Research Group Audiences & Mediated life
The research group Audiences & Mediated Life (AMLife) is a multi-disciplinary and internationally oriented research group focused on the study of audiences in mediated societies. The name of the group is a reminder that many, if not all, aspects of our life are mediated by media, communication and technology, and hence our role as audience is vital for the conduct of everyday life and society, with far-reaching implications for democratic, public and private life. The research group recognizes the everyday as an important site of study, for through it are media, communication and technology appropriated, used and given meaning.
AMLife is dedicated to developing an audience-based agenda and perspective on current topics and debates, as well as to advance theoretical, methodological and empirical accounts of the concept of audience and emphasize its role in research on media, communication and technology. The group’s current interests reach broadly to processes of news consumption, media reception, cross-media uses, publics of cultural institutions, users of social and digital media and datafication of audiences.
The group provides teaching at the Department of Communication and Arts at both 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 and Master levels in the area of media studies, social media, digital media, and teaches about the implications of audiences, conceptualized in a variety of ways (citizens, consumers, users, produsers, etc.) for a variety of communicative contexts, including strategic communication.
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Meet the researchers
From left to right, on the first line: Troels Fib?k Bertel, Susana Tosca, Josephine Lehaff, Julie Vulpius. From left to right, on the back: Sander Schwartz, Chris Peters, David Mathieu, Fabian Holt, Kim Schr?der, Morten Fischer Sivertsen, Niklas Chimirri, Leif Hemming Pedersen.
Facebook comments challenge the Danish Parliament
Comments and interactions on social media platforms contain invaluable data that politicians can use to investigate the masses and find out what the voters think. However, they are actually not as easy to decipher as one might think. A researcher from 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University is trying to make heads and tails of it.
When Game of Thrones becomes a common language to talk about serious issues
In a changed media landscape, pop culture references become a common language - one that is moving beyond the fictional entertainment universes and gets used as a framework to talk about everyday life or serious subjects, shows the research of Associate Professor Susana Tosca.
There is potential in digital testimonies - but how great is it?
The intention behind citizen-driven election monitoring is to contribute to transparency and a peaceful democracy, but as an approach, it has some barriers. This is revealed by the research of 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University Associate Professor Norbert Wildermuth.
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Contact
David Mathieu // Research Group Leader // Associate Professor // mathieu@ruc.dk
Susana Tosca // Research Group Co-Leader // Associate Professor // stosca@ruc.dk
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Audiences & Mediated Life is envolved in a number of research projects:
This project, run by Fabian Holt, will develop new sociological theory and methodology to analyze the changing outlook and functions of cultural institutions in northern Europe, in particular within the music field, from the perspective that cultural institutions are evolving in new international processes of digitalization and centralization of ownership.
The project, headed by Jannie M?ller Hartley, examines what the ever-increasing amount of data available in our society means to Journalism, and thus sheds light on the changes in the relations between the news media and the news users.
The goal of this book project by Susana Tosca is to scrutinize repetition and sameness in a media cultural context, as an overarching category that constitutes a fusion of aesthetic and market strategies.
Beyond the Here and Now of News
This project, led by Chris Peters and Kim Schr?der, aims to understand the conditions that make news matter. It investigates the emergence, disappearance and (re)formation of news repertoires in everyday life and across the lifespan in order to provide fundamental insights into what underlies people’s shifting patterns of use.
is to scrutinize repetition and sameness in a media cultural context, as an overarching category that constitutes a fusion of aesthetic and market strategies.Online theater and new audiences
The project is a collaboration between Applaus, Iscene and Susana Tosca. 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 research the online theater performances in Danish cultural life during the Corona Pandemics. The aim of the project is to find out what kinds of formats have been possible, and what kind of audience experience they have facilitated.
Media, Security Crises and Youth in 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端st Africa
The Independent Research Fund Denmark – Humanities has granted DKK 1.2 mill. to an international network of researchers, including Norbert Wildermuth, who will explore how young people in 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端st Africa navigate streams of information in crises of security, health, and migration.
Trust in datafied media and technologies
This project, developed by David Mathieu, Jannie M?ller Hartley, Sander Andreas Schwartz and Norbert Wildermuth, looks at citizens’ appropriation and interpretation of datafied media and technologies in the context of their everyday life, with a focus on issues of privacy, trust and agency.
Find additional about projects at 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University Research Portal
Publications
"Ardit Gjebrea’s Projekt Jon" authored by Nicholas Tochka
Holt, F. (ed.), 23 Feb 2024, Bloomsbury Academic. 160 p. (33 1/3 Europe).Research output: Book/Report ? Book ? Research ? peer-review
Audience Development and its Blind Spot: A Quest for Pleasure and Play in the Discussion of Performing Arts Institutions
Lindelof, A. M., 2024, A Reader on Audience Development and Cultural Policy. Hadley, S. (ed.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Book chapter ? Research ? peer-review
Making sense of audiences in a time of generative AI
Heuser, M., Vulpius, J. & Mahnke, M. S., 19 Jun 2024.Research output: Contribution to conference ? Conference abstract for conference ? Research ? peer-review
Activities
10th European Communication Conference (Event)
Kim Christian Schr?der (Editor)
8 Aug 2024Activity: Editorial work and peer review ? Peer review of manuscripts ? Research
Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark
Kim Christian Schr?der (Speaker), Mads K?msgaard Eberholst (Participant) & Mark ?rsten (Participant)
2 May 2024 → 3 May 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event ? Organisation and participation in conference
Emerging directions in news use research (University of Surrey)
Kim Christian Schr?der (Participant)
20 Mar 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event ? Organisation and participation in conference
Press-media
De seneste ?r har hun domineret poplandskabet. Men er publikum ved at blive tr?tte af Taylor Swift?
25/04/2024
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
En trend p? sociale medier g?r hendes liv bedre - kan v?re genial, siger forsker
25/04/2024
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
Base at 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University
The research groups is a part of Department of Communication and Arts
Related research units: Journalism and Democracy research group // Media and Culture research group // Centre for News Research
PhD School: Doctoral School of Communication and Arts
Education progranmmes: Journalistik (DK) // Communication // Culturel Encounters // Performance Design (DK) // Psykologi (DK) // 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 in Global Humanities
Facilities: Digital Media Lab
Research from 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University
More about the research group
Additional information about Audiences & Mediated Life
The research group at 兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端 University Research Portal
Contact
David Mathieu
Research Group Leader // Associate Professor
Phone +45 4674 3144
mathieu@ruc.dk