Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen
København, Hovedstaden
Joined March 2009
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Sneaking AI through the backdoor? Piece out in ICS on social media images as source of identification and the use of facial recognition technologies after the Capitol Hill siege.
#OutNow in #iCS
Social Media images constituted an importance source of identification by the authorities in the Capitol Hill siege. Mette Mortensen theorises on the role on facial recognition technologies for such purpose.
#facialrecognition #capitolhill
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One week left to submit abstracts for special issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies, Vol. 7 (2025) on Influencers: Entertainment, Politics, and Strategic Online Culture, deadline 3 April, edited by Anne Jerslev and me.
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Genialt det her😂👏
Jeg har nu blokeret Svinemosevej. Jeg flytter mig ikke før, vi får en CO2 afgift på landbruget!🙂
#dkpol #godweekend
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In mid-june, the Special Issue of NJMS on "The Return of Propaganda" was published. Its timeliness has not really diminished since then. All articles OA: sciendo.com/issue/njms/5/1
Having a rainy (mid)summer? Then perfect for reading this special issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies on "The Return of Propaganda", co-edited with @RKunelius and with stellar articles from ->
sciendo.com/issue/NJMS/5/1
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11 days until the deadline for the position of Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Department of Communication @koebenhavns_uni. As a lucky one on a position like that, I can confirm that it is really great here 😌 employment.ku.dk/tenure-trac…
#AcademicTwitter
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Article out with @netekristensen on alt health influencers during COVID-19 and the drawing of boundaries between authority and authoritarianism in a welfare state.
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Call for Papers: Nordic Journal of Media Studies – Media and Gender: A Nordic Perspective.
Deadline for abstracts 3 April!
Please, RT!
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Please consider submitting a paper to our 2023 issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies - this year on Media and Gender!
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Come work with us! The Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, is hiring four PhD students employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1…
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Join our book launch seminar remotely. It is January 19th and it features a great line-up of scholars @chouliaraki_l @andrewhoskins @wheretheroad @Maria_Kyriakid @BrandAid_World @DrAnkeSchwittay @metmort Remote participation via cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/617/
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So happy to share the news vol co-edited with Ally McCrow-Young on social media images and conflicts has come out with sharp and excellent chapters by @SaumavaM and Brenda Witherspoon, @s_ristovska, @StuartAllan123, Bolette Blaagaard, @JunLIU_UCPH, @nechri, @Luca_Rossi_LR.
This is a really exciting project and an excellent opportunity to work with fabolous @NybroPetersen
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Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews with leading Tories trying explain the situation to the British people
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Please share this opening for an associate professor (permanent/tenured) in digital communication/methods currently posted @roskildeuni in lovely 🇩🇰 with even lovelier colleagues.
🗓️June 13.
Happy to answer questions, if you are interested in applying.
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Part of a very timely issue of Journalism, edited by @metmort @chouliaraki_l looking at 'Flesh Witnessing: Smartphones, UGC and Embodied Testimony' journals.sagepub.com/toc/jou… with work you should read from editors + @s_ristovska @DrAlliRich Sharon Sliwinski @omar_alghazzi
We are hiring a PhD student to work on project with @MetteBengtsson on fact-checking that investigates questions of truth and facts in political debate👇
Come work with me and all the great people at UCPH (COMM) as PhD fellow on my new Carlsberg-funded project on fact-checking @Carlsbergfondet @uni_copenhagen #FactCheck #PhDposition #ucph employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1… App deadline April 19 2022
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Come work with me and all the great people at UCPH (COMM) as PhD fellow on my new Carlsberg-funded project on fact-checking @Carlsbergfondet @uni_copenhagen #FactCheck #PhDposition #ucph employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1… App deadline April 19 2022
Special issue of Journalism, co-edited with marvelous @chouliaraki 'Flest witnessing. Smartphones, UGC and Embodied Testimony'. We are most thankful to authors for brilliant contributions 👇journals.sagepub.com/toc/jou…