David Mathieu
Biographic Data
| ID | 291200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mathieu |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mathieu |
| SIGNATURE | MATHIEU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1317-5056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Using digital traces in user research: A mixed-method literature review of the (dis)connections between media research and computational methods
This article presents a mixed-method literature review exploring the (dis)connections in user research between media & communication and computational methods. Drawing on a large dataset from Scopus, the study combines network and keyword analyses with qualitative inquiries to assess interdisciplinary engagement regarding literature that relies on digital traces to produce user studies. Findings reveal limited interaction between the media & comm…
Interview with a vampire: Reviewing the field of digital media and technology through the lens of large language models
This article reviews the evolution of digital media research from the early 1990s to the present through an experimental interview with large language models. Treating generative AI as a situated, fallible “expert,” it combines exploratory review, qualitative probing, and reflexive analysis to trace conceptual shifts in the field, drawing on the archive of MedieKultur. We examine the evolution of digital media technologies and their uses, from on…
Data mirroring: A methodological framework for data-donation-based interviews in media use research
This article introduces “data mirroring,” a methodological framework for conducting data-donation-based interviews using Data Download Packages (DDPs) from digital platforms. Since the General Data Protection Regulation took effect, DDPs have found application in research. While the literature on the value of DDPs primarily points toward scaling and validating aggregate-level data, their potential to illuminate complex user–media relationships wi…
Data reflectivity and user reflexivity: New conceptual pathways for connecting structural approaches with user perspectives
Ongoing societal datafication and, most recently, the widely noticed launch of ChatGPT, continue to raise the “user question”: what role(s) does the user play in datafied, artificial, and automated environments? Recent technological advancements have begun to challenge fundamental assumptions in media and communication theory and, thus, urge scholars to (re-)visit and (re-)examine the interrelations, dynamics, and entanglements of (human) users w…
The Intersectionality of Food Insecurity, Job Insecurity, Healthcare Insecurity, and Mental Health Challenges in NYC Households During Covid-19
Our intersectional research explored food insecurity and job insecurity as predictors of healthcare insecurity and mental health challenges among households living in economic instability since the COVID19 pandemic began. The New York City COVID19 Research Team adapted a validated, web based, anonymous survey questionnaire using a Social Determinants of Health Framework. The study oversampled underserved populations with a total of 2,099 particip…
DataPublics
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on empirical data from US and UK as well as the unique example of Nordic countries where there is a high level of confidence in state and media institutions, this book shows how platforms and algorithms are transforming media, journalism and audiences’ civic practices today.
DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies
This book addresses new challenges to the formation of publics in datafied democracies. It proposes a fresh, complex and nuanced approach to understand 'datapublics' by considering datafication and public formation in the context of audience, journalism and infrastructure studies. The tightly woven chapters shed new light on how platforms, algorithms and their data infrastructure are embedded in journalistic values, discourses and practices, open…
A phenomenology of risks and trust in datafied media
As data collection and analysis have become essential to digital media, citizens are left with the task of evaluating the risks associated with their consumption. Drawing on Schütz and Giddens, this paper develops a phenomenological framework to explain how citizens assess risks regarding the datafication of their media experiences and give their trust to datafied media in the context of everyday life. We identify a continuum of four zones of rel…
DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies
Low on trust, high on use: Datafied media, trust and everyday life
This article explores yet another paradox - aside from the privacy paradox - related to the datafication of media: citizens trust least the media they use most It investigates the role that daily life plays in shaping the trust that citizens place in datafied media. The study reveals five sets of heuristics guiding the trust assessments of citizens: (1) characteristics of media organisations, (2) old media standards, (3) context of use and purpos…
Datafication of Media (and) Audiences: An Introduction
No abstract
Data loop of media and audience: How audiences and media actors make datafication work
As our digital footprints are collected and analysed by the media and fed back at us as new experiences, providing more data to collect, data circulates in a loop from audiences to media and back. This data loop is for media studies an occasion to revisit the media-audience nexus in an age of datafication. We argue that an audience perspective is needed in order to break with the structure-agency linearity in current understanding of datafication…
Designing a Foresight Analysis Exercise on Audiences and Emerging Technologies: Cedar’s Analytical-Intuitive Balance
‘The Deal Should Be Fairer!’ Stakeholder Discourses on Intrusive Media Platforms and Interfaces
Audiences, Towards 2030: Drivers, Scenarios and Horizons of the Future
Self-affirmation and an incongruent drinking norm: Alcohol abuse prevention messages targeting young people
Many health campaigns are designed to reduce dangerous binge drinking by challenging the drinking perceived norm. Both information about health risks and statements that only a few people binge drink (descriptive norm) threaten self-integrity for individuals targeted. So, to combat this self-threat and preserve their positive self-integrity, drinkers discredit the message as a coping strategy. An alternative to the coping strategy is a procedure …
Users' Encounter With Normative Discourses on Facebook: A Three-Pronged Analysis of User Agency as Power Structure, Nexus, and Reception
This study asks whether users' encounter with normative discourses of lifestyle, consumption, and health on social media such as Facebook gives rise to agency. The theoretical framework draws on reception analysis, for its implied, but central interest in agency that lies at the intersection of texts and audiences. Based on a critique of the 'participatory paradigm,' a paradigm that situates the locus of agency in the structural opposition betwee…
The Effect of the “Evoking Freedom” Technique on an Unusual and Disturbing Request
The "evoking freedom" technique consists in soliciting someone to comply with a request by simply saying that she is free to accept or to refuse the request. However, previous studies used low cost requests. The present study examined the magnitude of this technique associated with a more disturbing and costly request. Sixty men and 60 women aged approximately 20-25 years walking in the street were asked by a male confederate to hold a closed tra…
Audience research beyond the hermeneutics of suspicion
Data loop of media and audience: How audiences and media actors make datafication work
As our digital footprints are collected and analysed by the media and fed back at us as new experiences, providing more data to collect, data circulates in a loop from audiences to media and back. This data loop is for media studies an occasion to revisit the media-audience nexus in an age of datafication. We argue that an audience perspective is needed in order to break with the structure-agency linearity in current understanding of datafication…
Datafication of Media (and) Audiences: An Introduction
No abstract
Low on trust, high on use: Datafied media, trust and everyday life
This article explores yet another paradox - aside from the privacy paradox - related to the datafication of media: citizens trust least the media they use most It investigates the role that daily life plays in shaping the trust that citizens place in datafied media. The study reveals five sets of heuristics guiding the trust assessments of citizens: (1) characteristics of media organisations, (2) old media standards, (3) context of use and purpos…
Audience research beyond the hermeneutics of suspicion
The Effect of the “Evoking Freedom” Technique on an Unusual and Disturbing Request
The "evoking freedom" technique consists in soliciting someone to comply with a request by simply saying that she is free to accept or to refuse the request. However, previous studies used low cost requests. The present study examined the magnitude of this technique associated with a more disturbing and costly request. Sixty men and 60 women aged approximately 20-25 years walking in the street were asked by a male confederate to hold a closed tra…
Audience research beyond the hermeneutics of suspicion
Self-affirmation and an incongruent drinking norm: Alcohol abuse prevention messages targeting young people
Many health campaigns are designed to reduce dangerous binge drinking by challenging the drinking perceived norm. Both information about health risks and statements that only a few people binge drink (descriptive norm) threaten self-integrity for individuals targeted. So, to combat this self-threat and preserve their positive self-integrity, drinkers discredit the message as a coping strategy. An alternative to the coping strategy is a procedure …
Users' Encounter With Normative Discourses on Facebook: A Three-Pronged Analysis of User Agency as Power Structure, Nexus, and Reception
This study asks whether users' encounter with normative discourses of lifestyle, consumption, and health on social media such as Facebook gives rise to agency. The theoretical framework draws on reception analysis, for its implied, but central interest in agency that lies at the intersection of texts and audiences. Based on a critique of the 'participatory paradigm,' a paradigm that situates the locus of agency in the structural opposition betwee…
Designing a Foresight Analysis Exercise on Audiences and Emerging Technologies: Cedar’s Analytical-Intuitive Balance
‘The Deal Should Be Fairer!’ Stakeholder Discourses on Intrusive Media Platforms and Interfaces
Audiences, Towards 2030: Drivers, Scenarios and Horizons of the Future
Datafication of Media (and) Audiences: An Introduction
No abstract
Data loop of media and audience: How audiences and media actors make datafication work
As our digital footprints are collected and analysed by the media and fed back at us as new experiences, providing more data to collect, data circulates in a loop from audiences to media and back. This data loop is for media studies an occasion to revisit the media-audience nexus in an age of datafication. We argue that an audience perspective is needed in order to break with the structure-agency linearity in current understanding of datafication…
Low on trust, high on use: Datafied media, trust and everyday life
This article explores yet another paradox - aside from the privacy paradox - related to the datafication of media: citizens trust least the media they use most It investigates the role that daily life plays in shaping the trust that citizens place in datafied media. The study reveals five sets of heuristics guiding the trust assessments of citizens: (1) characteristics of media organisations, (2) old media standards, (3) context of use and purpos…
DataPublics
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on empirical data from US and UK as well as the unique example of Nordic countries where there is a high level of confidence in state and media institutions, this book shows how platforms and algorithms are transforming media, journalism and audiences’ civic practices today.
DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies
This book addresses new challenges to the formation of publics in datafied democracies. It proposes a fresh, complex and nuanced approach to understand 'datapublics' by considering datafication and public formation in the context of audience, journalism and infrastructure studies. The tightly woven chapters shed new light on how platforms, algorithms and their data infrastructure are embedded in journalistic values, discourses and practices, open…
A phenomenology of risks and trust in datafied media
As data collection and analysis have become essential to digital media, citizens are left with the task of evaluating the risks associated with their consumption. Drawing on Schütz and Giddens, this paper develops a phenomenological framework to explain how citizens assess risks regarding the datafication of their media experiences and give their trust to datafied media in the context of everyday life. We identify a continuum of four zones of rel…
DataPublics: The Construction of Publics in Datafied Democracies
Data reflectivity and user reflexivity: New conceptual pathways for connecting structural approaches with user perspectives
Ongoing societal datafication and, most recently, the widely noticed launch of ChatGPT, continue to raise the “user question”: what role(s) does the user play in datafied, artificial, and automated environments? Recent technological advancements have begun to challenge fundamental assumptions in media and communication theory and, thus, urge scholars to (re-)visit and (re-)examine the interrelations, dynamics, and entanglements of (human) users w…
The Intersectionality of Food Insecurity, Job Insecurity, Healthcare Insecurity, and Mental Health Challenges in NYC Households During Covid-19
Our intersectional research explored food insecurity and job insecurity as predictors of healthcare insecurity and mental health challenges among households living in economic instability since the COVID19 pandemic began. The New York City COVID19 Research Team adapted a validated, web based, anonymous survey questionnaire using a Social Determinants of Health Framework. The study oversampled underserved populations with a total of 2,099 particip…
Using digital traces in user research: A mixed-method literature review of the (dis)connections between media research and computational methods
This article presents a mixed-method literature review exploring the (dis)connections in user research between media & communication and computational methods. Drawing on a large dataset from Scopus, the study combines network and keyword analyses with qualitative inquiries to assess interdisciplinary engagement regarding literature that relies on digital traces to produce user studies. Findings reveal limited interaction between the media & comm…
Interview with a vampire: Reviewing the field of digital media and technology through the lens of large language models
This article reviews the evolution of digital media research from the early 1990s to the present through an experimental interview with large language models. Treating generative AI as a situated, fallible “expert,” it combines exploratory review, qualitative probing, and reflexive analysis to trace conceptual shifts in the field, drawing on the archive of MedieKultur. We examine the evolution of digital media technologies and their uses, from on…
Data mirroring: A methodological framework for data-donation-based interviews in media use research
This article introduces “data mirroring,” a methodological framework for conducting data-donation-based interviews using Data Download Packages (DDPs) from digital platforms. Since the General Data Protection Regulation took effect, DDPs have found application in research. While the literature on the value of DDPs primarily points toward scaling and validating aggregate-level data, their potential to illuminate complex user–media relationships wi…
Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Media Studies and Communication (6 works) · Digital Games and Media (5 works) · Digital media (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)