[Air-l] Nomination acknowledgement

[Klaus Bruhn Jensen]

Colleagues:

Nancy kindly mentioned my name in her nominations, and I would be 
happy to serve in an open seat on the  AOIR board. A few words on 
what you might get:

INTERDISCIPLINARY BACKGROUND
I trained in English language and literature, but soon turned toward 
media and communication studies, spending time as a graduate student 
and postdoc at US research institutions, including the Annenberg 
School of Communications in Los Angeles. In the Nordic and European 
context, I have been an advocate of integrating humanistic and 
social-scientific approaches to communication and culture, initially 
in audience and reception studies, more recently in computer media 
studies.

NETWORKS
- International Association of Media and Communication Research: 
President of Audience and Reception Studies Section
- 'Changing Media, Changing Europe': Participant in 5-year project 
with 60+ researchers from around Europe on the social and cultural 
implications of media developments
- Editorial Board member for a number of media journals, including in 
the past the Journal of Communication, and currently the Journal of 
Broadcasting and Electronic Media; Journalism - Theory, Practice, 
Critism; Social Semiotics.

PLATFORM
Since participating in (one of) the first meeting(s) of AOIR at the 
International Communication Association conference in San Francisco 
1999, I have attended AOIR 1, and have served on its Ethics 
Committee. On the board, I would like to work with colleagues from 
around the world on consolidating the association. Three areas of 
activity, in particular, come to mind:
- ensuring a worldwide representation of AOIR, including conferences 
outside North America
- enhancing the web resources of AOIR as an arena for information 
exchange and research collaboration
- exploring the interfaces of AOIR with related professional 
organizations, perhaps through joint  seminars and other formats.
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Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Associate Professor, dr.phil.

Department of Film and Media Studies
University of Copenhagen
Njalsgade 80
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark

kbj at hum.ku.dk
http://www.ifm.ku.dk

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