Mogens Olesen

Primary fields of research

• Medium Theory/medieøkologi
• Digitale medier/web 2.0
• Marshall McLuhan
• e-læring
• medieevolution/mediehistorie
• medier og aktivisme
• medier og sport
• mediedidaktik
• Affordance-teori

Current research

I am interested in the ways our media, especially digital media, shape us. My research addresses the challenges and potentials that follow from the ubiquitous influence of digital media and technology in our society - on an individual, social and societal level.

In particular, I focus on how digital media such as laptops, smartphones and tablet computers are reconstructing our classrooms. I study how these interactive media create an educational environment that affords new didactic possibilities - i.e. for e-learning - in terms of e.g. activating, multimodal, student-centered learning. On the other hand, the new environment also causes challenges. Despite that there is a general call for integrating IT in education, in practice the know-how concerning the practical implementation of e-learning remains sparse. My work aims to provide guidelines for developing digital media didactic solutions.

Another research of mine concerns football fan activism on social media

Teaching

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CV

2014-
Associate Professor in media studies. Institute of Nordic Studies and Linguistics. Danish Studies. University of Copenhagen. 

2010-2014
Assistant Professor in media didactics. Institute of Nordic Studies and Linguistics. Danish Studies. University of Copenhagen. 

2007     
3 months stay at Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto.

2006-2009
Ph.d. Instistitute of media, cognition and communication. University of Copenhagen. Thesis: Survival of the Mediated: Speech, the printing press and the internet as selection mechanisms in cultural evolution. Won the 2010-award “The Harold A. Innis Award for Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation in the Field of Media Ecology” from the Media Ecology Association. 

1997-2004
MA. in media studies and linguistics. University of Aarhus.