M B Johansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 57607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M B Johansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M B |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSEN M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3569-6971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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…
Five decades of local media theory: Responding to globally changing media and communication systems
Media theories are best understood backwards, even if they must be articulated forwards. Media theories have continuously responded to practice – to historically changing technologies and institutions of communication – in shifting local and global research environments. This article addresses the understanding of media prevailing in Danish media and communication research at two pivotal moments –1981 and 1996 – adding a diagnosis of 2026 and a p…
The Exchange Model of Mainstreaming
This paper proposes a conceptual model of online mainstreaming. Themodel emphasizes communication flows and actor trajectories backand forth between center (the mainstream) and periphery (theextreme), identifying a logic of exchange as a key driver of contem-porary mainstreaming processes. The model illustrates a perpetualexchange of content, actors, and practices between mainstream andoff-mainstream domains. The paper focuses on three under-theo…
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…
Culture War Complexity: How Contaminated Words and Heterodox Positions Challenge Traditional Dichotomies
This essay addresses some of the key terminological conflicts of the ongoing culture war between “wokes” and “anti-wokes” in many Western societies. In a public debate culture where words and labels are rapidly contaminated when appropriated by the “other side,” it is increasingly difficult to make sense of the key positions and battle lines to decode who is battling whom. The “culture war matrix” serves as a heuristic tool to contain some of the…
Sense and sensibility in intellectual discourse on YouTube: Anti-emotional positioning in the case of Affleck vs. Harris
This article aims to explain the behaviour of public intellectuals, celebrities, and media audiences in the construction of anti-emotional narratives in the online culture wars. In the investigation of how these narratives are constructed on YouTube, the article focuses on the rhetorical juxtaposition of rationality and emotionality surrounding the viral argument between public intellectual Sam Harris and Hollywood star Ben Affleck on HBO’s Real …
Culture War Complexity: How Contaminated Words and Heterodox Positions Challenge Traditional Dichotomies
This essay addresses some of the key terminological conflicts of the ongoing culture war between “wokes” and “anti-wokes” in many Western societies. In a public debate culture where words and labels are rapidly contaminated when appropriated by the “other side,” it is increasingly difficult to make sense of the key positions and battle lines to decode who is battling whom. The “culture war matrix” serves as a heuristic tool to contain some of the…
Sense and sensibility in intellectual discourse on YouTube: Anti-emotional positioning in the case of Affleck vs. Harris
This article aims to explain the behaviour of public intellectuals, celebrities, and media audiences in the construction of anti-emotional narratives in the online culture wars. In the investigation of how these narratives are constructed on YouTube, the article focuses on the rhetorical juxtaposition of rationality and emotionality surrounding the viral argument between public intellectual Sam Harris and Hollywood star Ben Affleck on HBO’s Real …
Culture War Complexity: How Contaminated Words and Heterodox Positions Challenge Traditional Dichotomies
This essay addresses some of the key terminological conflicts of the ongoing culture war between “wokes” and “anti-wokes” in many Western societies. In a public debate culture where words and labels are rapidly contaminated when appropriated by the “other side,” it is increasingly difficult to make sense of the key positions and battle lines to decode who is battling whom. The “culture war matrix” serves as a heuristic tool to contain some of the…
The Exchange Model of Mainstreaming
This paper proposes a conceptual model of online mainstreaming. Themodel emphasizes communication flows and actor trajectories backand forth between center (the mainstream) and periphery (theextreme), identifying a logic of exchange as a key driver of contem-porary mainstreaming processes. The model illustrates a perpetualexchange of content, actors, and practices between mainstream andoff-mainstream domains. The paper focuses on three under-theo…
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…
Five decades of local media theory: Responding to globally changing media and communication systems
Media theories are best understood backwards, even if they must be articulated forwards. Media theories have continuously responded to practice – to historically changing technologies and institutions of communication – in shifting local and global research environments. This article addresses the understanding of media prevailing in Danish media and communication research at two pivotal moments –1981 and 1996 – adding a diagnosis of 2026 and a p…
Social media (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Danish (2 works) · Digital media (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Social Media and Politics (2 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (2 works) · Violent extremism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)