Nete Nørgaard Kristensen

Nete Nørgaard Kristensen

Professor

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. I have led a Nordic research network on cultural journalism (funded by NOS-HS 2014-15), been PI for a compartive research project about discourses on popular culture, such as quality TV-series and bestselleres, in Nordic news media (funded by Arts Council Norway 2016-17) and the research project FITT: From Ivory Tower to Twitter: Rethinking the Cultural Critic in Contemporary Media Culture (2015-19). From 2020-2023, I was Danish partner and WP-leader in the H2020-project, INVENT (https://inventculture.eu/). Based on a Carlsberg Monograph Fellowship I will in 2023-24 turn parts of my extensive work on cultural journalism in the digital age into a monograph to be published by Routledge, and from Fall 2024 to Spring 2028 I am PI for th DFF2-research project EXPOSING: the Public Value of Socio-Mediated Scandals in the Digital Age", studying scandals across media.

Primary fields of research

My primary research fields are media and journalism studies, incl.:

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

Teaching:

  • BA in film- and media studies, 2019-: Module "Reception and use of film and media"
  • MA in film- and media studies, 2019- : Module "Digital Media Structures and Creative Film- and Media Industries"
  • MA in film- and media studies, 2013-2018: Module "Journalism, Culture and Society: Theory and Analysis" 
  • Mentor, 1st year MA students, 2015-
  • Supervision of BA- and MA-theses 

 

Current research

My current research includes

  • Cultural journalism in the digital age
  • Cultural critics in the media and across media
  • Europeans' conceptions of, expressions about and particiation in culture across media 
  • Political communication in a Nordic context

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Rethinking Cultural Criticism: New Voices in the Digital Age

    Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard (ed.), From, U. (ed.) & Haastrup, Helle Kannik (ed.), 2021, Palgrave Macmillan. 264 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  2. Published

    Cultural Journalism in the Nordic Countries

    Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard (ed.) & Riegert, K. (ed.), May 2017, Göteborg: Nordicom. 207 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  3. Published

    Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in the Media

    Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard & From, U., Jan 2017, London: Routledge. 170 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  4. Published

    Power, Communication and Politics in the Nordic Countries

    Skogerbø, E. (ed.), Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard (ed.), Ihlen, Ø. (ed.) & Nord, L. (ed.), 2021, Nordicom. 398 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  5. Published

    The Cultural Journalist Around the Globe: A Comparative Study of Characteristics, Role Perceptions, and Perceived Influences

    Hovden, J. F. & Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard, 16 Aug 2018, In: Journalism. 22, 3, p. 689-708

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    From Ivory Tower to Cross-Media Personas: The heterogeneous cultural critic in the media

    Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard & From, U., 15 Jul 2015, In: Journalism Practice. 9, 6, p. 853-871 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Churnalism, Cultural (Inter)mediation and Sourcing in Cultural Journalism

    Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard, 2018, In: Journalism Studies. 19, 14, p. 2168-2186 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in a Changing Media Landscape

    Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard & From, U., 22 Jul 2015, In: Journalism Practice. 9, 6, p. 760-772 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    EU cultural policy and audience perspectives: How cultural value orientations are related to media usage and country context

    Verboord, M. & Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard, 28 Aug 2020, In: International Journal of Cultural Policy. 27, 4, p. 528-543 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Lifestyle journalism: Blurring boundaries

    Kristensen, Nete Nørgaard & From, U., 2012, In: Journalism Practice. 6, 1, p. 26-41 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

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