Maja Brandt Andreasen
Postdoktor
Kontakt
Telefon: 51832138
E-post: maja.b.andreasen@uis.no
Organisasjonsenhet
Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet
Institutt for medie- og samfunnsfag
Kort om meg
Maja Brandt Andreasen is a postdoctoral fellow in Gender Studies. Her current research investigates the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality in the visual culture of the far-right in Scandinavia.
She teaches the BA/MA course Transnational Perspectives on Nordic Gender Equality and Welfare (GEN330, GEN530).
Dette forsker jeg på
Maja's research interests include: online misogyny and the manosphere; rape culture and sexual violence; memes and online visual cultures; humour, ridicule and satire.
Her current project investigates the discursive construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the visual culture of three online far-right extremist platforms in Scandinavia.
This interdisciplinary project brings together feminist theories on the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality with Internet research into online communication strategies of the far right. The project looks specifically at visual content posted to three far-right online platforms – one in Norway, one in Sweden, and one in Denmark. The content consists of memes, cartoons and other types of visual content and it is for the most part characterised as humorous or satirical.
While much research has been done on the communication strategies of the far-right, little research is produced on the specific online communication and dissemination strategies that use popular Internet culture, such as humour, irony, and satire. While humorous communication is often dismissed as “just a joke”, this project aims to take humour seriously and explore what is hidden under the guise of humour.
The project explores how racism is discursively produced in the intersection with gender and sexuality. The aim is thus to investigate how platforms that privilege a white, Nordic perspective simultaneously create a discursive othering of racial, gender, and sexual minorities using media that is otherwise associated with light-hearted, harmless fun.
Akademisk bakgrunn
Maja holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.