Academic interests
I am interested in children's and adolescents' experience of belonging and identity in a mediated reality. The PhD project is a qualitative study of youth between 16 and 19 years of age, and their media habits and uses of YouTube from the following perspectives:
- Media habits and entertainment media as symbolic goods and identity markers
- Class and social differences
- Internet culture and identity
- Internet as an extension of reality
- Authenticity
Until December of 2023 a visiting scholar at the Department for Youth and Media Entertainment, University of Amsterdam
Webpage with contact information: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/j/a/e.jansdottir-arneberg/e.jansdottir-arneberg.html
Information about the project I am visiting:
See me, Be me, the Power of Media Representation
Webpage: https://seemebeme.org/
Background
I have worked as a singer, vocal coach and teacher of music, social science and philosophy/religion, and have a master’s in education research from the University of Oslo where I looked at how young adults use computer games in their identity-construction (see link to article below).
Positions held
PhD-Doctoral Research fellow
Partners
Global Natives