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As digital technologies have become ever more ingrained in society, Media Use in Digital Everyday Life asks how our relationship with media has changed. After the proliferation of smartphones, social media and ubiquitous connectivity, what has happened to the ways we navigate across social domains and structure our daily routines? Filling a gap between classic discussions on everyday media use and recent studies of emergent technologies, this book untangles how media become meaningful to us in the everyday, connecting us to communities and publics.

With analyses of media use in an ordinary day, as part of life transitions and in times of disruption, Ytre-Arne provides a comprehensive framework for studies of everyday media use, considering dilemmas of technological transformations and recent crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Media Use in Digital Everyday Life offers empirical, methodological and theoretical insight, building on extensive qualitative research and taking a cross-media perspective. Through the conceptual approaches of media repertoires and public connection, the book situates communication and changing media use in everyday contexts, showing how our more digital everyday lives intensify communicative dilemmas.

Written in an accessible tone, Media Use in Digital Everyday Life will appeal to readers interested in digital media, and to students and scholars of audiences, datafication, journalism and digital platforms.

About the Author

Brita Ytre-Arne is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway, and an expert in qualitative research on audiences and media use. She has published extensively on news use and public connection, gender and media, datafication and algorithms, and digital disconnection. Her current research explores everyday media use in crisis situations such as climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.

Reviews

Now that digital media connect or disconnect our everyday lives within and across contexts, then the task of their users is to navigate these new opportunities, smartphone in hand, so as to enjoy new choices, face the at-time intense tensions and dilemmas that result, and orientate to a changing world as resourcefully as possible. In this carefully-researched book, Brita Ytre-Arne puts people at the heart of her insightful and empathetic dissection of modern life.

-- Professor Sonia Livingstone, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science

Media Use in Digital Everyday Life, Brita Ytre-Arne provides an insightful account of how we have woven the smartphone into every fabric of our everyday lives, and how our lives have been variously reconstituted in this process. A most helpful read for scholars and students alike.

-- Professor Pablo J. Boczkowski, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Digital media and their infrastructures have comprehensively changed everyday life for all of us. Brita Ytre-Arne's book provides an excellent basis for understanding these transformations, not only by clarifying the concept of everyday life in relation to media, but above all through the sophisticated analysis of the changing use of media and the associated dynamics and disruptions in the formation of everyday life.

-- Professor Andreas Hepp, ZeMKI, University of Bremen

Ytre-Arne carefully unwraps how smartphones have impacted the way we work, play, and interact with the world around us. By lifting the veil over the rituals, routines and often ambivalent and messy experiences of people, Ytre-Arne invites us to critically reflect upon the taken-for-grantedness of mobile communication in everyday life. As such, Media Use in Digital Everyday Life is a must-read for those wanting to understand digital culture in its full complexity.

-- Associate Professor Mariek Vanden Abeele, MICT research group, Ghent University



Book Information
ISBN 9781802623864
Author Brita Ytre-Arne
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 178g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm