PI: Susana Tosca, professor SDU
Susana Tosca is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Over the last twenty years, her research has combined aesthetic and media studies approaches to investigating the reception of digital media. She has published widely on the areas of hypertext, digital literature, computer games, transmediality and Japanese popular culture media. She is the author of the books Sameness and Repetition in Contemporary Media Culture, Transmedial Worlds in Everyday Life, Understanding Videogames and Literatura Digital. Apart from DIEM, she is currently PI of the projects Pop-culture imaginaries in the museum (funded by Augustinus Foundation), and Transmedial Travel Imaginaries in Japan and Danmark (funded by the Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science).
Besides managing the overall DIEM project, Susana is part of SP1, SP4 and SP5. Her main research focus in the project delves into the existential dimensions of digital entertainment.
CI: Louise Yung Nielsen, associate professor RUC
Louise Yung Nielsen focuses on digital embodiment, digital labor, and visual culture in her teaching and research. Her recent work delves into the embodied, gendered, and affective aspects of digital media and technologies. Previously, she explored emotional labor in digital working life and how digital platforms constitute work environment for gig workers, content creators, gamers, and influencers.
Louise’s subproject SP 2 investigates embodied spectatorship in everyday media use. She is specifically interested in the genre of oddly satisfying content.
Emily Cousins, postdoc SDU
Emily Cousins is a multi-disciplinary researcher with an interest in exploring how arts and culture can support health and wellbeing across the life course. Her previous work has focused on creative activities, care planning and social prescribing for older adults and people living with dementia. She enjoys using a variety of research methods and combining approaches from diverse disciplines.
Emily contributes to SP3, SP4 and SP5, and aims to develop understandings of how everyday engagement with digital music entertainment can affect wellbeing.
Eva Myrczik, postdoc SDU
Eva is a postdoctoral researcher with a special interest in digital culture, digital media and museums. Eva has a PhD degree on the topic of Digital Museum Communication from the University of Copenhagen, where she also conducted several studies on digital museum practices, digitalization and the role of culture. For her empirical research, Eva has been using multi-method designs including interviews, focus groups, surveys, observation, data scraping, and document analysis.
Eva contributes to SP 1 & 3 & 4, conducting research on the everyday entanglements of digital entertainment, the role of disconnection, and a case study at a museum exhibition.