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Torgeir Uberg Nærland

Associate Professor
Department of Information Science and Media Studies
  • E-mailtorgeir.narland@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 97 05
  • Visitor Address
    Fosswinckels gate 6
    Lauritz Meltzers hus
    5007 Bergen
    Room 
    531
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7802
    5020 Bergen

Audience research; social inequality; democracy; minorities; poverty; social theory; music

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2022). Playful recognition: Television comedy and the politics of mediated recognition. Communications.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Mediated recognition: Identity, respect, and social justice in a changing media environment. Communications. 505-515.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment. Poetics. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Towards a critical understanding of data visualisation in democracy: a deliberative systems approach. Information, Communication & Society. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Enabling Cultural Policies? Culture, Capabilities and Citizenship. International Journal of Communication. 4055-4074.
  • Show author(s) (2019). From pleasure to politics: Five functions of watching TV-series for public connection. European Journal of Communication. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Between ritual and information: Three phases of Norwegian news audiences’ sense-making of the election of Donald Trump. Journalism - Theory, Practice & Criticism. 1-17.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Fictional Entertainment and Public Connection: Audiences and the everyday use of TV-series . Television & New Media. 1-19.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Altogether now? Symbolic recognition, musical media events and the forging of civic bonds among minority youth in Norway. European Journal of Cultural Studies.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Right Wing Populism and Hip Hop Music in Norway. JOMEC Journal.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Music, Ideology, and Emerging Political Elites: Musical Taste and Aesthetic Sensibilities among Young Politicians in Norway. Praktiske grunde. Nordisk tidsskrift for kultur- og samfundsvidenskab. 15-36.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Editors' Introduction: Expressive Culture and Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe. JOMEC Journal.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Colonizing the academy? Organisational mediatisation and public research institutions. Mediekultur.
  • Show author(s) (2015). From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Karpe Diem in the aftermath of the Utøyamassacre. Popular Communication - The International Journal of Media and Culture. 216-231.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Rhythm, rhyme and reason: hip hop expressivity as political discourse. Popular Music.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Hip hop and the public sphere: political commitment and communicative practices on the Norwegian hip hop-scene. Javnost - The Public. 37-52.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Documentary in a culture of clearance : a study of knowledge of and attitudes toward copyright and fair use among Norwegian documentary makers. Popular Communication - The International Journal of Media and Culture. 46-60.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Dansebandfeber! REPLIKK – Tidsskrift for samfunnsvitskap og humaniora.
Report
  • Show author(s) (2021). Sivilsamfunn og integrering. En kunnskapsoppsummering. 2021:03. 2021:03. .
  • Show author(s) (2017). Mediebruk og offentlig tilknytning:. .
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2019). How data visualisation matter for democracy.
  • Show author(s) (2019). From mainstream to subcultures.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Fictional entertainment and public connection.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Sitatrett og dokumentarfilm: Opphavsretten som rammebetingelse for norsk dokumentarfilmproduksjon.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Danseband, kvalitet og ytringskultur.
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2018). Ha punk noen politisk betydning?
  • Show author(s) (2016). Musikk og politikk: Har musikk egentlig noen politisk betydning?
  • Show author(s) (2013). Svart Debatt!
  • Show author(s) (2012). Musikk og demokrati.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Opphavsrett og dokumentarfilmproduksjon: Hvordan kan sitatretten forstås og brukes?
  • Show author(s) (2010). Guidelines for how to the "right to quote" in Norwegian documentary film production.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2022). Towards a sociologically enriched understanding of anti-media populism.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Shifting between shock and stability: Towards a typology of temporality in news use.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Playful recognition: Television comedy and the politics of mediated recognition.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Media poverty: A conceptual framework .
  • Show author(s) (2022). Beyond representation: Public service media, minority audiences and the promotion of capabilities through entertainment.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Cultural consumption, cultural journalism and public connection: a lifestyle perspective.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The political significance of data visualizations: four perspectives .
  • Show author(s) (2019). TV-serier og medborgerskap.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mediebruk, kulturbruk og frakobling .
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mediated Recognition, Populism and Identity.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mediated (Mis)Recognition and the Formation of Populist Identities.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Manifest, Everyday and Deep Orientation: Public Connection across and beyond Journalistic Media.
  • Show author(s) (2019). From pleasure to politics: five functions of TV-series for public connection.
  • Show author(s) (2018). TV-series and public connection.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Fictional Entertainment and Public Connection: Audiences and the Everyday Use of TV-series.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Enabling Cultural Policies? Culture, Capabilities and Citizenship.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Enabling Cultural Policies? Culture, Capabilities and Citizenship.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Enabling Cultural Policies?
  • Show author(s) (2018). Enabling Cultural Policies: Culture and Capabilities.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Enabled by Humor? Minority Youth, Humor and Public Service Broadcasting in Norway – the Case of Black Humor.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Annoying clowning far away, world chattering shock and regained stability: Three phases of Norwegians Audiences' Sense-Making of the 2016 US Presidential election.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Annoying clowning far away, world chattering shock and regained stability: Three phases of Norwegians Audiences' Sense-Making of the 2016 US Presidential election.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Audiences, expressive culture and public connection: the case of TV-series.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Audiences and TV-series: Four Functions for Public Connection.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Victims of the Mainstream Media? Right Wing Populism and Political Debate in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Recognition Through Reception: Hip Hop Music and the Forging of Civic Bonds Among Minority Youth in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Media, Culture and Public Connection: Freedom of Information in the ’Age of Big Data’ – a presentation of the project.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Expressive culture and public connection across socio cultural difference.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Popular music, symbolic recognition and civic identity among minority youth in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Music, Ideology, and Emerging Political Elites: A Survey of Musical Taste and Aesthetic Sensibilities Among Young Politicians in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Mediating the welfare state: journalistic representations of institutional dysfunction.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Mediating the Nordic Welfare Model: Journalistic Representations and Public Attitudes.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Colonizing the Academy? Organisational Mediatisation and Public Research Institutions.
  • Show author(s) (2014). What was actually heard? Receptive dimensions of music as political rhetoric.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Receptive dimensions of music as political rhetoric.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Organisational mediatisation and public research institutions.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Music and right wing populism.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Minority youth,hip hop music and cultural citizenship in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Mediatisation and public research institutions.
  • Show author(s) (2014). From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Norwegian hip hop in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre.
  • Show author(s) (2014). From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Norwegian hip hop in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Flow som politisk retorikk.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Rhythm, Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop Expressivity as Political Discourse.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Rapping against the populist right: Norwegian hip hip and The Progress Party.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Rapping against the populist right.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Musical interventions in the public sphere: hip hop music as political communication.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Hip hop and the public sphere: political commitment and communicative practices on the Norwegian hip hop-scene.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Popular music and the political dimension of taste.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Music, Politics and ideology.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Music and the public sphere.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Music and deliberation – the Norwegian hip hop-scene as an arena for the formation of (political) public opinion.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Music and deliberation.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Den norske hip hop-scenen som arena for (politisk) meningsdannelse.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Musical taste and interest in political youth wings in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Facilitating political engagement and orientation: musical taste and interest among young politicians in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Popular music in the cultural public sphere - Norwegian dance band-practice as a resource for democratic processes.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Anbefalte retningslinjer for anvendelse av sitatretten i norsk dokumentarfilmproduksjon.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Copyright and Fair Use in a Culture of Clearance.
Reader opinion piece
  • Show author(s) (2010). Sitatrett og monopol. Dagens næringsliv. 50-50.
Academic monograph
  • Show author(s) (2019). Informerte borgere? Offentlig tilknytning, mediebruk og demokrati.
Masters thesis
  • Show author(s) (2007). Dansebandfeber! – En analyse av mediale uttrykk for norsk dansebandkultur.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2018). Har datavisualiseringer noen politisk betydning? Forskning.no.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2019). Can data visualizations matter for politics? From numbers to graphics.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Kringkastingsrådet, Clemet og Klagekampanjer . VG : Verdens gang.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Kringkastingsrådet trenger fornyelse. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
  • Show author(s) (2010). NRK og sitatretten. Vox publica. 1 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). NRK og sitatretten. Dagens næringsliv. 1 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Ta ansvar på Wikipedia. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2015). Music and the public sphere. Exploring the political significance of Norwegian hip hop music through the lens of public sphere theory.
Interview
  • Show author(s) (2020). Klimaopprøreren Knut går i krigen.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Salmer fra skjermen.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Lørdag samles tusenvis av skrikende barn på Koengen for å se favorittartistene live.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Valgnatt.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Så mange dager har du brukt på favoritt-serien din.
  • Show author(s) (2017). POPMUSIKK RIMER PÅ POLITIKK.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Popartister protesterer mot flyktningpolitikk.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Nye stemmer synger ut mot Sylvi Listhaug.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Musikk og politikk.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Hvordan høres politisk musikk ut i dag?
  • Show author(s) (2015). Musikk og valgkamp.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Karpe Diem slår tibake mot kritiske politikere.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Fortsatt radikale.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Du må danse med hjertet.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Radio-dokumentar: Mette og Stine.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Politisk oppvarming.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Partipop.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Parti-pop skal tenne politikerne.
  • Show author(s) (2013). FPU loves Partymusikk.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Splittet syn på Idol-comeback.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Sei meg kva musikk du høyrer på, så skal eg seia kvar du står politisk.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Derfor er Bruce mest populær.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Danseband.
  • Show author(s) (2011). The Boss ruler i regjeringen.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Stemmene som ikke blir hørt.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Musikken i politikken.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Tør ikke bruke sitatretten.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Norsk dokumentarfilm mot toppen.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Demokratisk danseband.
  • Show author(s) (2010). - Bruk sitatretten!
  • Show author(s) (2009). Dei fordømde dansebanda.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Lokka av låg status og stor popularitet.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Dansebandet som kom inn fra kulden.
  • Show author(s) (2008). - Klareringskulturen hemmer filmen.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Et studium i Ole Ivars.
Programme participation
  • Show author(s) (2015). Musikksmak og radiolytting.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Valg og musikk.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Spillerom NRK P2.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Partipolitikk og musikk.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Sommeråpent - Intervju med tema dansebandkultur.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Kulturnytt.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2020). The political significance of data visualisations: Four key perspectives. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Populism and popular culture: the case for an identity-oriented perspective. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Velferdsstatens institusjoner og nyhetsmediene: en komparativ studie av medieinteraksjon i NAV og universitets- og forskningssektoren. 17 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Journalistiske virkelighetsbilder av velferdsstaten: fremstillingen av det offentlige omsorgsapparatet i «Jannes historie». 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Myte i Blomst: Samspillet mellom musikk og bilder i Bruce Conners The White Rose.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Flow som politisk retorikk: Lyrisk og rytmisk samspill i Lars Vaulars 'Kem skjøt Siv Jensen'.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Musikk og offentlighet. 21 pages.
Interview Journal
  • Show author(s) (2012). Musikkens politiske dimensjon. Et Intervju med Simon Frith. Norsk Medietidsskrift.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Psykologisk perfeksjon gjennom eteren. Et intervju med Thomas Johansson. Norsk Medietidsskrift.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Articles
Nærland, T.U. (2015) “From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Karpe Diem in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre", Popular Communication, issue 13(3)

Nærland, T.U. (2015) ”Flow som politisk retorikk – lyrisk og rytmisk samspill i Lars Vaulars 'Kem Skjøt Siv Jensen'”, in Bjarne Marcussen (ed) (2014) Lydspor. Når musikk møter tekst og bilder, Kristiansand: Portal Forlag

Forsgren, F. og Nærland, T.U.(2015) ”Myte i blomst: Det multimodale samspillet mellom musikk og bilder i Bruce Conners The White Rose (1965)", in Bjarne Marcussen (ed)(2014) Lydspor. Når musikk møter tekst og bilder, Kristiansand: Portal Forlag


Nærland, T.U. (2014) “Hip hop and the public sphere: political commitment and communicative practices on the Norwegian hip hop-scene”, The Javnost / The public, Vol.21, No. 1.

Nærland, T.U. (2014) “Rhythm, Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop Expressivity as Political Discourse”, Popular Music, 33:3

Nærland, T. U. (2012) "Musikk og offentlighet", i Knapskog, K., Hovden, J.F (eds) (2012) Hunting High and Low. Skriftfest til Jostein Gripsrud. Scandinavian Academic Press

Nærland, T. U. (2012) "Musikkens politiske dimensjon. Et Intervju med Simon Frith"  Norsk Medietidsskrift 2012 (1)

Larsen, L. O; Nærland, T. U (2010) "Documentary in a culture of clearance : a study of knowledge of and attitudes toward copyright and fair use among Norwegian documentary makers",  Popular Communication 2010 ; Volum 8.(1) s. 46-60

Nærland, T.U. (2009)"Psykologisk perfeksjon gjennom eteren. Et intervju med Thomas Johansson" Norsk Medietidsskrift , 2009 (3)

Nærland, T. U. (2007) “Dansebandfeber!“, Replikk: tidsskrift for human- og samfunnsvitenskap,   # 23


Master thesis (2007):  “Dansebandfeber! – En analyse av mediale uttrykk for norsk dansebandkultur“


Selected conference-papers

 

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Nærland, Torgeir Uberg  (2014) Flow som politisk retorikk, International Association of Scandinavian Studies Conference (IASS) Inter artes, Kristiansand (2014)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2014) From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Norwegian hip hop in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre, ICA International Communication Association Conference, Seattle (2014)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2014) Music and right wing populism, ICA International Communication Association Conference, Seattle (2014)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2014) From musical expressivity to public political discourse proper: the case of Norwegian hip hop in the aftermath of the Utøya massacre, Music, Circulation and the Public Sphere, British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the Royal Musical Association, University of Manchester (2014)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2013) Rapping against the populist right, (Mis)understanding political participation, ECREA European Communication Conference: Section for Media and Democracy, Munich (2013)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2013) Hip hop and the public sphere: political commitment and communicative practices on the Norwegian hip hop-scene. IAMCR International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Dublin (2013)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2013) Musical interventions in the public sphere: hip hop music as political communication. IAMCR International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Dublin (2013)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2013) Rhythm, Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop Expressivity as Political Discourse. Nordmedia Nor
dic Conference for Media and Communication Research, HiOA, Oslo (2013)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Den norske hip hop-scenen som arena for (politisk) meningsdannelse. Musikken i offentligheten / musikkens offentlighet, University of Bergen, Bergen (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Music and deliberation. European Communication Conference, ECREA, Istanbul 24-27 October 2012.

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Music and deliberation – the Norwegian hip hop-scene as an arena for the formation of (political) public opinion. Popular culture and social transformation, University of Oslo (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Music and the public sphere. "Culture and Power – social and political uses of aesthetics", Paris (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Music, Politics and ideology. EUPOP -  European Popular Culture Association Conference, London (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2012) Popular music and the political dimension of taste. Norsk Medieforskerlags konferanse; Kristiansand (2012)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2011) Facilitating political engagement and orientation: musical taste and interest among young politicians in Norway. NordMedia 2011, Akureyri, Iceland, 11-13 August 2011

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2011) Musical taste and interest in political youth wings in Norway. Music, politics and identity, University of Bergen (2011)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2010) Anbefalte retningslinjer for anvendelse av sitatretten i norsk dokumentarfilmproduksjon. Norsk Medieforskningskonferanse; Ålesund (2010)

Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2010) Popular music in the cultural public sphere - Norwegian dance band-practice as a resource for democratic processes. European Communication Conference, ECREA, Hamburg 12-15. October 2010

Larsen, Leif Ove; Nærland, Torgeir Uberg (2009) Copyright and Fair Use in a Culture of Clearance. The 19th Nordic Conference for Media and Communication Research, Karlstad, Sweden, 13.08.09 - 15.08.09

Ph.d-thesis (Viva coming up soon)
Torgeir Uberg Nærland's PHD-thesis is titled ”Music and the public sphere: Exploring the political significance of Norwegian hip hop music through the lens of public sphere theory”. By combining theoretical perspectives from public sphere theory and the sociology of music with empirical studies of aesthetical practice in musical genres, the aim of this project is to explore which role music play in relation to key democratic processes such as deliberation and the formation of opinion.

Torgeir is currently working on projects focusing on:
The rhetorical dimensions of musical communication and reception (initiated by the department´s rhetoric group).
Expressive culture and right wing populism in Europe.
The mediatization og welfare services in Norway (VAM)
Music and cultural citizenship among minority youth in Norway (RAM)
 
In addition Torgeir is interested in questions concerning copyright law and its consequences for cultural production.