Mette Mortensen
Professor
Department of Communication
Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S
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
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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
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Social Media Materialities and Protest: Critical reflections
Mortensen, Mette (ed.), Neumayer, Christina (ed.) & Poell, T. (ed.), 2019, London: Routledge. 164 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › Research › peer-review
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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. 729–745Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Struggles for Visibility: Surveillance Representations and Self-Representations of Terrorists in the News Media
Mortensen, Mette, 2019, In: Journalism Studies. 20, 7, p. 911-931Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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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
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De-celebrification: Beyond the Scandalous
Mortensen, Mette & Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard, 2020, In: Celebrity Studies. 11, 1, p. 89-100Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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What is the Self in the Celebrity Selfie? Celebrification, Phatic Communication and Performativity
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Conflictual Media Events, Eyewitness Images, and the Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Taking the Extra out of the Extraordinary: Paparazzi photography as an online celebrity news genre
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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