New @ijoc-usc.bsky.social CFP on Distributed Citizenship! How do we share democratic chores across platforms, networks and infrastructures? www4.uib.no/en/research/... Timeline: ✏️Abstracts: 15 Dec 2025 🏛️Workshop in Bergen (March 2026) 📝Papers: 31 May 2026 #commsky #polisky

What is it like to be a young man in the age of the smartphone? 📱👨 Book launch with John Magnus Dahl 5.Sept at @sfimediafutures.bsky.social! @britaytrearne.bsky.social @erikknudsen.bsky.social @ozlemtonnesen.bsky.social @emiliestronen.bsky.social @hildesak.bsky.social www.uib.no/en/infomedia...

We are hiring a postdoc! Looking for a scholar interested in doing qualitative research on news experiences and perceptions of AI, to join the Imagine project and Media use research group in Bergen #CommSky

What does #LocalNews have to do with #parenting and raising #children? Our brand 🆕 paper from The Leverhulme Trust #news #use study shows #parents use local news as anchors ⚓️, escape 🪜, as a lens 🔭, and news use as a site of parenting labour 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒. #OpenAccess now journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Interested in vulnerability in research on datafied media experiences, digital societies & algorithms? Join our seminar on Digital Vulnerabilities on April 3rd! Organized by @janniehartley.bsky.social & @hildesak.bsky.social, host: @britaytrearne.bsky.social 's MUCS project #commsky

Det er 8. mars og jeg er inne for å minne kvinner på at det pågår et arbeid for å gi deg mer arbeid. Bak ideer om "sløsing" og "effektivisering" rigges det til at du skal få deg en stadig større ubetalt deltidsjobb, der du utstyres med gaffateip og blir overlatt til å redde velferdstaten med DYI

We #standupforscience2025 at the University of Bergen! Look how many people showed up just at a couple hours notice. To our colleagues in the USA: we support you and we hope you have courage to show up for today's demonstrations for science all over the USA and the world: standupforscience2025.org

From our research on news experiences, Hallvard Moe and I have a book contract with @brisunipress.bsky.social to write "Too much news: Understanding information overload in digital society". We will discuss news in the attention economy, in the permacrisis, and in everyday life. Forthcoming in 2026.

Kjekt med positiv omtale av metodeboken vår i Norsk medietidsskrift! "Metoder for å forstå mediebruk" er tilgjengelig fra Universitetsforlaget til en ok pris, og klar for pensumlister og for store og små prosjekter.

- Når klima gjennomsyrer «alt» kan det føles overbelastende og forvirrende, og det blir vanskelig å gripe hva saken egentlig handler om, sier min kollega Solveig om klimanyheter. Ny forskning fra MUCS-prosjektet! @britaytrearne.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social

Publication news: We analyzed how Norwegian audiences perceive climate change as a news topic, and found intangibility: Climate change is less integrated in news habits, and lacking demarcations and spatiotemporal grounding. Out now in Environmental Communication! @uibcet.bsky.social #CommSky

New article on how news experiences resonate in everyday life, from my good colleague Marianne Borchgrevink-Brækhus, now out in Journalism! #CommSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How audiences follow news on climate change? This is the question at the heart of a new report by @waqasejaz.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social based on survey data from 🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇵🇰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Read here: https://buff.ly/4jwvTNG 7 findings in thread

‪" #DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies", edited by @janniehartley.bsky.social et al., is an excellent book about the ways data practices shape society and the constellations of people in it. #AskeXmas 12/24 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/datapublics

Congratulations to @profranjanadas.bsky.social on this brilliant book which is officially out in the world today! #CommSky

Still a few days left to apply! ✨

The first entry in #AskeXmas: "The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection", edited by @krisalbris.bsky.social, @annekaun.bsky.social, and others. A whole book about the cultural pushback against the thorough digitalization of modern life. www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publicati... 1/24

'Tis the season to be wiser. Bringing back a tradition, I'll do an #AdventCalendar with one piece of freely available media/comm/journalism research each day until Christmas. I'll try to keep it relevant behond the academy. Hashtag (to follow or block): #AskeXmas 0/24

We’re organising a PhD summer school at the Centre for Digital Narrative here in Bergen (@cdn-bergen.bsky.social) 10-14th June - here’s some early info, the full call for participation will be out by December 20th! www.uib.no/en/cdn/17442...

Tomorrow Mehri Agai will defend her PhD thesis on digital ambivalence amongst youth. The thesis includes four papers that develop different perspectives on digital disconnection. Looking forward to listening to inspiring discussions! academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️ Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social. Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile. 📆: deadline February 17! fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Why do journalists migrate from X to Bluesky? That's the research question I want to answer. Those of you who work with making news and journalism, please respond to the survey in the link below. It takes around 7 min. Everyone, please share the link. Thanks! forms.office.com/e/34znxF45rG

Reposting the starter pack of starter packs for new media scholars arriving!

First snow.

Interested in perceptions of AI? We are hiring a PhD candidate for our new project IMAGINE, to work with @erikknudsen.bsky.social on citizen panel data. Fully funded, good working conditions and a supportive research environment in beautiful Bergen! #CommSky

Many are overwhelmed by the amount of news. But when we asked 270 media leaders globally, more said that their company's focus is on maximising attention than being respectful of their audience's time. From our annual Trends and Predictions report: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-m...

Join our friendly and supportive research environment in Bergen, Norway, to research perceptions of AI in media. Please tell students looking for a fully funded PhD with salary and good conditions! #CommSky

👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬 Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u

I've started building an eclectic starter pack of accounts that make the internet a happy, fun, inspiring place - but I need your help! Please reply with your favourite curated accounts - from farming to found photos, obscure etymology, music & LGBTQ history - I'm not fussy. go.bsky.app/NkKNkeL

Join our friendly and supportive research environment in Bergen, Norway, to research perceptions of AI in media. Please tell students looking for a fully funded PhD with salary and good conditions! #CommSky

What do people really think about AI, and how are perceptions changing as new technologies become part of everyday media experiences? So happy that The Research Council of Norway will support our new project IMAGINE, looking into folk theories of AI over the next four years. #CommSky

I am at #ECREA2024 in Ljubljana and it is just so nice to meet people! I presented on news satiation this morning, and my colleagues will present tomorrow from our study on how people make sense of climate change news.

Disconnection scholars and others interested in digital media have been waiting for this one: The Digital Backlash anthology is out! Fully open access, with work by excellent people! #CommSky

The Journalism Studies special issue “Understanding News Avoidance: Paradoxes, Problems, and Priorities” is finally out! Introduction by @kimandersen.bsky.social @benjamintoff.bsky.social & me, and 10 original resarch articles by excellent authors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjos20/2... #CommSky

NY METODEBOK: Hallvard Moe og jeg har skrevet Metoder for å forstå mediebruk. For studenter, undervisere og forskere som er interesserte i sosiale medier, digital etnografi, mediedagbøker, intervjuteknikker, etikk og personvern, med mer. Bestill bok eller vurderingseksemplar her!

New paper on how older adults understand the internet, with lead author Hilde Sakariassen who talked to some great study participants. Out now, open access in New Media & Society! #CommSky

Media scholars planning to attend the ECREA conference in the fall? Here is the CfP for a pre-conference on Dynamics of Digital Disconnection, 23.9 in Ljublana! Submit abstracts by April 3rd. Details here: #CommSky

Any digital disconnection scholars here yet? The Digitox digital seminar series continues on Tuesday December 5th, with interesting talks on tech resistance in schools + everyday disconnectivity practices amongst youth. Join us! #CommSky

Journalism & digital communication scholars: Where would you most want to publish a new book? Publishers, series or editors to recommend, either from good personal experience or because their books are interesting? CommSky

Check out this CfP for a free virtual conference organized by prof Ranjana Das and colleagues. Very excited to speak at this event and discuss news experiences in the context of risk society, social relations, algorithms, climate change and more www.surrey.ac.uk/research-pro... CommSky

Hi 👋 Trying this place now. I am a media scholar 👩‍🏫 in 🇳🇴 interested in media in everyday life, researching digital media users 📲 I mostly post about research 📚, but really like a feed that also includes daily life, books, nature, jokes, personal reflections and cultural commentary, from nice people 😀