Maja Brandt Andreasen

Postdoktor i kjønnsstudier

Maja Brandt Andreasen

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Telefon: 51832138

E-post: maja.b.andreasen@uis.no

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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. 

Publikasjoner

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Andreasen, Maja Brandt

(2024)

Homophobic humour in rape memes. I: The Routledge companion to gender, media and violence.

Routledge.

ISBN 978-1-032-06136-8.

s.423-431.

DOI: 10.4324/9781003200871-46

Andreasen, Maja Brandt

(2020)

'Rapeable' and 'unrapeable' women – the portrayal of sexual violence in Internet memes about #MeToo.

Journal of Gender Studies.

ISSN 0958-9236.

Volum 30.

Hefte 1.

s.102-113.

DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2020.1833185

Bøker og kapitler

Baker, Catherine; Ging, Debbie; Andreasen, Maja Brandt

(2024)

Recommending Toxicity: The role of algorithmic recommender functions on YouTube Shorts and TikTok in promoting male supremacist influencers.

ISBN 978-1-911669-67-8.

Formidling

Andreasen, Maja Brandt

(2024)

Race, gender, and sexuality in far-right extremist memes.

Nordic Conference on Violent Extremism 2024;

2024-06-17 - 2024-06-19.

Andreasen, Maja Brandt

(2024)

Race, gender, and sexuality in the online visual culture of the far-right.

The Danish Gender Conference;

2024-11-04 - 2024-11-06.

Andreasen, Maja Brandt

(2024)

Humour, harm, and hate: The discursive construction of race, gender, and sexuality in far-right extremist memes.

AoIR 2024;

2024-10-30 - 2024-11-02.

Andreasen, Maja Brandt; Jensen, Malene

(2024)

Unge mænd kan ikke undgå manosfæren.

Andreasen, Maja Brandt; Hagemann, Steffen

(2024)

Ny dreng på TikTok? Chokerende hurtigt banker antifeminismen på.

Andreasen, Maja Brandt

(2024)

Manosfæren lokker unge mænd.

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