Sofie Flensburg

Sofie Flensburg

PhD, Tenure track Assistant Professor

  • Karen Blixens Plads 8

    2300 København S

Personal profile

Current research

My research lies at the intersection between internet infrastructure studies, digital and data economy, and communication policy and is theoretically grounded in political economy, media ecology/medium theory, and institutional history. I am interested in the ongoing evolution and institutionalisation of the internet and my research generally aims at documenting, analysing, and understanding this critical turning point in the history of communication. More specifically, it uncovers the often-hidden ecologies, power structures, and modes of governance that are built into internet infrastructures by focusing on for instance backbone networks, digital distribution systems, websites and apps, and data harvesting. As such, my research spans and combines theoretical, methodological, and empirical approaches to studying emergent digital infrastructures, markets and policies as fundational, structural conditions for communication.

Primary fields of research

  • Internet infrastructures
  • Digital political economy
  • Tracking across app and web ecosystems
  • Media and communication history
  • Communication policy and regulation

Teaching

  • Internet infrastructures
  • Digital political economy
  • Tracking across app and web ecosystems
  • Media and communication history
  • Communication policy and regulation
  • Media subsidies and ethics
  • News and journalism

CV

Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen 2021 -

Postdoc, Datafied Living, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen 2020-2021

Research assistant, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen 2019-2020

Ph.D. in digital communication, University of Copenhagen 2015-2019

Cand. comm. in Journalism Studies and History, University of Roskilde 2006-2014

Research assistent, Centre for News Studies, University of Roskilde 2014-2015

Journalist, dk-medier 2013-2014

Education/Academic qualification

Journalism and history, Master, Roskilde University

20062014

Award Date: 10 Mar 2014

External positions

Research assistant, Roskilde University

1 Feb 201430 Oct 2015

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities

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