Research areas

audience studies, digital media competences, digital content creation, creative user-generated innovation, media history, museum communication, qualitative metodology,

Tasks

Founding director of DREAM: Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials, a national R&D centre facilitating the formation of digital learning resources and creative media literacies

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Research profile
Extensive insight and experience in directing international frontier research across humanities, social and natural sciences with special focus on media audiences, digital learning and literacies, participatory content creation, and museum communication.
Extensive academic experience as research fellow and visiting professor in a number of countries (Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States) and at a range of research institutions (universities, research labs, archives).

Academic appointments
Since 2000 Professor of media studies, University of Southern Denmark
1990-2000 Associate professor, Institute of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Scientific leadership
Since 2011 Chair, Danish Centre for Museum Research www.museumsforskning.dk
2011-12 Director of the research programme ’Media, learning and knowledge formation’, Institute of Literature, Culture and Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark
Since 2004 Founding director of a national research centre, Dream: Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials www.dream.dk
1994-2000 Founding director of Centre of Child and Youth Media Studies.

Academic qualifications
2004-05 Certified course in research management, Copenhagen Business School
1985 Dr.phil., Aarhus University, Denmark
1977 MA in English and Danish studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Research funding
The European Union, the European Science Foundation, Danish TeleCom, the Danish Council for Research Policy and Planning, the Danish Research Council for the Humanities, the Danish Research Council for Strategic Research (Programme Committee on ICT research, Program committee on Creativity and Innovation), the Danish Ministry of Research, the Danish Ministry of Culture, the Danish Library Board, Jyske Bank.

Current positions of trust
Since 2012 Chair of the Humanities Scientific Committee, Science Europe
Since 2012 Member of Research Policy Committee, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
2012-13 Member of Quality Reference Group, ‘Media’ Forward Look, European Science Foundation
Since 2010 Board member, Danish Research Council of Independent Research
Since 2010 Member of the Spinoza Prize Committee, under NWO
Since 2010 Member of the Tietgen Prize Committee, DEA
Since 2007 Chair, board of governers for the research outreach site Videnskab.dk
Since 2007 Board member, The Clara Lachmann Foundation.

Research experience
2012-14 Partner in NordForsk-network ‘Nordic Research Network on Learning Across Contexts (NordLAC)’; grant holder professor Ola Erstad, Oslo University
2011-14 Partner in Nordisk Council of Ministers network ‘Culture Kick: Knowledge, Innovation, and Commercialising Knots for design research within digital heritage’; grant holder Dr. Dagny Stuedahl, Oslo University
2012-13 Partner in transatlantic network ‘Developing and Investigating Methodologies for Researching Connected Learning’, funded by The MacArthur Foundation; grant holder professor Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics
2011-13 Member of working group one, ’New media genres, media literacy and trust in the media’, under COST Action ISO906 ’Tansforming audiences, transforming societies’.

Editorial
Editorial board member of Communication, Culture & Critique; Girlhood Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal; Human Communication Research (associate); Int. Journal of Learning and Media; Int. Journal of Cultural Studies; Journal of Feminist Media Studies; Journal of Children and Media; Digital kompetanse (panel).

Recent publications in English
K. Drotner & K.C. Schrøder (eds.) (2013) Museum Communication and Social Media: The Connected Museum. New York: Routledge. In press.
Drotner, K. (2011) ‘Children's media culture: A key to libraries of the future?’ pp. 39-47 in Ingrid Bon, Andrew Cranfield & Karen Latimer (eds.) Designing library space for children. Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur. See: http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/ifla-publications-series-154.
K. Drotner (2011) ‘The cult of creativity: Opposition, incorporation, transformation’, pp. 72-80 in J. Sefton Green, P. Thomson, L. Bresler & K. Jones (eds), The Routledge international handbook of creative learning. London: Routledge.
K. Drotner (2011) ‘Domains of digital literacy learning: Beyond easy oppositions, pp. 36-37 in S. Livingstone (ed.), Media literacy: Ambitions, policies and measures. Brussels: Report from COST Action: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies.
K. Drotner & D. Laursen (eds.) (2011) ‘Digital technologies and museum experiences’. Special issue of MedieKultur vol. 28, no. 50. See: http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/5214/4611
K. Drotner & K.C. Schrøder (eds.) (2010) Digital Content Creation: Creativity, Competence, Critique New York: Peter Lang.

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• Medievidenskab - Professor

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