Browsing Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon by Author "Krüger, Steffen"
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Krüger, Steffen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article focuses on the prominence of dirt and excrements in online male subcultures. It offers an understanding of both the computer nerd cultures of the 4chan forum and Incel (acronym for “Involuntary celibate”) ...
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Krüger, Steffen (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)In this chapter I give an account of the first ten years of the history of digital self-tracking (2007–2017) and bring to the fore an authoritarian dimension emerging from the current phase in its development. Adding a ...
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Krüger, Steffen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
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Krüger, Steffen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)In this article, I examine the Machinima film Finding Fanon II, by London-based artists Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, for what it can tell us about the relationship between video gaming and the postcolonial. Evoking ...
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Krüger, Steffen; Figlio, Karl; Richards, Barry (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)In this introduction we use a speech by Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, as an example with which to explain the psychosocial outlook of the volume. ‘If you had raped three, I will admit it, that’s on ...
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Aarseth, Helene; Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum; Krüger, Steffen (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)This chapter introduces a psychosocial strand of thinking that offers a way to conceive of creative relations between the psyche and the world. Whereas much current psychosocial theory stresses how anxieties are managed ...
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Krüger, Steffen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Focusing on the case of recommendations on the video streaming platform YouTube, this article revisits questions of media addiction and addictive media that continue to trouble research in the field. Based on a close reading ...
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Krüger, Steffen; Charlotte Spilde, Ane (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Public discourse on Tinder depicts the dating app as marking the end of traditional – as well as healthy – notions of love and romance, permeating them with a logic of consumption and commodification. Our article offers a ...
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Krüger, Steffen (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)The chapter is divided into four main parts. Firstly, it provides a historical outline of the development of media studies by shedding light on the founding of its main schools and traditions. Secondly, it offers an ...
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Krüger, Steffen; Degel, Alexander (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Building on existing German transformation research, this article critically reconstructs an aspect of the problematic power relationship that emerged between the former East and West Germany after their reunification. In ...
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Krüger, Steffen; Wilson, Christopher Ben (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract This commentary draws critical attention to the ongoing commodification of trust in policy and scholarly discourses of artificial intelligence (AI) and society. Based on an assessment of publications discussing ...
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Holderbein, Kayla; Krüger, Steffen; Wilson, Christopher Ben (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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Finch, Matthew; Ní Bhroin, Niamh; Krüger, Steffen (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract In times of turbulence, uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity—the so-called TUNA conditions—our experience of the past may prove a poor guide to the future times in which our decisions and their consequences will ...
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Krüger, Steffen (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article sheds light on the role of social media in the instigation of acts of violence. It identifies and interprets the major forms of interaction emerging from the interplay between page owners and users on German ...
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Krüger, Steffen; Ni Bhroin, Niamh (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Insurance companies are increasingly harnessing self-tracking data to innovate and create new health and life insurance schemes. These schemes are often hailed as social innovations, and a major growth opportunity for the ...