Nete Nørgaard Kristensen

Primary fields of research

• Media and popular culture
• Media and cultural democracy
• Journalism studies
• Arts, cultural and lifestyle journalism
• Cultural criticism
• Political communication

Current research

• Audience engagement in scandal across media
• Influencer logics and news logics
• The what, why and who of cultural journalism 
• Cultural criticism and cultural critics
• Europeans' digital cultural participation

Short presentation

I specialise in research about news media and popular culture, especially cultural journalism and cultural criticism across media, incl. the interplay of cultural journalists and their news sources from the cultural industries; media sociological perspectives on cultural journalism; and longitudinal studies of the transformation of cultural journalism in the news media. Based on a Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship I am turning parts of my extensive work on cultural journalism in the digital age into a monograph to be published by Routledge. From Fall 2024 to Spring 2028 I am PI of the DFF2-research project EXPOSING: the Public Value of Socio-Mediated Scandals in the Digital Age, studying audience engagement in scandals across media. From 2025-2028, I am appointed to be part of Independt Research Fund Denmark's council for the Humanities.

CV

Employment
2019- : Professor, Dept. of Communication, UCPH
2006-2019: Associate Professor, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, UCPH
2003-2006: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Media, Cognition and Communication, UCPH
2000-2003: PhD-fellow, Dept. of Film and Media Studies, UCPH

Research projects/grants
2024-2028: PI, DFF2-research project, "EXPOSING: The Public Value of Socio-Mediated Scandals in the Digital Age", funder: Independent Research Fund Denmark
2023-2025: Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship, funder: Carlsberg Foundation
2022-2023: Guest professorship, Erasmus Research Center for Media, Communication and Culture, funder: Erasmus School of History, Culture & Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam 
2020-2023: Danish partner and WP leader in H2020-project, "INVENT: European Inventory of the Societal Value of Culture", funder: European Commission, https://inventculture.eu/
2015-2019: PI, DFF2-research project "FITT: From Ivory Tower to Twitter: Rethinking the Cultural Critic in Contemporary Media Culture", funder: Independent Research Fund Denmark
2018: PI, project on media use and information about arts and culture, funder: Dagspressens Fond
2016-2017: PI, Nordic comparative project, "A Question of Quality?", funder: Arts Council Norway
2014-2015: PI, Nordic Network for Cultural Journalism Research, funder: NOS-HS

Education
2003: PhD in Media Studies, UCPH
1999: MA in Media Studies, UCPH
1996: DELF (Diplôme d'études en langue française), DALF (Diplôme approfondi d'études en langue française), Université Alphes Grenoble
1995: BA in Film & Media Studies