Line Nybro Petersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 311897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Line Nybro Petersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Line Nybro |
| FAMILY NAME | Petersen |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSEN L N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1569-5768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The violence of online conspiracy theories
This article investigates the relationship between online conspiracy theory communities and platformed violence through a case study of a conspiratorial harassment campaign against a Danish children’s TV show, Uncle Shrimp (DR, 2012–), and its main actor. Based on theories of violent extremism, conspiracism, and the participatory practices in online spaces of hybridized extremism, we aim to understand how the QAnon-adjacent Uncle Shrimp conspirac…
Mainstreaming violent extremism through language play in the Halle manifesto
In 2019, a perpetrator opened fire outside the local synagogue in Halle, Germany. Prior to the terrorist attack, he had posted several documents and links on social media, including a manifesto. Notably, these documents draw on participatory practices familiar to more mainstream participatory communities, while deemphasizing the ideological motivation of the attack. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining media studies with linguistics, t…
Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (Hype) on Social Media
New trends in online extremism are currently unsettling the typical classifications used to assess violent threats to democratic societies. While extremism is usually perceived to be a matter of extreme ideologies and methods, social media enables and shapes distinct hybridization processes by which conspiracy beliefs, personal grievances, and various ad hoc convictions are combined with ideology fragments, consequently producing new extremist na…
New territories for fan studies: The insurrection, QAnon, Donald Trump and fandom
The following roundtable is a recorded and edited discussion between four fan studies researchers that took place in March 2022. Having all worked with QAnon and the insurrection in the context of fan studies, our discussion took its departure from the US insurrection on January 6, 2021, as QAnon fans, Trump fans, and other right-wing groups stormed the US Capitol building while live-streaming their endeavor to social media. The discussion draws …
Navigating health communication: The effects of mediatization on responsibility in complex decision-making
This article investigates the mediatization of responsibility in the context of health care decision-making and biological citizenship. The analyzes how Danish parents navigate the pervasiveness, polysemy, and media logic of health communication, and how the authority and legitimacy of certain types of health communication play into their sense of responsibility. The study consists of interviews with 18 Danish parents who were in the process of d…
Mediatized Fan Play: Moods, Modes and Dark Play in Networked Communities
Addressing fans’ digital practices, this book places fans’ play at the centre of a networked mainstream culture that seems to increasingly cater to, amalgamate with and adapt to fans’ mediatized play. Through case studies of the fan communities of the Hamilton musical, and Norwegian streaming hit SKAM, along with examples from many other online fan communities, the book dives into how fans navigate and create play rules as part of their community…
Ins and outs of transmedia fandom: Motives for entering and exiting the SKAM fan community online
This article investigates the motives for entering a digital fan community and becoming a fan for the first time—and, subsequently, leaving it again—by focusing on these fans’ main entry and exit points. It looks at the fan community following the Norwegian hit show SKAM (2015–17), which grew over its four seasons into a global cult phenomenon with viewers and fans of all ages from around the world. Empirically, the article draws on forty-seven i…
Play moods across the life course in SKAM fandom
This article considers fans’ playful digital practices and focuses on the play moods that are co-constructed in online fan communities. We analyse how these play moods are negotiated across the life course for participating fans. Play moods are closely tied to the playful modes of fan practices, and by gaining a greater understanding of the moods that fans engage in at different stages of their life course we gain new insights into fan play as it…
Gilmore Girlsgenerations: Disrupting Generational Belonging in Long-Term Fandom
This article is a study of fans of the television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007) in the context of the revival series Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016), when the series returned with a four-episode special on Netflix after being off the air for nine years. The series revolves around a single mother and her daughter, and this article shows how fans use representations of familial relationships, generations and transitional life stages in …
Introduction: Ageing Celebrities, Ageing Fans, and Ageing Narratives in Popular Media Culture
In 2012, Celebrity Studies published a special issue entitled ‘Back in the Spotlight: Female Celebrity and Ageing’. In her introduction, special issue editor Deborah Jermyn asks when it is that a w
Media and the ageing body: Introduction to the special issue
In this introductory article we offer a frame for understanding the relationship between the ageing body and the media as the focus for this special issue. As societies age, issues of representations of old bodies and people’s practices and embodied experiences with media technologies requires a deeper investigation. At the same time, contemporary society is undergoing processes of mediatization, which invites us to think of the ways in which med…
The ageing body in Monty Python Live (Mostly)
This article analyses representations of the ageing body in the live televised show Monty Python Live (Mostly) (2014). The famous satire group performed in the O2 arena in London, and the show was telecast live in cinemas and aired on television across the world. In the show, the group members, now in their 70s, reprise a series of their most popular sketches and introduce a few new sketches. This analysis focuses on the ways in which representat…
Sherlock fans talk: Mediatized talk on tumblr
In this article I propose that we can understand talk and conversation in Sherlock (2010) fandom on the micro-blogging site tumblr in three ways: (1) talk through appropriation, (2) talk through interpretation and (3) talk through imitation, and that we can see these through examples of mediatized talk. Sherlock is a popular 90-minute BBC TV series about Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective, Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, John Watson, in a c…
Mediatization and cultural change
Play moods across the life course in SKAM fandom
This article considers fans’ playful digital practices and focuses on the play moods that are co-constructed in online fan communities. We analyse how these play moods are negotiated across the life course for participating fans. Play moods are closely tied to the playful modes of fan practices, and by gaining a greater understanding of the moods that fans engage in at different stages of their life course we gain new insights into fan play as it…
Mediatized Fan Play: Moods, Modes and Dark Play in Networked Communities
Addressing fans’ digital practices, this book places fans’ play at the centre of a networked mainstream culture that seems to increasingly cater to, amalgamate with and adapt to fans’ mediatized play. Through case studies of the fan communities of the Hamilton musical, and Norwegian streaming hit SKAM, along with examples from many other online fan communities, the book dives into how fans navigate and create play rules as part of their community…
Ins and outs of transmedia fandom: Motives for entering and exiting the SKAM fan community online
This article investigates the motives for entering a digital fan community and becoming a fan for the first time—and, subsequently, leaving it again—by focusing on these fans’ main entry and exit points. It looks at the fan community following the Norwegian hit show SKAM (2015–17), which grew over its four seasons into a global cult phenomenon with viewers and fans of all ages from around the world. Empirically, the article draws on forty-seven i…
Introduction: Ageing Celebrities, Ageing Fans, and Ageing Narratives in Popular Media Culture
In 2012, Celebrity Studies published a special issue entitled ‘Back in the Spotlight: Female Celebrity and Ageing’. In her introduction, special issue editor Deborah Jermyn asks when it is that a w
Mediatization and cultural change
Sherlock fans talk: Mediatized talk on tumblr
In this article I propose that we can understand talk and conversation in Sherlock (2010) fandom on the micro-blogging site tumblr in three ways: (1) talk through appropriation, (2) talk through interpretation and (3) talk through imitation, and that we can see these through examples of mediatized talk. Sherlock is a popular 90-minute BBC TV series about Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective, Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, John Watson, in a c…
Media and the ageing body: Introduction to the special issue
In this introductory article we offer a frame for understanding the relationship between the ageing body and the media as the focus for this special issue. As societies age, issues of representations of old bodies and people’s practices and embodied experiences with media technologies requires a deeper investigation. At the same time, contemporary society is undergoing processes of mediatization, which invites us to think of the ways in which med…
Gilmore Girlsgenerations: Disrupting Generational Belonging in Long-Term Fandom
This article is a study of fans of the television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007) in the context of the revival series Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016), when the series returned with a four-episode special on Netflix after being off the air for nine years. The series revolves around a single mother and her daughter, and this article shows how fans use representations of familial relationships, generations and transitional life stages in …
Navigating health communication: The effects of mediatization on responsibility in complex decision-making
This article investigates the mediatization of responsibility in the context of health care decision-making and biological citizenship. The analyzes how Danish parents navigate the pervasiveness, polysemy, and media logic of health communication, and how the authority and legitimacy of certain types of health communication play into their sense of responsibility. The study consists of interviews with 18 Danish parents who were in the process of d…
Mediatization and cultural change
Sherlock fans talk: Mediatized talk on tumblr
In this article I propose that we can understand talk and conversation in Sherlock (2010) fandom on the micro-blogging site tumblr in three ways: (1) talk through appropriation, (2) talk through interpretation and (3) talk through imitation, and that we can see these through examples of mediatized talk. Sherlock is a popular 90-minute BBC TV series about Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective, Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, John Watson, in a c…
Media and the ageing body: Introduction to the special issue
In this introductory article we offer a frame for understanding the relationship between the ageing body and the media as the focus for this special issue. As societies age, issues of representations of old bodies and people’s practices and embodied experiences with media technologies requires a deeper investigation. At the same time, contemporary society is undergoing processes of mediatization, which invites us to think of the ways in which med…
The ageing body in Monty Python Live (Mostly)
This article analyses representations of the ageing body in the live televised show Monty Python Live (Mostly) (2014). The famous satire group performed in the O2 arena in London, and the show was telecast live in cinemas and aired on television across the world. In the show, the group members, now in their 70s, reprise a series of their most popular sketches and introduce a few new sketches. This analysis focuses on the ways in which representat…
Gilmore Girlsgenerations: Disrupting Generational Belonging in Long-Term Fandom
This article is a study of fans of the television series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007) in the context of the revival series Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016), when the series returned with a four-episode special on Netflix after being off the air for nine years. The series revolves around a single mother and her daughter, and this article shows how fans use representations of familial relationships, generations and transitional life stages in …
Introduction: Ageing Celebrities, Ageing Fans, and Ageing Narratives in Popular Media Culture
In 2012, Celebrity Studies published a special issue entitled ‘Back in the Spotlight: Female Celebrity and Ageing’. In her introduction, special issue editor Deborah Jermyn asks when it is that a w
Play moods across the life course in SKAM fandom
This article considers fans’ playful digital practices and focuses on the play moods that are co-constructed in online fan communities. We analyse how these play moods are negotiated across the life course for participating fans. Play moods are closely tied to the playful modes of fan practices, and by gaining a greater understanding of the moods that fans engage in at different stages of their life course we gain new insights into fan play as it…
Ins and outs of transmedia fandom: Motives for entering and exiting the SKAM fan community online
This article investigates the motives for entering a digital fan community and becoming a fan for the first time—and, subsequently, leaving it again—by focusing on these fans’ main entry and exit points. It looks at the fan community following the Norwegian hit show SKAM (2015–17), which grew over its four seasons into a global cult phenomenon with viewers and fans of all ages from around the world. Empirically, the article draws on forty-seven i…
Mediatized Fan Play: Moods, Modes and Dark Play in Networked Communities
Addressing fans’ digital practices, this book places fans’ play at the centre of a networked mainstream culture that seems to increasingly cater to, amalgamate with and adapt to fans’ mediatized play. Through case studies of the fan communities of the Hamilton musical, and Norwegian streaming hit SKAM, along with examples from many other online fan communities, the book dives into how fans navigate and create play rules as part of their community…
New territories for fan studies: The insurrection, QAnon, Donald Trump and fandom
The following roundtable is a recorded and edited discussion between four fan studies researchers that took place in March 2022. Having all worked with QAnon and the insurrection in the context of fan studies, our discussion took its departure from the US insurrection on January 6, 2021, as QAnon fans, Trump fans, and other right-wing groups stormed the US Capitol building while live-streaming their endeavor to social media. The discussion draws …
Navigating health communication: The effects of mediatization on responsibility in complex decision-making
This article investigates the mediatization of responsibility in the context of health care decision-making and biological citizenship. The analyzes how Danish parents navigate the pervasiveness, polysemy, and media logic of health communication, and how the authority and legitimacy of certain types of health communication play into their sense of responsibility. The study consists of interviews with 18 Danish parents who were in the process of d…
Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (Hype) on Social Media
New trends in online extremism are currently unsettling the typical classifications used to assess violent threats to democratic societies. While extremism is usually perceived to be a matter of extreme ideologies and methods, social media enables and shapes distinct hybridization processes by which conspiracy beliefs, personal grievances, and various ad hoc convictions are combined with ideology fragments, consequently producing new extremist na…
The violence of online conspiracy theories
This article investigates the relationship between online conspiracy theory communities and platformed violence through a case study of a conspiratorial harassment campaign against a Danish children’s TV show, Uncle Shrimp (DR, 2012–), and its main actor. Based on theories of violent extremism, conspiracism, and the participatory practices in online spaces of hybridized extremism, we aim to understand how the QAnon-adjacent Uncle Shrimp conspirac…
Mainstreaming violent extremism through language play in the Halle manifesto
In 2019, a perpetrator opened fire outside the local synagogue in Halle, Germany. Prior to the terrorist attack, he had posted several documents and links on social media, including a manifesto. Notably, these documents draw on participatory practices familiar to more mainstream participatory communities, while deemphasizing the ideological motivation of the attack. Through an interdisciplinary approach combining media studies with linguistics, t…
Sociology (11 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Art (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Fandom (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (4 works)