Media use in changing everyday life: How biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection

Ytre-Arne, Brita

doi:10.1177/0267323119869112

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“…Our analysis is based on qualitative data from a comprehensive project on media use in Norway (Moe et al, 2019; Nærland, 2019; Ytre-Arne, 2019). The aim of this study was to investigate cross-media use (Schrøder, 2011) and public connection (Couldry et al, 2010) through an open, informant-centered approach taking the perspective of users.…”

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Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities

Ytre-Arne

Syvertsen

Moe

et al. 2020

New Media & Society

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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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Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities

Ytre-Arne

Syvertsen

Moe

et al. 2020

New Media & Society

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“…Social media is a product of advancing technological developments and has evolved into a tool that affects how we engage with others in a network of actors while we live our daily lives [1]. The latest technological developments have led to digitalization's rapid and inevitable development, marked by blurring boundaries between the real and virtual worlds [2] .…”

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Mapping Netizen Perception on COVID-19 Pandemic: A Preliminary Study of Policy Integration for Pandemic Response in Bandung City

Miftah

Widianingsih

Muhtar

et al. 2023

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Social media is a product of technological advances that can influence how problems are formulated and act as a trigger for social change. Social media can provide data and act as a tool for policymakers to determine the effectiveness and acceptability of the current policy model, including the policy for handling COVID-19. Thus, this research analyzes the netizens’ opinions and responses regarding the policies for handling COVID-19 in Bandung City. Data was collected through the interaction of network data between users on social media to describe the interaction pattern between netizens on Twitter and YouTube about handling COVID-19 in Bandung City. The results revealed that most netizens highlighted the emerging policies in the health sector before moving to other sectors. The highlighted result was proven by the most frequently used word on social media that is vaccines. The research results also had limitations because they did not compare how other cities handled COVID-19 with Bandung City while collecting the data online through interactions and discussions. Keywords: policy integration, Netizen perception, COVID-19, social media, network visualization

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“…The experiences of the chronically ill have been of interest to health sociologists now for more than four decades (e.g. Charmaz 1987, Larsson and Grassman 2012, Ytre‐Arne 2019). As this body of work reveals, the impacts of chronic illness go beyond managing the condition itself and influence all aspects of affected individuals’ lives, including their identity and sense of continuity and normalcy.…”

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Feeling less alone online: patients’ ambivalent engagements with digital media

Petersen

Schermuly

Anderson

2020

Sociology Health & Illness

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Digital media offer the chronically ill, especially those who experience related isolation, unparalleled opportunities to connect with others. This article asks, how do these individuals ascribe meaning to and use these media to manage their condition and related isolation? Using the concepts of affordance and emotional community, and drawing on the findings from an Australian study on patients’ use of digital media, we examine individuals’ ambivalent ascriptions of media, which are both feared and distrusted for the risks they present and embraced as invaluable tools of social connection. We argue that this ambivalence is explicable in terms of the communities to which the chronically ill belong which are founded on strong emotional bonds. In a context in which individuals tend to feel isolated through pain and/or stigmatisation, digital media may offer powerful means for sharing and affirming their experiences, the subjective benefits of which may outweigh the perceived risks. The article discusses the functions and features of digital media that the chronically ill value and distrust and concludes by considering the implications of our analysis for strategies to address the needs of people who feel isolated as a consequence of their condition.

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Media use in changing everyday life: How biographical disruption could destabilize media repertoires and public connection

Cited by 21 publications

References 23 publications

Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities

Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities

Mapping Netizen Perception on COVID-19 Pandemic: A Preliminary Study of Policy Integration for Pandemic Response in Bandung City

Feeling less alone online: patients’ ambivalent engagements with digital media

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