Media studies
Section of Media Studies studies the role of media in culture, politics and society, including the social and cultural changes brought about by the commercialization, globalization and digitalization of media.
We are particularly interested in topics such as media and power, media and popular culture, news and journalism, social media, communication across platforms, visual communication, political communication, and media policy and regulation.
Section of Media Studies brings together scholars from the humanities and the social sciences who share an interest in theoretical approaches such as mediatization, datafication and individualization. Empirically we apply both quantitative and qualitative methods as well as current and historical perspectives. Section members especially teach at the BA-, MA- and elective programs in Film and Media Studies.
Key research areas at Section of Media Studies are:
- Media and popular culture, including the role of media in the negotiation of cultural value and the boundaries of high/popular culture. We are interested in the production of popular culture and the wider circulation of images, values, attitudes and cultural practices among media users and audiences, including cultural phenomena such as celebrities, fan communities, children and young people’s media practices, ageing and lifestyle.
- News and journalism across platforms, including the interplay of news media and social media in cultural production and political opinion making. We are interested in changing conceptions of media professionals and citizens in the creation, circulation and consumption of media content and visual communication on a day-to-day basis and in times of crisis. We engage with topics spanning the hard/soft news divide and with media content within and beyond traditional genre conventions.
- Media, politics and democracy, including current changes to political communication, the public sphere and democracy, such as the challenges and opportunities pertaining to the empowerment and fragmentation of audiences, polarization and radicalization of opinion, and the rethinking of media content and journalism in view of misinformation and disinformation. The research group collects comparative insights about the magnitude of these challenges and opportunities, discusses practical solutions and feeds them into public and political debates.
- Media policy and regulation, including institutional and organisational perspectives. The research group studies the media’s changing technological, institutional and financial conditions and how such changed value chains influence media production, distribution and use. This research aims to contribute to current media policy debates and media policy-making, which increasingly requires evidence-based research.
From Ivory Tower to Twitter: Rethinking the Cultural Critic in Contemporary Media Culture
Funding: Danish Research Council for Independent Research: Culture and Communication (FKK)
Ends: 31 August 2019
Contact: Nete Nørgaard Kristensen
Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images
Funding: Velux
Project period: 1 February 2017 til 31 July 2021
Contact: Mette Mortensen
INVENT: European Inventory of Societal Values of Culture as a Basis for Inclusive Cultural Policies
Funding: H2020
Project period: 1 February 2020 to 31 July 2023
Contact: Nete Nørgaard Kristensen
ProDem – Protests and Democracy: How Movement Parties, Social Movements and Active Citizens are Reshaping Europe
Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
Project period: 1 December 2020 to 30 November 2023
Contact: Christina Neumayer
Researchers
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christensen, Christa Lykke | Associate professor | +45 353-28116 | |
| Hjarvard, Stig | Professor | +45 353-28113 | |
| Jerslev, Anne | Professor | +45 353-28111 | |
| Johansen, Mikkel Bækby | PhD fellow | +45 353-32356 | |
| Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard | Professor | +45 353-29361 | |
| Lassen, Julie Mejse Münter | Research assistant | +45 353-33934 | |
| Liisberg, Kasper Bering | Part-time lecturer | +45 353-28127 | |
| Marquart, Franziska | Postdoc | +45 353-36017 | |
| McCrow-Young, Ally | Postdoc | +45 353-30517 | |
| Menke, Manuel | Assistant professor, tenure track | +45 353-33526 | |
| Mortensen, Mette | Professor | +45 353-29181 | |
| Neumayer, Christina | Associate professor | +45 353-33467 | |
| Skytte, Maria Mørch Brinkmann | PhD fellow | +45 353-34207 | |
| Søndergaard, Henrik | Associate professor | +45 353-28128 | |
| Sükösd, Miklós Áron | Associate professor | +45 353-31324 | |
| Trenz, Hans-Jörg | Professor | +45 353-28160 |
Contact
Professor Nete Nørgaard Kristensen
New book: Rethinking Cultural Criticism: New Voices in the Digital Age
Nete Nørgaard Kristensen and co-editors Unni From (University of Aarhus) and Helle Kannik Haastrup (University of Copenhagen) publish the international edited book with Palgrave MacMillan.
Is there a particular ”Nordicness”?
The 2020 volume of Nordic Journal of Media Studies addresses the very title of the journal. Is there such a thing as a particular “Nordicness” is the challenging question which this issue poses.
Events
January 1, 2021
The section welcomes a new colleague, postdoc Franziska Marquart to be part of Nete Nørgaard Kristensen’s H2020-projekt INVENT.
Tuesday January 12, 2021, 14.00-15.30
Section meeting
Professor Nete Nørgaard Kristensen and professor Mette Mortensen present their joint research about The memefication of political leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tuesday February 23, 2021, 13.00-14.30
Section meeting
Associate professor Stine Lomborg from DICO/COMM presents her DFF- and ERC-projects on “Datafied Living”.
March 1, 2021
The section welcomes a new colleague, Matthias Hoffmann, to be part of Christina Neumeyer’s VolkswagenStiftung projekt, ProDem.
Tuesday March 16, 2021, 11.00-12.30
Section seminar
David Buckingham, Emeritus Professor of Media and Communications at Loughborough University, gives a talk on “Media and cultural education in the age of digital capitalism”. Read more
Tuesday April 20, 2021, 11.00-12.30
Section meeting
Postdoc Ally McCrow-Young presents her ongoing research on media policy related to the Christchurch shooting and Facebook livestreaming.
Tuesday May 18, 2021, 11.00-12.30
Section meeting
Topic to be announced
June 10, 2021
Joint research seminar with Section of Film and Creative Media Industries and Section of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum.
Tuesday June 15, 2021, 11.00-12.30
Section meeting
Mikkel Bækby Johansen presents his ongoing PhD-research on Intellectuals in the digital age,