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Activities and publications


Publications

Tosca, S. (2024). Immersive Audiences: Dreaming Of Living in Media. In: Hill, A., & Lunt, P. (Eds.). The Routledge Companion to Media Audiences (First edition). Routledge.

Popular Communication

Louise Yung Nielsen, featured in Podcast: Det digitale menneske, focus on Only Fans (June 2025).

Louise Yung Nielsen, Podcast on why *we* follow AI influencers and on how the fashion industry is changing because of AI (models). AI-influencere –Det perfekte liv i pixels.

Louise Yung Nielsen, Interview in national newspaper Politiken on content for girls on TikTok. “Ny trend dukker op hos '16-årige Freja' på Tiktok: Det er forførende ... og skaber bekymring”, (April 2025).

Louise Yung Nielsen talks about  how social media is dissolving intimacy and perhaps even creating digital bodies in a Radio Interview on DR K-Live. Ugens Popsmart (25 March 2025). Listen here to the K-Live Episode.

Louise Yung Nielsen talks  about digital intimacy in article "Harry Potter-skuespiller tjener penge på at rede hår: Sådan er det intime til salg" (author: Julie Würtz) (28 March 2025).  Read more in the DR article (in Danish).

Emily Cousins presents "Can podcasts, music streaming and audio books support wellbeing?" at Book a Scientist programme, National Danish Science Festival, organised by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. April 2025 (online).


Participation in seminars and conferences 

Upcoming 

Panel and Presentation at Nordmedia Conference

13-15 August

SDU, Odense

DIEM team members Emily Cousins, Susana Tosca, and Eva Myrczik: individual papers 

1) Common panel session  "Moods, Brainrot and Curation: exploring the rhythms and concepts of digital entertainment in everyday life"

Louise Yung Nielsen: individual presentation

2) “Bro I can put my criminal record in that washing machine and I will have a job by tomorrow”. Exploring the reception of "Oddly Satisfying" videos through user-generated commentary. 

Research Presentation

Nordic Arts & Health Research Network Conference

30 Sept. – 1 October

Turku University, Finland 

Emily Cousins, presentation

“Digital audio entertainment for wellbeing: findings from creative workshops with older adults” 

Research Presentation

AoIR Conference 

15-18 October

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Emily Cousins, conference workshop  

“Rhythms of Rupture and Repair: An experimental workshop exploring digital entertainment technologies, platforms and user wellbeing”

 

Research presentations

30-31 October

ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Conference

Södertorn University, Stockholm

Presentations at Navigating Algorithmic Society: Audiences’ tactics to understanding the world, ECREA Conference.
Susana Tosca:

"TikTok Made Me Do It: Trend Rhythms and Everyday Interactions"

Eva Myrczik:

"Listened, felt, and shared: how users experience Spotify Wrapped as collective rhythms"

Research

presentation

14 November

Goethe Universität Frankfurt

Susana Tosca, presentation

"Endless Scrolling: the pleasures of revisiting and recycling in Teen TikTok Use"

Past    

Research presentation

18 June 2025

ICA Post Conference: Labor and Play in Platform Society

Prague, Czech Republic

Nielsen, L. Y., & Bork-Petersen, F. , presentation:

"To sleep or not to sleep: the transactional performance of sleeping and waking on YouTube and Twitch."

Research presentation

16 June 2025

ICA conference

Denver, Colorado  

Eva Myrczik, presentation:

“Is this really entertainment? If I'm feeling so bad about it?”: the conflicting rhythms of digital entertainment."

at 2025 ICA conference online.

Joint research seminar and workshop

6 May

University of Copenhagen

Research seminar in collaboration with "The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life" (SDU) and "Follow Me: The Influence of Danish Digital Media Creators" (KU). 

Early career scholars present their current work & speculative thinking workshop.

 

 

Invited talk

23 April 

University of Bergen

Susana Tosca, presentation

“If You Liked That, You will Love This. About algorithmic recommendation systems”

DiEM research stay at

RMIT Melbourne

Research stay and participation in seminars at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT Melbourne, in collaboration with distinguished professor Larissa Hjorth.  

Postdocs Emily Cousins and Eva Myrczik will conduct field work and participate in workshops and seminars.

Cousins and Myrczik present their projects at the seminar series at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) on 30 April 2025.

February DHRN Seminar

20 February

University of Canterbury

Christchurch, New Zealand

Postdoc Emily Cousins presents

"The Digital Entertainment Machine research project: early findings and emerging ideas" 

at the Digital Humanities Research Network February seminar.

2024 

DiEM internal seminar


Denmark

 

Internal workshops 

Research Award Ceremony for Professor Susana Tosca

6 November 

Odense, Denmark

Presentation of Professor Susana Tosca's research and the DiEM project

at researcher award ceremony by Danish newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende. Read the article about the ceremony in Danish .

ECREA Conference: Communication and social (dis)order

22-27 September

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Louise Yung Nielsen & Susana Tosca: Presentations at ECREA 2024 conference.

Eva Myrczik: Presentation at Pre-conference "Exploring the Dynamics of Digital Disconnection: Disruption, Inequalities, and Norms"

DiEM internal seminar

Korsør, Denmark

Internal workshops and meeting with advisory board
Workshop series "Aging in data"

29 - 31 May 

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona

Participation in workshops on creative and innovative research methods
 

International research meetings

Presentation of the DiEM project and subprojects

Louise Young Nielsen: at University of Copenhagen

Susana Tosca: at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto

SMID Årsmøde

2-3 May 

Aalborg University, Denmark

Rapid Fire Session Presentations

Cousins, E. "Exploring digital entertainment soundscapes and wellbeing"

Myrczik, E. "Simultaneous (dis-) engagements in everyday entertainment"

Northern Star Symposium 

6-8 May

Bodø, Norway

Workshop

Cousins, E. & Myrczik, E. "Patching and Healing: Reflecting on the mending capabilities of everyday digital media rhythms"

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Last Updated 08.07.2025