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Sammenslutningen af medie- og kommunikationsforskere i Danmark (SMiD) er en forening med formål at fremme forskning i medier, kommunikation og journalistik og dens samfundsmæssige anvendelse lokalt såvel som globalt. Vi optager medlemmer på tværs af universiteter, professionshøjskoler og andre forskningsmiljøer. SMiD er et vedkommende, fagligt netværk, der samler forskere og andre interesserede til faglige og sociale arrangementer. SMiD står ligeledes bag tidsskriftet MedieKultur.

The association of media and communication researchers in Denmark is an association and a professional network for media and communication researchers in Denmark and beyond. Vi accept members for universities as well as other research environments and related professions. SMiD supports publishing the journal MedieKultur and brings together researchers as well as other interested parties for major and minor professional and social events.

Nyheder

• Joint Statement in Support of Academic Freedom and Freedom of EducationAugust 19, 2025
  Issued by Norsk Medieforskerlag, SMiD, Mevi, and FSMK – June 2025 We, the Nordic associations for media and communication research—Norsk Medieforskerlag, SMiD, Mevi, and FSMK—are deeply concerned by the accelerating global decline in academic freedom and the mounting pressures on freedom of education. According to the Academic Freedom Index Update 2025, academic freedom is in retreat in more countries today than at any time in the past two decades. Researchers and educators face censorship, intimidation, loss… Read more: Joint Statement in Support of Academic Freedom and Freedom of Education
• Cfp “Media and the Environment” (MedieKultur)May 9, 2024
  Call for Papers for a special issue on “Media and the Environment” to be published in Mediekultur in 2025. This call for papers follows the bi-annual conference of SMiD (the association of media and communication researchers in Denmark) on the topic of “Media (and) sustainability: Crises, paradoxes and potentials” (see seminar call here). Based on the papers presented at the conference as well as other related work, we wish to showcase contemporary work on the broad… Read more: Cfp “Media and the Environment” (MedieKultur)
• Keynote: Environmental Data and The Materiality of MediaMarch 19, 2024
  Jussi Parikka, Professor, Arhus University, Denmark Building on the project and linking it to recent approaches, concepts, and ideas in ecomedia/environmental media research, this talk will elaborate on what the focus on the spatial materiality of environmental data might entail. What sort of an image of “media studies” emerges from work that looks at both spatial sites of sensing and the software and data techniques where “environments” are being managed and circulated, modelled and simulated. Through… Read more: Keynote: Environmental Data and The Materiality of Media