I am interested in the ways our media, especially digital media, shape us. My research addresses the challenges and potentials that follow from the ubiquitous influence of digital media and technology in our society - on an individual, social and societal level.

In particular, I focus on how digital media such as laptops, smartphones and tablet computers are reconstructing our classrooms. How digital, interactive media create educational environments affording didactic possibilities - i.e. in terms of  new forms of activating, multimodal, student-centered learning. On the other hand, the new environment also causes a range of challenges. My work aims to provide guidelines for developing digital media didactic solutions.

Another research interest of mine concerns the relation between media and sports. This includes the interplay between mass media and social network media, e.g. as expressed in hashtag-based football fan activism, and in communities and user patterns among Tour de France fans on Twitter. 

Lately, I have focussed on the group of digital phenomena known as short-form media. This includes TikTok, YouTube shorts, stories on Instagram, Snapchat, memes etc.

2014-
Associate Professor in media studies. Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics. Danish Studies. University of Copenhagen. 

2010-2014
Assistant Professor in media didactics. Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics. Danish Studies. University of Copenhagen. 

2007     
3 months stay at Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto.

2006-2009
Ph.d. Department of media, cognition and communication. University of Copenhagen. Thesis: Survival of the Mediated: Speech, the printing press and the internet as selection mechanisms in cultural evolution. Won the 2010-award “The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology” from the Media Ecology Association. 

1997-2004
MA. in media studies and linguistics. University of Aarhus.