Espen Ytreberg

• 2023: Utryddelsen - historien om den norske industrielle hvalfangsten. Oslo: Forlaget Press.
• 2022: Media and Events in History. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• 2020: A Social History of the Media, 4. utgave (med Asa Briggs og Peter Burke). Cambridge: Polity Press.
• 2018: Kapp Hjertestein: Historien om Nita Kakot Amundsen, Camilla Carpendale og Roald Amundsen. Oslo: Forlaget Press.
• 2014: En forsvunnet by: Jubileumsutstillingen på Frogner 1914. Oslo: Forlaget Press.
• 2014: "The 1911 South Pole Conquest as Media Event and Media Ensemble".  Media History.  ISSN 1368-8804. 20(2), s 167- 181
• 2010: “The question of calculation: Erving Goffman and the pervasive planning of communication”, Michael Hviid Jacobsen (ed.) The Contemporary Goffman. London: Routledge.
• 2008: Hva er medievitenskap. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
• 2006: Medie- og kommunikasjonsteori. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
• 2004: ”Norge: mektig middelkultur,” i Samtiden 3: 6-15. Forkortet versjon publisert under samme tittel i Klassekampen 4/9 2004: 10-11.

• Wigen, Einar; Azak, Nalan; Eskild, Ingrid; Jordheim, Helge; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Yerlioglu, Akif Ercihan [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Temporal technologies of epidemics. Medical Humanities. ISSN 1468-215X. 48(4). doi: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012253. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lie, Anne Helene Kveim; Johnsen, Lars Gunnarsønn Bagøien; Jordheim, Helge & Ytreberg, Espen (2022). The Rise of Health: A Collocation Analysis of Conceptual Changes in News Discourse, 1950–2010. Contributions to the History of Concepts. ISSN 1807-9326. 17(2), s. 18–40. doi: 10.3167/choc.2022.170202. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jordheim, Helge & Ytreberg, Espen (2021). After supersynchronisation: How media synchronise the social. Time & Society. ISSN 0961-463X. 30(3), s. 402–422. doi: 10.1177/0961463X211012507. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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 significant potential for understanding common temporalities and social orders. Our emphasis is particularly on media, their technological and representational affordances for synchronisation. The article’s approach to social and mediated times presents an alternative to Hartmut Rosa and François Hartog’s influential theories about the temporal configuration of the present historical moment. Their understanding of the present tends more towards unity and uniformity, particularly by means of chronology. We follow Luhmann in arguing that ‘there is no supersynchronization’ producing such privileged, unitary temporal orders. We propose pursuing an understanding of both present and past through investigations of synchronisation itself, which always exists in plural, always involves different synchronisations in competition with each other, is subject to social and historical contingencies. The article combines theoretical and conceptual arguments with historical and contemporary cases. We investigate the synchronisation of national collectives by means of broadcast media, of individuals in everyday life by means of social media, and the recalibration of various contemporary media to a global scale in order to tackle the issue of climate change. These cases move from past and relatively comprehensive forms of synchronisation, via more localised forms today, to highly uncertain and heterogeneous ones in the future.

• Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti & Ytreberg, Espen (2020). A Human Interest Economy: The Strategic Value of Turning Ordinary People into Exemplars in the News Media. Journalism Studies. ISSN 1461-670X. 21(8), s. 1093–1108. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2020.1720520. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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 become exemplars, based on the authenticity of their experience, and their ability to attract attention and support. Departing from 38 interviews with management and communications professionals in Norwegian health interest groups, the article analyzes how organizations that provide exemplars to the news media adapt to and negotiate generic human interest formats that favor certain diseases, victims, and storylines over others. By discussing how the normative claims of immediate and authentic bottom-up voices in the news media tie in with less visible and more implicit strategic interests, the article adds to the theorizing about the role and power of ordinary people in the news, and how they serve the strategic interests of organizational actors that liaise between journalists and participants.

• Ytreberg, Espen & Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti (2020). Agencies and Experiences of the “Good Participant” : The Long-Term Trajectories of Patients Turned Media Participants. International Journal of Communication. 14, s. 6182–6198. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  As a prominent case of media participants with a high moral status, medical patients have become central across media and platforms, particularly because journalists need them as exemplars. On the basis of in-depth interviews with 18 Norwegian patient-participants, this article investigates the agencies and experiences involved in longer spans of participation across mass and social media. The article shows that although communicating illness enables affirmative and meaningful forms of openness and sharing for patient-participants, over time stresses and conflicts also appear as participants negotiate the terms and limits of their self-disclosure in an effort to exercise agency over their illness stories. In general terms, the article argues for an approach to media participation that takes into account high-status forms of participation, multiple media, and participation trajectories over longer spans of time.

• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). ‘This Tragically Obscured Summer’: News Media and Uncertainties of Veracity in the 1928 Nobile/Amundsen Disaster. Media History. ISSN 1368-8804. doi: 10.1080/13688804.2019.1702006. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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 continuous news coverage of radically remote locations. It argues that these new affordances came with an increased and pervasive sense of uncertainty about the veracity of factual information. Analyzing Norwegian newspaper coverage, the article finds a range of articulations of this uncertainty, including a preoccupation with rumours and speculations, as well as with chronic difficulties in determining factual veracity.

• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). The Norwegian Who Became a Globe: Mediation and Temporality in Roald Amundsen’s 1911 South Pole Conquest. I Jordheim, Helge & Sandmo, Erling Sverdrup (Red.), Conceptualizing the World: An Exploration across Disciplines. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781789200362. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvw04kj6.29. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Control over stories of illness and life: the case of a media participant turned media professional. Nordicom Review. ISSN 1403-1108. 40(2), s. 37–48. doi: 10.2478/nor-2019-0023. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article discusses the relationship between nonprofessional media participation and the professional handling of participants. It expands on the case of “Karen”, who related her life-threatening illness and patient experience in a broad range of media before transitioning into professional communications work for a health organization that required her to recruit other patient-participants. The article contributes to research on media participation by focusing on the blurred boundaries between professionals and nonprofessionals. It describes how relationships between the two can be characterized by tensions and dilemmas that are closely tied to issues of status and control. Karen’s case is instructive in the particular light it sheds on such matters and on how control over the mediated telling of a life story is exercised.

• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Towards a historical understanding of the media event. Media, Culture and Society. ISSN 0163-4437. 39(3), s. 309–324. doi: 10.1177/0163443716643155. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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 and distribution. Bringing together these strands of research, the article argues for a deepening of the historical dimension in conceiving of media events. After a critical review of the English-language tradition and an overview of key media-historical research contributions particularly from Germany, it discusses three main themes: the role of temporal acceleration over time by means of media technologies; the role of premeditation in events and the tradition of discussing media-generated events as ‘pseudo-events’, and the historically shifting relationships between mediated and non-mediated communication in the event. By way of conclusion, the article relates a historical perspective on media events to recent research and discussion around mediatisation.

• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). A change is gonna come: Media Events and the promise of transformation. Media, Culture and Society. ISSN 0163-4437. 40(1), s. 131–134. doi: 10.1177/0163443717726011. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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.

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• Ytreberg, Espen (2023). Utryddelsen: Historien om den norske industrielle hvalfangsten. Forlaget Press. ISBN 9788232805136. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2022). Media and Events in History. Polity Press. ISBN 9781509545407. 196 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Briggs, Asa; Burke, Peter & Ytreberg, Espen (2020). A Social History of the Media, 4. utgave. Polity Press. ISBN 9781509533725. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Kapp Hjertestein: Historien om Nita Kakot Amundsen, Camilla Carpendale og Roald Amundsen. Forlaget Press. ISBN 9788232802289. 223 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Ytreberg, Espen (2023). Utryddelsen - historien om den norske industrielle hvalfangsten. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2023). "Utryddelsen" som sakprosaprosjekt. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2023). Interrogating the first oil age through photographs. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2023). Utryddelsen - Historien om den norske industrielle hvalfangsten. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti; Lånkan, Kjersti & Ytreberg, Espen (2021). Åpenhetens pris. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2020). Infrastructures in the study of media. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2020). Panel om MasterChef Australia. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2020). Harald Ulrik Sverdrup og tsjuktsjerene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2020). Hvordan utforske et liv? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2020). The rise of future contingency: Norwgian news media and pandemics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2020). Mediene forsterker følelsen av usikkerhet i møte med en pandemi. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). "Roald Amundsen og Sibir-jentene". [Journal]. KK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). "La døde helter ligge". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Erving Goffman og "Jaget och maskerna". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). "Motpoler i debatt om norsk film". [Journal]. Klassekampen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Live and real time. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Hva kan dataassisterte søk si oss om det som har skjedd med norsk offentlig tale om helse og sykdom siden krigen? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Espen Ytreberg "Kap Herzstein": Buchvorstellung und Gespräch. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Espen Ytreberg, Kap Herzstein. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Om boka "Kapp Hjertestein". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Espen Ytreberg »Kap Herzstein«: Buchvorstellung und Gespräch. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Animal matter as human environment: Whales and men in photographs from the era of industrial whaling. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Presentasjon av boka "Kap Herzstein". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Lesung Espen Ytreberg: Kap Herzstein. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). The case economy: making patients cases out of medical patients. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Norwegian influenza event mediations. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Espen Ytreberg mit "Kap Herzstein" zu Gast in der Berliner Buchhandlung Pankebuch. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Time, media and the event. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Possible rhythms of mediated events. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2019). Control over stories of illness and life: the case of a media participant turned media professional. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Time, media and the event (plenumsforelesning). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Espen Ytreberg om barna til Amundsen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Kapp Hjertestein, bokpresentasjon, Stavanger 25.09.2018 og Kristiansand 26.09.2018. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Simultaneity before and after broadcasting. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Figenschou, Tine Ustad; Fredheim, Nanna Alida; Thorbjørnsrud, Kjersti & Ytreberg, Espen (2018). The use of digital and mainstream media lobbying health interests. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). – Vi forholder oss til teksten. [Journal]. Morgenbladet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Introduction to Sadiah Qureshi: "Black British histories". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Kapp Hjertestein - Historien om Roald Amundsens "døtre". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Humanioras egenart. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Ismannens hjertebarn. [Journal]. Dagsavisen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Three arguments on the mediation of historical events. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Simulta-nation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Doktorgradsutdanning ved UiO. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Innledning om Claus Fasting. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Intervju om mediebegivenheter. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). From Siberia to Norway and back: The journeys of Nita Kakot Amundsen and Camilla Carpendale. Arctic Studies Center Newsletter. 25, s. 34–36. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Hvem var disse to jentene? [Internet]. klartale.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Ismannens hjertebarn. [Journal]. Tønsbergs blad. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Ismannens jenter. [Journal]. Sunnmørsposten. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Ismannens hjertebarn i bokform. [Journal]. Sarpsborg Arbeiderblad. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). "Roald Amundsen tok til seg to «døtre» fra Øst-Sibir. Så sendte han dem brått fra seg.". [Journal]. A-magasinet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen & Jordheim, Helge (2018). In Sync. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). InSync. Project in progress presentation (with Helge Jordheim). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). Technological networks of information, media discourses of uncertainty: The 1928 Amundsen/Nobile disaster events. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2018). The organizational construction and political context of patients as media participants. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). - Ikke lurt å karikere (om Kringkastingsrådet). [Journal]. Vårt Land. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). The Amundsen South Pole expedition film and its media contexts. I Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold & Lund, Maria Fosheim (Red.), Small Country, Long Journeys : Norwegian Expedition Films. Nasjonalbiblioteket. ISSN 9788279653455. s. 24–53. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Den tiende utgivelsen i Nota bene, Nasjonalbibliotekets vitenskapelige skriftserie, er antologien Small Country, Long Journeys: Norwegian Expedition Films, som tar for seg norsk ekspedisjonsfilm fra Amundsens sydpolekspedisjon til Heyerdahls ferd med Kon-Tiki.

• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Forskeren som skriver. [Internet]. Krumsvik & co. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Helter i mediene før og nå. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). NRK nekter for at reinsendingen var for ambisiøs. [Journal]. Dagbladet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). New Perspectives on Media, Data and Temporality (Plenary roundtable). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Synchronising mediated simultaneities: the 1914 Oslo Centenary Jubilee Exhibition. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Mediated simultaneities and the 1915 Oslo Centenary Jubilee Exhibition. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Presentism, Synchronization, and the Media: Hartog and the Crisis of History (with Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and Marijn Rombouts). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Historisk søndag: Amundsen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Norway's Slow TV: Fascinating viewers for hours or days at a time. [TV]. CBS News. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Exchanges of looks in two Norwegian 1920s documentary films featuring the Chukchi people. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Fjernsynet og Finmarksvidda. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). Intervju i oppslaget "Digitalkulturens ubehag". [Journal]. Klassekampen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2017). "This tragically obscured summer": News media anduncertainties of information in the 1928 Nobile/Amundsen disaster events. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). Etter heltene. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). Hva skjedde med Roald Amundsen? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). "Norgesglasset", om programmet Norge Rundt som nasjonsbygger. [Radio]. NRK P1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). To bilder og ett liv: hva fotografier funnet på Uranienborg forteller om Roald Amundsen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). Mediated simultaneities in the 1914 Oslo Centenary Jubilee Exhibition (i panelet "Simultaneity in media history", sammensatt og ledet av E. Ytreberg. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). About the historical approach to media events. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). The meaning of mediatized social order and action. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). Intervju om Umberto Eco i Kulturhuset, P2. [Radio]. NRK P2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). Helsebloggere: innledende observasjoner til en undersøkelse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). Introduksjon til panelet "Environments for increasing impacts – especially from the human and social sciences". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen & Maasø, Arnt (2016). Eventisering. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). Intervju i "Norgesglasset" om talkshowsjangerens historie. [Radio]. NRK P1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). Veiviseren (om Umberto Ecos forfatterskap). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ytreberg, Espen (2016). Roald Amundsen, mest helt eller skurk? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lund, Maria Fosheim; Ytreberg, Espen & Gaines, Jane M. (2026). Aud Egede-Nissen: Star Producer. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Alnæs, Jørgen & Ytreberg, Espen (2021). Tekst og Territorium. Det norske Anarktis i norske nyhetstekster, 2005 - 2019. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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