In my research, I explore innovation in the media industries, asking how organizations within an old institution (the press) adapt to and appropriate new technologies. In particular, I focus on how news organizations capture data traces from their users and put that resource to use in strategic and tactical decision-making. Furthermore, I research developments in digital business models for media organizations.
I currently work on several projects, and it would be too much to list all of them here. But the most important ones are:
- The Datafied News Industry (2020-): In this project, I research the political economy of how news organizations capture, use, and understand user data as a strategic and editorial resource. Starting January 1, 2024, the Datafied News Industry (DANI) research project is a research core group dedicated to this issue and generously funded by the Velux Foundations.
- MIS: the Media Innovation Subsidies (2023-): Together with Professor Mark Blach-Ørsten, I research what has come out of the first 10 years of the Danish subsidy framework for news-media innovation. This research is supported by Dagspressens Fond.
Past projects:
- Danes’ access to digital news and current affairs (2022-2024)
- Micropayments and Datawalls (2022-2023)
- Business models and futures of the Danish podcast market (2020-2022)
- Digital News Agendas in Scandinavia (2017-2021)
- From Ivory Tower to Twitter (2013-2019)
- Nordic Research Network in Journalism Studies (2010-2013)
- News on the Web (2010-2013)
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