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.

News

Course literature in Audience Research

18 March 2021 |

Are you looking for literature to include in your curriculum about audience research? Or something to read in order to be more familiar with this field of research?

A Podcast about "the fat life"

26 February 2021 |

兴发娱乐官网手机版客户端s from AM Life have started a podcast series (in Danish) about fat activism.

A current snapshot of digital reading practices

19 February 2021 |

The question of how audiences deal with digital reading, or the reception of digital texts, has fuelled a lot of discussion throughout the last thirty years or so, and became current again in Denmark last week through two events: the publication of a report on reading habits and a conference at Aarhus University (held digitally).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

A New International Order in Cultural Life? An Institutional Perspective on the Music Field in Northern Europe

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.

DataPublics

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.

If you liked that, you will love this. The aesthetics of sameness and repetition in contemporary media culture

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 �C 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

A cultural policy of the future? On visions and rationales in contemporary Danish Cultural Policy
Lindelof, A. M. & Bille, T., Aug 2024.
Research output: Contribution to conference ? Paper ? Research ? peer-review
"Aqua's Aquarium" authored by C. C. McKee
Holt, F. (Editor) & McKee, C. C., 2024, New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 168 p. (33 1/3 Europe).
Research output: Book/Report ? Book ? Research ? peer-review
"Ardit Gjebrea��s Projekt Jon" authored by Nicholas Tochka
Holt, F. (Editor), 23 Feb 2024, Bloomsbury Academic. 160 p. (33 1/3 Europe).
Research output: Book/Report ? Book ? Research ? peer-review