Mette Mortensen

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Primary fields of research

• Media and conflict
• Images and conflict
• Journalism studies
• Social media
• Cross media communication
• Celebrity studies

Current research

• PI, research project Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images (2017-2021, Velux foundation)
• Visual icons of war and conflict
• Media coverage and media censorship of terrorism
• "Fake news" and images from war
• Humanitarian communication and visual representations of refugees
• Selfies and other self representations

Teaching

• My areas of supervision include media and conflict, images and conflict, visual communication, journalism, social media, cross media communication, celebrity studies, political communication. 

Selected publications

1. Published

   Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict

   Mortensen, Mette, 2015, New York: Routledge. 182 p. (Routledge research in journalism, Vol. 8).

   Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   Social Media Materialities and Protest: Critical reflections

   Mortensen, Mette (ed.), Neumayer, C. (ed.) & Poell, T. (ed.), 2019, London: Routledge. 164 p.

   Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review

3. Published

   Proximity and Distance in the Mediation of Suffering: Local Photographers in War-Torn Aleppo and the International Media Circuit

   Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke & Mortensen, Mette, 2020, In : Journalism. 21, 6, p. 729–745

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

4. Published

   Struggles for Visibility: Surveillance Representations and Self-Representations of Terrorists in the News Media

   Mortensen, Mette, 2019, In : Journalism Studies. 20, 7, p. 911-931

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

5. Published

   The Mobile Archive of the Self: On the Interplay between Aesthetic and Metric Modes of Communication

   Mortensen, Mette & Lomborg, Stine, 2019, In : International Journal of Communication. 13, p. 6006-6020 15 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

6. Published

   De-celebrification: Beyond the Scandalous

   Mortensen, Mette & Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard, 2020, In : Celebrity Studies. 11, 1, p. 89-100

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review