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Øyvind Næss

Stipendiat

E-post: oyvind.nass@inn.no
Telefonnummer: +47 62 51 76 66

Fakultet for helse- og sosialvitenskap
Seksjon for folkehelse
Studiested Elverum

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Min forskning fokuserer på studier av sosio-materielle konstruksjoner av barndom og særlig hvordan den digitaliserte barndommen vokser fram i skjæringspunktet mellom politikk, økonomi, individuelle opplevelser, og materialitet.

Mitt ph.d.-prosjekt er en etnografisk studie av digitaliseringen av barndom hvor jeg spesifikt undersøker digitaliseringen av barndom gjennom et relasjonelt ontologisk perspektiv.

Jeg har en bachelorgrad i historie, og en mastergrad i samfunnsvitenskap hvor jeg arbeidet med Pierre Bourdieus sosiologi for å analysere forholdet mellom stat og kulturelle institusjoner. Begge gradene er fra Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge.

Før jeg startet som stipendiat, jobbet jeg som reportasjefotograf og underviste i flere år i digital visuell historiefortelling og sosiale medier ved Høyskolen Kristiania.

Forskergrupper

Barn og unges oppvekst og sosialisering

Næss, Øyvind & Broch, Trygve B (2025). A matter of logics and practicalities: How the state, parenting, and children connect in a digitalized childhood. Childhood. ISSN 0907-5682. s. 1–18. doi: 10.1177/09075682251411192. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
Important contributions have been made to understanding how screens shape children’s lives, but the arrangement of the constitutive components of digitalized childhoods is not yet fully elucidated. This article draws on a mix of methods to map out how the practicalities of digitalized childhoods are induced by logics embedded in the interconnected spaces of the state and parenthood. To this end, assemblage theory is employed to help explore how the digitalization of childhoods unfolds within an arrangement of diverse scales and complexities. The article draws on ongoing debates within childhood studies concerning children’s agency and the methodological construction of childhoods.
Næss, Øyvind (2025). The desire to hold one's vessel in place; an ethnography of children anchoring up in a world of digitalized dependencies. Children's Geographies. ISSN 1473-3285. 23(5), s. 567–579. doi: https:/www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14733285.2025.2545347#d1e605. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
The article makes a relational ontological contribution to the study of children and young people's digitalized lives. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical framework, the article offers an alternative to the widely used perspectives of technological determinism and social constructivism and argues for using the theoretical concepts of orders of dependencies and anchorings to capture the arrangements of the disparate spatial forces that make up digitalized childhoods. The article draws on ethnographic fieldwork carried out with Norwegian children and their families, aiming to empirically open up new paths for research that seeks to understand how agency is spatially distributed within orders of dependencies in digitalized childhoods. The result is a relational ontological exploration that aims to contribute to new understandings of the practicalities of digitalized childhoods.

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Næss, Øyvind (2024). How do smartphones shape belonging in a digitalized childhood? uni.oslomet.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
https://uni.oslomet.no/belong/2024/05/30/how-do-smartphones-shape-belonging-in-a-digitalized-childhood/
Næss, Øyvind (2024). The desire to move without moving; anchorings and transactional arrangements in a digitalized childhood. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Næss, Øyvind; Steinnes, Kamilla Knutsen & Reich, Clara Julia (2023). Digitalized childhoods: A discussion on the co-production of childhoods by humans, materialities, and discourses. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Næss, Øyvind (2023). The co-production of subjectivities within digitalized childhoods. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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Universitetet i Innlandet
Postboks 400 Vestad
2418 Elverum