Trine Syvertsen

Professor of Media Studies, University of Oslo, Norway

Trine Syvertsen is professor of media studies at the University of Oslo in Norway. She is the author of Media Resistance: Protest, Dislike, Abstention (open access, Palgrave, 2017) and Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting (Emerald, 2020), and co-author of The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era (University of Michigan Press, 2014).

Written by Trine Syvertsen

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The pleasure, the pain and the politics of a digital detox

Studying why and how people take digital-media breaks can reveal what individuals and societies value in unmediated spaces

by Trine Syvertsen