The CCL welcomes Research Fellow Frederik Henriksen!

09.02.2023

Frederik is visiting the Department of Communication from February to June as a research fellow in the Computational Communication Science Lab. During his stay, he will be working with Annie Waldherr to further advance his dissertation on digital counterpublics and alternative news media in a computational social science perspective. With strong interests in machine learning and automated text analysis, we are excited to exchange ideas in the next four months.

Frederik is a PhD fellow at Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University (Denmark). In his PhD, he studies the role of digital counterpublics in public opinion formation, spread of digital propaganda, mis- and disinformation and ideological mutations using automated multilingual text analysis and network analysis. 

The PhD is part of the AlterPublics project which investigates the role of hyper-partisan alternative news media in digital information environments. Drawing on a large collection of digital trace data, the project analyzes how alternative news media contribute to polarization, radicalization and political interest articulation in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Sweden from 2019-2022.

Collaboration interests: How do media and digital actors such as alternative news media and counterpublics contribute to processes of polarization, societal radicalization and ideological mutations in digital environments? How to study large mono- and multilingual text corpora drawing on large language transformers, but also how to combine network and text analytical approaches?

You can contact Frederik via E-Mail (frmohe@ruc.dk ) or Twitter!

Also have a look at his most recent publications:

  • Larsen, K., Hindhede, A.L., Larsen, M.H. et al. Bodies need yoga? No plastic surgery! Naturalistic versus instrumental bodies among professions in the Danish healthcare field. Soc Theory Health 20, 1–20 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41285-020-00151-z