto Nobile’s airship ‘Italia’ in the polar regions of the North Atlantic ocean, and the death of the Roald Amundsen, en route to rescuing Nobile. The article discusses these disasters as indicative of a historical moment in the mediation of events where technological and logistical developments enabled a c…
A change is gonna come
This commentary on Media Events frames it as centrally being about societal transformation. The issue of transformation has been central in philosophical and historical approaches to the event, and Media Events can be considered an extension of those traditions into media studies. The commentary suggests ways that Dayan and Katz’s thinking on transformation can be developed within a historical approach to the study of events and their mediations
G offman, E rving
Erving Goffman was one of the leading sociologists of the 20th century. His work has had a major impact on the human and social sciences, and on media and communication studies. His dramaturgical perspective on social orders and interactions has been applied to a broad range of media and forms of communication. Goffman also wrote extensively on media and communication himself, particularly in the later stages of his working life. This entry conce…
Convergence
Starting in the 1980s as an industry buzzword sporadically used by academics, “convergence” rose to prominence in the 1990s and early 2000s as a catchall term for the coming together of various media by means of digital technology. Convergence has become entrenched and institutionalized as a key concept in media studies, in close association with concepts such as digitalization and interactivity. At the same time it has been regarded with suspici…
Towards a historical understanding of the media event
The English-language research tradition of studying media events is widely considered to have started with Dayan and Katz’ Media Events. This seminal work is characterised by an emphasis on liveness and broadcast technology as conditions of eventfulness. The German-language tradition of research on historical media events provides a very different approach to studying media events, starting from the 16th-century advent of mechanical production an…
The 1911 South Pole Conquest as Historical Media Event and Media Ensemble
The conquest of the South Pole by Roald Amundsen and his team of explorers in 1911 became a major international media event by virtue of Amundsen's ‘Race for the Pole’ against Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition. This article shows how Roald Amundsen and his team entered into close collaborations with journalists, as well as engaging in extensive feats of media management. It also discusses how various media came together to build the medi…
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 Production of Mediated Performance
This chapter overviews and discusses scholarly contributions to how media production can be understood as an act of thinking about and planning communicative performances in the media. The core features of large‐scale media production – advanced technology, complex organization, extensive divisions of labor – can be understood in terms of how they enable and shape performances for absent, multiple, and mass audiences. This chapter draws a rough f…
Working Notions of Active Audiences
Recent research on the media industries has been centrally concerned with the blurring of boundaries between production and reception in an era of digitalization and convergence. The article argues for a need for research to consider more closely the importance of notions of the ‘active audience’ within today’s media industries. Overall conceptual work has been done on ‘convergence culture’, and much scholarly debate currently centres around the …
Extended liveness and eventfulness in multi-platform reality formats
The international success of formats such as Pop Idol and Big Brother owes much to the ways in which they combine a number of broadcast and digital platforms under the aegis of a common 'brand'. The article argues that the media industry strategists behind such formats have come to rely on extending existing broadcast conventions of liveness and eventfulness by means of audience participation via digital return channels. It argues that such parti…
Small Talk Makes a Big Difference
The article discusses key features of SMS-based television. It has a particular focus on the shift from one-way broadcast communication toward two-way interactivity, and on new forms of user participation through SMS-based television's interactive design interfaces. The article presents a multimodal analysis of design in SMS-based television formats, a discourse analysis of their roles and interactions, and a typology of their degrees of interact…
Premeditations of performance in recent live television
The article discusses the ways that performances in television are premeditated. Its focus is on practices of scripting performances in current interactive and reality TV. With a basis in empirical material on television production, the article describes concretely some cases of scripting in international television formats. Its focus is particularly on forms of scripting that are seldom recognized as such, thus contributing to a feel of the real…
Formatting Participation within Broadcast Media Production
The article proceeds from a basic assumption that participation in the broadcast media is about mastering a set of performance roles that are given by the production context and by the requirements of the format. It discusses how a media production team is able routinely and systematically to manage the process of formatting participation; that is, the process whereby production teams prepare non-professional participants for the programme’s perf…
Continuity in Environments
In current television business rhetoric it is often assumed that television channels are `dying' as a consequence of digitalization and convergence. The article argues that such scenarios tend to be based on too restricted notions of what broadcasters' assembling of programmes consists of. To readdress this issue the article proposes the basic concepts of `continuity' and `environments'. It argues that established practices of television channel …
Ideal types in public service television
Over time, the broadcast media develop conventions of self-presentation that are formulated more or less explicitly by academics and media professionals as ideal types. The article discusses four such ideal types of self-presentation in television: paternalists and bureaucrats, charismatics and avant-gardists. It demonstrates how they have been formulated and evaluated by researchers and media professionals. Following Raymond Williams’s notion of…
Erving Goffman as a theorist of the mass media
The work of Erving Goffman has been influential in media studies, primarily via adaptations of selected concepts like "region" and "frame." However, relatively little attention has been paid by media researchers to Goffman's own theoretical work on the mass media. Taking its lead from the later work of Goffman, this essay shows how it contains elements of a theoretical framework for mass-mediated communication, through the concepts of "hyper-ritu…
Moving out of the Inverted Pyramid
The article critically reviews a central premise behind existing research on European and Scandinavian television news: that, in the 1980s and 1990s climate of deregulation and intensified competition, narrative has come to dominate television news reports. It is argued that in order to understand more precisely what this "conquest of narrative" entails, one needs to explore further not just narrative, but also non-narrative textual modes in repo…
Formatting Participation within Broadcast Media Production
The article proceeds from a basic assumption that participation in the broadcast media is about mastering a set of performance roles that are given by the production context and by the requirements of the format. It discusses how a media production team is able routinely and systematically to manage the process of formatting participation; that is, the process whereby production teams prepare non-professional participants for the programme’s perf…
After supersynchronisation
The multiple nature of time has by now been well established across a wide range of scholarly traditions in the humanities and social sciences. The article takes that insight as a starting point, in order to discuss the tools, work, sites and contestations involved in common temporal frameworks and structures that cross and join together time's multiplicities. We thus articulate and discuss key components of synchronisation, a concept with signif…
Erving Goffman as a theorist of the mass media
The work of Erving Goffman has been influential in media studies, primarily via adaptations of selected concepts like "region" and "frame." However, relatively little attention has been paid by media researchers to Goffman's own theoretical work on the mass media. Taking its lead from the later work of Goffman, this essay shows how it contains elements of a theoretical framework for mass-mediated communication, through the concepts of "hyper-ritu…
Extended liveness and eventfulness in multi-platform reality formats
The international success of formats such as Pop Idol and Big Brother owes much to the ways in which they combine a number of broadcast and digital platforms under the aegis of a common 'brand'. The article argues that the media industry strategists behind such formats have come to rely on extending existing broadcast conventions of liveness and eventfulness by means of audience participation via digital return channels. It argues that such parti…
Towards a historical understanding of the media event
The English-language research tradition of studying media events is widely considered to have started with Dayan and Katz’ Media Events. This seminal work is characterised by an emphasis on liveness and broadcast technology as conditions of eventfulness. The German-language tradition of research on historical media events provides a very different approach to studying media events, starting from the 16th-century advent of mechanical production an…
Premeditations of performance in recent live television
The article discusses the ways that performances in television are premeditated. Its focus is on practices of scripting performances in current interactive and reality TV. With a basis in empirical material on television production, the article describes concretely some cases of scripting in international television formats. Its focus is particularly on forms of scripting that are seldom recognized as such, thus contributing to a feel of the real…
Continuity in Environments
In current television business rhetoric it is often assumed that television channels are `dying' as a consequence of digitalization and convergence. The article argues that such scenarios tend to be based on too restricted notions of what broadcasters' assembling of programmes consists of. To readdress this issue the article proposes the basic concepts of `continuity' and `environments'. It argues that established practices of television channel …
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…
Ideal types in public service television
Over time, the broadcast media develop conventions of self-presentation that are formulated more or less explicitly by academics and media professionals as ideal types. The article discusses four such ideal types of self-presentation in television: paternalists and bureaucrats, charismatics and avant-gardists. It demonstrates how they have been formulated and evaluated by researchers and media professionals. Following Raymond Williams’s notion of…
A Human Interest Economy
This article explores how personal experience in the form of human interest stories has become a road to visibility, legitimacy, and impact for organizational actors and interest groups. Focusing on news media representations of health, where patients and their experiences with disease play an increasingly central role across media platforms, the article theorizes the hierarchies and dilemmas of a “human interest economy” in which ordinary people…
The 1911 South Pole Conquest as Historical Media Event and Media Ensemble
The conquest of the South Pole by Roald Amundsen and his team of explorers in 1911 became a major international media event by virtue of Amundsen's ‘Race for the Pole’ against Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition. This article shows how Roald Amundsen and his team entered into close collaborations with journalists, as well as engaging in extensive feats of media management. It also discusses how various media came together to build the medi…
Small Talk Makes a Big Difference
The article discusses key features of SMS-based television. It has a particular focus on the shift from one-way broadcast communication toward two-way interactivity, and on new forms of user participation through SMS-based television's interactive design interfaces. The article presents a multimodal analysis of design in SMS-based television formats, a discourse analysis of their roles and interactions, and a typology of their degrees of interact…
Temporal technologies of epidemics
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely been made sense of as a crisis However, using crisis as a temporal-analytical category arguably obscures the complexity of the different temporalities at work in the pandemic. In this article, we examine how the pandemic outbreak led to numerous acts of synchronisation and de-synchronisation-between humans and viruses, between social groups and even between historical ages. In order to make sense of the temporal …
The Rise of Health
The emergence of key concepts in Reinhart Koselleck's sense has been much discussed in conceptual history, but mainly for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The article documents a post-World War II emergence of the concept of health, from relative anonymity to becoming a key concept, comparable to concepts such as politics, democracy, and culture. While previous research has emphasized conceptual mobility, this article focuses on conceptua…
Moving out of the Inverted Pyramid
The article critically reviews a central premise behind existing research on European and Scandinavian television news: that, in the 1980s and 1990s climate of deregulation and intensified competition, narrative has come to dominate television news reports. It is argued that in order to understand more precisely what this "conquest of narrative" entails, one needs to explore further not just narrative, but also non-narrative textual modes in repo…
Continuity in Environments
In current television business rhetoric it is often assumed that television channels are `dying' as a consequence of digitalization and convergence. The article argues that such scenarios tend to be based on too restricted notions of what broadcasters' assembling of programmes consists of. To readdress this issue the article proposes the basic concepts of `continuity' and `environments'. It argues that established practices of television channel …
Ideal types in public service television
Over time, the broadcast media develop conventions of self-presentation that are formulated more or less explicitly by academics and media professionals as ideal types. The article discusses four such ideal types of self-presentation in television: paternalists and bureaucrats, charismatics and avant-gardists. It demonstrates how they have been formulated and evaluated by researchers and media professionals. Following Raymond Williams’s notion of…
Erving Goffman as a theorist of the mass media
The work of Erving Goffman has been influential in media studies, primarily via adaptations of selected concepts like "region" and "frame." However, relatively little attention has been paid by media researchers to Goffman's own theoretical work on the mass media. Taking its lead from the later work of Goffman, this essay shows how it contains elements of a theoretical framework for mass-mediated communication, through the concepts of "hyper-ritu…
Formatting Participation within Broadcast Media Production
The article proceeds from a basic assumption that participation in the broadcast media is about mastering a set of performance roles that are given by the production context and by the requirements of the format. It discusses how a media production team is able routinely and systematically to manage the process of formatting participation; that is, the process whereby production teams prepare non-professional participants for the programme’s perf…
Premeditations of performance in recent live television
The article discusses the ways that performances in television are premeditated. Its focus is on practices of scripting performances in current interactive and reality TV. With a basis in empirical material on television production, the article describes concretely some cases of scripting in international television formats. Its focus is particularly on forms of scripting that are seldom recognized as such, thus contributing to a feel of the real…
Small Talk Makes a Big Difference
The article discusses key features of SMS-based television. It has a particular focus on the shift from one-way broadcast communication toward two-way interactivity, and on new forms of user participation through SMS-based television's interactive design interfaces. The article presents a multimodal analysis of design in SMS-based television formats, a discourse analysis of their roles and interactions, and a typology of their degrees of interact…
Working Notions of Active Audiences
Recent research on the media industries has been centrally concerned with the blurring of boundaries between production and reception in an era of digitalization and convergence. The article argues for a need for research to consider more closely the importance of notions of the ‘active audience’ within today’s media industries. Overall conceptual work has been done on ‘convergence culture’, and much scholarly debate currently centres around the …
Extended liveness and eventfulness in multi-platform reality formats
The international success of formats such as Pop Idol and Big Brother owes much to the ways in which they combine a number of broadcast and digital platforms under the aegis of a common 'brand'. The article argues that the media industry strategists behind such formats have come to rely on extending existing broadcast conventions of liveness and eventfulness by means of audience participation via digital return channels. It argues that such parti…
The Production of Mediated Performance
This chapter overviews and discusses scholarly contributions to how media production can be understood as an act of thinking about and planning communicative performances in the media. The core features of large‐scale media production – advanced technology, complex organization, extensive divisions of labor – can be understood in terms of how they enable and shape performances for absent, multiple, and mass audiences. This chapter draws a rough f…
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 1911 South Pole Conquest as Historical Media Event and Media Ensemble
The conquest of the South Pole by Roald Amundsen and his team of explorers in 1911 became a major international media event by virtue of Amundsen's ‘Race for the Pole’ against Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition. This article shows how Roald Amundsen and his team entered into close collaborations with journalists, as well as engaging in extensive feats of media management. It also discusses how various media came together to build the medi…
G offman, E rving
Erving Goffman was one of the leading sociologists of the 20th century. His work has had a major impact on the human and social sciences, and on media and communication studies. His dramaturgical perspective on social orders and interactions has been applied to a broad range of media and forms of communication. Goffman also wrote extensively on media and communication himself, particularly in the later stages of his working life. This entry conce…
Convergence
Starting in the 1980s as an industry buzzword sporadically used by academics, “convergence” rose to prominence in the 1990s and early 2000s as a catchall term for the coming together of various media by means of digital technology. Convergence has become entrenched and institutionalized as a key concept in media studies, in close association with concepts such as digitalization and interactivity. At the same time it has been regarded with suspici…
Towards a historical understanding of the media event
The English-language research tradition of studying media events is widely considered to have started with Dayan and Katz’ Media Events. This seminal work is characterised by an emphasis on liveness and broadcast technology as conditions of eventfulness. The German-language tradition of research on historical media events provides a very different approach to studying media events, starting from the 16th-century advent of mechanical production an…
A change is gonna come
This commentary on Media Events frames it as centrally being about societal transformation. The issue of transformation has been central in philosophical and historical approaches to the event, and Media Events can be considered an extension of those traditions into media studies. The commentary suggests ways that Dayan and Katz’s thinking on transformation can be developed within a historical approach to the study of events and their mediations
This Tragically Obscured Summer’
The summer of 1928 was marked by two internationally reported and disastrous events involving two polar explorers: the crash and rescue of Umberto Nobile’s airship ‘Italia’ in the polar regions of the North Atlantic ocean, and the death of the Roald Amundsen, en route to rescuing Nobile. The article discusses these disasters as indicative of a historical moment in the mediation of events where technological and logistical developments enabled a c…
A Human Interest Economy
This article explores how personal experience in the form of human interest stories has become a road to visibility, legitimacy, and impact for organizational actors and interest groups. Focusing on news media representations of health, where patients and their experiences with disease play an increasingly central role across media platforms, the article theorizes the hierarchies and dilemmas of a “human interest economy” in which ordinary people…
After supersynchronisation
The multiple nature of time has by now been well established across a wide range of scholarly traditions in the humanities and social sciences. The article takes that insight as a starting point, in order to discuss the tools, work, sites and contestations involved in common temporal frameworks and structures that cross and join together time's multiplicities. We thus articulate and discuss key components of synchronisation, a concept with signif…
Temporal technologies of epidemics
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely been made sense of as a crisis However, using crisis as a temporal-analytical category arguably obscures the complexity of the different temporalities at work in the pandemic. In this article, we examine how the pandemic outbreak led to numerous acts of synchronisation and de-synchronisation-between humans and viruses, between social groups and even between historical ages. In order to make sense of the temporal …
Media and Events in History
The Rise of Health
The emergence of key concepts in Reinhart Koselleck's sense has been much discussed in conceptual history, but mainly for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The article documents a post-World War II emergence of the concept of health, from relative anonymity to becoming a key concept, comparable to concepts such as politics, democracy, and culture. While previous research has emphasized conceptual mobility, this article focuses on conceptua…
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