Bjarki Valtysson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bjarki Valtysson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bjarki |
| FAMILY NAME | Valtysson |
| SIGNATURE | VALTYSSON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5757-4780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Museums as institutional creators
This article investigates how Danish and Norwegian museum staff perceive and articulate their communication on digital media and digital platforms. Based on qualitative interviews with different occupational identities at art – and cultural-history museums, the article describes the museums’ politics and practices regarding their presence on platforms and how museum professionals verbalise the advantages and disadvantages of digital communication…
The welfare state vs influencers
In this article we investigate the Danish government’s regulatory attitude towards social media influencers and how this has impacted the current debate on the regulation of influencers in Denmark. Through document analysis of governmental policy papers published in the early 2020s, we discuss how consumer protection and the special protection of minors have become key issues for the government in relation to influencer marketing. Our findings re…
Working with Aula
Aula is a mandatory public school platform in Denmark with more than two million users. The idea behind Aula was to provide a shared space for communication and cooperation around children, both within the school/municipality setting and between teachers and parents, while adhering to the requirements of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. In this article we examine the incorporation of Aula in the daily practices of teachers, especially as …
Museums in the age of platform giants
This article explores how the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia tailor their digital cultural politics, and how this corresponds to their management of online collections and presence on social media. The article applies textual analysis to examine how the two museums discursively frame their policies; interface analysis to demonstrate how they organise their online collections; and platform analysis to scrutinise their communic…
The platformisation of culture
Platforms are instrumental to cultural production and consumption. This is so in terms of how their affordances and algorithmic logics form, manifest and prioritise cultural products and trends. Platforms are therefore influential in shaping the cultural habits and identity formations of their users. This article explores the repercussions of the platformisation of culture on cultural policy, beginning with an investigation of the characteristics…
Reaching Out to be in Reach. Museum Communication in the Current Museum Zeitgeist
This article focuses on art museums as multi-layered media- and eventmakers. By discussing the National Gallery of Denmark’s Mysteries from the Museum podcast series and the event SMK Fridays, Louisiana’s digital platform Louisiana Channel and the Glyptotek’s Slow arrangements, we scrutinise these museums’ onsite and offsite outreach techniques and strategies. These are further discussed regarding the current museum zeitgeist, and how this relate…
Digital Cultural Politics
Cultures of Participation
Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction
From policy to platform
This article scrutinizes the dominant discursive formations within digitization of cultural heritage in Danish cultural policy, with the ‘Danish Cultural Heritage’ portal serving as a case. The paper analyzes how the portal frames users’ participation potentials and how this relates to the objectives of the portal and official Danish digitization strategies issued in the period of 2007–2015. Furthermore, the article incorporates interviews with e…
Conditioned participation
Democracy in disguise
The aim of this article is to scrutinise the participative processes enabled by social media services in the collaborative rewriting of the Icelandic Constitution. The Constitutional Council creating and presenting the bill made use of Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and its own stjornlagarad.is site to encourage and ensure engagement and participation by the general public in the rewriting process. This article presents the participating cit…
Tweet against Nazis? Twitter, power, and networked publics in anti-fascist protests
In this article we address the question of power in networked publics on Twitter in anti-fascist protests. The study is based on the results of an analysis of tweets, that are part of a data-set of three qualitative case studies about nationalist demonstrations in Germany, accompanied by counter-protests of anti-fascist groups, NGOs, and civil society. The question asked within this framework is how Twitter is used in the power struggles of the a…
Facebook as a Digital Public Sphere
In this article, Facebook, as a communicative space, is treated as a public sphere in order to identify processes of colonization and emancipation. The analysis focuses on Facebook’s communicative-structural contexts, in particular from the viewpoint of user terms, user manoeuvre, privacy/data use policy, and ownership and use of uploaded material. The analysis is also based on qualitative data from Danish Facebook users, where the focus was on t…
Regulating Convergence
Europeana
In this article a critical discourse analysis is conducted on the formal EU documents that led to the construction of the digital library Europeana. The analysis links these discourses to the actual user experience of the current beta version of Europeana and examines how they relate to the interactive, user-generated and participative features of Web 2.0. At ceremonial occasions and in the communication conducted on Europeana's portal, user-gene…
The digital public sphere
Until recently, media policy was thought of as national, media-specific, and as part of the cultural domain. All is changing in a digital public sphere: first, by the processes of globalization in a broad sense; second, by a blurring of borders between media, which can be summed up as convergence; and third, by a more far-reaching commercialisation of the media. The transformation triggered by these developments are ongoing and have been so for q…
Access culture
This article applies aspects of Jürgen Habermas, Manuel Castells and Lawrence Lessig’s theories to demonstrate how digital communication and new media platforms enhance cultural participation as well as how cultural policy affects the cultural behaviour of users who produce and are consumers in a digital convergence culture. The digital platforms and new media used in the analysis include an open source animated short film, Elephants Dream, the s…
Mapping the Future Cultural Policy of the European Union
The Intersection of Digital Communication, New Media and Progressive Cultural Politics.Hvordan kan EU’s kulturpolitik komme til at se ud når EU for alvor begynder at tage hensyn til den ny kulturelle situation med ny medier og digitale kulturer? Det er hovedspørgsmålet i mit ph.d.-projekt med arbejdstitlen Mapping the Future Cultural Policy of the European Union: The Intersection of Digital Communication, New Media and Progressive Cultural Politi…
Access culture
This article applies aspects of Jürgen Habermas, Manuel Castells and Lawrence Lessig’s theories to demonstrate how digital communication and new media platforms enhance cultural participation as well as how cultural policy affects the cultural behaviour of users who produce and are consumers in a digital convergence culture. The digital platforms and new media used in the analysis include an open source animated short film, Elephants Dream, the s…
From policy to platform
This article scrutinizes the dominant discursive formations within digitization of cultural heritage in Danish cultural policy, with the ‘Danish Cultural Heritage’ portal serving as a case. The paper analyzes how the portal frames users’ participation potentials and how this relates to the objectives of the portal and official Danish digitization strategies issued in the period of 2007–2015. Furthermore, the article incorporates interviews with e…
The digital public sphere
Until recently, media policy was thought of as national, media-specific, and as part of the cultural domain. All is changing in a digital public sphere: first, by the processes of globalization in a broad sense; second, by a blurring of borders between media, which can be summed up as convergence; and third, by a more far-reaching commercialisation of the media. The transformation triggered by these developments are ongoing and have been so for q…
Democracy in disguise
The aim of this article is to scrutinise the participative processes enabled by social media services in the collaborative rewriting of the Icelandic Constitution. The Constitutional Council creating and presenting the bill made use of Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and its own stjornlagarad.is site to encourage and ensure engagement and participation by the general public in the rewriting process. This article presents the participating cit…
Tweet against Nazis? Twitter, power, and networked publics in anti-fascist protests
In this article we address the question of power in networked publics on Twitter in anti-fascist protests. The study is based on the results of an analysis of tweets, that are part of a data-set of three qualitative case studies about nationalist demonstrations in Germany, accompanied by counter-protests of anti-fascist groups, NGOs, and civil society. The question asked within this framework is how Twitter is used in the power struggles of the a…
The platformisation of culture
Platforms are instrumental to cultural production and consumption. This is so in terms of how their affordances and algorithmic logics form, manifest and prioritise cultural products and trends. Platforms are therefore influential in shaping the cultural habits and identity formations of their users. This article explores the repercussions of the platformisation of culture on cultural policy, beginning with an investigation of the characteristics…
Conditioned participation
Working with Aula
Aula is a mandatory public school platform in Denmark with more than two million users. The idea behind Aula was to provide a shared space for communication and cooperation around children, both within the school/municipality setting and between teachers and parents, while adhering to the requirements of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. In this article we examine the incorporation of Aula in the daily practices of teachers, especially as …
Museums in the age of platform giants
This article explores how the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia tailor their digital cultural politics, and how this corresponds to their management of online collections and presence on social media. The article applies textual analysis to examine how the two museums discursively frame their policies; interface analysis to demonstrate how they organise their online collections; and platform analysis to scrutinise their communic…
Reaching Out to be in Reach. Museum Communication in the Current Museum Zeitgeist
This article focuses on art museums as multi-layered media- and eventmakers. By discussing the National Gallery of Denmark’s Mysteries from the Museum podcast series and the event SMK Fridays, Louisiana’s digital platform Louisiana Channel and the Glyptotek’s Slow arrangements, we scrutinise these museums’ onsite and offsite outreach techniques and strategies. These are further discussed regarding the current museum zeitgeist, and how this relate…
Mapping the Future Cultural Policy of the European Union
The Intersection of Digital Communication, New Media and Progressive Cultural Politics.Hvordan kan EU’s kulturpolitik komme til at se ud når EU for alvor begynder at tage hensyn til den ny kulturelle situation med ny medier og digitale kulturer? Det er hovedspørgsmålet i mit ph.d.-projekt med arbejdstitlen Mapping the Future Cultural Policy of the European Union: The Intersection of Digital Communication, New Media and Progressive Cultural Politi…
Access culture
This article applies aspects of Jürgen Habermas, Manuel Castells and Lawrence Lessig’s theories to demonstrate how digital communication and new media platforms enhance cultural participation as well as how cultural policy affects the cultural behaviour of users who produce and are consumers in a digital convergence culture. The digital platforms and new media used in the analysis include an open source animated short film, Elephants Dream, the s…
The digital public sphere
Until recently, media policy was thought of as national, media-specific, and as part of the cultural domain. All is changing in a digital public sphere: first, by the processes of globalization in a broad sense; second, by a blurring of borders between media, which can be summed up as convergence; and third, by a more far-reaching commercialisation of the media. The transformation triggered by these developments are ongoing and have been so for q…
Facebook as a Digital Public Sphere
In this article, Facebook, as a communicative space, is treated as a public sphere in order to identify processes of colonization and emancipation. The analysis focuses on Facebook’s communicative-structural contexts, in particular from the viewpoint of user terms, user manoeuvre, privacy/data use policy, and ownership and use of uploaded material. The analysis is also based on qualitative data from Danish Facebook users, where the focus was on t…
Regulating Convergence
Europeana
In this article a critical discourse analysis is conducted on the formal EU documents that led to the construction of the digital library Europeana. The analysis links these discourses to the actual user experience of the current beta version of Europeana and examines how they relate to the interactive, user-generated and participative features of Web 2.0. At ceremonial occasions and in the communication conducted on Europeana's portal, user-gene…
Tweet against Nazis? Twitter, power, and networked publics in anti-fascist protests
In this article we address the question of power in networked publics on Twitter in anti-fascist protests. The study is based on the results of an analysis of tweets, that are part of a data-set of three qualitative case studies about nationalist demonstrations in Germany, accompanied by counter-protests of anti-fascist groups, NGOs, and civil society. The question asked within this framework is how Twitter is used in the power struggles of the a…
Conditioned participation
Democracy in disguise
The aim of this article is to scrutinise the participative processes enabled by social media services in the collaborative rewriting of the Icelandic Constitution. The Constitutional Council creating and presenting the bill made use of Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and its own stjornlagarad.is site to encourage and ensure engagement and participation by the general public in the rewriting process. This article presents the participating cit…
From policy to platform
This article scrutinizes the dominant discursive formations within digitization of cultural heritage in Danish cultural policy, with the ‘Danish Cultural Heritage’ portal serving as a case. The paper analyzes how the portal frames users’ participation potentials and how this relates to the objectives of the portal and official Danish digitization strategies issued in the period of 2007–2015. Furthermore, the article incorporates interviews with e…
Technologies of Labour and the Politics of Contradiction
Cultures of Participation
Digital Cultural Politics
Reaching Out to be in Reach. Museum Communication in the Current Museum Zeitgeist
This article focuses on art museums as multi-layered media- and eventmakers. By discussing the National Gallery of Denmark’s Mysteries from the Museum podcast series and the event SMK Fridays, Louisiana’s digital platform Louisiana Channel and the Glyptotek’s Slow arrangements, we scrutinise these museums’ onsite and offsite outreach techniques and strategies. These are further discussed regarding the current museum zeitgeist, and how this relate…
Museums in the age of platform giants
This article explores how the British Museum and the National Museum of Australia tailor their digital cultural politics, and how this corresponds to their management of online collections and presence on social media. The article applies textual analysis to examine how the two museums discursively frame their policies; interface analysis to demonstrate how they organise their online collections; and platform analysis to scrutinise their communic…
The platformisation of culture
Platforms are instrumental to cultural production and consumption. This is so in terms of how their affordances and algorithmic logics form, manifest and prioritise cultural products and trends. Platforms are therefore influential in shaping the cultural habits and identity formations of their users. This article explores the repercussions of the platformisation of culture on cultural policy, beginning with an investigation of the characteristics…
Working with Aula
Aula is a mandatory public school platform in Denmark with more than two million users. The idea behind Aula was to provide a shared space for communication and cooperation around children, both within the school/municipality setting and between teachers and parents, while adhering to the requirements of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. In this article we examine the incorporation of Aula in the daily practices of teachers, especially as …
Museums as institutional creators
This article investigates how Danish and Norwegian museum staff perceive and articulate their communication on digital media and digital platforms. Based on qualitative interviews with different occupational identities at art – and cultural-history museums, the article describes the museums’ politics and practices regarding their presence on platforms and how museum professionals verbalise the advantages and disadvantages of digital communication…
The welfare state vs influencers
In this article we investigate the Danish government’s regulatory attitude towards social media influencers and how this has impacted the current debate on the regulation of influencers in Denmark. Through document analysis of governmental policy papers published in the early 2020s, we discuss how consumer protection and the special protection of minors have become key issues for the government in relation to influencer marketing. Our findings re…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Digital media (7 works) · Law (7 works)